It’s well known that as little as 2% of a website’s visitors turn into actual buyers. From the remaining 98%, some might leave after spending time consuming content while others might exit from the checkout page – never completing the purchase and never to return. Ouch. 

Do you want them back? Well, yeah… of course you do!  

Two entrepreneurs paint their story of producing and taking their first product to market.

This is a conversation with 2 of our clients, both partners for a product they call Press-N-Paint. It’s a children's toy designed to take the mess out of children's painting time. Very easy clean up. It also teaches kids the basics of the color wheel and how to mix paints to get additional colors.  The product was intended to retail for about $40. It would include 4oz of 5 colors of paint. Mixing cups and brushes. 

The owners are Mark Carros and Joe Kirsch from their company - Twilight Pirates.

Branding is by far one of the most important aspects of your business. Branding tells your customers who you are and what they should expect from you. Branding has been utilized for over 100 years, and in fact 30% of the 100 most valuable brands were established before 1900. Coca Cola is an example of one of these brands with its recognizable logo and popular imagery. There are many different aspects to branding, and learning how to brand your business is a good start to success. Good branding and a strong corporate identity can lead to a 5% to 7% increase in stock value. A design company is your best bet to help solidify a brand. Learn what designers will do to show you how to brand your business.

The process of branding your company starts in an unlikely place--your product's packaging. It's your business's image on the marketplace. You need to understand that your product's packaging will always have an influence on the purchaser--be it positive or negative. If a customer doesn't like the way your product's been packaged, it'll detour them just as much as positive reactions could influence them to buy.

What is branding? That's been the question for as long as human beings have learned that looking at shiny objects is cool. Since the rise of structured economic systems, however, the question has shifted a bit. Now, it's: What is branding in business?

Whether you're still trying to impact the market with your new startup company or simply looking stay relevant in the fast-pasted, ever-changing times, branding is everything. Seriously. If we've learned anything from being a consumer-based society for so long, it's that banding can make or break a company's longevity. A memorable logo and smart product packaging can transform a burgeoning business into a household name. But on the flip side, awkward or ineffective stylistic and creative choices can sabotage a company's chances at staying in the sphere of public influence.

If you haven’t started Inbound Marketing as a strategy for your business - Here are 75 stats that will convince you that this is the direction you can’t ignore anymore!

SEO

• 61% of global Internet users research products online. (Interconnected World: Shopping and Personal Finance, 2012)
• 44% of online shoppers begin by using a search engine. (Interconnected World: Shopping and Personal Finance, 2012)
• 70% of the links search users click on are organic, not paid. (Marketing Sherpa, February 2007)
• 75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results. (MarketShareHitsLink.com, October 2010)
• Businesses with websites of 401-1000 pages get 6x more leads than those with 51-100 pages. (HubSpot Lead Generation Lessons from 4,000 Businesses, 2011)

There's a lot to be learned by studying your online B2B leads.  Software Advice did just that when they tracked and analyzed over 6,000,000 unique visitors.  Review their findings and determine what can be applied to your business.

Conversion rates for B2B online leads are highest at the beginning of the year.  In part because companies are starting a new fiscal year, budgets are unspent and focus is put on new initiatives according to a recent analysis by Software Advice.

Conversion rates drop in the summer during prime vacation season.  And again in December as the holidays roll around.

How This Applies To Your Business:  Put special emphasis on responding quickly to leads generated online during the beginning of the year as your chances of success are statistically much greater!