Social Butterfly Content Marketing Framework: Social-Led Lead Gen

This social-focused content marketing framework is light and nimble, just like a butterfly.

With this strategy, you don’t have to try to push everyone to your website or badger them with a million retargeted ads to try to get them to convert.

Instead, you can rely on social signals and modern technology to do the trick.

Social Butterfly Content Marketing Framework: Social-Led Lead Gen

The whole premise of this framework is that you don’t always have to use ads or links back to your website to effectively generate leads.

In practice, this looks like… 

  • Posting valuable, targeted content to your social channels.
  • Using modern account intelligence tools to track engagement on these posts (or, you can do this step manually). 
  • Sending folks who engage and who are in your target market to your sales team to follow up. 

In Action: LinkedIn Lead Generation

On LinkedIn, Tyler Hakes, Principal at Optimist, shared the ins and outs of how the team uses the Anchor & Hooks framework to turn one client’s core content into a plethora of engaging visuals for social media every month.

As usual, a mix of marketers and content writers in Tyler’s circle engaged. But the real nugget of gold was a comment from a senior content marketing manager — someone right in Optimist’s target audience of content and marketing decision-makers:

Example of engagement from a prospective client on the above LinkedIn post.

Now that a (somewhat) qualified lead has shown interest without even having to go off-platform, Tyler can continue to move them through the social-led lead gen framework to further qualify and deepen the relationship.

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Tina Harris

Tina Harris has been writing for and about content marketing for nearly ten years. She helps companies grow by covering topics from financial planning to content management systems and everything in between. When she isn't writing, editing, or planning retreats, she can be found shoveling snow in Colorado while her dog supervises.