{"id":1597,"date":"2019-07-07T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/making-internet-work-fire-security-industry"},"modified":"2022-03-05T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T19:58:41","slug":"making-internet-work-fire-security-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/making-internet-work-fire-security-industry","title":{"rendered":"Making the internet work for the Fire &#038; Security Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Lollipop we <strong>make this <em>internet thing<\/em> work for the Fire &#038; Security industry.<\/strong> This article and\u00a0tells you how to succeed in such a crowded market. You&#8217;ll discover the single most important <em>principle<\/em> to get right for internet success. Apply it to win!<\/p>\n<p>So how do Lollipop make the internet work for the crowded Fire &#038; Security industry?<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/about-fire-security-lollipop.png\" alt=\"about-fire-security-lollipop\" width=\"1200\" style=\"width: 1200px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/about-fire-security-lollipop.png 600w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/about-fire-security-lollipop.png 1200w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/about-fire-security-lollipop.png 1800w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/about-fire-security-lollipop.png 2400w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/about-fire-security-lollipop.png 3000w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/about-fire-security-lollipop.png 3600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The one vital <em>principle<\/em> we use to get the Traffic, Leads and Customers our clients need is <em><strong>continuous improvement<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>Embrace this, use the right tools to measure everything and you&#8217;re well on your way to internet success!<\/p>\n<p>Ignore it and you will get underwhelming results from your internet efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of how it works. If a blog post is getting traffic but no conversions, we work on the conversions.<\/p>\n<p>Kinda obvious, right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well. Not always to many of the SEO companies, web design AND digital marketing agencies you may come across. They <em>may<\/em> get you traffic but don&#8217;t expect anything else if they do manage that&#8230; <span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Because they stop. Right there, at traffic&#8230; It&#8217;s assumed that traffic automatically means more customers. But it&#8217;s not usually the case&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At Lollipop it certainly doesn&#8217;t stop at Traffic. We want to capture Leads and get as many as possible to become Customers&#8230; So we&#8217;ll look at the sales too.<\/p>\n<h4>Fundamental to making the internet work for the Fire &#038; Security sector<\/h4>\n<p>This <em>continuous improvement<\/em> is a fundamental part of the way we work. It&#8217;s the second step in the <strong>Grow Phase <\/strong>of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/fire-security-company-website-design\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">our Proven Process<\/a>. Rather than assume things are working, we test it. Just because Google is showing your website to more searchers it doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re getting more customers&#8230; Or, just because you&#8217;re getting traffic it does not mean everything is rosy.<\/p>\n<p>Lollipop don&#8217;t assume.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we do three things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>measure<\/li>\n<li>test<\/li>\n<li>improve<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The <em>continuous improvement methodology<\/em> is relevant for everything you do on the internet. That&#8217;s if success from your internet activity is important to your Fire &#038; Security company. But, you can&#8217;t test everything. So prioritise carefully!<\/p>\n<p>This blog post provides a real example of that <em>continuous improvement<\/em> in action. It explores how Lollipop helped a client <span style=\"text-indent: -1.5em; background-color: transparent;\">get more leads from a popular blog post. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #0e4f9f; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 1.78rem; background-color: transparent;\">Continuous Improvement &#8211; more traffic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the last decade Lollipop have successfully used blog content to draw traffic to a website. It takes a lot of blogging! And certain blog posts always shine brighter than others. We put a lot of effort into selecting keywords, topics and questions that gave us the best chance to rank well in Google AND Facebook, LinkedIn etc.<\/p>\n<p>When our Analytics indicated that this blog post for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blakefire-security.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Fire &#038; Security<\/a> was attracting plenty of traffic AND conversions, we jumped on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We wanted to squeeze EVEN MORE from it. So the Lollies designed a series of experiments to influence two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Traffic<\/strong> &#8211; improve the copy to increase visibility in Google<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conversions<\/strong> &#8211; test different CTAs and try <em>pop-ups<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Results &#8211; getting more bang for you buck!<\/h4>\n<p>This graph shows how we increased the number of views of this blog post.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Traffic<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>&#8211;\u00a03x improvement<span>\u00a0<\/span>across the year to about 1,500 views per quarter!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Making-the-internet-work-for-Fire-and-Security-company.png\" alt=\"Making the internet work increasing traffic for Fire and Security company\" width=\"800\" style=\"width: 800px;\"><\/p>\n<p>This graph shows the improvement in conversions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conversions<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; initial improvement attempts lowered the conversion rate from 8% to just over 5%. BUT, with further tweaks, this rose to over 20%! That&#8217;s a 2.5x improvement over the 4 quarters!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Making-the-internet-work-traffic-increase.png\" alt=\"Making the internet work for Fire and Security company\" width=\"800\" style=\"width: 800px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Increasing both the amount of traffic coming into the funnel AND the conversion rate is powerful! The results compound. That is the real beauty of <em><strong>continuous improvement<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n<h3><span>Outcomes not outputs<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>All too often Digital Marketing companies focus on delivering outputs like publishing more blog posts, creating more Google ads OR building more links. There is very little focus on outcomes &#8211; the results achieved by all that activity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If you&#8217;re lucky you may get a report with squiggly lines that show <em>impressions<\/em> are up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>WOW! That&#8217;s great but&#8230; errr, so what? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What the heck are <em>impressions <\/em>anyway? This figure is the number of times your ad had a chance of being seen by someone. That&#8217;s pretty vague, huh? It&#8217;s not even the number of times your ad WAS ACTUALLY SEEN by someone. Your ad was just on a page that they were looking at&#8230;<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Can <em>impressions<\/em> pay your staff&#8217;s pension and NI contributions&#8230;?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No need to answer that one. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lollipop focus on outcomes, like Traffic, Leads and Customers. And then the conversion rates &#8211; how many of your leads become customers. If things are <em>okay<\/em> we work out how to make them <em>great<\/em>. We&#8217;ll find any friction points and fix them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A friction point is anything that stops a website visitor from becoming a customer. For example, leads getting <em>stuck<\/em> in the sales process because no one followed up on a quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is meat and drink to the Lollies. We want to find and fix those issues for Fire &#038; Security directors like you.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s all part of the <em>continuous improvement methodology&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what a delighted Ian Blake had to say about Lollipop:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; display: block;\" xml=\"lang\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4FmGQynAGNw?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Making the internet work for your Fire &#038; Security Company<\/h3>\n<h5>Get a Lollipop <em>leg-up<\/em>&#8230;<\/h5>\n<p>For a limited time, Lollipop are offering Fire &#038; Security companies like yours an internet marketing and lead generation<strong>\u00a0leg-up<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve developed a<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>rapid phone consultation<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>to show you how to make the internet work for your Fire &#038; Security company.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Fast Track Open Line<\/strong>. There are only 4 time slots available, once a month. Slots are assigned on a<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>first come, first served basis<\/em>. Hurry or miss out!<\/p>\n<div><strong>These 30 minute consultations usually cost \u00a3100 but on<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Open Line<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>days only, they are FREE!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Please be assured that this is not a thinly disguised sales pitch. <a href=\"\/fire-security-strategy-session-lp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click the image below to book your slot<\/a>. Be quick the <strong>Fast Track Open Line<\/strong> calls are very popular!<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/tlc-checklist-how-to-get-more-fire-security-customers-lp\"><img alt='How To Get More Fire And Security Clients' src='https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ca009161-dc1d-4106-ad8e-a78d26272320.png'><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Lollipop we make this internet thing work for the Fire &#038; Security industry. This article and\u00a0tells you how to succeed in such a crowded market. You&#8217;ll discover the single most important principle to get right for internet success. Apply it to win! 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