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What is a Lead Magnet?

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In addition to being a key player in your client attraction, capture, and nurture system, your lead magnet is a vital component of your lead magnet funnel.  — Sylvia Melena

What is a Lead Magnet?

A lead magnet is a small but valuable product or service you can give away for free in exchange for your potential client’s e-mail address and other valuable information. Your potential client signs up for your e-mail list in exchange for your lead magnet’s helpful content.

If done right, your lead magnet works hard for you.

Your lead magnet:

  • Attracts the right buyers and repels the wrong ones.
  • Gives your customers and clients a tiny and tasty sample of your work.
  • Provides them with a low-risk opportunity to decide if they like your expertise and style.
  • Helps them take the first step in working with you.
  • Leads them to your paid offers that solve their problems and meet their needs.

You can share your lead magnet with potential clients on your website, your social media, and other places where you get traffic. And, if you write a nonfiction business-related book, that’s a great place to capture the contact information of warm to hot prospects.

The Purpose of the Lead Magnet

Your lead magnet’s primary purpose is to attract and incentivize the right potential client or customer to subscribe to your e-mail list so you can “develop a relationship with the recipient over time, and thereby increase the number of loyal and profitable customers.”1

E-mail Marketing Statistics & Benefits

If you’ve been avoiding e-mail marketing like I had, consider the following statistics and benefits:

  • 72% of potential buyers prefer that companies communicate with them via e-mail,
  • 60% of buyers grab products or services after receiving a seller’s e-mail,
  • Many researchers and companies emphasize that e-mail serves as a vital tool for customer relationship management, and
  • E-mails can be cost-effective, personalized, and targeted.2

E-mails create an opportunity for you to provide your subscribers with valuable information and help them get to know, like, and trust you. They help you build relationships with your subscribers and influence their feelings about you and your business.3

In addition to being a key player in your client attraction, capture, and nurture system, your lead magnet is a vital component of your lead magnet funnel.

Why Lead Magnets Work

Most clients don’t instantly buy our products and services. They go through the process of introspection and discovery called the buyer’s journey.

Understanding how the buyer’s journey works and how the lead magnet fits into this journey to influence purchasing decisions will help you create lead magnets that lead to sales.

Converting Subscribers into Clients and Customers

An effective lead magnet doesn’t just build your e-mail list. It’s part of a complete lead magnet funnel and, as such, it helps turn your subscribers into customers or clients.

It encourages people to take the next step in solving their problems or meeting their needs, and your business must be ready to deliver.

There’s no point in helping people to become aware of their problems and the potential solutions if we’re not ready to offer them. When we do that, we get people ready to buy from someone else.

To avoid this, map out your Minimum Essential Offers™ and create your lead magnet in alignment with this plan.

Creating a Lead Magnet That Works

In my book Lead Magnet Formula, I help you plan, write, design, and produce an effective lead magnet in just six (6) days. I know you’re busy running your business, so each day you read one short chapter and complete one small but vital step in the lead magnet creation process.

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I selected six (6) days because it makes the entire process manageable for busy entrepreneurs. However, as you work on your lead magnet, you’ll discover you can get it done much faster. Feel speed up the process.

Getting your lead magnet done requires action. But it’s a lot easier than most people think, and when done right it brings more potential clients into your business.

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The article above is an excerpt from Lead Magnet Formula: How to Plan, Create, and Design a Free E-Book in Just 6 Days that Attracts More Clients, © 2024 Sylvia Melena. Reprinted with permission.

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About the Author

SYLVIA MELENA is the Founder & Principal of Melena Consulting Group, a company specializing in leadership and organizational development and business book writing and publishing. Sylvia is a two-time international award-winning and best-selling leadership author and publisher. She is also the former Vice President of the San Diego Book Awards Association and a four-time marketing judge for the National Association of Hispanic Publications’ José Martí Awards. Her leadership philosophy has been featured in the Society of Human Resources Management HR Today, the Human Performance Association, Entrepreneur, LEADx, My Quest for the Best, and other outlets.

Reference:

1, 2, 3  Ligaraba, Neo, Tinache Chuchu, and Brighton Nyagadza, "Opt-in E-mail Marketing Influence on Consumer Behaviour: A Stimuli–Organism–Response (S–O–R) Theory Perspective," Cogent Business & Management 10, no. 1 (February 2023): 1-17, accessed July 15, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2023.2184244, Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International Deed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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