Since then, I’ve received lots of positive and negative feedback on that
article. Some people seem to think that I undersold my point, while others
pointed to the fact that overall interest may be waning but interest amongst
the most important groups was increasing.
Notice how the past few weeks are not only quite lower than the rest of the
year but also how the magnitude of the short term changes (both up and down)
have been increased in the past little while.
Before we get to the meat of today's topic, let’s play a quick game of word
association. I’ll say (write) a word, and then you say (think) the first
things that come to your mind.
The assumption is that all potential franchisees in the big wide world in the
Internet conjure the same mental image when they hear “franchise” or
“franchising.” Obviously there a lot of people on the Internet, and a lot of
different interpretations of any word, so how do you cover all of your bases?
A good person to first appeal to is your average consumer, meet “Bob.”
Usually, when I’m writing on the topic of turning visitors into leads, I share
tips and tricks for how we think about raising conversion rate i.e. getting
more people who visit your site to fill out a form.
It is nearly impossible to over-state the importance of an email's subject
line. In my days as a franchise marketer, I've written well into the thousands
of subject lines.
One of the tried and true facts of franchise lead generation is that it
generally takes a big leap of faith for someone to seriously consider opening
a franchise.