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1. Honor exceptional promises. Many companies tout service but few deliver. If you make promises you cannot keep, you're doing business on the consumer fault line. Then it's only a matter of time. Customers will eventually cease to believe anything you have to say or offer. False promises not only waste resources, they bankrupt brand equity.To gain market share, think creatively about what you can guarantee that will make you stand out. "Tell customers you'll return every inquiry within 12 hours or that all appointments will be met on time," suggests Sharron Senter, a marketing consultant based in Merrimac, Mass. "State some facts that distinguish you from the competition and fulfill them over and over again."2. Watch your language. Your fab new widget ...
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With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them.Some companies choose to hire a blog consultant, but others like to try things internally. For those “DIY” companies and individuals interested in practical tips for marketing and optimizing a business blog, try out the following list of blog marketing and optimization tips:1. Decide on a stand alone domain name www.myblog.com or directory of existing site www.mysite.com/blog. Sub domain is also an option blog.mysite.com. Avoid hosted services that do no...
Writing a book to help others is a fantastic and noble goal. In fact, hopefully it is your first goal however it is also perfectly fantastic and noble to want to make money writing. Here are three tips to set you on the road to writing profits.Make Money Writing Tip # 1 Information Marketing is the key to big profits. Information marketing is taking your published book one step further. It is providing your book as an e-book, as a printed book, and as an audio. You can then expand your product line quite easily by writing reports and articles, by interviewing experts, by recording seminars and workshops and making all of this information available for purchase by people that are interested i...
At the core of search engine optimization (SEO) are the fundamentals of: keyword-rich content and link building. However, in today's online marketing landscape, link building by itself is simply not enough to remain competitive. While link building is indeed a tactic with direct benefits via rankings traffic from search engines and direct traffic from high profile sites, outright link building is only a slice in the overall online marketing mix. At the start of the SEO industry, building links from directory submissions and programs such as web site reviews and web awards sites sent significant amounts of traffic. Google changed all that. Google's use of PageRank to determine inbound link popularity for ranking we...
If you have frequent to semi-frequent contact with customers - either via newsletters, a blog or inserts in packaging - you should be thinking about adding some value and offering them something beyond product promos and discount announcements.One way to do this is to offer "how to" articles that show them how to do new, different, more advantageous/productive/efficient things with your product.If you sell vintage post cards, for example, you might show customers how to mount them on poster board and display them in the home. If you sell toner or ink cartridges, you might show customers how to keep the heads clean or so other such maintenance program. If you sell motorcycles, you might show customers how to plan a fantastic weekend bike tour.The key to "how ...
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Attention, online marketers. Do your part and adhere to these rules.1. Send e-mail only to those who have "opted-in" to receive it. Ideally you should use "confirmed" opt-in, in which a confirmation message must be sent to the recipient, who in turn must reply to the message for the opt-in to take effect. Avoid "opt-out," which forces the recipient to receive messages until he says no.The widespread practice of opt-out appears to actually discourage e-commerce. A 2001 survey by the research firm Millward Brown IntelliQuest found that 63% of Web users agreed with the statement, "If I buy online, I'll end up getting junk e-mail." And the trend is up — IntelliQuest found only 58% agreed with that statement in 1998. Perhaps thi...
If you have a Web site that means more to you than just a brochure for your business, here are five ways a Web analytics tool can help:1.You can evaluate the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. If you're spending a lot on search engine ads and keyword buys, you need to see which ones are performing and which aren't. Web analytics tools let you see which search engines are sending you traffic as well as the most popular keywords used to find your site. What if you aren't spending any money at all on online marketing? A Web monitoring tool will show you the gaps and holes in your search engine rankings and results, and very likely how you can shore them up with search engine submissions and/or keyword buys. 2.You nee...
Here are seven other simple tips that Thurow offers in her 300-page book.1.Use keywords that match what users are typing into search queries. Thurow says she's baffled at seeing "Welcome to our home page" in big letters on a business Web site, or home pages with only Flash or graphics and very little text. If your business is selling help-desk software, say "Help-desk Software" on your home page; that is what search engine users will be looking for, she says. "You need words, and the right words," she says, adding that Flash sites and graphics-only sites do not perform as well on search engines as HTML sites. Don't know what search queries are being used to reach your site? Do keyword research through various search engin...
Here are 11 ideas culled from Web marketers and developers that can modernize your site swiftly without costing you a bundle.1.Reduce the number of site pages. Focus on redesigning only the core 10 to 15 pages, suggests Matt Greer, chief executive officer at Zeeo Interactive in Boston, a Web design services company. You can then archive any remaining popular or highly trafficked pages into Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word documents that are suitable for download. 2.Make the site a marketing tool. If you're not yet capturing data basics, such as which sites and search engines visitors are clicking from or which pages are most trafficked, get cracking.Use prepackaged software or a Web services provider such as Microsoft's FastCounter Pro to capture detailed information about site visitors. "The f...
Here are some ideas to revamp your efforts and net a stronger return on investment.1. Offload the burdens.Options for outsourcing the more tiresome chores of e-mailmarketing have become a lot more effective then doing it in-house when you're a small shop. Offerings are flexible. You can harness software that offers customizable templates to create and distribute your content. You can outsource selected components, such as editorial services for content generation. Or you can hire outside providers to track visitor behavior patterns and preferences, including what kind of messages lead to higher conversion rates or which search engines lead to traffic likely to opt in and actually purchase.2. Get focused on your message.E...
1.Be upfront: Put an e-mail sign-up box prominently on your home page. Why not just tell customers what you want? In return, "offer something of value, earn their trust, and build the relationship," says Jeffrey Graham, vice president at Dynamic Logic, a New York-based online research company. The offers could include free tips and advice, news alerts, newsletters and/or new product information. Be creative, but allow people to opt-out of these e-mails anytime they want.Two online retailers that follow this strategy effectively are Health4her.com and BabyCenter.com. The latter site asks prospective mothers simply for their e-mail address and the date their baby is due. With that information, BabyCenter.com is ready to rol...
Many of the people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too.1.Sell advertising. This is likely the most common means of leveraging a blog to generate income. If yours happens to become a well-known blog, or one that is well-received in a particular niche, it's always possible to sell ad space on your own. For lesser-known blogs, services such as Google's AdSense or BlogAds enable bloggers to establish ad programs.AdSense's — which lets you select several ads that are consistent with the content of your blog — pays you based on how many readers click on the ads for further information. Even better,...
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Here are some ideas to revamp your efforts and net a stronger return on investment.1. Offload the burdens.Options for outsourcing the more tiresome chores of e-mailmarketing have become a lot more effective then doing it in-house when you're a small shop. Offerings are flexible. You can harness software that offers customizable templates to create and distribute your content. You can outsource selected components, such as editorial services for content generation. Or you can hire outside providers to track visitor behavior patterns and preferences, including what kind of messages lead to higher conversion rates or which search engines lead to traffic likely to opt in and actually purchase.2. Get focused on your message.E...
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