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April 9, 2024

Your Untapped Goldmine: 3 Steps to Capture Sales from Anonymous Website Traffic

by 
Albert Finder

Your website is bustling with potential customers at any given moment. The problem? Most of them remain hidden within your anonymous website traffic.

These anonymous visitors represent significant lost opportunities because traditional sales and marketing strategies focus heavily on engaging directly with identifiable prospects — those you can name, categorize, and track through CRMs and targeted account lists.

This leaves most potential buyers wandering through your digital storefront unnoticed and unengaged. This oversight is not only a missed opportunity — it's a call to action to rethink your approach to website visitors and uncover the revenue potential lying in plain sight.

So why are you unable to capture all the ready-to-convert prospects already on your website?

Until now, capturing these high-intent anonymous visitors has been a bit of a mystery. The good news is that Lift AI has solved that mystery.

Here’s a three-step roadmap to help you turn your anonymous website traffic into revenue-generating customers.

1. Break Away from Traditional Sales Tactics

The sales world has long been dominated by traditional tactics, zeroing in on target accounts and known prospects. However, this method overlooks a crucial fact: even with the most sophisticated ID reveal tools and ABM programs, about 70% of website visitors can’t be ID revealed, and their potential is overlooked.

Smart marketers also use chat technology on their websites to try and capture those buyers while they’re browsing. The problem is that many companies assume the main pages that high-intent buyers visit are pricing, quote, and cart pages. This may be true, but it also ignores the 88% of buyers who don’t visit those pages.

These statistics reveal glaring limitations in relying on CRM follow-ups and page-specific chat engagement, urging a shift in how companies approach sales strategy to include the silent majority of their website traffic.

2. Implement AI for Real-Time Intent Recognition

Not only are the anonymous visitors on your website your best pipeline and revenue opportunity, but they’re also the most sales efficient.

Identifying these hidden buyers requires a paradigm shift — a move toward integrating sophisticated analytics and AI-driven insights to decode visitors’ subtle buyer intent signals as they interact with your website.

By doing so, you can transform anonymous clicks and page views into actionable sales leads, effectively broadening your sales horizon beyond the confines of your existing customer databases.

Enter the Game-Changer: Website Buyer Intent Powered by AI

By leveraging AI-powered website buyer intent solutions, you gain the ability to see beyond anonymity and identify those browsing visitors who hold the highest purchase intent.

This is where Lift AI steps in. Lift AI's ground-breaking machine learning model revolutionizes the understanding of website buyer intent and buying behavior, delivering unparalleled growth and ROI for customers.

Unlike traditional intent tools that provide a broad view of in-market intent, Lift AI focuses on deep website behaviors, identifying potential buyers among anonymous website visitors. It also overcomes the human bias that’s inherent in many lead scoring models.

Our proprietary model comes pre-trained with 15 years of visitor profiling from billions of website visitors and hundreds of millions of actual sales to determine what a visitor’s likelihood to purchase is at that moment on your site. And all of this is in real-time, and with over 85% prediction accuracy.

This behavior-centric approach, combined with our real-time processing advantage and seamless tech stack integration, is a game-changing paradigm shift in digital marketing strategies, offering businesses a competitive edge in converting website visitors into revenue.

3. Reimagine Engagement Strategies

Armed with the knowledge of who is most likely to buy, you can now craft engagement strategies that speak directly to the needs and interests of potential customers. This means moving beyond generic chat prompts and one-size-fits-all content to offer personalized interactions that resonate with each visitor.

This allows you to optimize your conversion funnel based on buyer intent to generate more pipeline efficiently.

  • Direct buyers to sales teams - Ensure your sales team only engages visitors with a high propensity to buy right now, instead of chasing outbound leads or engaging low-intent visitors.
  • Nurture the “maybes” for future sales – Medium-intent visitors can be directed to nurture programs, including mid-stage content, email automation, or escalation bots.
  • Serve non-buyers to automation - Direct your non-buyers to automated tools such as chatbots, support teams, or early-stage content.

Transformational Results: How AI Unlocks Sales Potential from Anonymous Traffic

At Lift AI, we’ve seen our clients achieve transformational results again and again by unlocking sales potential from anonymous website traffic.

Chronus, a leading data management platform provider, leveraged Lift AI to identify high-intent anonymous visitors and fast-track them to sales conversations using Drift, bypassing the traditional form-filling process.

The results were remarkable: just .05% of all website visitors (identified by Lift AI as high-intent) generated more pipeline than the combined efforts of the remaining 27% who were identified. Additionally, these high-intent anonymous visitors converted to Sales Qualified Opportunities (SQOs) at an impressive 23% conversion rate, showcasing the immense sales potential hidden within anonymous traffic.

But this doesn't diminish the value of identified leads.

Our recent collaboration with Chronus further validates this point. By combining Lift AI's individual intent scoring with 6sense's account buying stage data, we triggered playbooks in Drift for identified visitors who exhibited high individual intent.

This resulted in a 39% conversion rate to SQOs and pipeline, demonstrating the synergistic power of combining AI-powered intent data with account-level insights.

These compelling results underscore the transformational impact of AI in unlocking sales potential from both anonymous and identified website traffic. By leveraging Lift AI's solutions, you can reimagine your sales strategy, uncover hidden gems within your anonymous traffic, and drive significant improvements in your sales efficiency and conversion rates.

Ready to see the power of AI in action? Get started with Lift AI today and unlock game-changing visitor insights that will transform your sales pipeline.

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