Voice of customer

Capture exact language customers use to describe problems and solutions to write copy that resonates because it mirrors how your market actually thinks and speaks.

Voice of customer

Voice of customer

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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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Lead capture system

Lead capture system

Capture visitor contact details through strategically placed forms, lead magnets, and often-forgotten sources. Build a system that turns anonymous traffic into known leads.

Lead nurture sequences

Lead nurture sequences

Nurture leads through automated email flows that educate, build trust, and move prospects toward booking a discovery call when the timing is right for them.

Optimised booking flow

Optimised booking flow

Convert interested leads into booked meetings through confirmation flows, reminder sequences, and cancellation handling that maximise show rates and reduce no-shows.

B2B website foundations

B2B website foundations

Most B2B websites confuse visitors instead of converting them. Build clear pages that answer questions, establish credibility, and make the next step obvious.

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Breakthrough Advertising

Eugene M. Schwartz

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Breakthrough Advertising

A field guide to message market fit. Use stages of awareness to pick angles, craft offers and brief ads that speak to real pains and jobs.

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How to run qualitative research

Use heatmaps, recordings, and survey data to uncover friction. Discover confusion and blockers that hurt your conversion rates and user experience.

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Who to interview

Identify your best customers, recent churned accounts, and lost prospects. Build a list of 8-12 people who can tell you what really drives buying decisions.

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Click-through rate (email)

Measure what percentage of email recipients click links to assess content relevance and call-to-action effectiveness beyond whether people merely opened messages.

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.

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.

Call-to-Action (CTA)

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

Activation rate

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

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.

Personal brand

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

Booking rate

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

Heatmap

Visualise user behaviour through colour-coded overlays showing clicks, scrolls, and mouse movement, exposing hidden friction points.

User interview

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

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.

List hygiene

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

Above the fold

Place critical information and calls-to-action in the visible area before scrolling to capture attention immediately when visitors land on pages.

Lead capture rate

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

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.

Content calendar

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

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.

Marketing Automation

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

AIDA

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

Stages of awareness

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