As a kid, I watched the futuristic cartoon The Jetsons. I was sure by the time I grew up, we’d all be riding around in flying cars. 40 years later and transport still remains terrestrial.
While modern cars have some nice bells and whistles in their basic form and function, motor vehicles haven’t really changed in the last 100 years.
We have the technology for flight. But why aren’t we all zipping around in personal flying machines?
Simple. There’s no infrastructure to support personal flight. Modern houses, buildings, and cities are all built to accommodate cars.
This brings me to your business.
It has access to everything it needs to scale rapidly and become a multi-million-dollar success story. Only without the right infrastructure you’ll experience little growth.
That’s why I’m going to show you how to build an effective marketing infrastructure. I’ve used this method to scale and sell two businesses for more money than I could ever have imagined. And now I’m giving it to you.
So let’s begin.
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A marketing infrastructure is the systems and processes businesses use to constantly bring in new leads, follow up with, nurture, and convert them into raving fan customers.
And it’s the reason why some businesses get a constant flow of and prospects while others struggle to get any leads and prospects while others struggle to get any.
There are four vital components of a successful marketing infrastructure.
Technology is key to building an effective marketing infrastructure. Leverage its power, and it can augment your abilities. You’d never have to worry about repetitive and menial tasks again.
When used wisely, tools and software can make doing business with you and building relationships with your prospects so much easier. Plus, it allows you to focus on revenue-generating projects and ideas.
For example, every online small business needs a website customer management system (CMS), customer relationship management (CRM) tool, payment gateway, and social media tools like LinkedIn and Instagram.
But you also need to track the performance of these tools. You need data. That’s where Google Analytics, social insights, and email analytics come in handy. You can quickly see which marketing assets bring in new leads and where to double down your efforts.
Are you leveraging the power of automation?
An asset is anything of intellectual value. It establishes your authority and industry credibility, builds your brand awareness, and gets high-value leads to self-identify.
For example, a cornerstone piece of content can be a blog, book, guide, or report. It can also be marketing collateral such as your website, a brochure, or an email sequence that consistently converts prospects to customers.
Assets are not only valuable to you, but they can increase the saleability of your company.
These are the systems and procedures you implement to ensure vital day-to-day tasks get done. Also known as a standard operating procedure, these processes outline who will do what and when.
For example, it can help you plan content marketing. What marketing articles, resources, or images do you need?
If you decide to post a blog article once a week, the process will outline the following:
Processes save you time and money. But they also help you scale.
As a solopreneur, it’s difficult to scale your business alone. You may reach five or six figures, but you’ll burn out trying to do it alone. If you’d like to retain control of your advertising and marketing message, you’ll want to build a team of marketers, sales, and tech experts.
These four components (tools, assets, processes and people) are fundamental to your marketing infrastructure.
There are four main reasons you need to invest in building infrastructure to market your company.
Most businesses do what I call "random acts of marketing.” They’re not building an infrastructure. They throw up an ad here and there, perhaps a website or a brochure.
These sporadic, one-shot acts of digital marketing usually cost more than they bring in, which is demoralizing. It also sometimes leads business owners to say ridiculous things like “marketing doesn’t work in my industry.” In a nutshell, it's expensive.
If you don’t have a system to generate new leads, prospects, and clients, you have to replace it with manual labor: cold calling, cold emailing. You're wasting hours following up on unqualified leads. It's exhausting.
Now, imagine you had a machine that does that for you.
Here's why that's so powerful...
You have a better understanding of what the market wants. It tracks the data.
You can see where a lead came from, what information they're interested in, and what content to produce. Give this data to your sales team, and they'll know what message to push, what objections to overcome, and when to cut a prospect loose.
You don’t have to wake up and hustle all day. Automating much of your infrastructure ensures you start to get leads in-bound. I'm not saying outbound is wrong. It’s just more difficult.
With a sound marketing infrastructure, sales know exactly what to do, marketing has a proven growth plan to follow, and you can go on holiday without worrying things will stop.
To build a system, we need to think it through from start to end. We need to understand how it works and what resources we’ll need to run it.
Here are a few examples of successful marketing assets in my marketing infrastructures:
I continue to build bigger and more sophisticated assets, but these are some of which make up my core. Each one of these has a place and purpose. All the ads I run are designed to plug cold leads into this system and convert them to raving fan customers.
It does take time and money to build a marketing infrastructure. But just like building physical infrastructures like roads or a railway network – the bulk of the time and cost goes into the initial build. After that, it’s just maintenance.
And here’s the exciting thing – thanks to advances in technology, much of my marketing system is automated, which gives me enormous leverage.
When I find a combination that works, I can redeploy it repeatedly and reliably get the same results.
Without a marketing plan, you'll continue to waste time, energy, and dollars on random acts of marketing. A sound marketing plan details every step in attracting a cold lead to churning out a raving fan.
It's the foundation on which your marketing infrastructure is built.
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Implementing an infrastructure can be overwhelming for time-strapped entrepreneurs. You want to start building that database of leads, so focus on getting your website and CRM operational.
Even if you can't yet afford help, you need to document your processes. It can be as easy as filming Loom videos while you work. This way, when you can hire someone, you won't have to spend time showing them how to do things. It's already done. They just need to follow your instructions.
An essential component of your infrastructure is data. Business growth requires you to stay on top of your marketing numbers. Speak to any marketer, and they'll tell you they frequently review every piece of data they receive.
Knowing your numbers allows you to cut the tools that aren't delivering, saving you time and money.
Marketing is never done. So get into the habit of testing and optimizing regularly.
Are you building your marketing infrastructure?
Are you constantly adding to and improving your marketing systems?
Doing so is what will put you far ahead of your competitors, who’ll be just fluffing about with their random acts of marketing. Use the steps listed above.
Craft your marketing plan. Identify which systems and assets you need to build. And get it done.
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