{"id":19389,"date":"2013-03-06T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/?p=19389"},"modified":"2013-03-06T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:44:16","slug":"the-evolution-of-the-sales-funnel-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmediaexplorer.com\/cartoon\/the-evolution-of-the-sales-funnel-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of the Sales Funnel [CARTOON]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon was inspired after having read Nichole Kelly\u2019s post,\u00a0<a href=\"about:Tabshttp:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/digital-marketing\/the-death-of-the-sales-funnel-as-we-know-it\/\">The Death of the Sales Funnel As We Know It<\/a>, a few weeks ago.\u00a0While she cleverly likened today\u2019s sales process to a neural network, I still found it difficult to give up the idea of a funnel. So I went to the old drawing board and came up with a new use for my old funnel.<\/p>\n<p>A customer\u2019s path to conversion often entails several twists and turns and doubling back to pour over information.\u00a0 For that reason, I have re-purposed my sales funnel, filled it with the batter of leads and poured it into a vat of hot oil\u2026 and voila! We have the Sales Funnel Cake!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/?attachment_id=19390\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19390\" title=\"Sales Funnel Cake\" src=\"http:\/\/socialmediaexp.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sales-Funnel-Cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialmediaexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sales-Funnel-Cake.jpg 600w, https:\/\/socialmediaexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sales-Funnel-Cake-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon was inspired after having read Nichole Kelly\u2019s post,\u00a0The Death of the Sales Funnel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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