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Paid Ads > Webinar > Email Nurture > Push for the Sale
Traffic Generation > Lead Magnet > Nurture > Grab the Sale
Exit Intent > Lead Capture > Reengagement Series > SELL
Everywhere I turn in the world of internet marketing all I see is advice on how to create the most basic yet aggressive sales funnel.
We're told to push users toward the end goal. An end goal which is collecting their email address or increasing sales. And often, there's little or no talk about how to progress from the funnel's end goal.
And that presents a huge problem.
The problem I have with ~80% of sales funnel advice is that they all describe the funnel with a very definite end.
We get what we want, be it the sale or email capture, then basically tell the customer to piss off until we need something from then again.
As soon as that need arises, we go through the same steps with a new funnel and new goal.
It's tiring. A business is not made by linking a series of sales funnels in the most tenuous way. Businesses thrive with a holistic, audience-centric approach.
The sales funnel might have a binary outcome, convert or not, but that doesn't mean you should be splitting your audience in two. Ignoring the half who have given you what you want so you can focus on those who have yet to convert.
The sales funnel always has and always will be an integral part of business and consumer journey mapping, but completion does not signify the end of a customer's journey. Completion is a single milestone in your wider strategy.
I've spoken before here about the benefits of focusing on retaining your current customers over having to constantly fill your funnel.
Retention is cheaper than acquisition and provides far more benefits in terms of profitability.
Focusing on simple funnels to drive sales seems to be the common approach to online business, especially with the new breed of internet marketers. There's rarely talk about building value, establishing an audience, and providing long term value beyond the initial sale.
The belief and proliferation of advice advocating simple sales funnels has led to one very frustrating development.
The Same Tired Promises from Different Mouths
You're reading this on the CrazyEgg blog. So I'm going to make an assumption that you are an interested, intelligent marketer. Someone who reads various sites on marketing, entrepreneurship, start-ups and the like.
With that assumption made, I'm positive you're also served the heavy handed remarketing ads served through ad networks, particularly Facebook.
These ads follow a basic template format which could be summed up as:
Action > Incredible Result > Tight Time Constraint
Some of my favorites I've paraphrased below.
Two years ago I was a broke, down and out loser who couldn't afford to pay his bills. Now, after just 18 months of work I'm worth a bazillion dollars and I'll show you how I did it. Click here/sign up for the webinar now/register interest etc.
Learn how this 21-year-old college dropout went from crippling debt to private jets. Register for the eye-opening webinar now.
Your list is the most important element of your business. Learn the tried and true methods that'll help you grow your list by up to 300 new subs per day.
My Facebook feed is filled with this crap. It's incredibly frustrating, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks so.
Erick (the top commenter) is right, it often feels like a new form of MLM. I see so many people creating offshoot and derivative works of more successful programs.
No-one is learning how to run a business. They're learning how to create a sales funnel promoting a product. A product which doesn't offer value, but simply creates more marketers making the same tired promises.
I've signed up to a few just to see what they're doing and, without exception, they follow the same format.
You sign up for the lead magnet/webinar/report etc. and are entered into a less than subtle, hard-sell funnel. Every email is not focused on helping the audience but on getting them to buy. There's nothing entertaining or educational in 90% of the emails I've received.
Why is This a Problem?
Is selling information or products online a problem? No.
Are the basic funnels people use and promote an issue? Nope.
Is the problem that this is, basically, a new evolution of MLM? A little.
What really bothers me is how there's this new breed of digital marketer being told that all you need to run a successful business is a single sales funnel.
That creating a webinar, running some paid ads, and implementing a basic email automation sequence is the secret to long-term success.
I have a huge problem with that.
Sure, I think any business's primary focus should be on increasing conversions, but – and this is a huge but – if your focus is on sales alone, then you're only gonna piss people off. You turn into that skeezy used car lot salesman who makes grand promises and refuses to accept no for an answer.
This seems to be an unpopular opinion with modern marketers. Especially those concerned with CRO.
But, and I'll fight anyone who disagrees with me, a sales funnel does not make a business.
This sales funnel centric approach fails to see anything beyond the conversion. It's a simple push from initial contact to purchase.
Once that purchase is made, that user might as well be dead.
Focus is on filling the top of your funnel and pushing people through until they purchase. It can make money, but it has a limited lifespan.
What You Should Focus on Instead of Sales Funnels
Take a look at the commonly used image of a sales funnel.
There's a huge problem with that model – the hard beginning, middle, and end.
No wonder so much modern marketing advice advocates a simple attract, nurture, convert structure. It's all the traditional model leaves us room for.
But when you stop to think about it, the traditional sales funnel raises more questions than it answers. In particular:
- What happens once someone has moved through that funnel?
- How do you interact with people that have already converted?
- Are converters now dead to you because they've taken the primary action you want them to?
- Do you continue to engage them, or only re-engage with your next funnel? Your cross or up-sell?
If you follow that traditional model, you're losing business.
Not all of your leads will enter at the top of your funnel and methodically work their way through either becoming a paying customer or exiting when they realize it's not for them.
Sure, these things can happen, but what about attracting at different stages of awareness and cross-device journeys? These are two widely covered marketing beliefs which beliefs which debunk the traditional linear approach sales funnel.
Let's first look at the stages of awareness. A generalized view puts the basic journey from unaware to most aware at five steps.
In images like the above, we're once again presented with a linear journey working logically through each stage.
However, modern consumers are incredibly smart. 81% of users complete as much research as possible before making any decisions, and they'll find the information they need from as many sources as possible.
And so we, as marketers, have to produce content to attract different users at different stages of consideration, and thus, different stages of the sales funnel.
Which kind of throws a spanner in the works of that linear model, right? It's not just about attracting users at the preliminary stages of the funnel.
Good content aimed at the solution aware will bring in new potential leads at a point which, in the traditional sales funnel, is half completed. We'd need to add "lead inlets" to represent the leads that come in at later stages, creating a kind of spideresque sales funnel representation.
Then we have the cross-device and cross-channel journeys of modern users which take the spider diagram we have and completely screw it up.
According to Comscore, multi-platform journeys are now the norm for users.
And so we have people jumping from mobile to desktop, back to tablet, before moving back to desktop to finally complete a single stage of the journey.
These developments in user behavior show us that there really isn't a linear customer journey. In a single sales funnel you'll have users entering halfway through your funnel, some will exit at a middle stage, some will skip various stages, and others still will engage multiple times at the same stage.
But of course, that doesn't make a compelling analogy or snazzy little diagram for marketers like me to exploit in articles like this. It's all too complicated.
The short of it is, prospects do not enter your funnel at stage one before methodically working their way through each stage and, thinking in terms of single sales funnels is limiting for your business.
Do you really want to put a definitive beginning, middle and, most importantly, end on your sales funnels? No. Because the best users come from all sorts of sources and at all sorts of stages of the funnel. They jump around repeating and skipping certain stages.
But most importantly, good customers stick around for repeat purchases which simply isn't represented in the traditional sales funnel.
So How Do We Approach the Modern Sales Funnel?
The first step is to understand how the modern sales funnel actually works. The idea that the traditional, linear sales funnel is a flawed concept is nothing new. However, it's something that seems to receive very little coverage.
One of the best explanations and representations of the modern sales funnel comes from an eConsultancy white paper written by Brian Clark of Copyblogger.
In it, Brian explains the failures in the traditional sales funnel and provides the below interpretation of the modern funnel.
What's most interesting about Brian's visual representation is how there is no end to the customer journey. Which, when you think about it, is correct.
We've all read the articles on how current consumers are worth far more and are cheaper to keep than attracting new customers.
The mistake brands make is thinking that if a consumer doesn't progress from one stage to the next they've exited the funnel.
However, the only time a user truly exits the funnel is when they actively disengage with your brand.
For example, I recently purchased a new pair of football boots (soccer cleats in the US). I always buy Adidas boots because I once had a pair of Nike's fall apart on me after a month.
That bad experience caused me to take a step back from Nike products and I decided that I no longer wanted to purchase one of their products.
However, I wasn't exactly a lost customer to them. Rather, I'd simply taken a few steps back in the sales funnel.
If Nike could rebuild the trust that had been broken, they had a chance of re-engaging me and bringing me back into the fold. Thanks to their huge presence, this is something quite achievable for Nike. You can't actively disengage with a brand that has content and advertisements are everywhere.
Over the last few years their continued presence, numerous testimonials from players, and sport-wide sponsorships slowly worked to rebuild the trust I'd lost in them.
Five years ago I wouldn't even consider buying Nike again, this year however, the final selection had been narrowed to two products.
Nike Mecurial's or Adidas Ace 17s.
If Nike had viewed me in the traditional sense of the sales funnel then I was a lost prospect. I'd exited the funnel because I'd failed to move from one stage to the next.
However, all that had really happened was a loss of trust. I'd moved back a few stages and stalled, but I was far from a lost cause.
As Brian Clark puts it,
"Conversion is a constant process, from outer circles to the innermost. Each step inward represents a greater degree of belief that we are the solution to that individual's relevant problems and desires. The successive experience reinforces greater belief, which leads to trust and another step through our customer lifecycle."
I'd moved back through lack of trust and, all they needed to do was reinforce my trust and belief to once again re-engage me and move me forward.
Their constant presence and trust building content had slowly worked to win back my favor and get me to once again trust in the brand.
It's All About Attraction
The image put forward by Brian accurately represents my real life experience with Nike. Non-converters aren't lost forever, they're simply stuck at a particular hurdle. One which can be overcome with the right tactics and incentive.
In my opinion, it all comes down to attraction. The more attractive your content, the more people will be drawn to your brand. If you're finding a certain element of your marketing doesn't convert, then it's simply a case of discovering how to boost the attractiveness of that element.
I like to think of it in terms of that basic school experiment we all did to understand magnetic fields. You know the one, where you're given a magnet, some paper, and a handful of iron filings.
The magnet is your brand, the iron filings your potential consumers.
Just like the magnet, your brand will immediately have a number of consumers who are drawn to the centermost area. However, there will be some who are just a little too far removed from your messages pull. They might show a slight attraction, but it's not enough to pull them in.
To grab these near believers, you're going to have to increase the attractiveness of your message. Just like increasing the magnets pull, increasing the attractiveness of your offering will attract more users to the centermost circle – the circle representing paying customers.
However, don't think it's just about attracting people to the centermost area. Once there, you have to keep them there. If you ignore those who are already in the circle, you remove the attraction that pulled them in.
To stop nurturing both current and potential customers is akin to removing the magnet from the paper. You'll see your users scatter and be drawn away from you to other brands who are actively nurturing relationships and drawing people in with magnetic messages.
Couple Brian Clark's concentric circles with the idea that your brand is a magnet. If you're not attracting enough users to the centermost circle, then increase the attraction and magnetism of your brand through more effective content, messaging, and promotion.
Understand that your customers are an audience, but an audience is only held together so long as you continue to serve them at every stage in their journey – that includes after they've purchased from you.
If you can continually publish great content that answers questions and solves problems at every stage of the customer journey, you'll not only attract more users to the central circle where fans and sales are made, but also keep them there for repeat purchases.


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Jodene & Ben's Winter Wedding at Parklands, Quendon Hall
It was a typically cold but beautiful December day as we arrived at Parklands, Quendon Hall for Jodene and Ben's winter wedding. No sign of snow but a relaxed air of anticipation throughout this impressive manor house.
We love weddings at Parklands - not just because we also chose this venue for our wedding (over 10 years ago….!) but for it's location in the middle of a National Deer Park and it's beautiful building, which is exclusive to you for the day!
The couple were both in full swing of getting ready with their entourage and we left them to it for a while and busied ourselves with photographing all the tiny details of their day. We then covered their prep separately with Rachel and the girls in the bridal suite and Mark with the guys around the house.
Ben & Jodene married in the banquetting suite, which was dressed with pretty fairy lights and candles, followed by their drinks reception inside the manor house. The weather was relatively fair for the time of year and the couple were happy to get outside to make the most of the last rays of sun, which made for some gorgeous photos of this happy couple.
The couple and their guests then returned back to the banquetting suite and the wedding party enjoyed an amazing meal, treated to hilarious speeches and a beautiful 1st dance. The dance floor was then packed out with their friends and family who danced well into the night, as well as a mini sparkler party outside which made for some cool night shots!
Thanks again to Jodene & Ben for an awesome day along with the Parklands team who looked after us as always!
Here's a few images from their wedding - we hope you enjoy them! x

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Mr. Kenneth Puig helped drop my misdemeanor charge for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Seventh Degree pursuant to New York Penal Law Section 220.03. Mr. Puig had helped dropped this charge to a Disorderly Conduct under Penal Law Section 240.20, which was a violation and not a crime. Due to the actions of Mr. Puig and the court, I did not receive a criminal charge nor do I have a misdemeanor on my record (which could hurt any future success for my business management career). Mr. Puig's services made me feel releved and confident of having my misdemeanor charge dropped; from our first meeting to our first court date. He is an excellent attorney in the field of misdemeanor cases and I highly recommend him!
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Leadership Lessons That Could Have Helped David Humphreys CEO Of TAMKO In Leading
Leaders do not give orders instead they try to get the best methods to work together with their team to achieve the goals of the company. That is what David Humphreys CEO of TAMKO has been able to achieve making him serve the company for over twenty years which has helped the roofing company boost their sales. So, how can one achieve such type of respect from people and be in a position to lead for long?
It is your attitude towards the workers that help a firm to grow, so learn ways of managing it or else it will be the end of your firm. Have a positive attitude even during those ugly days that everyone wants to quit since workers will follow your example and if one fails to hold it together they will have nothing to hold onto which could lead to collapsing of a company. When one has good questions to ask; they help one to learn about the firm and ways of improving the things that have not been done correctly.
If your employees see that you do not trust them that much, they will also not trust you or anything you say thus creating an uncomfortable environment. If you want others to learn be the force that sees that followed ion the company which could be through organizing training and joining in with their members so that it does not seem like a punishment. Your expectations of how far one wants to see the company go should not change no matter what, but let your workers see the determination.
If there is a channel through which people occasionally communicate, like through meetings, there is sharing of ideas and discussing the things causing issues in the organization. Individuals wait until a company collapses or is going through crises and the top leaders are always in the spotlight, so be the type who shows everyone the way. It can also be through showing workers who are having issues finishing their tasks some of the methods that could help.
Being the leader does not mean that one should not participate in giving ideas that is why attending the meetings is good to help notice how people feel about their job. Your workers want your presence, so be there not only in the office but also the place where these tasks are being carried out to see their dedication and how much they are willing to go. David Humphreys CEO of TAMKO has led by example, and these could be some of the things he has applied during his years of being the leader of one of the best roofing company, traits that people can copy.
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Hove (East Sussex)
Tuesday 26th March 2019
The Ginger Pig, Hove, 9.30am–1.30pm, followed by a two-course lunch
E-mail me if you'd like to book on to this workshop.
About the workshop
An Instagram workshop for foodies, bloggers and anyone who wants to up their Instagram game. This 4-hour workshop is great for people who are perhaps new to Instagram or for those who are interested in using it much more effectively, especially as a business tool to self-promote. There will be 2 main elements, to be followed by lunch.
1) A talk and presentation about phone photography and Instagram
* The power of Instagram and how to get the most from it
* Finding a style
* Suggestions for styling food for photography
* Taking good photographs with your phone
* Editing your images
2) A practical workshop to practice what's just been discussed
* We'll have a selection of ingredients and some of my favourite props with which to experiment and put some of the above 'teachings' into practice, to include styling, shooting, editing and publishing images
About me
I'm an art director and designer with a great passion for Instagram and phone photography. I've worked with some of the country's best chefs, foodies and food photographers during my working life. I understand the power of Instagram as a marketing and communication tool, but I also love the way the app enhances how people think and create in the world of food. I've worked with many brands and individuals to create content exclusively for their Instagram accounts, and with nearly twenty years of working in cookbook publishing, I've been around the world of food and foodies for a long time.
Workshop details:
9.30am-1.30pm, on Tuesday 26th March 2019
Tea/coffee will quickly be served at around 11.30am
Two-course lunch to be served from 1.45pm
Please arrive 10-15 minutes early so that we can begin promptly at 9.30am.
Cost: £99, to include the workshop and a two-course lunch. Water will be available throughout the workshop. Guests will be welcome to order extra courses and drins during the meal at their own individual expense.
The Ginger Pig
3 Hove Street
Phone: 01273 736123
You will need:
* Your own camera phone or tablet (iPhone is my camera phone of choice and is the one I will be demonstrating with, but any smart phone or tablet that you take images with will be fine)
* A FULL BATTERY (a back-up battery pack and/or a charger cable, just in case also useful)
* Access to an Instagram account to which you can publish a few results on the day
* The most up-to-date version of the Instagram app for your phone/tablet would also be helpful
I request pre-payment for the workshops. Pre-payment enables me to secure your place on the workshop, without having to fear cancellations and not have time to fill those places.(If you should need to cancel once paid, I will happily fully refund the fee if I can book someone else onto the workshop in time.) No refund possible on cancellations made within 7 days of workshop date.
My workshops are perfect for foodies and bloggers keen to enhance their smart phone photography and for anyone who wants to up their Instagram game. These workshops run for four hours and are followed by a lunch or dinner at the hosting restaurant. They are great for people new to Instagram and also for those who are interested in using the app much more effectively, especially as a business tool to self-promote.
I have a great passion for Instagram and phone photography. I've worked with some of the UK's best chefs, foodies and food photographers during a working life centred around food and food publishing. In my workshops, I aim to convey the power of Instagram as both a marketing and communication tool, and also the way that this amazing app enhances how people think and create in the world of food. All of my photography is taken using an iPhone: these workshops aim to enable you to get brilliant results doing just that, too.
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Georgia gave this all-day workshop at the ISIS Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area and subtitles it "Archetypal Tools for Securing Your Financial Future." Jungian psychologists believe that present in the collective unconscious are primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors. These Archetypes are present in our everyday Astrology. Accompanying material includes Saturn: History, Mythology and Financial Cycles; Uranus: The Financial Genius in Your Chart; Transits of Saturn Through Your Chart; Integrating Eclipses into Your Financial Future; Working with the Chiron/Pluto Conjunction; Last Quarter Square Cycles of Saturn/Neptune, Saturn/Uranus, Saturn/Jupiter; Identifying Your Personal Money Mythology: Values, Needs, Motivation — and Making it Work For You.
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Ganglioside are sialic acid containing glycosphingolipids found in highest concentration in the central nervous system (CNS) tissues. We found that more than 100 species including extremely minor species exist in CNS.Among gangliosides isolated by using a new column chromatographic method, a unique and new series of gangliosides was shown to exist in polysialoganglioside fraction. They possessed N-acetylneuraminic acid attached to N-acetylgalactosamine in alpha2-6 linkage.The immunohistochemical staining of human and rat brains with specific monoclonal antibodies to the gangliosides showed that they are expressed in region-or neuronal cell type-specific manner. For example, GD1alpha was highly enriched in cerebellar Purkinje cells. GQ1balpha was expressed in the cholinergic nerve terminals.We have demonstrated that GT1aalpha and GQ1balpha was synthesized from GD1a and GT1b, respectively, by the action of a GalNAc alpha2-6sialyltransferase. Once gangliosides were sialylated by the enzyme, further sialylation of the gangliosides could not proceed.To understand a physiological function of sphingolipids, we have developed a dissociated cell culture system of rat cerebellum. In our culture system, Purkinje cells developed well-differentiated dendrites and axons. Addition of a inhibitor of ceramide synthase (fumonisin B1) resulted in impairment of dendrite formation. In contrast, granule cells appeared to be almost normal following treatment with the inhibitor. These results show that sphingolipids serve as an essential component for the differentiation and maintenance of the dendritic arborizations of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Further studies of the molecular mechanism by which sphingolipids contribute to the dendrite growth and survival of neurons will be needed.
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