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Sales Funnel Online: Ways to build it within 5

minutes!
A sales funnel outlines your prospects' journey to become paying clients. From the initial contact
to the exclusive deal, there are various phases in the customer journey. Anyone wishes to build a
sales funnel that is effective in doing its job; however, not everyone knows how to do it. If you
are a newbie, this is much more difficult. However, this article is here to help you to build a sales
funnel online within 5 minutes only to assist you in improving your business! Let’s go!
1. Funnel hacking
Simply speaking, funnel hacking is to model and test your competitors' marketing and sales
strategies within your own company's marketing and sales strategies. Put another way, you will
actively engage in each stage of your rivals' sales funnels before assessing how they can help you
create your own.
However, you are not allowed to copy any funnel or “hack” in its literal meaning. Rather, its goal
is to be clever and creative in determining which approaches work best in a given circumstance.
2. Make a lure
As a potential customer moves through your sales funnel, you should describe the services you
will provide. This is how your offers will appear: Bait -> Front end -> Middle -> Back end.
Bait is a lead magnet that is given to a prospect for free or at a reduced cost. It is essential for
each small sales funnel in the sales process, even though it is effective for larger, overall sales
funnels. It would therefore be a low-risk offer to lure potential customers.
Before you can sell someone one of your goods or services, you need to draw them in with an
enticing offer. It might be a free ebook, sample, etc. However, a great way to learn more about a
potential customer, including their email address, is by using bait. This opens the door to even
more advanced engagement.
You can also exclude potential customers who decline your offer with effective bait. These folks
don't frequently intend to buy your goods.
3. Front-End Offer
The front-end offer helps your potential customers and is low-risk and low-cost. It enables them
to swiftly fix minor problems and builds their trust in your brand. Potential clients will receive an
overview of what to expect from working with you in the offer. It will support your attempts to
persuade more potential customers to work with you.
At this point, the risks to your business are a little higher. Viewers of this sales-focused content
who came via your bait offer are already qualified. It suggests that they ought to be considering
your goods and services.
It's important to keep their attention and make it obvious how valuable your offer really is. You
could do this by making your squeeze page, including 4 parts, more optimized, as detailed
below.
Copywriting
Your copy needs to persuade readers to take immediate action by clearly demonstrating the
benefits of your offering. Try writing your squeeze page copy using these suggestions:

● Let your brand's personality come through.

● Tailor the message to the people who will be reading it.

● Shorten sentences and paragraphs while increasing their depth.

● Write at no higher reading level than sixth grade.

● Use numbered lists and bullet points to help you organize your thoughts

● There should be an image or a subheader every 200–300 words.

Pictures & Videos


Textual content is the main component of your squeeze page. However, content can take many
different forms, including pictures and videos. Your approach will vary greatly depending on
which level of the value ladder you want to reach.
A backstory video could be used to describe the concept behind your company. Interviewing
current or former clients is also a smart idea. You can find out if they are happy with your goods
or services. Yet, it should be noted that the content should be succinct and direct to attract your
potential customers.
Social Evidence
Increasing the social proof and adjusting it to the value ladder you want is effective to bolster the
planned content. But, make sure the testimonials you use as evidence relate to the target
audience's situation and enhance the offered deal. Generally, this tip helps to draw in new clients.
However, you will need to use specific customer success stories if you want to increase sales
further down the funnel.
Demand for Action
The call-to-action (CTA) informs the audience of what they must do to complete the transaction.
The squeeze page's CTA needs to be extremely obvious, regardless of what you're selling. So
that potential users can move on to the next step whenever they're ready, your call to action
needs to be clearly visible above all other content on the landing page.
The CTA can be positioned at the top, bottom, or center of the page. Select the ideal location so
that viewers can engage with it with ease.
4. Midway Offer
A middle offer helps clients resolve a more complicated situation by providing a more thorough
and efficient solution. It also better prepares customers for your priciest goods and services.
An upsell is more expensive than a downsell, which is a promotion that costs less than the front-
end offer. But don’t omit it - It is an essential part of the funnel for sales.
You must work with upsells and downsells at this point, and you can refer to the following
common forms of upsell offers:

● Discounts on larger purchases

● Adapted or personalized iterations of the original products

● Offers to lower the price of extending the duration of the subscription

● Extra products (cross-sells)

Conversely, downsells can be:

● Plans for paying for pricey upsells

● Less expensive upsell variants

● Reduced prices or time limits for upsell trial periods

5. Back-end Offers
Back-end offers are your most important, comprehensive, and costly goods or services that
customers can utilize time and time again to solve a persistent issue in their lives.
Nobody can guarantee that once they've benefited from everything you have to offer them at
their current stage, your customers will move up the value ladder. And clients will often opt to
stick with what they know rather than take a chance and switch to your next tier of service. So,
you need to convince them that moving up to the top rung of your value ladder will benefit them
greatly.
To do so, you can try the following tips:

● Supply content that is customized for them in the format of their choice so they can take
full advantage of the service or good they already have.
● Deliver excellent customer service.
● Never stop talking about the added value that your higher-tiered solution provides, in
relation to the value that each individual customer is looking for.
● Establish a community where your clients can communicate with one another.

6. Use The Value Ladder to Map It Out


Everything has been set up in the previous steps, from the bait to the back end offer, based on the
value ladder. A value ladder model serves as a road map for how you want to strategically
support your clients as they work with you.
With the value ladder, you list every service and product you have to offer in decreasing order of
cost and quality. That is, you are ascending tiers of goods or services that progress across price
points and gain value at each level.
Your value ladder now could be an inventory of the goods you currently offer along with those
you intend to offer in the future.
7. Ascertain Each Stage's Objective And Sales Funnel Type
The steps of the sales funnel will affect how customers behave. At this time, you need to create
your sales processes now that you are aware of the content structure and materials needed for
your sales funnel. In this section, you will learn about the various kinds of sales funnels and how
to use them to create your customer journey.
Because the top, middle, and bottom of the funnels have distinct objectives, you should create
distinct funnels and employ distinct marketing techniques.
a. The funnel's top: generating of leads
The lead funnel is the first rung on the value ladder, or the first stage of your customer journey.
Our objective is to draw in new clients at the top of the funnel and use lead magnets—freebies
that entice people to give their contact information—to get that information. One of the most
widely used frameworks is "Pop-up" advertisement.
A pop-up window requesting that you download or obtain something for free (a report, video
training, new guide, coupon, etc.) will show up when a customer views your blog post.
Look at the funnel's structure below.
Web browsers now come with pop-up blockers because of consumer complaints, despite the fact
that pop-ups are useful for marketers. Thus, people can simply block these kinds of
advertisements.
For this reason, Lead funnel is a viable solution. Rather than using pop-ups, you use them to
create a page (a squeeze page) where visitors can provide their email address to view additional
content and proceed to the next.
There are a plethora of funnel types available to assist you in building an email list. Three
strategies helped us get more leads at the top of the sales funnel after we examined a ton of them:

● Funnel for squeeze pages and reverse funnel for squeeze pages

● Survey Funnel

● Bridge Funnel

b. Midway through the Funnel: Attract Clients


The next step is digging into your prospects' problems and transforming them into assets. You
can get them to go farther in the sales process with you by using social media, websites, or even
email content!
Remember, the aim here is converting prospects into customers; and you begin to sell a good or
service. Though you can start with a low-cost offer since it converts incredibly well, there are
two kinds that need to worry about:

● Tripwire Flowchart

● Shipped for free (or use Book Funnel)

They are essential for breaking even on advertisements, requiring new clients in order to turn a
profit. The steps in a marketing funnel might vary in number, but they all have this general
structure.
c. The funnel's base
The price increases as you move the marketing funnel further. Make sure you produce a fantastic
piece of content in order to promote a costly item. The majority of marketers utilize two types:

● Webinar funnel

● Application funnel (with a sales team to assist with closing).

To see how it operates, look at the sales funnel stage below.


Using a longer-form presentation to explain is the best course of action when your product is
priced between $400 and $1000. Individuals will experience awareness, interest, and purchase
readiness.
It is imperative that you dispel myths and present a fresh prospect before your clients view the
order form.
A great presentation takes a lot of effort and time to create. Luckily, Russell Brunson—a co-
founder of Clickfunnels—offers the Perfect Webinar scripts for just $7. It also helps you avoid
exerting additional effort and save time.
The Application funnel is the second method.
It may be difficult to persuade customers to purchase your product online if it costs more than
$1000. Sales and marketing collaborate because you are shifting the selling environment from an
online to an offline one.
To grab their attention, you need to introduce the stronger hooks in the first step. The intention is
to generate leads by getting prospective clients to complete the application. Neil Patel, for
instance, offers SEO services.
Next, your sales team will give them a call to close them over the phone and arrange a meeting at
your office or a coffee shop. If you want to boost the conversion rate, having a sales pipeline is a
good idea.
8. Construct Funnel Pages
A well-designed sales funnel page will ensure that users of your website complete the required
action and become members of your sales funnel.
Gaining the attention of your target audience and figuring out how to capture their interest will
help you persuade them to look at your offer, consider it carefully, understand it, and make a
purchase or take action.
Prospective buyers need to think highly of your sales funnel page. In order to accomplish this,
the page ought to have:

● A catchy headline and subheading that immediately grab the attention of your target
audience
● Information about the webinar, service, product, lead magnet, etc.

● A summary of your benefits or the reasons why your audience should pick you

● Characteristics of your offers

● Answers to common questions

● Details about the course's faculty, publisher, or author to increase your credibility

You can create your funnel pages with a variety of tools, and each tool has different features to
help you along the way. This makes your funnel pages more appealing, functional, and detailed
that might grasp your audience’s attention from the first glance.
9. Link Upsells, Downsells, Bumps, and Bundles
Make sure the offer you make to a prospective customer is highly relevant to their specific
situation once you sense that they are ready to make a purchase. You must have backup offers
ready in case your offer doesn't satisfy a client's needs and keeps them moving toward
conversion.
In the event that a prospect feels unprepared to purchase your mid-tier or top-tier solution, it
would be ideal to have a comparable, lower-value option available. Make sure that the downsells
you offer to prospects who decline your initial offer are tailored to their specific needs rather
than just being generic downsells.
However, if a customer chooses your initial offer, you should present them with an upsell that
lives up to their expectations. They are much more likely to accept the second offer if it offers
them the exact values they are looking for from your company.
10. Offers With Exit Intent In Your Sales Funnel
The majority of people who view your landing page will eventually click away without doing
anything. Although it's common, you shouldn’t allow it to happen. Rather, make an effort to
keep people on your page so they will hopefully revisit your offer.
Offers with an exit intent should be on each of your landing pages. To make sure your visitors
are serious about leaving, your website may display overlays or pop-ups.
Exit intent pop-ups provide your website visitors with immediate and easily comprehensible
value. You might refer to these suggestions to create an appropriate exit intent pop-up to
persuade them to stay on your website longer.

● There should be a strong, obvious statement on the pop-up. Make your headline catchy,
and make your content easy to read and concise.
● Ensure the clarity of your call to action (CTA).

● You should utilize exit-intent photos that are appropriate for your offer. They also need to
be appealing to your audience. The best pictures are striking without being overly busy so
as to divert the viewer's attention from what you have to offer.
● On mobile screens, your pop-up should be easy to see, brief, and visually appealing. It
also has to match the tone and design of your website.
● A/B testing can help you improve the pop-ups' positioning and message.

11. Establish an Email Follow-Up Campaign


Following up with customers via email after they have interacted with your services or products
on your website is effective to drive customers to make further purchase decisions.
Here are some tips for writing and designing perfect follow-up emails, including adding context:

● Attach references and social proof to your cold email correspondence to establish
credibility and establish a relationship.
● Cut right to the chase. Don't provide the reader with too much information, as this could
overwhelm them.
● Use a friendly tone and personal touch when writing emails to foster one-on-one
communication.
● Consider offering educational resources like blog posts or ebooks to people in exchange
for their time, rather than just requesting a response via email.
● Compose emails and make sure their layouts are simple but striking.

To increase productivity, business owners these days opt to use automated email. You could
create a follow-up sequence that, in reaction to user actions, can send emails automatically.
A follow-up email sequence, as its name suggests, reaches out to your prospects again following
the initial interaction. The goal of this approach is to foster their conversion. Stated differently,
you create a batch of emails ahead of time and set them to go out at predetermined times. By
doing this, you can follow up with prospects quickly and extensively without repeatedly pressing
"Send."
12. Examining and resolving issues with the sales funnel
Sales funnels change with time. Your sales funnel's dimensions will alter as your company
grows. You get a better understanding of your customers' needs as your service and product
offerings grow and as their needs change.
Always verify the following metrics to make sure your sales funnel is working properly:

● Leads produced

● rate of lead conversion

● Customer lifetime value and cost per lead

● Rate of turnover

After gathering this information, you can start modifying your sales funnel. For instance, if you
are not obtaining enough leads, you should concentrate on your lead generation efforts.
Another great way to assess the success of your campaign is to run A/B testing. There is only
one difference between the two versions when conducting an A/B test.
For instance, you won't change any buttons, graphics, or other elements while split testing the
CTA. Finding the precise cause of the performance improvement is your aim.
Sales Funnels Builder
Constructing an effective sales funnel is challenging. Fortunately, you can select a trustworthy
funnel builder to assist you in reaching this objective. Below are three options that you can
consider:
a. Systeme.io – monthly starting at $27
With Systeme.io, you have an all-in-one marketing tool that makes creating a sales funnel
simple. This tool allows you to:

● Create and automate your sales funnel with an easy-to-use and feature-rich drag-and-drop
editor
● Boost productivity with tried-and-true templates

● Integrate your email list, payment processor, and membership website.

● Transmit emails and provide instant access to courses


b. ClickFunnels: Monthly starting at $97
Numerous features, integrations, training programs, and integrations for sales are available from
ClickFunnels. Its features are all designed to increase audience engagement and optimize
conversion rates. Using ClickFunnels to create your sales funnel has the following advantages:

● Every sales funnel layout includes pre-made, paid and unpaid templates that you can
choose from to fit your requirements.
● With the drag-and-drop page builder, you can create professional-looking pages without
knowing any code.
● The ClickFunnels one-click upsells and downsells tool will increase the average sales
value.
● ClickFunnels' opt-in forms allow you to add contacts to your mailing list. The forms can
even be used with third-party autoresponders.
c. Thrive Suite: From $99/quarter
Thrive Membership is a collection of plugins and technologies that work with WordPress. These
tools assist you in building a sales funnel and assessing its performance. Below are benefits
wheng using this tool:

● You can use Thrives' templates to create your sales funnel. Pre-built pages are offered for
opt-in, landing, sales, and webinars, among other uses.
● You can have in-line, slider, pop-up, sticky, and more forms on your website.

● With the help of Thrive Architect, you can create eye-catching landing pages, blog posts,
sales pages, and more.
● Button, price, video, and other feature additions to your web pages can be made fast.
So, what should you consider now?
Your sales performance is greatly impacted by your sales funnels. You need to be proficient in
every skill to get the most out of them. You can try Russell Brunson's 30-day training program,
One Funnel Away Challenge, which takes you step-by-step through the process of developing
and implementing a sales funnel.
With this program, Russell Brunson will teach you everything you need to know about creating
high-converting funnels because of his years of experience in the industry. You can also enter the
industry properly with your first step.
In conclusion, the process of creating a successful sales funnel takes time; however, it is not
difficult. Due to the constant changes in customer behavior, your task is never-ending. You must
therefore constantly strive for training, optimization, and improvement. Yet, don’t worry about
how to build a professional sales funnel – follow this article and you will find that generating a
sales funnel is significantly simple.
Frequent Question and Answers
1. How do I create a sales funnel from the ground up?
We create a sales funnel using the next six steps:

● Step 1. Establish your niche and customer avatar

● Step 2. Develop offers centered around them, group them into value levels, and
appropriately arrange upsells and downsells
● Step 3. Choose the kind of funnel.

● Step 4. Construct funnel landing pages.

● Step 5. Create an email campaign (a Facebook chatbot or SMS may be added).

● Step 6. Optimization & Testing

2. What is the price of creating a sales funnel?


Depending on your level of expertise and the equipment you used, the price may vary. The
reference price is as follows:
Tools for landing pages (select one):
_ Systeme (free to start)
_Leadpages: $37/month;
_ Clickfunnels: $97/month;
_ or Unbounce: $80/month
Tools for automating emails:
_ Getresponse $15/month
_ Or Active campaign $15/month
Ebook, course, product mockup: start at $10 on Funnelrolodex and Fiverr
Sales Funnel Copywriting:
_ Sales copy start at $125
_ Ebook writing > $300
_ Email > $200
_ Headline $90 (the price from Funnel Rolodex).
Or you can try Funnel Scripts (lifetime $797) or Jasper ($29/month) to create by yourself.
3. How can I make a free sales funnel?
You could begin creating your sales funnel for free with Systeme.
4. What constitutes a strong sales funnel?
Although there are a lot of factors contributing to the success of your funnel, three key
components—the hook, the story, and the offer—determine its success. If it does not work well,
examining the following things:
_ On this page, what is a hook?
_What steps could we take to improve it?
_What is the story about?
_ Does it raise the estimation of your offer's value?
_ What do people think of the offer, and how might it be made more alluring?

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