Marketing: The Internet Has Become A Gold Mine For All MarketingFirmsBy Robert Michael
If the world of infrastructure is a block of granite, marketingis a fluid running through its small chasms. Marketing is aforce like gas, a prevalent and very active thing that isdifficult to pin down and observe. It is one of the abstractedforms arising from a post-modern way of life, and it shows nosigns of slowing down.
It makes sense that marketing in its never-ending search fornew forms has branched onto the web. The internet and the screenof the personal computer are lucrative fields for newadvertising campaigns. Much of consumer activity has moved ontothe web, and so marketing is keeping up with trends by movingits own strategies to a web-based format.
The most familiar ways that marketing firms do this is by theuse of devices such as ad banners or pop ups that bring ad copydirectly into the view of the user. These are time-testedmarketing strategies that work: users click through on adbanners and generate revenue for the creators, improving thestatus of the company or product. There are also the 'cookies'that companies hide in a user's hard drive. Devices such ascookies provide critical data about a consumer; they allowmarketing individuals to create campaigns based on establishedfacts, and they allow researchers to track the web activities ofconsumers.
Besides these marketing tools, software makers have givenmarketers different programs to better their commerce. Some ofthese are available online for a firm eager to improve its webimage. One such program is the VIPCART: this package allowsmarketers to create a 'shopping cart' that shoppers use onlineto collect product which they can purchase with their creditcards. Though online shopping is hazardous due to credit fraud,many people still shop online.
Marketers can also make use of a package entitled SEO DETECTIVEthat lets users compare data on different web sites to get apicture of who is running a particular online industry. The bestweb sites generate the best sales, and tabulation software suchas the detective programs allow individuals to concretely assesswho has the best web sites.
Then there are a host of other programs dealing withinnovations like keyword-driven sales that also analyze webresponse from consumers. All of these tools try to directcustomers to a product by reacting to feedback through thetransparent channels of the web. Keyword-driven sales is one wayto get the attention of clients, and in-depth work with searchengines can benefit a company's prominence greatly.
By and large, conventional marketing will not go away, but theweb will become a bigger and bigger arena for marketing in thefuture as marketers try to get the most out of online sales.
About the Author: Robert Michael is a writer for FAA Marketingwhich is an excellent place to find marketing links, resourcesand articles. For more information go to:http://www.faamarketing.com
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Friday, November 7, 2008
5 strategic internet marketing
Kick Off Your Holiday Marketing Campaign With These 5 StrategicInternet Marketing Tips!By Derek Gehl CEO Internet Marketing Center
NOW is the time to launch your strategic Internet marketingplan for the upcoming holiday season.
If you think it's too early, consider this: A recent study byBizRate found that 34.9% of online holiday shoppers will starttheir shopping by Halloween this year!
In order to capture their attention, you want to make sure thefirst fold of your web site is full of the information holidayshoppers need to know before they'll decide to buy. (For thoseof you who aren't sure what the "first fold" is, it's theportion of your web site people see before they scroll down orclick on any links.)
If you want to maximize your holiday conversion rates, makesure your top fold includes...
- Holiday-ready headlines and sales copy: In order to make yourheadline really speak to your visitors, make sure it addressesthe need they're trying to solve: choosing a gift for a friendor family member.
- Be sure to explain exactly what kind of benefit they'll getfrom your product or service -- and then also mention thebenefit the giver will receive from offering it as a present! An opt-in offer that speaks to the needs of holiday shoppers.For example, you could put together a "Holiday Buying Guide"that tells people more about your products and explains whythey'd make great gifts.
- Holiday specials and discounts: Make sure you offer somespecial deals on your products to entice your visitors to buy!How about an early-bird deal if your customers make a purchasebefore a certain date? Or a special discount for those panickylast-minute shoppers?
- Your shipping information: If you're able to offer free ordiscounted shipping, be sure to include some mention of it inthe top fold of your site.
- Provide an ironclad shipping guarantee and return policy socustomers know their gifts will arrive in time. Put both at thetop of your right- or left-hand sidebar so your customers won'tmiss them.
- Free gift-wrapping service: It's another great way to giveyour customers an extra perk without much additional cost toyou. For the cost of some paper and ribbon, you can make anyhumble package look like a fabulous holiday gift!
- Urgency builders: Another thing you could include in yourfirst fold is a little "countdown" box that tells your visitorsexactly how many days are left to Christmas, or to the shippingdeadline for gifts to arrive in time.
Or try installing a Hover Ad with an urgent holiday messagethat lets them know right away exactly how long they've got tomake a gift purchase.
You could also use the Hover Ad to advertise your holidayspecials and encourage your visitors to sign up for more info,or offer a special discount coupon to people who join yourmailing list.
Now that you've got some quick and easy ideas to get yourmarketing plan underway, don't let your competitors beat you tothe punch!
Remember, it's never too early to launch your strategicInternet marketing plan for the holidays. Give yourself the giftof a boost in profits this season!
About the Author: Derek Gehl is CEO of thehttp://www.marketingtips.com, which has been teaching realpeople how to use the power ofhttp://blog.marketingtips.com/derek to make real money on theInternet since 1995. Sign up for IMCs newsletter.
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NOW is the time to launch your strategic Internet marketingplan for the upcoming holiday season.
If you think it's too early, consider this: A recent study byBizRate found that 34.9% of online holiday shoppers will starttheir shopping by Halloween this year!
In order to capture their attention, you want to make sure thefirst fold of your web site is full of the information holidayshoppers need to know before they'll decide to buy. (For thoseof you who aren't sure what the "first fold" is, it's theportion of your web site people see before they scroll down orclick on any links.)
If you want to maximize your holiday conversion rates, makesure your top fold includes...
- Holiday-ready headlines and sales copy: In order to make yourheadline really speak to your visitors, make sure it addressesthe need they're trying to solve: choosing a gift for a friendor family member.
- Be sure to explain exactly what kind of benefit they'll getfrom your product or service -- and then also mention thebenefit the giver will receive from offering it as a present! An opt-in offer that speaks to the needs of holiday shoppers.For example, you could put together a "Holiday Buying Guide"that tells people more about your products and explains whythey'd make great gifts.
- Holiday specials and discounts: Make sure you offer somespecial deals on your products to entice your visitors to buy!How about an early-bird deal if your customers make a purchasebefore a certain date? Or a special discount for those panickylast-minute shoppers?
- Your shipping information: If you're able to offer free ordiscounted shipping, be sure to include some mention of it inthe top fold of your site.
- Provide an ironclad shipping guarantee and return policy socustomers know their gifts will arrive in time. Put both at thetop of your right- or left-hand sidebar so your customers won'tmiss them.
- Free gift-wrapping service: It's another great way to giveyour customers an extra perk without much additional cost toyou. For the cost of some paper and ribbon, you can make anyhumble package look like a fabulous holiday gift!
- Urgency builders: Another thing you could include in yourfirst fold is a little "countdown" box that tells your visitorsexactly how many days are left to Christmas, or to the shippingdeadline for gifts to arrive in time.
Or try installing a Hover Ad with an urgent holiday messagethat lets them know right away exactly how long they've got tomake a gift purchase.
You could also use the Hover Ad to advertise your holidayspecials and encourage your visitors to sign up for more info,or offer a special discount coupon to people who join yourmailing list.
Now that you've got some quick and easy ideas to get yourmarketing plan underway, don't let your competitors beat you tothe punch!
Remember, it's never too early to launch your strategicInternet marketing plan for the holidays. Give yourself the giftof a boost in profits this season!
About the Author: Derek Gehl is CEO of thehttp://www.marketingtips.com, which has been teaching realpeople how to use the power ofhttp://blog.marketingtips.com/derek to make real money on theInternet since 1995. Sign up for IMCs newsletter.
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e-marketing
20 Major Marketing Mistakes - No1. Failing To Understand TheNature Of Internet MarketingBy Donald Saunders
A surprisingly high number of people who are new to the worldof online marketing believe that it is a simple art. If onlythis were true!
I’m not saying that they believe that all they need to do isfind themselves a product, build a website, plug-in an ordersystem, place an advertisement or two and then wait for themoney to roll in, but many people simply fail to appreciate thesignificance of the use of the word Marketing in the phrase"Online Marketing".
A quick look at the index of any online marketing course willan indication of just what is involved in setting up your owninternet business with such headings as, "Building a website","hooking-up your order pages", "Setting-up a newsletter","Winning the search engine war" and a great deal more. Now, eachof these elements is important in its own right, but together,they simply create the framework necessary to allow you to startmarketing your products or services.
However, even once you’ve dealt with all of this, people aren'tgoing to start flocking to your website with their credit cardsin their hands. You are going to have to go out and find yourpotential customers, get them to your website and then persuadethem to buy your product or service.
So, the first question you need to ask yourself before you tryand sell anything online is whether or not you are asalesperson?
Before you invest even one single penny in setting-up youronline business, you have to understand that your principle rolewill be that of salesperson.
Now, many people have a problem when it comes to seeingthemselves as a salesperson, often because of the stereotypethat paints all sales people as dishonest and ready to do justabout anything that they have to get us to part with ourhard-earned cash.
Naturally, the problem with stereotypes is that they are oftenvery wide of the mark. The vast majority of sales people aresimply ordinary people doing a job and, like most of us, theyare decent, hard-working and honest people. Despite this themany of us have been brought up to distrust the salespeople andthat makes your job as an online marketer that much harder.
So, how do you jump this particular hurdle? Well, there arereally only two ways to deal with the marketing needs of yourbusiness.
The first is to accept your role as salesperson for yourbusiness and learn as much as you can about selling online. Inpractice, this means doing your homework and seeking out some ofthe more successful internet marketers and following theirexample. There are too many to list them here but, as you doyour research, you will discover names such as Jim Edwards, JayAbraham, Ken Evoy and Terry Dean that come up time and timeagain. Each of these successful marketers has his own particularstyle and you will warm to some immediately and find that thereare others that you simply can’t get in tune with at all. Allare however extremely successful online marketers and have agreat deal to offer by way of help and advice.
The second approach is to accept the fact that you are notcomfortable filling the role of salesperson.
Now this doesn't mean that you can merely ignore the problem ofneeding a salesperson in the hope that it will go away, becauseit won't! Like it or not, marketing is crucial to your successand it must take the prime spot in your online business plan.However, if you really feel that you can't take on this rolethen don't. Simply get somebody else who can fill the role.
This might mean taking on a partner, or employing someone totake care of your marketing for you, both of which are major,and possibly costly, steps. Nevertheless, your business willsuffer badly if you don’t put marketing at the centre of youroperation and this in one bullet you are going to have to bite.
Of the many hundreds of new businesses that appear online everyweek the majority will fail and, of those that do make it, onlya tiny proportion will be truly successful. In almost everysingle case the secret to their success lies in will be theimportance that the business owner places on the role ofmarketing and on his own role as a salesperson.
About the Author: Donald Saunders is the author of a number ofinternet marketing reports including 20 Major MarketingMistakes. For more details please visithttp://20-major-marketing-mistakes.com or pick up your own copyof this report at http://webmarketingcentre.com
Source: http://www.isnare.com
Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=26596&ca=Internet
A surprisingly high number of people who are new to the worldof online marketing believe that it is a simple art. If onlythis were true!
I’m not saying that they believe that all they need to do isfind themselves a product, build a website, plug-in an ordersystem, place an advertisement or two and then wait for themoney to roll in, but many people simply fail to appreciate thesignificance of the use of the word Marketing in the phrase"Online Marketing".
A quick look at the index of any online marketing course willan indication of just what is involved in setting up your owninternet business with such headings as, "Building a website","hooking-up your order pages", "Setting-up a newsletter","Winning the search engine war" and a great deal more. Now, eachof these elements is important in its own right, but together,they simply create the framework necessary to allow you to startmarketing your products or services.
However, even once you’ve dealt with all of this, people aren'tgoing to start flocking to your website with their credit cardsin their hands. You are going to have to go out and find yourpotential customers, get them to your website and then persuadethem to buy your product or service.
So, the first question you need to ask yourself before you tryand sell anything online is whether or not you are asalesperson?
Before you invest even one single penny in setting-up youronline business, you have to understand that your principle rolewill be that of salesperson.
Now, many people have a problem when it comes to seeingthemselves as a salesperson, often because of the stereotypethat paints all sales people as dishonest and ready to do justabout anything that they have to get us to part with ourhard-earned cash.
Naturally, the problem with stereotypes is that they are oftenvery wide of the mark. The vast majority of sales people aresimply ordinary people doing a job and, like most of us, theyare decent, hard-working and honest people. Despite this themany of us have been brought up to distrust the salespeople andthat makes your job as an online marketer that much harder.
So, how do you jump this particular hurdle? Well, there arereally only two ways to deal with the marketing needs of yourbusiness.
The first is to accept your role as salesperson for yourbusiness and learn as much as you can about selling online. Inpractice, this means doing your homework and seeking out some ofthe more successful internet marketers and following theirexample. There are too many to list them here but, as you doyour research, you will discover names such as Jim Edwards, JayAbraham, Ken Evoy and Terry Dean that come up time and timeagain. Each of these successful marketers has his own particularstyle and you will warm to some immediately and find that thereare others that you simply can’t get in tune with at all. Allare however extremely successful online marketers and have agreat deal to offer by way of help and advice.
The second approach is to accept the fact that you are notcomfortable filling the role of salesperson.
Now this doesn't mean that you can merely ignore the problem ofneeding a salesperson in the hope that it will go away, becauseit won't! Like it or not, marketing is crucial to your successand it must take the prime spot in your online business plan.However, if you really feel that you can't take on this rolethen don't. Simply get somebody else who can fill the role.
This might mean taking on a partner, or employing someone totake care of your marketing for you, both of which are major,and possibly costly, steps. Nevertheless, your business willsuffer badly if you don’t put marketing at the centre of youroperation and this in one bullet you are going to have to bite.
Of the many hundreds of new businesses that appear online everyweek the majority will fail and, of those that do make it, onlya tiny proportion will be truly successful. In almost everysingle case the secret to their success lies in will be theimportance that the business owner places on the role ofmarketing and on his own role as a salesperson.
About the Author: Donald Saunders is the author of a number ofinternet marketing reports including 20 Major MarketingMistakes. For more details please visithttp://20-major-marketing-mistakes.com or pick up your own copyof this report at http://webmarketingcentre.com
Source: http://www.isnare.com
Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=26596&ca=Internet
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