--- title: Get Your Roadmap To Revenue With Digital Marketer Kristin Zhivago description: Don't make them think' says digital marketer and author of 'Roadmap to Revenue, Kristin Zhivago. Hear the six areas business leaders focus on for growth. image: https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hubfs/_Podcast_Images/Kristin-Zhivago_The-Sales-Podcast-272.png --- [Skip to content](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/kristin-zhivago#main-content) [![Wes Schaeffer is The Sales Whisperer®](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/wes-header-lockup.png?width=1560&height=360&name=wes-header-lockup.png)](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/) - Work With Me Show submenu for Work With Me - [Fix Your Follow-Up](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/follow-up) - [Best Day Ever](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/best-day-ever) - [HANK The AI](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hank) - [12 Weeks To Peak™](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/12-weeks-to-peak) - [48-Hour Fix](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/48-hour-fix) - [Start](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/start) - [Blog](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog) - [The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) - [Speaking](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/sales-keynote-speaker) - [Podcast](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast) Show submenu for Podcast - [Podcast Guests](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast-guests) - [About](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/about) Open main navigation Close main navigation - Work With Me Show submenu for Work With Me - [Fix Your Follow-Up](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/follow-up) - [Best Day Ever](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/best-day-ever) - [HANK The AI](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hank) - [12 Weeks To Peak™](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/12-weeks-to-peak) - [48-Hour Fix](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/48-hour-fix) - [Start](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/start) - [Blog](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog) - [The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) - [Speaking](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/sales-keynote-speaker) - [Podcast](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast) Show submenu for Podcast - [Podcast Guests](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast-guests) - [About](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/about) - [Get The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) [Get The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) Jun 13, 2025 # Get Your Roadmap To Revenue With Digital Marketer Kristin Zhivago ![Picture of Wes Schaeffer](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Wes%20Schaeffer%2c%20The%20Sales%20Whisperer%20black%20white.png?width=50&name=Wes%20Schaeffer%2c%20The%20Sales%20Whisperer%20black%20white.png) [Wes Schaeffer](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/author/wes-schaeffer) Share: [facebook-f icon](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/kristin-zhivago) [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/kristin-zhivago) [Twitter icon](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/kristin-zhivago) [pinterest-p icon](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/kristin-zhivago) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/kristin-zhivago) ## Don't make them think! ## [Sales Tips](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) you'll learn in [The Sales Podcast](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast)... - Couple decades as a revenue coach—mostly in high tech—then branched out.  (Mid-90’s) - Joe McKenna - Cloud Potential at the end of 2014 - Helps people get more business through digital marketing - Google is the gatekeeper - SEO is still vital - Principals then tactics - Google changes their algorithms daily but it still matters - Build for you a Google identity - Your content needs to tell Google all about your “neighborhood” - It’s partly content, partly page structure - Understand your competition - Wordpress has an SEO tool called Yoast that helps with your Meta Descriptions - It’s an endless job - Be careful of the “near me” phenomenon - Watch the reviews for the “Knowledge Graph” on the right side of your company’s results (You need at least five reviews) - Google is getting better at Latent Symantic Indexing (synonyms) and understanding what you mean - Spyfu shows you what your competitors are up to - Interview your customers (she discusses in her book) - Now you can get so much information on your competitors and customers - With her tech industry experience since she was 17 she was always on the bleeding edge of technology so autoresponders and CRMs were not foreign to her - But mobile and Google are changing how people buy If you keep trying the old ways you’ll be frustrated - Old school companies are confused and they don’t know what’s happening - She looked at 30+ industries and identified the leaders to see what they are doing - The leaders focused on six areas: 1. Customers 2. Search 3. Pay Per Click 4. Conversions 5. Competition 6. Technology (fast site, responsive, reads well) - Stop making your website launch such a big production - Build a prototype, socialize it, and make it an iterative process - Your website is a living, breathing being that needs to be nurtured - The web “breaks” Google changes - Stop being so picky - The principles mean make sure the pages and posts are optimized for Google - Then ask and confirm that your pages and posts feed into your Google identity - Out of the six areas what is your focus? - If conversions are your top priority then go with tools like UnBounce, LeadPages, etc. - You need to understand the buying process of your prospects - **Don’t make them think** - In B2B, social may be more about LinkedIn than Facebook but you need to participate because Google pays attention to your entire digital footprint - Google looks at who is linking to you - Everyone is frustrated with the rate of change and trying things (dabbling with things) without a coordinated effort so they say “we tried it and that didn’t work” - They usually go to single-vendors who only do one thing like PPC or SEO but they aren’t focused on segmenting or lead-scoring - Since they targeted the wrong customers their bounce rates increased - That hurt their SEO - She has packages to help even mom & pop companies grow their online presence - She teaches her clients how to do things on their own - She left Silicon Valley because it was such a hotbed of ego - The web has been around long enough and so many businesses have been held hostage for long enough so now those charlatan companies are starting to be pushed aside - LinkedIn is a great place for B2B companies to put their blog articles but put it on your blog first and fetch it. 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