Customers Respond Better to Inbound Marketing
Inbound marketing works better because you are pitching to a person who expressed some sort of interest in your product. Before explaining this, let’s see why PPC is added under ‘inbound’ while some marketers argue that PPC is an outbound marketing method.
Therefore, we consider PPC inbound marketing:
PPC – PPC stands for ‘Pay Per Click.’ PPC strategies and SEO techniques are essentially the same, but with a twist. With both SEO and PPC, you are trying to attract your customers through targeted keywords, but SEO keywords are used in social media write-ups, blog posts, video descriptions, image alt tags and Meta descriptions.
Eventually, the targeted keywords in the content are picked by search engines, in as much as the content is of high quality, informative and originally written. A snippet of your website page containing Meta descriptions and Meta title will be shown in search results.
The only difference with a PPC campaign is the fact that you pay per keyword to achieve the same results instead of optimizing your web page and waiting for the results to occur naturally. PPC is much faster where SEO can be a span of few months or years. Simply put, paying doesn’t make a PPC campaign an outbound marketing strategy. It is still an inbound marketing strategy but marketers should remember that paying for a keyword doesn’t mean that it is easy to convince their customers. The customer should be treated with respect and must be served with top-notch information.
Now we will see how inbound marketing is a lot better than outbound marketing for most marketers.
Selling What the Customers Want –
Inbound marketing sells a product to those that are looking for it.Sensitivity toothpaste is a good example: only a minority of people have teeth sensitivity. However, with a TV commercial, the marketer is trying to find the needle in a haystack. He calls for a massive campaign that costs millions of dollars in the hope that potential customers will find his toothpaste and the sales will surpass the marketing costs.
Inbound marketing on the other hand sells the same product to those that already shown an interest in it. For example, they reach your website by searching for “buy sensitivity toothpaste online USA” or through a search term similar. Now you have only a simple challenge: just convince the visitor that you sell the best toothpaste, which is a lot easier. You Are Not Overwhelming – People ‘hate’ advertisements. This is since most ads are not related to customer interests. Outbound marketing is trying to tackle this problem ever since, but they are nowhere close to being interesting. While an interesting ad may come up every occasionally, what we see more often are spam control software, ad blockers and people who record their shows so that they can fast forward ads. With inbound marketing is an informational conversation, not an ad.
