5 Ways to Drive Leads and Double Your Profits Data is the secret sauce to grow your business and dominate your marketplace.

Mary Delaney | The Oracles

As a marketer, the right digital strategy can drive leads, increase profits, and eliminate the competition. But in a crowded marketplace, how do you cut through the noise?

Enter Joshua Harris, entrepreneur, master marketer, and member of The Oracles. His company, Agency Growth Secrets, teaches entrepreneurs how to grow highly profitable digital marketing agencies and win their clients unmatched results.

What's the key ingredient to his secret sauce? The right data. "The data we use plugs into Facebook and Google, slashing the cost on these platforms by 25 percent to 75 percent," shares Harris.

Here are five data-driven strategies that Harris uses to drive leads—and generate insane profits for his company and clients.

1. Eliminate non-buyers from your targeting.

To get the biggest bang for your buck, eliminate non-buyers from targeting. "In Chet Holmes' famed market pyramid, he showed that only three percent of people are ready to buy immediately. So, any money you spend on the remaining 97 percent of people is a waste," Harris explains.

"Current ad platforms don't have a way to eliminate these non-buyers, so marketers leave money on the table with the standard pay-per-click model," he adds. Instead of using the "spray and pray" method of broadcasting your message to everyone, Harris recommends using precision targeting to identify people who are ready to get out their credit cards now.

"If you know who's right for your offer, you don't need to pay $10 to Google for a click. You can put your offer on The Google Display Network. You can send the prospect a postcard. There are multiple ways to reach someone when you know who they are."

2. Implement a closed-loop attribution tool.

To prove your value proposition to marketing clients, show how your work has influenced sales. The right big data technology has the power to do just that.

"The platform we use shows metrics on a consumer's browsing history, where they encountered our ad, and how that ad influenced them to buy," Harris shares.

With closed-loop reporting, cookies and other tracking codes (such as UTM parameters) are used to flag a URL to identify specific visitors. These codes are then used to track where a visitor encounters your ad and how that interaction informs a sale.

What you can't measure, you can't manage. By using closed-loop reporting, you can measure success and manage your business.

3. Embrace people-based marketing.

People-based marketing means being able to recognize the name of who you're dealing with. "Website traffic is mostly anonymous and fraught with fraudsters and bots," Harris cautions. "With people-based marketing, you track channels to ensure your ad or message is getting delivered to a real person.

"We track URLs, buy data from publishers, and use paid subscriptions to create profiles of our target customers. When we reach out, we know we're communicating with an actual client." If you want real results, you need to verify that each person you're targeting is an actual person.

4. Predict a path-to-purchase.

By analyzing data correctly, marketers can predict who is going to do what next. "With our platform, we feed a hundred potential buyers into our system," Harris explains. "Then we examine all the different online behaviors of prospective buyers before they purchase. Their searches leave a trail of breadcrumbs, and we connect the dots."

When analyzing data, Harris advises focusing on what signals potential customers give off before they buy. "If you put the pieces together, you can anticipate a client's next move by their online behavior before they do."

5. Advertise across channels.

Once you've targeted the right client, reach out across channels. "Instead of spending $1,000 on just Google AdWords, use content management software that works across mobile and desktop platforms," Harris advises.

"Use Facebook, Google, YouTube, Pinterest, Display, direct mail, phone calls. The point is not only to use the best channel, but to use all channels. In other words, become omnipresent. If a prospective buyer sees you everywhere, they're more likely to buy from you than an obscure competitor."

Ultimately, with the right data tools, you can consolidate your marketplace and eliminate the competition. As Harris points out, "a competitive advantage is either operating cheaper or commanding a premium price. Our platform allows you to operate at a lower cost with your ads. Because your costs are lower and your frequency is higher, you can convince your customers that you have a better offering, set the buying criteria, and drive profitable sales."

To learn more about data-driven targeting, click here.

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