What is a marketing funnel and why does it matter?
A marketing funnel is the route someone takes from first seeing you to becoming a customer: an ad, a landing page, an enquiry, a follow-up, a sale. It matters because you can only fix where people drop out if you can see each step.
The route to a customer
Someone sees an ad or finds you in search. They land on a page, decide whether to get in touch, and fill in a form or book a call. Then you follow up, and some of them buy. Each of those steps is part of the funnel, and some people drop out at every one.
Why it matters
If your funnel is a black box, you can't tell why enquiries are low. The problem might be the ad, the page, the form or the follow-up. When you can see each step, you can fix the one losing the most people instead of guessing, or spending more on ads that send people into the same gap.
Different people need different routes
People come for different reasons, so sending them all to the same page loses some of them. Where a business has several kinds of customer, each can have its own page.
What we do
We build the whole route from the ad to the follow-up, with tracking in GA4, then keep fixing the weakest step. See funnel management.
The tools in this answer
WebflowWe're a Webflow Certified Partner. Your team can edit the pages without a developer, and the tracking and forms are wired in before launch.Tech
GA4Counts sessions and events. We check it against the raw data before we report from it.Reporting
KlaviyoEmail and SMS for online shops. It knows what each shopper browsed, left in their basket and bought, so the right email goes out on its own. It's the one we'd pick for a shop.CRM
Also worth asking
Other answers about the same tools.
What is technical and tracking infrastructure?
It's the set-up that counts what happens on your site and sends it where it needs to go: tracking tags, analytics, ad-platform conversions, your CRM connection and cookie consent, plus the hosting and security around your website.
How do you set up website analytics and tracking?
We agree with you what counts as a conversion, then set up Google Tag Manager and GA4, plus server-side tracking through Stape for sites that spend on ads. Before we hand over, we check the data is actually arriving.
What is CRM and lead flow management?
A CRM is where your contacts and deals live. Lead flow is how an enquiry gets there: the form, the tracking behind it and the follow-up. We connect them so each lead arrives with its source attached.
Why is tracking important for my marketing?
Without it you're guessing which ads, pages and emails bring customers. Ad platforms also bid on what you tell them, so missing or wrong conversions mean they find the wrong people.
What is ongoing management, support, and reporting?
It means we don't launch your marketing and leave. We keep running and improving your ads, website and tracking on a retainer, and send reports that show what's working and what we'd change.
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