Personal brand

Build professional reputation through consistent content and engagement to attract opportunities and establish trust before commercial conversations begin.

Personal brand

Personal brand

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Marketing funnel

Your website, email flows, and remarketing all work together like a mousetrap. Build clear landing pages that convert, automation that nurtures leads, and a machine that drives discovery calls without you chasing people. Stop leaking leads halfway through.

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Marketing funnel tools

Marketing funnel tools

Traffic means nothing if it doesn't convert. These tools help you capture leads, nurture them automatically, and understand what's actually working in your funnel.

Lead capture system

Lead capture system

Anonymous visitors are worthless. A strategic approach to forms, lead magnets, and often-forgotten sources turns traffic into contacts you can actually nurture and convert.

Lead nurture sequences

Lead nurture sequences

Most leads aren't ready to buy today. Automated sequences keep you top of mind and build trust over time so prospects come to you when timing is right.

Optimised booking flow

Optimised booking flow

Getting someone interested is only half the battle. A proper booking flow with confirmations, reminders, and no-show handling converts more interest into actual conversations.

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Founder brand

Dave Gerhardt

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Founder brand

A guide to purposeful visibility. Choose topics, set a cadence and turn posts, talks and interviews into warm conversations.

Expert secrets

Russel Brunson

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Expert secrets

Position your expertise, tell stories that teach, and build simple offers that move buyers from interest to action.

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How to optimise your LinkedIn profile

Your profile is your homepage so fix this before you post anything. Clear headline, sharp pitch, strong CTAs, and trust signals that convert visitors.

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How to warm up your LinkedIn profile

Boost LinkedIn reach in the week before you post. Warm the algorithm with daily chats, meaningful comments, a cleaner network, and new recommendations.

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Mobile responsive

Ensure websites display and function properly on all devices to avoid losing mobile traffic that bounces from broken layouts or tiny unclickable buttons.

Social proof

Display evidence that others trust and use your solution to overcome scepticism and reassure prospects they're making a safe choice by buying.

Stages of awareness

Match your messaging to prospects' current awareness level from problem-unaware to solution-aware to speak directly to their mental state.

Content calendar

Plan content publication in advance to maintain consistency, balance topics, and coordinate promotion rather than scrambling to create content reactively.

Booking rate

The percentage of marketing qualified leads who book a meeting with your sales team.

Page speed

Optimise how quickly pages load to reduce bounce rates and improve rankings since slow sites frustrate users and get penalised by search algorithms.

Call-to-Action (CTA)

Craft clear, compelling prompts that drive specific user actions across platforms, from clicking through to converting.

List hygiene

Regularly remove inactive and invalid email addresses to maintain deliverability and focus effort on engaged subscribers who actually read your content.

Hero section

Design the prominent first section of pages to communicate value immediately and guide visitors toward conversion without requiring them to scroll or search.

Personal brand

Build professional reputation through consistent content and engagement to attract opportunities and establish trust before commercial conversations begin.

Unsubscribe rate

Monitor how many recipients opt out of emails to catch list fatigue or irrelevant content before deliverability suffers from spam complaints that damage sender reputation.

Trust signals

Display security badges, guarantees, and credentials to reduce purchase anxiety and prove legitimacy on pages where visitors make buying decisions.

User interview

Conduct structured conversations with customers to uncover problems, motivations, and decision processes that surveys and analytics can't reveal.

Activation rate

The percentage of new leads who take a qualifying action and become marketing qualified leads.

Jobs to be done

Understand the underlying progress customers try to make by hiring products to uncover motivations that drive purchases beyond surface-level features.

Pain point

Identify specific problems customers experience to position solutions around relieving frustrations they're motivated to solve rather than nice-to-have features.

Lead capture rate

The percentage of engaged website visitors who submit their contact information and become leads.

AIDA

Map the buyer journey from attention to action, crafting messages that guide prospects through each stage to conversion.

Marketing Automation

Execute personalised, multi-touch campaigns at scale through software that triggers messages based on prospect behaviour and characteristics.

Customer journey

Map every touchpoint from initial awareness to repeat purchase, creating seamless experiences that guide prospects toward conversion.