Dominic Coryell – Conversionxl – Referral Marketing Training

Dominic Coryell – Conversionxl – Referral Marketing Training

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Building & optimizing your viral channel

You most likely already have your most valuable marketing asset at your fingertips and aren’t using it right: your existing customers. Acquiring new users through existing user referrals is the most leveraged marketing activity possible because you not only acquire more valuable users, but also reduce your CPA and CLTV.

What this course will teach you:
A step-by-step implementation guide to turn your existing users into new users, indefinitely
How companies like TOMS, Bonobos, Hotels.com, Shutterly and more all leveraged their existing customers to grow their organic customer base using referrals
“Sideways” strategies to get referrals that don’t involve you directly asking your users to “refer a friend” again and again.
This course is right for you if…
You have existing users who like your product (measure with a high NPS) (measure with a high NPS)
You currently have a referral program you don’t feel like you can manipulate.
You don’t yet have a referral program, but have high “direct” traffic ration that must be cause by word-of-mouth-activities (WOMA) (WOMA).
You were at one point excelling at referral marketing and have hit a plateau
This course is probably not for you if…
You do not yet have Product/Market Fit (PMF) (PMF)
You have a low NPS
You have an extremely long sales cycle with high enterprise value that has no mid/top funnel optimization points
What you’ll walk away with afterwards
A complete five-step formula squeeze every possible referral out of your existing CRM by optimizing each of the 4 referral levers:
Formula to find the right incentive to get users to share
Formula to find the most valuable sharing channel
Formula to help advocates pick the right people to share with\sFormula to get referred users to convert\sFormula to help nurture referrals
A model to map out the referral channel and make predictions like other channels
A referral roadmap integrated into existing marketing campaigns to maximize touch points and keep your program top of mind
A model to measure normally intangible brand mentions

This results in an evergreen channel to reduce CPA and increase CLTV of all your other channels.

Classes:\sReferral Marketing

Class 1 : Build a Referral Plan and Model

Building a referral program has many moving pieces that should be thought out and planned ahead of time. This class will teach you about all of those pieces, by using current relevant examples, then will give you a framework to build your plan using all those pieces. The plan will be highly dependant on a mathematical model that we build to predict program performance based on the 4 levers of referral marketing (visibility, sharers, new impressions, conversions) (visibility, sharers, new impressions, conversions)

Topics covered:

Overview of what makes a successful referral program, the levers and the components
Examples of programs in the wild for different types of businesses e-Commerce, Mobile, SaaS, and marketplaces
Mapping out the different components such as structure, placements, positioning, and rules
Reviewing a mathematical model for referrals with a templated example
Ending with a clear plan of action to prep for an implementation

Class 2 : Implement Your Referral Program

There are really two options to launch a referral program: build it yourself or user a 3rd party tool. We’ll go over how to make the decision based on your plans and in-house capabilities as well as all open-source and 3rd party options.

Topics covered:

what are the features in your plan and what type of technical functionality is needed to\swhat are the technologies that exist (yesgraph, talkable, friendbuy, extole) (yesgraph, talkable, friendbuy, extole)
fraud detection\sstep by step integration of a program

Class 3 : Promote Your Referral Program

Referral programs will not work unless they are promoted on site in the correct way. In this lesson we will cover how to show off your referral program onsite, in-app, through email and how to constantly keep it top of mind using the campaign methodology.

Topics covered:
Where are the most visible places for your referral program to be hosted (onsite and inapp) (onsite and inapp)
How can you use email to drive advocates to share
How to use campaigns as contests and leaderboards to constantly keep your referral program top of mind.

Class 4 : Optimize Your Referral Program

Referral programs, compared to other acquisition activities, have 4 levers. In this lesson we will go through how to optimize each lever. We’ll also cover how to use referrals to reach your current objectives, should they be driving revenue, driving valuable customers or reducing CAC while driving up LTV.

Topics covered:
TOFO: How to get more people to see your offer
TOFU: How to get more people to share you offer
TOFU: How to get more shares per person
TOFU: How to increase the shares value per advocate
MOFU: How to get more engagement per share
MOFU: How to increase the likelihood of purchases (or intended action) (or intended action)
BOFU: How to get more conversion
BOFU: How to use nurture style campaigns to increase conversions

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