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EcomBalance Monthly Update – August 2022

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Hello, hello! Thanks for your interest in EcomBalance and what’s been happening in the past month.

 

This is a content series that we release each month sharing insights, updates, and metrics on how EcomBalance is growing.

 

We share the wins, the roadblocks, and the frustrations that we’re having as we scale EcomBalance towards our ultimate vision of helping 1,000+ companies within the first 3 years in business.

 

If you’re reading this series for the first time, EcomBalance officially launched in January of 2022 and we’ve been growing quickly.

 

If you’re interested, you can read about how we decided to start EcomBalance here: We interviewed 100+ business owners about bookkeeping and here’s what we found.

 

In this month’s August edition, we’ll cover the following…

 

(1) How we’re developing internal Training Programs
(2) How we’re getting time back for our Financial Controller
(3) How we continue to publish 20+ articles per month
(4) How we’re converting more leads to clients
(5) What our goals are for September

 

We view every month as another step towards our ultimate vision. We learn from the mishaps, celebrate the wins, and analyze the data so we know how we can keep growing in the future.

 

Thanks for being a part of what we’re building at EcomBalance. If there’s something else you’d like to see in these monthly updates, let us know and we’ll consider adding it.

 

Best,

 

Connor Gillivan
CMO, Co-founder

 

Overall Updates

 

The dog days of summer are behind us! As a team, we took some time off to recoup after a long first half of the year, but we also continued to make strides forward.

 

Update #1: We Started Developing Training Programs

 

We realized that it was time for us to put together a more formal Training Program for new hires and for our Team Leaders. We now have a multi-day New Hire Training Program where all new hires learn about the business, the industry, how we handle bookkeeping, and more. We’re still working on specific bookkeeping trainings, but we’ve gotten it to a great place.

 

On top of that, we’ve started a Team Leader Training Program that will further groom our Team Leads into leadership and management experts. We’re taking the lessons we’ve learned from the past 10 years of leading and managing teams and pouring it into our Team Leads so they feel confident running their team and helping us grow the company.

 

Update #2: We’re Getting Time Back for our Financial Controller

 

Time is the most important resource when it comes to scaling a startup. We’ve experienced it ourselves and we’re seeing it with our Financial Controller, Shelia. When she’s bogged down with client work, she can’t build new processes and systems. When she can’t build, it hurts the rest of the team. So, what are we doing? We’re putting her time on a pedestal and making sure that she has afternoons throughout the week to work off of Slack on building.

 

Update #3: We’re Continuing to Up our SEO Game

 

SEO and search engine traffic is one of our leading traffic generation strategies and it’s a long term investment for lead generation and client acquisition. We’re already starting to see clients come from our SEO efforts and we’re keeping our foot on the pedal. In August, we published another 20+ articles targeting low competition, high volume keywords. As you’ll see below, our SEO rankings and Search Performance metrics continue to improve month over month.

 

Update #4: We’re Converting More Leads to Clients

 

At the end of August, we had a call with an industry expert who has experience building a 7 figure bookkeeping business. One piece of advice he offered was getting pricing delivered and getting on the phone with leads as quickly as possible. When business owners are looking for a solution to their bookkeeping needs, you need to act fast, give them clear pricing, and answer their questions. Otherwise, they’ll find someone else that can deliver faster.

 

As we start September, we’re making a dedicated effort to get pricing quotes out within 1 business day and to get on the phone with leads as quickly as possible to start developing the relationship.

 

Team Growth

 

The team continued to grow in August as we added another new team member. We’re now at 7 full time Staff Bookkeepers, 3 Team Leaders, our Financial Controller, and a supporting team for Marketing, Add On Services, Software Development, Integration, and Sales.

 

Client Growth

 

We added 7 new clients in August 2022. We now have 65 total clients.

 

Here are stats on how those 7 clients came to be through our lead pipeline:

 

# of Visitors to Sign Up Page336
# of New Software Sign Ups70
# of Pricing Forms Viewed123
# of Pricing Forms Started69
# of Pricing Forms Filled38
Pricing Form Completion Rate55.10%
# of New Clients Added7
Conversion Rate on Forms Filled18.42%
Conversion Rate on Software Sign Up
10.00%
Conversion Rate on Sign Up Page Visitors
2.08%
Conversion Rate on Total Traffic0.32%

 

In August, we saw overall increases on the majority of our Lead Pipeline metrics. As we continue to increase the number of leads signing up and filling our our Pricing form, we’re continuing to see strong conversion rates of leads becoming clients. We expect that conversion rate to go up even more in the next few months as we further improve our Sign Up and Pricing experience.

 

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Traffic Stats

 

Website traffic hit an all time high in August bringing in 2,182 unique visitors to the EcomBalance website. Our Partner Program, Affiliate Program, SEO efforts, Podcast Interviews, and Word of Mouth continue to be our main traffic drivers. Below are stats from our Google Analytics account for the month of August.

 

Total Users2,182
Pages/Session2.01
Pageviews6,456
Bounce Rate62.90%
Avg Session Duration1:54
Direct892 (39.2%)
Search691 (30.3%)
Social383 (16.8%)
Referral295 (13%)
Email10 (0.4%)
Video0

 

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SEO Stats

 

Our SEO stats saw a big jump in August as well. Domain Rating up from 24 to 26. Linking Domains up to 145 and Inbound Links with a big jump to 475. Below is data pulled from Moz.com.

 

Domain Rating26
Linking Domains145
Inbound Links475
Ranking Keywords48

 

Our Search Performance stats continued to increase as well.  You’ll also see that we started tracking for our position on specific keywords so we can keep working towards ranking higher. The data below is from Google Search Console and Ahrefs:

 

Total clicks694
Total Impressions47,100
Average CTR1.50%
Average Position47.9
Top Query 1ecombalance
Top Query 2
ecommerce bookkeeping
Top Query 3
ecommerce bookkeeping services
Top Query 4
finance meeting agenda
Top Query 5
ecommerce bookkeeper
Ecommerce bookkeeping#3
Ecommerce bookkeeping services
#2
Ecommerce bookkeeper#1
Ecommerce accounting services#9
Catch up bookkeeping#13
Shopify bookkeeping#42
Amazon bookkeeping#33
Amazon bookkeeper#25
Ecommerce accountantNot ranking
Shopify accountantNot ranking
Amazon accountantNot ranking
Virtual bookkeeping servicesNot ranking
Remote bookkeeping services#11
Online bookkeeping servicesNot ranking
Bookkeeping services for small business
#96

 

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Content Marketing

 

August was the second month that we’re going all in on our content marketing efforts. As some of you may have seen in my LinkedIn and Facebook posts, we’re running a new SEO test I’m calling the Quality Quantity Effect.

 

The hypothesis is that we will see a significant increase in organic traffic within 6-9 months if we consistently publish 30+ new pieces of content targeted at industry keywords that have low competition and high monthly search volumes…without focusing on building any backlinks.

 

In August, we stayed consistent with July published 20+ new articles on the EcomBalance Blog.

 

Here’s the content that we published this month:

 

Ben Donovan – What Is A Fractional CFO? A Guide For Business Owners
Fatos Fatin – Amazon Listing Optimisation: How to Sell More on Amazon, More Profitably
Emilie Margin – 10 bookkeeping and accounting tips to grow your Amazon FBA business
Partner Spotlight: Predict the Perfect Price for Every Product with Chad Rubin from Profasee
Partner Spotlight: Getting Your Product in Front of People Without Costing You an Arm and a Leg with Alina Vlaic from AZRank
Partner Spotlight: Grow Surrounded by Like Minded Sellers with Carlos Alvarez from Wizards of Ecom
Partner Spotlight: Determine the Best Possible Value for Your Business with Ben Leonard from Ecom Brokers
Partner Spotlight: Predict What the Performance of an Ad will be Before it Even Runs with Ganesh from AiHello
The 5 Best Accounting Software Tools for Small Businesses in 2022
The 5 Best Online Payroll Software for Small Businesses
What Is a Full Charge Bookkeeper? How Do You Find One?
Quickbooks Online Explained: A Beginner’s Guide
What is BPO Accounting? Pros, Cons, & Costs
How to Calculate and Understand Straight Line Depreciation
Bookkeeping Basics for Ecommerce, Agency, and Software Business Owners
6 Quickbooks Tips for Amazon Sellers
Cash Flow Management: A Guide for Online Business Owners
How to Handle Shopify Sales Tax for your Online Store
EcomBalance Monthly Update – July 2022

 

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Social Media Stats

 

Facebook and LinkedIn are our two main channels that we’re growing and utilizing to communicate with our audience. If you haven’t followed us yet, please give us a like and a follow!

 

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The following data is from Facebook and LinkedIn Analytics:

 

Facebook – Total Page Likes385
Facebook – New Page Likes34
Facebook – Post Reach237
Facebook – Post Engagement51
LinkedIn – Impressions1482
LinkedIn – Reactions42
LinkedIn – Comments8
LinkedIn – Shares16
LinkedIn – Total Followers470
LinkedIn – New Followers151

 

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Email Marketing Stats

 

Open rates were the best we’ve ever seen in August. Thanks for your support. We’ll keep bringing the fire! The following data is from ActiveCampaign:

 

# of subscribers962
# of new subscribers161
avg open rate41.33%
avg click rate2.21%
conversion rate on site traffic7.38%

 

 

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What’s Next?

 

Q3 is moving along quickly. Before we know it, we’ll be in Q4 and charging towards the end of the year. We have a lot that we want to still accomplish.

 

Here’s a reminder of our core Q3 goals:

 

– Hitting deadlines for our 65+ clients

– Reaching 75-80 clients by the end of September

– Improving our Client Portal and Affiliate Portal experience

– Increasing our advertising, SEO, content marketing, and sales efforts

– Further developing relationships with our 150+ industry partners

– Helping our team to continue to learn and grow through training

– Continuing to develop the internal EcomBalance company culture

– Implementing a new Sign Up and Pricing experience for leads

– Launching the AccountsBalance brand catering to agencies, SAAS, and online companies

– Hiring an Automation Specialist to help us automate some of the bookkeeping work

 

These months are flying by! Thanks for all of your support as we’ve gotten EcomBalance off the ground and into the skies this year.

 

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Connor Gillivan

CMO and Founder of EcomBalance. Founded FreeUp (acquired in 2019). Founder of Outsource School. Published Author. Investor.

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