{"id":14447,"date":"2018-05-25T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/?p=14447"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:41:40","slug":"drafting-sales-funnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/drafting-sales-funnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 5: The Power of Drafting Out Your Sales Funnel and Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mobid-before-content\" style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"mobid-644457302\"><div class=\"mobid-adlabel\">Advertisement<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/recommends\/banner-placement-1\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"da\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/da.gif\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"730\" height=\"90\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>All successful businesses start out with an idea.<\/p>\n<p>From these ideas, they will often grow and scale overtime.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most successful and legitimate businesses don&#8217;t just happen.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of thought and pre-planning that actually goes into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/beginner-200000-on-mobidea\/\">success stories that you see today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to starting a business on the internet &#8211; something that makes many people fall into a trap &#8211; it&#8217;s all about creating a business and scaling it in size as you move along and try to figure everything out.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean by this is that you will first register a domain name, start creating content, try to rank on the search results, and then you may even launch your own product or service which you can then market.<\/p>\n<p>While all of this is great in theory, you will have to face many obstacles and you will surely have to deal with unexpected turns along the way.<\/p>\n<p>One way to get around these common obstacles is to draw out a plan for your business and make sure everything is in motion before you even get started.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/blogging.org\/blog\/how-many-websites-and-blogs-are-on-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than a billion<\/a> active websites on the internet today, you&#8217;re going to need a lot more than an idea to compete.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common ways we are seeing this pre-planning being done in online marketing is through the use of sales funnels &#8211; many of which actually start with a simple email submission, lead to an auto-responder, and then ultimately get the end-user to sign up for a product or service.<\/p><div class=\"mobid-in-content-15-p\" style=\"margin-top: 26px;margin-bottom: 26px;\" id=\"mobid-2538260233\"><div class=\"mobid-adlabel\">Advertisement<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/recommends\/semrush-v2\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"semrushtrialseo\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/semrushtrialseo.gif\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a winning formula that&#8217;s been around for more than two decades, and it&#8217;s a pure profit-making machine once you master the process.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a simple draft of how this might look for your brand or business below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"709\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel-700x709.jpg\" alt=\"sales funnel\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel-700x709.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel-250x253.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel-768x778.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel-120x121.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sales-funnel.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this may not be rocket science, it&#8217;s something that many new affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs tend to skip.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you are currently focusing on for your business, it&#8217;s always great to take a moment and draw out the big picture and see what steps currently need to be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Grab a pen and paper, and start getting messy.<\/p>\n<p>Map out your business plan and I bet you will start coming up with some amazing new ideas, funnel improvements, and some extra motivation in the process!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/complexity-is-killing-your-profitability\/\">Chapter 1: Complexity is Killing Your Profitability and Motivation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/what-is-an-email-subscriber-really-worth\/\">Chapter 2: What is an Email Subscriber Really Worth?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/how-10-page-site\/\">Chapter 3: How a 10 Page Site Can Make More than a 100+ Page Site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/its-all-a-numbers-game-or-is-it\/\">Chapter 4: It\u2019s All a Numbers Game\u2026or Is It?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mobid-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"mobid-1393034332\"><div class=\"mobid-adlabel\">Advertisement<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/recommends\/banner-placement-2\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"da\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/da.gif\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"730\" height=\"90\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All successful businesses start out with an idea. From these ideas, they will often grow and scale overtime. However, the most successful and legitimate businesses don&#8217;t just happen. There is a lot of thought and pre-planning that actually goes into the success stories that you see today. When it comes to starting a business on&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/drafting-sales-funnel\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":14456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8954],"tags":[204,205,3859,171,172,199,200],"learning_paths":[],"class_list":["post-14447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affiliate-marketing","tag-making-money","tag-media-buying","tag-experts-corner","tag-affiliate-industry","tag-affiliate-marketing","tag-getting-started","tag-internet-marketing"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - 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