Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

McKinsey & Company found that email is nearly 40 times more effective than Facebook and Twitter combined in the acquisition of customers.

One way to convert website visitors is by asking people to sign up to your newsletter. But this isn’t as effective as offering an incentive in exchange for an email address as discovered by Chris Spooner who was able to capture 10X more leads when he gave away an incentive and made a few other changes.

If you’re wondering what you can use as a lead magnet to capture more leads, then you have come to the right place.

Below I have discussed the benefits of various lead magnets and how to get the most out of them. Pick and use the ones that suit your target audience best….

Clearbit is a free Chrome browser extension that allows you to find email contacts of people, their social handles, and detailed info about the location, size and business volume of the company they work for. 100% free.My comment: Useful free tool to find prospects and direct emails to journalists or other important people for whom you have no direct email. Try it out now: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearbit-connect/pmnhcgfcafcnkbengdcanjablaabjploMain site: https://connect.clearbit.com/

Social media may be a mainstream communication platform, driving news coverage and consumption and awareness of social movements. But when it comes to office spaces, email and face-to-face conversations are still the preferred method of communication, according to an Adobe survey of white-collar workers with smartphones in the U.S. and the U.K.

In fact, nearly 40 percent of participants preferred communicating by email, while 10 percent preferred instant messages. The enterprise social platforms don’t really seem to be catching on, with only 2 percent of respondents choosing to communicate with their colleagues via social networks.

Even when it comes to being contacted by brands, almost one-half of the survey participants still preferred email. Interestingly, 22 percent of the participants preferred direct mail. None of the other methods of communication–texts, social media messages, phone calls and company mobile apps–broke 10 percent....