Attraction Marketing – Increase Leads, Conversions, and Sales

This blog will explore powerful techniques to transform your marketing from chasing to attracting.

Implement these attraction marketing strategies, and watch your leads and conversions surge.

What is Attraction Marketing?

Attraction marketing is the act of creating free and valuable content (in many forms) on your website that will attract the type of people who will want to buy what you’re offering.

Though people may not convert the first time they arrive on your site, the right kind of content will allow you to continue appealing to high-quality leads and build long-lasting relationships with them, even after they leave your website.

The Elements of Attraction Marketing

Attraction marketing is a comprehensive marketing strategy that helps you pull in people who will want to buy what you’re selling and turn them into long-term customers.

However, there’s more to it than just attracting leads with good content and hoping they convert.

Attraction marketing involves many elements that show how great your brand and its products and services are, before ever suggesting someone make a purchase.

Storybranding

People are not attracted to your products or services. Your competitors are likely offering very similar products and services. Instead, people fall in love with a brand. They trust, relate to, and favor your brand and what it stands for.

Your brand is who you are and what you do for others. It draws people to your store – whether online or not – and convinces them to consider buying from you. It’s important to develop a strong story behind your brand that people can hold onto while justifying their purchases made from your shop.

When determining whether your story is compelling enough, keep in mind that people should be able to answer these three things within seconds of landing on your website:

1. What do you sell?
2. How does it make my life better?
3. How do I buy?

Here, they answer all three questions right away:

• What do you sell? Baseball youth training programs.
• How does it make my life better? Helps my son achieve his baseball dreams and become a better player.
• How do I buy? There are three clearly labeled CTA buttons for finding out more and signing up that don’t take a lot of scrolling to find.

Remember, storybranding takes more than just telling a story and pushing people to the checkout page.

The development and design of your website, its SEO, and the type of content you provide for those you attract will have a major impact on your brand’s storyline and success.

Thought Leadership

Another aspect of attraction marketing is how established your company is within a certain industry. Becoming a thought leader is a great way to build a positive reputation and become an authority in your field.

It gives you a way to show people that you understand their pain points and can uniquely solve them.

Additionally, becoming a topical authority in your industry gives you a chance to show that others within your industry trust what you have to say. The more trust other companies have in you, the more trust consumers will have in you.

Lead Nurturing

Things don’t stop once you’ve attracted someone to your website.

Once someone takes an interest in your brand, no matter where they come from, it’s time to lead them through your click funnels and continue to convince them you’re the company for them.

There are many ways to nurture leads once they land on your website, and click funnels are only one option. You can also conduct:

• Email campaigns: Getting people to subscribe while on your website gives you a chance to continue building a relationship long after they leave your site. You can send drip campaigns, discounts, and even a newsletter packed with newsworthy content to get people to come back to your site and buy.
• Lead nurturing campaigns: Guiding people through your sales funnel based on their behavior while on your website is another great tactic. Similar to a drip campaign, lead nurturing campaigns are more hyper-focused.
• Remarketing: Here, you’ll deliver targeted ads to people who have visited your website at some point. These ads may be displayed in search results, Facebook news feeds as ads, or even on your website once a potential lead comes back.

Evaluation

Lastly, you should always evaluate your attraction marketing success and make improvements where needed.

Your site visitors’ behavior will tell you exactly what’s working and what’s not. And one of the easiest ways to analyze your marketing efforts is to connect your website to Google Analytics.

Here are just some of the things you can find out about your website with Google Analytics:

• How many people visit your website
• The demographics of site visitors (e.g.  age, gender, location)
• Technology used to access your website (e.g. browser, device type, operating system)
• Sources of website traffic (e.g., search engines, social media, ads, referral links)
• Most popular pages and content
• Site speed on each webpage
• Visitor behavior on site (e.g., time on each page, bounce rate, pages visited)
• Lead generation and conversions

In the end, using a metrics analytics tool like Google Analytics gives you the power to capitalize on marketing strategies that convert the most leads into long-lasting customers and get rid of things that aren’t working to grow your business.

Social media analytics is always useful as well. Both Facebook/Instagram and X(Twitter) offer insights into your best-performing content and engaged audience. Third-party tools like Beacons AI offer additional insights into your most effective channels.

Benefits of Attraction Marketing

Here’s a look at some of the key advantages of implementing attraction marketing into your overall marketing plan:

• Increased sales: Securing more sales is the goal of any marketer. That said, using attraction marketing to relate to your target audience, draw them in, and convince them to trust you is one of the best ways to generate more revenue.
• Build longer-lasting relationships: The key to a successful online business is building strong relationships with new and existing customers. Since the focus of attraction marketing is attracting new leads and providing people with reasons to buy from you, building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships becomes easier.
• Establish trust: Attraction marketing can build trust nearly immediately if done the right way. Remember, the goal is not to overly promote what you have to offer. The goal is to convince people they want to buy before suggesting that they should make a purchase.
• Grow your email list: Attraction marketing has the potential to draw in more traffic than you’ve ever seen. This affords you the chance to encourage more people to subscribe to your mailing list. Email marketing is one of the most cost-effective forms of marketing there is. So, pairing this with attraction marketing is always a good idea.
• Affordability: Attraction marketing is easy to do and doesn’t cost a lot of money. Of course, you’ll have to bear the cost of building a website. However, budgets of all sizes can launch a website and start publishing highly valuable blog content right away to attract leads and boost conversions.
• Natural Backlinks: Generating high-quality, valuable content that answers questions, provides solutions, or entertains naturally becomes linked to by others, including bloggers, journalists, and social media users.

How to Approach Attraction Marketing

Here are some simple ways to implement attraction marketing into your overall marketing plans.

Earn People’s Trust

Again, people buy into brands, not products or services.

Establishing trust with customers old and new takes time.

Luckily, attraction marketing gives you a good way to start off on the right foot.

Just make sure your marketing efforts always align with your company’s core values.

Interact with People

If you want to draw people to your website, you need to be available.

After all, no one likes leaving a comment on a company’s social media profile only to never hear a response. Interacting with customers helps build trust and shows others you care about more than just the bottom line.

Always strive to connect and communicate with customers, both on your website and off, if you want to draw more people into your online shop.

Provide Insight

One thing you can do to prove you’re a leader in your industry is to provide newsworthy information to your target audience.

Consumers expect the companies they buy from to be experts in their field. Use your knowledge and expertise to attract new leads and show people that you deserve their business.

Repurpose Content

To gain maximum visibility across the internet, you have to continually push out high-quality content. Unfortunately, churning out brand-new content all the time can be tough.

That’s why you should work to repurpose old blog content and turn it into things like:

• Video content
• Podcasts
• Infographics
• Social media posts
• Online courses

Plus, you can syndicate existing content or create spin-off blog posts without a lot of work.

In the end, people don’t care what format the content is in. They only care that it’s valuable and worth something to them.

Educate Your Target Audience

Perhaps the most important way to implement attraction marketing is to educate potential customers. 

Don’t start promoting to them the minute they land on your website.

Instead, work hard to educate your site visitors about your brand and what you can do to help them.

Once they feel your company is worth their money, they’ll convert – every single time.

Final Thoughts

Capitalizing on those who are already seeking what you have to offer is the best way to grow your business and your sales. Attraction marketing allows you to increase engagement, establish trust, and generate more revenue than you ever thought possible.

If you want to succeed in the competitive online world, you have to show your customers you care about them and their needs. After all, no one willingly hands over their money to a company that only cares about their bottom line. They will, however, hand over their money to a company they know and trust.

Citations and Further Readings

1. Teubner, T., Adam, M. T. P., & Hawlitschek, F. “Unlocking Online Reputation: On the Effectiveness of Cross-Platform Signaling in the Sharing Economy.“
2. Veh, A., Göbel, M., & Vogel, R. “Corporate Reputation in Management Research.” Analytical Overview.
3. Shiraev, E. B., Keohane, J., Icks, M., Samoilenko, S. A. “Character Assassination and Reputation Management: Theory and Applications.” Ebin.pub.
4. Lamarre, E., Smaje, K., Zemmel, R. “Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI.” Ebin.pub.

Ann Smarty is an SEO analyst at Internet Marketing Ninjas and the founder of Viral Content Bee. Ann has more than 13 years of experience creating and promoting content to help brands gain more visibility online. She writes about SEO, branding, competitor monitoring, and social media. You can see more of her articles here and here.