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Effective Online Marketing With An Autoresponder

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:21:11 +0000

One of the best ways of growing your business is to use an autoresponder which gives you the ability to follow up with your website visitors who have signed up to receive either a newsletter or a series of email tutorials from you automatically. In today’s age of spamming you need to set your autoresponders to make sure your sign ups are double opt-in so that it safeguards against spam and re-assures you and the person opting in that they have signed up for what you are about to present, and that if they also would like to unsubscribe then they can with a link at the very bottom of every email you send out.

Now setting up your autoresponder is really easy first you have to find one that gives you all the best features such as unlimited autoresponder messages and the ability to track your clicks, also if you want to present a good newsletter then you may need some good newsletter templates to make your information stand out. Aweber is the best and it’s currently one I use as it is easy to set up and once you write all of your email content follow ups it’s a case of setting it and forgetting it (apart from adding updated emails every now and again!)

When sending out a direct mail campaign like large companies used to do they usually sent out one letter after another in set intervals until it was no longer cost effective to do so, well the same principal applies online but typically the amount of times to send a prospect an offer is usually 7 times until they are likely to buy, this strategy creates a much higher response rate than with a one shot mailing like most big companies always do.(bearing in mind that large companies have the capital to advertise on radio and tv, not to mention the yellow pages and other sources..!) There are many uses to use an autoresponder the top ones are to provide something of use to the readers either an informative newsletter in whatever niche market you wish or a set of email tutorials that help you achieve some goal in easy to follow step by step chunks.

If you are providing high quality information that they are unlikely to get anywhere else then you will build trust and people will be more confident to buy from you especially if you are communicating on a personal level and of course you know what you are talking about.

Another point to note is not to oversell something, as it just appears like you want them to buy and that will simply not work, fair enough you can place some ads within your email but keep them to a minimum or at least try and relate them to your content so that it looks like you are genuinely recommending something of value to them, rather than being the sales man you want to be the expert first. Another thing about sign up forms especially with Aweber you can split test your email follow ups in different ways from the actual sign forms to pop ups right the way down to split testing each message against others to see what’s working and being clicked on etc.

You could create simple email follow ups that could be based around a single title such as “ten top tips for eating out” or “100 tips for beating depression”, so long as it is informative and it serves it’s purpose of being of use to anyone who subscribes to your list, of course you could add relevant affiliate links and re-directs within your content to effectively monetize your list.

By: Wayne A Tully

Guide to Online Marketing and SEO

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:28:01 +0000

Today, many online businesses are floundering despite the ample opportunities and marketing potential available on the internet simply because of their lack of recognition. This is because some businesses fail to realize that in order to capture a target audience, a strong web presence is necessary to bring your business to the forefront with effective online marketing strategies like Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

One of the most important parts of online marketing is your website and its landing page. However, keep in mind that an attractive website with heavy graphics will not serve the purpose, because weighty and rich graphics can take a long time to load, thereby driving away potential customers. The key to a good website is to properly balance attractiveness with speed and power. An effective website is a great online marketing tool.

Another powerful online marketing tool is to offer potential clients and visitors a little extra. This could be in the form of freebies, special services or offers that are available on your website. The little extra that you offer could go a long way as a marketing venture to ensuring that people visit your website and then come back again or recommend it to a friend.

Social Networking is another great way to market your business to the general public. Websites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others are being used effectively as marketing tools by many online businesses. Creating a blog that is constantly updated is also important as these little measures can go a long way to building a reputation online, and will bring your business to public notice. Social networking sites offer a lot of potential, especially for smaller business to improve their visibility.

An incredibly crucial step that will greatly improve the visibility of your business is to be present in online searches. Search Engine Optimization is one of the most powerful tools that any online business can have. It works on the simple principle that if your website is seen on top of a search, then people will visit it. If you have a large number of visitors to your website, your potential for gaining new clients increases astronomically. There are a number of methods that you can use to ensure search engine optimization. The most common of these are getting indexed on search engines like Google and Yahoo, which will ensure that your website turns up in a search.

There are other methods that you can use as well such as cross-linking so that there are more links to the main website, which in turn will mean that the page rank of the website increases. It is also necessary that you use SEO content that is rich in keyword phrases and normalization of the URL of a webpage that is accessible through many URLs.

By: Ian Charles Summers

Five Great Online Marketing Techniques You Need For Your Online Business

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:45:11 +0000

The backbone of any business is marketing. Any business can go bankrupt without effective marketing. Businesses nowadays have gone online and uses several internet techniques to market. Many strategies have come about to the point that when you say effective online marketing technique, it involves not just one factor but several.

One of the most popular online marketing techniques among online marketers is article marketing. Besides being one of the most effective strategies, this particular method is free almost always. An online marketer only needs to be knowledgeable on how to compose a good article for his online business. The best characteristic of a good online article is being easy to read and contains helpful information for its readers. An online marketer oftentimes hires a freelance writer who is capable of writing articles for him. An online marketer looks for one and submits his output to different online publishers.

Blogging is one of the old forms of online marketing but it has been one of the most important and effective as well. In this area, an online entrepreneur makes some online publications that are related to his niche. This certain technique effectively increases the site’s traffic, the customer base, and search engine ranking. This can result to more sales for your online business.

Following it not so far is ezine publishing and social networking. Compared to blogging, ezine publishing is a far older technique. There are instances when ezine publishing becomes more effective than blogging. This publishing is not merely sales pitch but rather useful information. The articles submitted to Ezine also reflect the author’s personality.

Social networking on the other hand deals with connecting and interacting with significant people online. A wise online marketer gets to connect to as many people as possible from whom he can share ideas and problems about business. It is also through this strategy that an online marketer can create leads for his online business.

Added to this list are podcasting, joint ventures, ezine advertising, and other online marketing techniques. All of them seem to be different from one another but they have one goal and that is to achieve business success. When you are able to maximize the potential of these techniques, it is a good guarantee for a successful business. And maybe the best online marketing technique is to make yourself equipped with enough knowledge with the help of experts in online marketing. Now is the right time to start.

By: Elmar Sandyck

Online Marketing Made Simple

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:19:42 +0000

Online Marketing is popular in today’s globally competitive environment. Online marketing have the same goal, to excite the market about a product or service. It carries with it the same principle of marketing mix that involved advertising, distribution and sales. However, doing your promotions and other activities costs less online than offline.

What are the online marketing activities?

Email marketing
Search Engine Optimization
Viral Marketing

These are the three most important marketing activities you can do and at the lowest possible cost. This reaches more customers as compared to traditional marketing. You surely know that there are no boundaries in the World Wide Web.

Email Marketing

This is the same as your direct mail campaign. You will create an email send it to your list whenever and wherever they are. You will need to excite them with title of your email campaign and present a useful body of letter.

The most important aspect of course is your list. You will need to build a list. There is danger of your email going to the trash bin if you send it to people you do not know. You can offer freebies to help develop your list and thus you will be able to send as much emails to your list.

You will not have to pay for stamps, no envelopes, and your recipients will receive your messages in a matter of minutes.

Search Engine Optimization

SEO or search engine optimization is the most effective online marketing endeavor you will be able to conduct. You do not need a list; you will only need to prepare articles with keywords that will help internet browsers looking for your product or service to see you on top of the Search engine list.

You will need to create articles and will excite your potential customers about your products or service, include the keywords that people might use in trying to locate your product. When internet browsers see your article in the first page of search engines, it is easy for them to click on your article or advertisement and you have a potentially interested client browsing on your website.

Pay per click advertisements

Just like in the traditional marketing where you pay for advertisements, you may also create banner advertisements and pay affiliates who will post your advertisement to their websites. The more website posts your advertisements, you will have more customers browsing your products and services.

There are other online marketing activities but the above list is the most important endeavor you may take if you want to promote your products and services at the lowest possible rate.

Online marketing does not have boundaries; your marketing efforts will surely reach many customers whenever and wherever they are.

By: Karl Sultana

Online Marketing Vs Offline Marketing

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:06:30 +0000

In the first corner, standing 5′6, 360 lbs, blind in one eye and wearing a knee brace is the 78 year old former heavy weight champion of the world conventional OFFLINE marketing!

And in the second corner, standing a proud 6′2, a solid 225 lbs, is the fresh, fit, 22 year old undefeated light heavy weight champion of the world ONLINE Internet marketing!!

Hmmm… doesn’t sound like much of a fight, but I’d stick around for the finish. It’s gonna be quick.

More and more people are reallocating their marketing spend to incorporate a larger percentage of internet marketing. Internet marketing includes the effective and successful likes of Pay Per Click marketing, Search Engine Marketing and Optimization, viral and social network marketing, email marketing, enewsletter marketing and more!

No more are the days of being forced to use only expensive, ineffective, limiting methods of conventional print and less-than-multi-media advertising.

I am not telling you to stop using conventional advertising all together, as it depends on your company, your market sector, your budget and, more importantly, your audience. But if you own a website (you do own a website, right?) then internet advertising needs to be a must-have in your repertoire of marketing tools. Not only will you reach a wider yet niche audience, you will save serious cash flow, as well.

I will give you the lowdown on some ineffective offline vs effective online marketing. Bit by bit, blow by blow.

Email vs. Direct Mail- Seriously? If you are engaging in direct mail still perhaps you haven’t thrown out your mail in a while. I know everyday when I first get to the office, I filter my physical mail by relieving myself of a majority of it by dumping it straight in the bin. The rest is presumably bills or something I ASKED to receive. What a novel concept. Asking to receive advertising, or at least giving my permission to receive it.

Email marketing is truly direct, as it finds it way ‘directly’ in the in box of the individual you sent it to. Furthermore, it is ‘direct’ by potentially offering links to your website, services, etc and ‘directly’ asking for business and offering a way for them to ‘directly’ purchase it. All online. I’m laughing at how awesome this really is!!

The best part? Email marketing is as close to FREE as marketing will ever get, while the so-called direct physical mail marketing is brutally expensive.

This is the first fatal blow to OFFline marketing.

Pay Per Click Marketing (PPC) vs. Print/Radio/TV Advertising- Like I said before, I will never tell anyone to eliminate offline marketing from your selection, but when there are budgetary concerns and the need for immediate results, you will find no better option than pay per click marketing, or as it’s referred to in the biz, PPC.

Very simply, pay per click (PPC) is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser’s website. Advertisers bid on keywords they predict their target market will use as search terms when they are looking for a product or service. When a user types a keyword query matching the advertiser’s keyword list, or views a page with relevant content, the advertiser’s ad may be shown. These ads are called a “Sponsored link” or “sponsored ads” and appear next to or above the “natural” or organic results on search engine results pages. (Wikipedia.com)

With that said, PPC is pay for production advertising. Do you get that with conventional advertising? Not to mention the following reasons:

- Conventional advertising has a very limited market radius restricted by locale, budget, and available outlets. PPC advertising reaches only your target market or the world! You pay only when someone clicks and is sent to your website with the presumed intent to do business.

- If someone runs a search for a particular keywords(s) that means they are looking for a company that does what you do! Hmmm, is that the case with conventional advertising? Anybody could be reading the paper, listening to the radio or lazily watching tv. Online participants are exactly that- PARTICIPATING! They are an engaged audience.

- Time is a factor. be there when they need you. Online you are available 24 hours a day everyday, and again, when they run a search for your keywords through PPC marketing you will be there when they need you. Again, conventional advertising will you try to keep up, please?

Fatal blow number two for ol’ OFFline advertising. This is starting to get messy real quick.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) vs. ? – Is nobody from conventional advertising going to show up to fight SEO? Seriously? You mean to tell me that conventional advertising DOESN’T offer you a way to optimize your Ad (like SEO does for a website) to rank higher than other ads without having to just pay MORE money for a better location, more color, additional screen time, prime time radio spot? You mean it just comes down to who pays more with conventional advertising? What happen to the days of strategy? Well, thankfully they are back.

Conventional advertising is all about Ad Spend and less about strategy. Internet marketing is won by the savvy, the technical and the strategic… and has very, very, little to do with money spent. How does that sound?

Go ahead and take a seat for now SEO, nobody showed up to fight you.

In the meantime, very simply Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it “ranks”, the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. (Wikipedia.com)

By: Scott L Clark