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Marketing tools you must have on your website

Modupe Ogundiran

Marketing tools you need on your website

Modupe Ogundiran

In creating a website for your business, you should understand that the main purpose of a website is to sell. Your objective for having a website for your business should be how to convert your audience from readers to buyers and advocates for your business. And this is achievable through having the right marketing tools on your website. Here are some marketing tools I strongly recommend for all website.

Marketing tools you must have on your website

1. CRM Integration

The primary purpose of a CRM is to organise, track and manage customer information, activities and conversation. This helps your sales and customer service teams to understand your customers better. And also ensures you are delivering the right message at the right time.

What is CRM integration?

CRM integration is simply building your website and CRM to function seamlessly, instead of using your CRM to just be a system that retains customer information based on manual entries, integrating your website/ Marketing automation software brings in valuable customer information directly to your CRM.

Your salesperson will be able to pinpoint when that lead last visited your site, what they looked at, and what other information they requested.

The best customer automation tool I strongly recommend is Smartech, Hubspot, fresh sales these tools help improve customer communication and retention, increase company profitability and enhance customer/prospect tracking.

 

2. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free web analytics service that allows you to analyze in-depth details of your website visitors, it provides valuable insight that helps you shape the success strategy of your business.

With this tool, you know the details of what people do when they visit your website, how long they stay and what other pages do they visit,  therefore, it gives you the insight to learn the inner structure of your website to see whether it is accomplishing its purpose or not. 

You know what it’s totally free, collect data automatically, you can create customized reports with the dashboard.

 

3. Live Chat

According to research live chat has the highest satisfaction levels of any customer service channel at 73%, compared to 61% for email and 44% for Phone.

67% of website users want their questions to be answered instantly.

Using a live chat support software helps you to instantly answer user questions and convert them into paying customers, you can also generate leads and retain your customers.

You can try the following live chat for your website. Drift, LiveChat, Olark.

 

4. On Page SEO (Yoast)

 

If you create an awesome website, it will not start ranking immediately. On-Page SEO  is the practice of optimizing individual web pages in order to rank higher and earn more traffic from search engines.

Optimising your website for search engine is a key factor for growing your business and establishing authority online

WordPress user can choose from thousands of SEO plugins online but Yoast Plugin top them all, it’s a full-featured Seo solution that automates, optimise just about every aspect of your website.

 

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Oti is a vastly experienced digital media and marketing professional with over 10 years of industry experience. He has worked across Agency, Brand, Publisher and Marketing Technology sides of the industry in various capacities.


Driven by a strong commitment to continuous innovation, Oti has managed so many successful digital projects across Africa and Europe for brands like Coca-Cola, Nestle, Guinness, Kellogg’s, EA Games, Sony Entertainment, etc., and advises senior management of global brands on data-driven marketing and digital transformation.

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Oti currently heads Product at Terragon Group, Africa’s leading data aggregation, enrichment, and activation company, where he is responsible for developing innovative data-driven marketing solutions for SMBs and Enterprises across Africa.


Oti is the current President of Association of Digital Marketing Professionals (ADMARP), the foremost professional body for digital marketing practitioners in Nigeria. He is also a communications consultant to the African Union in areas of youth engagement and digital interactions. A known public speaker, teacher and trainer, Oti has facilitated several conferences and digital events, and was recognized by Marketing Edge Magazine as an Outstanding Digital Marketing Personality of the year 2021.