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Research: Content Beats Contact for Generating Leads

 

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In lead generation efforts there are two major types of landing pages: contact pages and content offer pages.

I analyzed over 40,000 customer landing pages and first looked at the conversion rate of landing pages that used words indicating some sort of "contact" or sales type process compared to the conversion of pages that did not include those words.

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I found that across the board, every type of "contact" or sales-driven landing page had lower conversion rates than other pages.

I then looked at the conversion rates of pages that used words that indicated some sort of content offer.

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By contrast, I found that landing pages offering some sort of content tended to have higher conversion rates than those that did not.

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Posted by Dan Zarrella on Thu, Oct 07, 2010 @ 01:00 PM

COMMENTS

Great timing! I'm just finishing up a Hubspot landing page and deciding exactly how to word the offering!  
 
It's what I expected too, BTW. 
 
Thanks! 
 
To your success, 
 
Abdul Karmach 
www.VARChannelMarketing.com 
813-868-7684

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 9:38 AM by Abdul Karmach


Fascinating, but on reflection not surprising. 
I work with clients to help them grow business and this kind of study can only help ensure that I get that right!

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 9:52 AM by Craig McKenna


Interesting stuff, Dan. Thanks for the insights and sneak peak. 
 
Do you have screenshots of some of the actual landing pages?

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 10:17 AM by Andy Cook


Genius. 6 words to avoid and 6 words to include. Amazing that the overwhelming majority of offers (including my own) fail to follow these simple ways to increase conversion.

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 1:43 PM by Olin Hyde


Thanks Dan, it's good to see that white papers continue to rank high in terms of conversion power. In other studies we've seen, the consistently rank in the top 1-2 in terms of most-effective sales tools.  
 
Moreover, I think your first chart really hits hope the ideal that you can't live on a single piece of content and expect that drive sales. You need to create trust and strong lead nurturing campaigns.  
 
Ryan Malone 
SmartBug Media 
An inbound marketing agency and Hubspot Partner 
@RyanMalone 
 
Free report: 
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posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 2:14 PM by Ryan Malone - Certified Hubspot Partner


I wonder what the conversion rates to sales opportunities are on these content leads? I would expect that most of the leads generated by content will be top of the funnel, with the exception of the Download category, which would probably get you further down the funnel.

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 4:42 PM by Scott Sweeney


This is totally awesome data. Very thought provoking... On the surface, your data suggests that content offers win, and that's what everyone should do. However, someone seeking content is probably not as likely to buy something. So now you have a two-step sales process. The MOST interesting data would be to see actual conversions (i.e., true sales) for groups that hit a traditional contact form vs content download (and subsequent sale).

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 7:42 PM by Adam


The data is not that surprising. With competition increasing everyday websites need to have an above average value proposition (free consult, contact us etc) to entice a user to give us information. Basically give me something and I will give you something ...

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 11:23 PM by James Chai


Looks interesting, I may have to join in on that one!!

posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 at 4:08 AM by Simon


Looking forward to the webinar. I hope there will be a breakdown by B2B and B2C; wondering how similar results are for the two.

posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 at 6:52 AM by Meyer Baron


This whole series has been super. Both the information delivered and examples of testing. 
 
Thanks

posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 at 4:01 PM by Jim Taylor


This is very interesting and great timing. We just started using Hubspot to push our whitepapers and demos, so we look forward to it paying off.  
 
 
 
Good Webinar today too btw.

posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 at 4:14 PM by Clay Brown


Thanks so much for the information! This confirms that offers on sales pages usually have better conversion rates. I missed your webinar, but will look forward to the next one you conduct. 
 
Kris 
Las Vegas Internet Marketing Social Media Consultant

posted on Saturday, October 09, 2010 at 1:16 AM by Kris de Leon


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