Full definition
A funnel is the journey a customer moves through: Awareness → Interest → Decision → Action. Each stage loses part of the audience — which is why it's shaped like a funnel. Improving the funnel means more conversions.
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Why it matters
The funnel shows you exactly where people fall out. Without breaking the journey into stages, "not enough sales" is a diagnosis you cannot act on.
🧮 A worked example
1,000 impressions, 80 clicks, 30 enquiries, 6 deals. Enquiry-to-deal is 20% — healthy. The real bottleneck is click-to-enquiry, and that is where the work is.
⚠️ The common mistake
Fixing the top of the funnel when the problem is at the bottom. Sending more traffic to a page that converts badly just makes the same problem more expensive.
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