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People rarely buy something from your company during their first interaction. Typically, they go through several stages as they consider whether to buy.<\/p>\n

Smart marketers and business owners proactively define those stages to maximize conversions by understanding, planning, and creating marketing funnels.<\/p>\n

What is a marketing funnel?<\/h2>
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A marketing funnel is a series of stages that guide prospects to become customers. These stages range from a prospect's first interaction with your company to their decision to purchase.<\/p>\n

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Your marketing funnel helps you visualize how your company converts leads into customers<\/a>. It’s a critical part of your marketing plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our marketing team has much experience with marketing funnels. After using nearly a dozen marketing automation tools, we grew frustrated with the types of campaigns and funnels we could build using those tools. So we built an internal tool that runs thousands of email marketing campaigns monthly. Each campaign is connected to parts of the marketing funnel. And we’ve mentored thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners about ways to build marketing funnels for their businesses.<\/p>\n

This guide shares the actionable insights, tips, best practices, and expertise we\u2019ve developed after helping over one hundred thousand brands.<\/p>\n

The benefits of having a marketing funnel<\/h2>\n

Marketing funnels help businesses prioritize and execute a productive marketing strategy. Marketing funnels:<\/p>\n