{"id":5066,"date":"2019-10-10T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:07:35","slug":"when-do-you-really-need-a-funnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/when-do-you-really-need-a-funnel","title":{"rendered":"When Do You REALLY Need A Funnel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Funnels, funnels, funnels\u2026you hear about funnels everywhere\nyou go and around all turns it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marketing funnels aren\u2019t new \u2013 they just have a name now and\nthey have turned into something we talk about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, when do you really need a funnel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar playerhost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/2019ezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/secure\/\" : \"http:\/\/2019ezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/player\/\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + playerhost + \"flv\/F68BDEA1-C389-D047-90164771CE2383F0.js?t=\"+(Math.random() * 99999999)+\"' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty much everything in your business is or has a\nmarketing funnel \u2013 and it always has, and it always will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean you have to have a FORMAL FUNNEL with 173\nsteps that is drawn out on paper and has arrows and if, then\u2019s all over it. It\njust means you have a systematic approach to moving people through your system\nto ultimately get a sale (or to move them to the next step in the funnel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funnels don\u2019t have to be complicated. They don\u2019t have to be\nlong and convoluted, and rarely do funnels need to be hacked (I\u2019m not even quite\nsure what that means).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shortest marketing funnel in business is to pick up the\nphone and talk to somebody, and hopefully make a sale. Done! Next!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be talking more about funnels at <strong><em>\u201cPlan, Grow &amp; Succeed<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u2122\u201d<\/em><\/strong>! November 7-8,\n2019, in Atlanta! Funnels, list building, your marketing calendar and more\u2026all\nin 2 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get all the details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.PlanGrowAndSucceed.com\">www.PlanGrowAndSucceed.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funnels, funnels, funnels\u2026you hear about funnels everywhere you go and around all turns it seems. Marketing funnels aren\u2019t new \u2013 they just have a name now and they have turned into something we talk about. But, when do you really need a funnel? Pretty much everything in your business is or has a marketing funnel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/when-do-you-really-need-a-funnel\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,148,215,13,10,30,937,708,235,216,929],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-business-owner","tag-business-success","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-funnels","tag-articles-marketing","tag-marketing-funnel","tag-marketing-plan","tag-plan-grow-and-succeed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}