6 Practical Tips To Increase Wedding Leads Conversions

As the wedding season comes to an end in July and preparations for the next season begin, it is time for the venue owners to introspect. As a venue owner, you listed your business profile in dozen-odd directories and venue booking platforms. You also got your website built and invested quite a lot in it. But the question is did you receive enough leads? Did you have a fair lead conversion ratio? If you didn’t, this article is for you. Listing your business to directories, no doubt, shoots up visits to your profile and increases traffic to your website, but not all of them turn into leads and nor do they convert to business. Profile visits turn into leads when visitors click on your contact page or try to contact you through contact links provided by you and share their phone numbers and other contact details. That happens only when you have a convincing web page or an attractive landing page that assures the visitors about your credentials. In this article, we provide you with 6 tips to increase wedding leads that might result in fruitful conversions.

Tips to increase wedding leads conversions

Tip No. 1 : Create great photo galleries

We are not just talking about photos here. We are talking about great quality photographs. You have invested crores on your venues. Invest a few thousand more and hire a professional photographer. Get the whole venue photographed professionally and attractively. Upload all those photographs into the gallery. Also, ask couples, who got married in your venue, to share a few photographs with you where the venue and its features have been highlighted. Give due credit to the couples and their photographers for those photographs. The pictures of couples eating in your dining hall, the baraatis being served welcome drinks on arrival by well-dressed men or the bride and groom dancing under that extravagant chandelier in the banquet, are certainly going to create a positive impression in the profile visitor’s mind.

Tip No. 2: Real wedding case studies

No artificial 3D images and blank photographs. Keep a section on your landing page or on the home page of your website where some real-life stories of couples who got married at your venue would be published. Make these case studies interesting by including some real photographs shot during the wedding ceremonies or receptions, whichever were held at your venue. Add details of the weddings like the total number of guests, whether the couples booked both indoor and outdoor facilities, the themes they chose, the menus they selected and the music they preferred etc. Ask the couples to write an end note to their respective case studies and request them to mention what they liked most about the venue or any special incident they remembered.

Tip No. 3 : Proper Call to Action

Imagine you have got a fantastic landing page or an attractive web page designed and made the right impact on your profile visitor’s mind, but you have not given him a chance to act on your information. In other words, you have not created the proper call-to-action or enough of them to invite the visitor’s reaction. Then it doesn’t make any sense. A call-to-action is an open invitation to the visitor to click on the contact links provided and act on the proposal. It is a simple but necessary tool that converts thoughts into actions. It could be in the form of ‘Contact Us’ or ‘know More’ buttons or back-linked keywords like “banquet halls in Delhi.” Spread these call-to-actions all over your landing page or a web page so that you can hook the visitors right when they are excited about your business proposition.

Tip No. 4 : Wedding guides that work

Your wedding venue landing page should have meaningful resources like a wedding theme guide, wedding catering guide or a guide to choosing veg menus to help visitors understand how easily your banquet halls or hotels can be booked and other additional services like decoration and catering could be availed. Describe the easy-to-follow step-by-step booking process in those guides so that the visitors find all the information they need about wedding venue booking in one place and find the whole process uncomplicated at the same time.

Tip No. 5 : Specific contact form

Now that you have impressed your visitors and given them enough resources and tools to act on your proposal, it’s time to build a contact form that is wedding-specific, concise and relevant. The contact form should have all the necessary fields to extract relevant information from the profile visitor that might be required for effective wedding planning. Don’t create a contact form that looks unnecessarily interrogative. Just stick to relevance.

Tip No. 6 : Articles and Blogs

Don’t be one of those businesses that don’t have any substantial online or social media presence except a couple of directory listings. A robust online presence increases the credibility of the business. And content marketing is the easiest of strategies for building business credibility. Invest in writing articles and blogs that show you as an expert in wedding planning and promote your hotels or banquet halls on social media. Regular information sharing through articles and blogs would pull your business up on search engine rankings and increase your brand visibility. And higher brand visibility means higher chances of lead conversion.

Conclusions

The mere listing of your business on any online directory doesn’t get you clients. The profiles created on online directories should be complemented with a specifically designed landing page or a gorgeous-looking website that effectively converts profile visits into leads and leads into customers. A solid online presence boosts your business by getting you more profile visitors who actually book your services. The above-mentioned tips and suggestions help you create an online presence for your hotels, resorts or banquet halls.

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