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Marketing Agencies: Top 5 Ways to Impress Your Clients

Stacy Wells03/20/2018

Marketing Agencies: Top 5 Ways to Impress Your ClientsTop 5 Ways to Impress Your Clients

3 min read

Recently I was on a call with the owner of a medium-sized business.

This man–we’ll call him Ralph–is a call tracking client and was frustrated with his marketing company. Ralph said he was paying nearly $1,000 to this marketing company each month and he wasn’t satisfied with his results.

In Ralph’s words: “I’m not even sure what they’re doing.”

Ralph is not impressed with his marketing firm. So, how can marketing firms impress their clients? After working closely with Ralph and asking him this question, here are five ways his marketing agency could dazzle him. 

1) Marketing agencies need to define success clearly 

One of Ralph’s main frustrations was that he could not ever get his marketing firm (you know, that company he’s paying $1,000 each month) to tell him exactly what they were trying to accomplish. He could never get them to commit to a specific goal or objective. They never said they would get him to the front page of Google. They never said they would generate x number of calls or x number of leads. They just couldn’t or wouldn’t definitively state what their goal was.

This is silly.

If you want to impress your clients, tell them exactly what your objective is and make sure you have a roadmap–a very clearly defined roadmap–that leads to that objective.

2) Provide ways to measure marketing agencies

Depending on the types of clients you serve, you may need to provide analytics tools for them to use. Local SEO firms, for instance, may have clients that don’t know how to use Google Analytics. In this case, you should sign up for them and give them login access. Or, at the very least, send them reports regularly.

Additionally, many of the marketing firms we work with provide call tracking to their clients. They either give a login to a white labeled dashboard with their logo and color scheme, or they send their clients reports from Convirza.

White Label Call Tracking for Marketing Agencies

Think about how impressed your clients will be when you provide ways for them to hold you accountable.

Awesome.

3) Demonstrate success quickly

We got into a mini-Twitter war the other day because we implied that SEO firms should be fired if results happen too slowly. Now, we never said what ‘too slowly’ meant. Indeed, you shouldn’t let your SEO firm go if they fail to demonstrated success in three weeks, six weeks or even, perhaps, eight weeks. However, at some point, you need to show results to your clients.

Think about how impressed your clients will be if you can deliver a certain number of phone calls, leads or web visitors in a short period of time. Quick results impress.

For those clients who depend on inbound calls, regularly scheduled reports are a consistent and open way to demonstrate success.

Call Reports deliver AI-powered data for you and your clients. A few of the benefits are:

  • Insights to prove marketing ROI
  • Customized experience to get data fast
  • Identify high performing keywords and ads
  • See calls by regions with Geographic Heatmap
  • Track customer journeys both online and offline
  • Trend Analysis
  • Missed Opportunity Alerts

4) Tell your clients your tactics

This is hard for marketers to do. It is like asking McDonald’s to share their secret sauce or asking Google to share its algorithm. Marketing agencies like to be relatively clandestine about their tactics.

Why?

Do you think your clients will steal your tactics?

Don’t be worried. Your clients have neither the expertise nor the time to replicate what you can do. Make your clients sign an NDA so they can’t share your tactics with your competitors.

Nothing is more frustrating for Ralph, or any other SMB owner than when a marketing firm that you’re paying $1,000/month won’t tell you exactly what they’re doing. Think about how infuriating that would be!

Imagine going to a restaurant, ordering your food and then waiting for two hours before it comes out. Then imagine asking the waitress what is going on,  and she says she can’t tell you. The methods of the restaurant, she says, are secret and proprietary.

Now imagine that you were spending $1,000 to purchase the dinner.

You would be frustrated, right? You would probably leave and never return.  

5) Be honest

If you aren’t getting results for your clients, you should TELL THEM. Don’t lead them along by saying ‘We’re so close to getting results,’ or ‘This just takes time. Be patient.’

If you don’t see results, be honest. Clients will appreciate transparency, which often creates a stronger partnership with your agency.

 

Published on: Mar 20, 2018.

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