Funnels and Websites: Optimizing Online Mediums For Regulation D Syndications and Funds
So you want to raise money from
investors, you just need to put
it online right? Well, this
video is a blast from the past
of a video I recorded to help
people who were putting together
real estate syndications and
funds. In order to understand
what that online medium looks
like that it isn't just a put it
up and magically money appears.
But it's talking specifically
about the online marketing media
itself. So how does that need to
be looked at? What's the
framework for the for online
marketing in terms of finding
those investors, I know you're
gonna find this video helpful.
In what we're doing is we're
specifically talking in this
video about the media itself,
about the way that we
communicate online and how we do
it the mechanisms that takes
place. So let's think about
online. Now, this day and age,
most of the time, when we think
about online, we're probably
thinking about Facebook, we're
thinking about Instagram, we're
thinking about YouTube, we're
thinking about LinkedIn, we're
thinking about maybe a blog
somewhere, you're maybe thinking
about podcasts, that's tends to
be the kinds of things that
we're thinking about in in our
current environment. So we've
also got different ways,
different media types in order
to do that. And so we can
communicate on those media
through video. We can
communicate through audio, we
can communicate through text.
And we can communicate through
the use of image. Now, in order
of how well these work, and how
well how sticky they are
probably videos, number one,
audios number two, text is
number three, and images number
four, in terms of actually
converting mindset and capturing
and capturing some attention.
Now that image is going to
capture immediate attention. But
unless there's something
compelling there, it's
immediately going to fall off.
So I would say video is number
one, audio, then text them
image. And so all these
different media, we can put into
what we traditionally think of
in as online media. And there is
also a growing world right now,
in terms of actually how people
perceive these different sources
of media. So Facebook,
Instagram, YouTube, there's a
perception out there that
marketers simply need to put it
up there and broadcast their
message and they're suddenly
going to be able to get
investors, or they're going to
be able to get customers. And
that simply isn't true. So these
are excellent sources, and they
allow us to communicate. But
what there's there's two
different mechanisms to do.
Obviously, there's organic
traffic that's created or that
there can be advertising
now your organic, you probably
are going to have more interest
if because these people already
have some relationship with you.
So if you have organic traffic
and you're putting it on, on
Facebook, those are people
who've already either liked your
page or they've friended you or
something like that. Whereas
advertising you're interrupting
them in where they're at. So
advertising is interrupting in
organic, you may have some
engagement
in organic, you're more likely
to have that now if you don't
have a big list that's
understandable that you don't
have a lot of friends and
followers on Facebook. But and
here's why. It doesn't actually
matter. If you look Add any of
the big marketers, you'll notice
that sometimes they'll have a
lot of followers and sometimes
the big companies and the big
names that you know about don't
have a lot of followers at all.
And why? Because it followers
don't matter. Followers do not
matter on Facebook, on
Instagram, on YouTube on
LinkedIn, it is a waste of time
to go after. It's not a waste of
time, I guess in sort in terms
of getting organic traffic. But
in terms of your time spent,
time spent building those
followers, it's not time well
spent. And why is that? Because
on Facebook, on Instagram, on
YouTube, they're all liking you
and following you and things
like that, but you don't own
that list. So those are all
people that you can't
immediately get in touch with
whenever you want, unless
they're already within on your
list. So if I meet Joe, or Joe
likes my page, and I want to
really get in touch with him and
send him a specific message,
there's no real mechanism for me
to do that that's really
engaging, what I'm trying to do
there is I'm putting a post up,
I'm hoping that Joe ultimately
sees it, and then and can engage
with it in some way. But what if
Joe is in Tibet at the time for
the next month, he's never going
to see that post that I put up.
Or what if Facebook changes its
algorithm, they all do this from
time to time and make it so that
your content is less viewed, you
suddenly have a much less
possibility to engage with them
for any period of time. So what
what we are ultimately trying to
do is build a list. And so you
probably are thinking well,
okay, then you what you did
right up here is my awesome
website.
Is my awesome website, where
I've got a great logo. And then
I've got this great menu bar,
it's got the home, it's got
investments. It's got my blog,
and it's got contact
information. And then I've got a
really cool live video here
about a neat building. That's
really pretty. And then I've got
some news over here. And then
I've also got a contact us page,
right? And here it says contact
us. And it's lets them put in
their name and their email, even
their phone number and then send
me a message and say, Wow, I
can't wait to hear more. How
often does this actually happen
that somebody fills out that
contact page and says I want
them to do more? I mean, even if
they have the ability to find it
from the very beginning? Because
they're looking for you
probably, but if they're not
looking for you, how likely is
it that they're actually going
to have traffic to this page?
It's probably doesn't exist.
Now, it's not to say that your
website isn't important and that
I'm saying don't do a website?
I'm absolutely not. I'm saying
you need to have a website. But
you don't need a website in
order to build your list. The
purpose of your website, I'm
also by the way, not saying
don't do a contact us page,
because why not? But what I am
saying is that the purpose of
your website, it is entirely for
social proof. And by social
proof, I mean so that when
somebody Google's you because
you've talked to them, they they
see, oh, this person's legit.
They've got real results. Maybe
they have testimonials. Maybe
they've got some press releases
on it. And so suddenly now you
look like the real deal. So
that's the role of a website.
And what other people do is they
build a different kind of
webpage. And this is the kind of
web page we call a funnel And so
you've probably if you've been
looking at marketing, you've
seen ads for Click Funnels or
funnel this or funnel that. And
funnels are perfect, because
what we're trying to do with a
funnel, a funnel? Well, a funnel
has two roles, it is to build a
list or set a time to talk.
And so what's the best funnel
look like doesn't even need your
logo on it, it needs some sort
of some sort of meat media in
order to convey a message to
communicate a message, just like
we talked about an investor
target lock. Some sort of
compelling message that they
were driven to from the online,
from online media maybe or some
sort of ad source. So they're
driven to this webpage, some
sort of message, that's enough
for them to want to hear more.
And then ultimately enough for
them to opt in, give you their
name, give you their email,
maybe their phone and maybe
schedule a time to talk. And the
purpose of that is, again, build
a list set a time to talk, they
are actually building a list
from both of these.
And this is a mechanism for you
to communicate your art, your
website is really grounded,
though, in that social proof.
And your funnel is really
grounded in building a list. And
this is the online media. This
is the territory that we're
taking place in right now today,
and losing track of this and
thinking that, well, I'm gonna
get traffic just by putting
something up on Facebook is not
going to happen. You may even
drive them to your awesome
website, but you're not going to
convert them and you're not
ultimately going to add them to
your list. The only way to do
this is to have possibly
compelling content up here, and
then drive them to a funnel to
build the list. And then when
you have the conversation, it
goes back to the website,
they're Googling back to you to
find out more information. My
name is Tilden Moschetti. I know
that you found that video
helpful to see what the
framework looks like for for any
sort of syndication or fun deal
that you're putting online. And
you're using online resources
from everything from social
media to website in order to
understand that it also puts
together in context what we mean
by funnels versus websites and
discusses that and I'm sure that
that's been helpful as well.
Again, my name is Tilden
Moschetti. I'm a syndication
attorney with the Moschetti
Syndication Law Group. If we can
help you be successful, too, in
your Regulation D Rule 506(b) or
506(c) offering, give us a call.
We definitely take care of the
legal documents that you're
going to need to be in
compliance with the SEC and
state regulators. But we also
can go beyond them that we can
help you be successful as well
by talking through the different
things that come up as well.