Archive for June, 2012

Internet Marketing for Beginners

Internet marketing for beginners is somewhat of an oxymoron. This is because while in theory the concepts behind Internet marketing might be quite simple, executing effective strategies can be extremely difficult. This can even be tough for those who are quite experienced in the world of Internet marketing. With this in mind, this article will attempt to explain the concept of Internet marketing for beginners and will outline some basic strategies which can help a business owner to launch his own Internet marketing campaign. We will cover concepts such as creating a website, placing banner ads, sending out e-newsletters, orchestrating an email marketing campaign and optimizing your website for search engines.

One of the most basic steps for starting an Internet marketing campaign is to create a website. If you don�t have a website or have a poorly designed website you should consider creating or re-designing a website to adequately market your products. If you do not have experience in web design, there are a number of software packages which make it simple for those with no design experience to create a functional website. However, hiring a web designer is worthwhile because he can work to create a website which is attractive, functional and suitable to your products and series. He can also help you include more advanced features on your website.

Banner ads are another popular option for advertising your business on the Internet. Banner ads are advertisements which typically appear along the top of a website but it may also include smaller ads in other locations. Banner ads typically include graphics and text which entice Internet users to click on the advertisement. Once a user clicks on the ad, they are directed to your website. This type of advertising can be very effective when care is taken to place the advertisements on high traffic websites which attract an audience who may have an interest in your products.

Sending out e-newsletters can also be a part of an effective Internet marketing strategy. E-newsletters are essentially emails which may contain a variety of information including informative articles, useful quizzes, relevant advertising or any other information which is deemed worthwhile for the recipients of the e-newsletter. The importance of these newsletters is that they can be used as marketing tools which are not viewed by the recipients as an advertisement. One way to do this is to incorporate links or other soft sale approaches into the copy of the e-newsletters. However, care should be taken to keep these references minimal so the e-newsletter is not viewed as spam.

Email marketing campaigns can be another successful aspect of an Internet marketing campaign. Email marketing essentially involves sending out emails to a group of individuals who may be interested in your products and services. Care should be taken in sending out these emails to avoid sending emails which are unsolicited and will be viewed as spam. One way to do this is to only send out the emails to users who have requested inclusion on an email mailing list. Another way to do this is to provide value in the emails as opposed to just including advertisements. This can be done by offering relevant advice in your emails and other useful information which may be of interest to the recipients of the email.

Finally, optimizing your website for search engines is a critical aspect of an Internet marketing campaign. Search engines rank websites according to quality and relevance for particular search terms. Many Internet users appreciate the effort by search engines and use these search engines to find the best websites on a particular subject. This means the Internet users are likely to only visit websites which rank well with search engines. Therefore if your website is not high ranking, you are not likely to generate a great deal of traffic from Internet users who use search engines to find relevant websites. Top ranking websites are likely to obtain the most traffic from search engines and all websites falling on the first page of the search engine results will likely enjoy some degree of success in improving their traffic.

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How To Write Emails that Sell (and that People Love to Read …

This article describes 3 ways to entertain your email prospect and makes your sale easy and natural. This is a short excellent read, don't pass this one by.

How To Write Emails that Sell (and that People Love to Read …

"There's a way to approach email marketing that hardly anyone uses. Since I started using this method almost 4 years ago, my sales have never been higher.www.copyblogger.com/infotainment-email-marketing/"
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I like this article because it keeps it simple. Three simple ways to make your emails alive and interesting or better yet, entertaining.

Learning about Internet Marketing

Internet marketing is not overly complicated but it is also not a process in which anyone can excel without making attempts to learn more about the subject. Business owners who do not know a great deal about Internet marketing but who wish to implement Internet marketing into their overall marketing strategy should carefully study the basic principles of Internet marketing before launching their online marketing campaign. Fortunately for these business owners there are a variety of options for learning about Internet marketing. These options may include online research, reading published books and studying successful Internet marketing campaigns.

Researching Internet marketing online is one method which can be used for learning more about this topic. This type of research can be very informative and can provide the business owner with a great deal of advice and other information. However, it can also provide the business owner with a great deal of misinformation. When researching any subject online it is very important to note that not all of the information available online is accurate. This may be due to a variety of factors including content which is written by those who do not have a great deal of knowledge about the subject matter as well as content which was written years ago and is outdated. This can be frustrating but fortunately business owners can still learn from the Internet. This just means they should be more cautious about accepting information as being accurate and may wish to verify the information they obtain before implementing an Internet marketing strategy.

Published books are another valuable resource for learning more about Internet marketing. There are a variety of books available which focus on this subject and provide a wealth of useful information. When selecting a book for use as research material it is important to seek out a book which received independent reviews which were positive. It is also important to seek out books which were published recently. This is important because the Internet marketing industry is evolving continuously and a book that was published only a few years ago may be outdated and may lack information on some of the new developments in the industry. The appeal of using published books to learn about Internet marketing is you can keep the books on hand for easy reference when you launch your Internet marketing campaign.

Finally business owners can learn a great deal about Internet marketing simply by studying successful Internet marketing campaigns. Try the Internet marketing blog at www.jeremyburns.com/blog for some great starter tipe. If your business offers products and services in a particular niche consider entering relevant terms in popular search engines and studying the websites of some of the highest ranking businesses. This can provide you with a great deal of insight into what these business owners are doing which may be contributing to their success. Examining everything from their website design to their search engine optimization strategies and even the content on their website can help you to determine why they are more successful than you. You should also consider how they are marketing their website which may include banner ads, affiliate marketing programs or other types of advertising. Armed with this information you can take the opportunity to implement changes to your own website and marketing strategy which may help you to gain a greater degree of success. Care should be taken to not copy anything directly from your competitors but to rather try to emulate their degree of success in your own way.

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Email Marketing, Forrest Gump-Style

Interesting article about how to spice up your email strategy. We all need to get out of our closed mental box and incorporate some new approaches.

Email Marketing, Forrest Gump-Style

"I'm sure that 18 years ago there was little inclination that these quotes would be used to describe the world of email marketing — but nonetheless, here we are."
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/177293/email-marketing-forrest-gump-style.html

 Forest Gump would be a huge success in drafting and writting email content, if he was a real person. But, we can all look at our email campaigns from Forest Gump's perspective.
 

Placing Banner Ads

Placing banner ads can be a highly effective way to market your business on the Internet. Banner ads are essentially advertisements which appear on a website, usually in the form of a combination of graphics and text, to encourage Internet users to click through these advertisements to your website. The most common form of banner ads is an advertisement which appears on the top of a website and spans the width of the webpage. These advertisements derived their name from the similarity to a banner but technically banner ads can come in a variety of shapes and sizes. This article will take a look at the effectiveness of banner as well as methods for placing these banner ads.

Banner ads can be highly effective if used properly. However, placing your banner ad all over the Internet with very little consideration to whether or not the location is likely to be beneficial to your business is not a good idea and can be a tremendous waste of money as well as other resources such as time and effort. Therefore business owners who are considering using banner ads to promote their business should spend some time to learn how to use banner ads effectively and to find ideal location for placing their banner ads.

The most ideal location for a banner ad is prominently displayed on a website which receives a great deal of website traffic and also complements your products and services well without providing direct competition for your products or services. As an example consider a business owner who specializes in selling athletic shoes specifically for runners. Buying banner ad space on a website which offers advice on training for running events and provides information on upcoming races would be an excellent idea. This website attracts visitors who have an interest in running and are likely to purchase athletic shoes but does not sell running shoes directly. This means the website attracts members of your target audience but does not compete for your business.

In addition to purchasing banner ad space, some business owners opt to join banner ad exchange groups. This is an alternative in which the business owner does not pay for their banner ad to be placed on another website but in exchange they agree to post one or more advertisements on their own website. This is a very affordable option for placing banner ads but it is not always the best strategy. This is because the business owner often has little input into where their banner ad appears and has limited input into the banner ads which appear on his website in return. In most cases, business owners have the ability to decline to host advertisements which they deem to be offensive but cannot specifically choose the banner ads they must post.

Finally, when posting banner ads, business owners should be aware of the effectiveness of the ads they place. They may choose to post different designs for their banner ad on different websites but they should monitor the results of their advertising to determine if one style is more effective than another. This information can be very important. If one style is enjoying a great deal of success while the other style is not, the business owner may wish to use the more successful style for all of their banner ads or to redesign the less successful style to make it more appealing to Internet users.

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Online Email Marketing to Increase Traffic to Your Web Site

How to set up an email strategy without spamming. This training video offers 20 free Videos on how to do this.

Successful Email Marketing – Rule #2 – Remember That Less Is …

Keep the email message short and sweet. Too many choices and words can confuse the recipient and they just click away.

Successful Email Marketing – Rule #2 – Remember That Less Is …

"Email marketing campaigns are best kept short and to the point. You should try to keep any scrolling to a minimum and, through the use of clear calls to action."
http://www.business2community.com/online-marketing/successful-email-marketing-rule-2-remember-that-less-is-definitely-more-0199648

Grab the attention of the recipient and have a call of action, like clicking the URL to your website. 
 

Email Marketing: Do you tell your customers too much …

Watch this free video Web Clinic, in order to improve your live click thru rate.

Email Marketing: Do you tell your customers too much …

"Do you provide too much information in your emails? In this Web clinic excerpt, Dr. Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director, MECLABS, shares insight on how to win a clickthrough during a live optimization of an audience-submitted email.MarketingExperiments Blog: Research-d…"
http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/research-topics/email-marketing/oversharing-email-messaging.html

 Improve your email subject line in order to improve your rate of emails being opened.
 

Using Online Courses for Internet Marketing

Online courses, or email courses are becoming an increasingly popular way for savvy Internet marketers to promote their products and services. Online courses or email courses essentially include short online presentations or emails which include insightful information on a particular niche subject. These courses are usually offered in multiple, short segments to keep the students interested in the topic. This type of advertising serves a useful purpose and many of the participants do not even realize they are being subjected to a marketing campaign. This article will discuss creating and distributing an online or email course for the purposes of advertising your business.

The creation of an online course of an email course should begin with a solid idea for a series of educational articles which pertain to your business and will be of interest to your potential customers. Educational email courses can sometimes be sold for profit themselves but if you are interested in using the courses as marketing tools you will most likely be offering these courses free of charge in an effort to entice potential customers to purchase your products or services.

Determining the topic of your courses is very important because it can dictate the success of your marketing effort. Consider an online retailer of running shoes. This business owner may want to develop a series of email courses on subjects such as training for a marathon, preventing injuries, increasing speed and running for fun. Each of these courses may contain a few segments which offer different perspectives on the subject. These courses are ideal for this business because they are subjects which are likely to be of interest to the customers of the business. Likewise a real estate agent may opt to offer email courses on subjects such as understanding mortgage options, finding a lender or house hunting. Again these are all subjects which are likely to be of interest to the real estate agents clients.

The distribution list for your online or email courses should mostly include members of your target audience. This can be achieved by either offering the course as a download online where only interested Internet users will partake in the course or only emailing the course to recipients who have specifically expressed an interest in receiving more information about your products and services and have submitted their email address for this purpose.

Once you decide on a subject for your online or email course, seek out a qualified writer to create the content for your online or email course. This will help to give your copy a more professional appearance. The writer can assist you by creating copy which is informative and useful to your readers but is also well written, clear, concise and easy to understand. If your niche topic is highly specialized you might have to provide the writer with product information as well as research materials to ensure the content is informative and accurate. Additionally, you should review the content once it is completed to verify the accuracy.

When distributing your email course or launching your online course, it is helpful to request feedback from the users as the conclusion of the course. This is completely voluntary but when users respond they can provide you with useful feedback which will be extremely helpful if you intend to launch a similar marketing campaign in the future.

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Email Marketing: The 50/50 A/B Split Test

Good article on how you should test your email list and how your list responds over a week period of time. Also, two free ebook downloads.

Email Marketing: The 50/50 A/B Split Test

"Email Marketing: The 50/50 A/B Split Test : Enterprise Email Marketing Solution : WhatCounts : WhatCounts will help you find and grow your email marketing ROI.Enterprise Email Marketing Solution…"
http://www.whatcounts.com/2012/06/email-marketing-the-5050-ab-split-test/

 Email marketing to a select focused group rather than spamming to a mass of addresses with no interest in what you offer, is the safest and most profitable strategy.
 

Using Your Content for Internet Marketing

If you are currently marketing your business online and have not put a great deal of thought into the content on your website, you may be making an incredibly costly mistake. The content on your website is invaluable for a number of reasons. First of all it gives visitors to your website their first impression of your business and the products and services you offer. Additionally, well written content can be instrumental in selling your products and services to your potential customers. Finally, the content on your website can influence the size of the target audience you are able to reach by helping to improve your search engine rankings. With your content capable of doing so much, it is clear you should be hiring a professional content writer to assist you writing the copy for your website. This article will delve deeper into the importance of providing accurate, concise and informative content on your website when you are marketing online.

One of the most basic reasons why the quality of the content on your website is so important is because visitors to your website will likely form their initial opinions of your website based on the content on your website. If the copy is poorly written, does not hold the visitors attention and does not promote your products and services well visitors are likely to exit your website without making a purchase. Conversely, if the copy on your website is well written, engages the reader and promotes the products and services you offer the visitor is more likely to investigate the website further to learn more about the products and services and may make a purchase. The content of your website will be one of the aspects of the website which is first noticed by visitors so it is important for this content to be well written.

Well written sales copy can also be very persuasive and may compel visitors to the website to purchase the products or services offered on the website. This is important especially if the main purpose of the website is to sell the products or services. The sales copy should accurately describe the products or services offered, stress the importance of these products and services and compel the visitor to make a purchase. All of this should be done without appearing to be blatantly advertising the products and services. Writing this type of copy can be quite complicated and typically requires hiring a sales copywriter who is experienced and skilled at writing this type of informative and persuasive content. Sales copy written by an amateur or an inexperienced writer will not likely be as effective as copy written by a professional with a great deal of experience in Internet marketing.

Finally the content on your website is very important because it can greatly influence your search engine rankings. This is critical because high search engine rankings help your business to reach a considerably larger audience. Internet users are typically looking for information quickly and want immediate results to their inquiries. Search engines understand this profile and write complicated algorithms which help them to supply the most relevant websites when a user searches for a particular word or phrase. This is important to business owners because Internet users realize the value of search engines and are likely to only visit websites which rank well in the search engines. This includes websites which rank on the first page or two of search results. Your business might sell football jerseys and you may have a well designed website, a superior inventory and excellent prices but if your website does not rank well in search engines you are missing out on a great deal of free advertising. If your website lands on the third page or lower most visitors who search for relevant terms will not likely visit your website because they will have found what they were looking for on earlier pages. This is where the content on your website becomes important. Websites containing content which has been optimized for particular keywords will likely rank well with search engines. Hiring a writer skilled in writing optimized content can help to improve your search engine rankings so you can reach more potential customers.

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Direct Marketing Advice From The UK's Top Copywriter – Drayton …

This is a great rags to riches true story about Mr. Drayton Bird and how to make money writting copy in the Direct Marketing field. Be sure to listen to his 42 minute video at the end of this article.

Direct Marketing Advice From The UK's Top Copywriter – Drayton …

"Direct Marketing advice from the UK's Top Copywriter, Drayton Bird. In this interview Drayton reveals how to make money with direct marketing.webmarketinginnercircle.com/…/drayton-bird-direct-marketin…"
http://webmarketinginnercircle.com/internet-marketing/drayton-bird-direct-marketing/

Direct Marketing verses Branding Advertising. Learn the difference here. It's like comparing apples to oranges.

10 Email Marketing Tips

10 Email Marketing Tips

"Email marketing makes connecting with potential and existing customers as simple as sending an email. Despite that simplicity, deciding what content to include in an email can still be a challenge for businesses looking to gain the benefits of email …"
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2668-email-marketing-tips.html

Advantages of Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Marketing is an ongoing learning process. Once your in the know on how to do it successfully, the search engines can change how they rank or crawl your site, thus changing you page rankings.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an important Internet Marketing strategy.

Advantages of Search Engine Marketing

"Search engine marketing is achieved through various search engine optimization techniques, paid listings and other related services which increase the exposure of a web-site so as to gain high amount of traffic. • Cost effective: Search engine …"
http://www.promotionworld.com/internet/articles/120611-advantages-of-search-engine-marketing

All web sites need traffic in order to achieve their creators goals, for creating the web site in the first place. You cannot just Build It and They will Come, you need Search Engine Marketing.

When is Internet Marketing Worthwhile?

In general the answer to this question is always but the answer is much more involved. Sure Internet marketing is worthwhile but as with any type of marketing it is only worthwhile if it is done well. For example you can spend thousands of dollars on a television marketing campaign but if no one sees your commercials or your commercials do not reach your target audience and generate sales, the advertising was not worthwhile. So perhaps a more appropriate answer to this question would be that Internet marketing is worthwhile when it works. This is a rather vague statement but this article will investigate the issue further and explain how you can make Internet marketing work for your business.

One of the most basic principles of marketing is to make sure you reach your target audience. This is so important because your target audience is the people who are most likely going to be interested in purchasing your products or services. It is much easier to sell your products or services to those who already have an interest in the products and services you have to offer than it is to convince those who are not interested in your products or services at all. As an example consider a business who sells fishing rods. You will want to market your products to those who enjoy fishing either competitively or as a leisure activity because among this audience you are likely to find people who may be interested in purchasing a new fishing rod. It would make sense to place an advertisement for your business on a website selling bait and tackle or a website which organizes fishing trips in exotic locations. Conversely it would not make sense to place your advertisement on a website selling telescopes because you are not likely to reach a large target audience here. There may be some stargazers with an interest in fishing but your advertising dollars and efforts would be better spent placing advertisements with websites more closely related to your business.

Another factor to consider when purchasing advertising space on another Internet website is traffic the amount of traffic the other website receives. This is significant because you want to place your advertisement on a website which is closely related to your own and likely to attract a similar audience but you also want your advertisement to receive a large amount of attention. For this reason it is important for your advertisement to appear on a website which receives a great amount of traffic each month. This will help to ensure your business is getting a great deal of exposure through this advertising.

When it comes to Internet advertising, there is a fine line between great advertising and spam. Some business owners get carried away trying to get as much exposure as possible and can sometimes go overboard and wind up being considered spam. Internet users who see your advertisement in a couple of key locations will likely notice the advertisement and may be compelled to visit your website immediately or may keep your website in mind for future use. However, Internet users who see your advertisement everywhere they look are likely to view your advertisement as spam. This can be harmful because they are not likely to visit your website because they expect it to not be worthwhile.

In any Internet marketing campaign it is important to carefully monitor the results of your marketing efforts and make changes to your campaign as necessary. This is important because you want to make sure your marketing efforts are paying off and the best way to do this is to evaluate the results of your advertising carefully. One way to do this is to place specially coding in each one of your advertisements so you will know which advertisements are generating business for you and which ones are not. You can use this information to decide whether you should modify the ineffective website or stop running these advertisements. If you decide to modify them you will want to continue to monitor the results to determine whether or not the changes made the advertisements more effective.

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Search Engine Marketing Company Now Provides Professional Marketing Services …

This press release is primarily for businesses in New York, but shows the need for professional help. All businesses need help to be found in the search engines, especially the small businees owner.

Search Engine Marketing Company Now Provides Professional Marketing Services …

""We are so excited be able to help New York companies with their online marketing campaigns," said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director for Internet Marketing Company. Internet Marketing Company, a search engine marketing company, has announced that …"
http://www.prweb.com/releases/seoservices/marketingfirms/prweb9590175.htm

Instead of using the old trusty yellow pages, most of us with a little computer know how go to the search engines to find local businesses, for help and services.

The Essential Step-by-Step Guide …On How a Small Business can be Found Online!

This article leads to a Free Download of the Step by Step Guide to Internet Marketing, especially for the small business owners.

Sripada Marketing LLC, Releases Whitepaper: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide …

"In a sea of Internet search results, how does a small business get found? This free eight step guide from Sripada Marketing provides the building blocks for succeeding with internet marketing Sripada Marketing is focused on helping local businesses …"
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/06/07/sripada-marketing-llc-releases-whitepaper-essential-step-step-guide-internet-marketing

This guide is a quick ebook read of 38 pages.

Promoting Your Business With Creative Advertising

Advertising exits in order to let potential cuctomers know that you exist and what product or servies you provide. This article discusses various advertising options, but is in no way an exhaustive list.

You can brainstorm other ideas without prejudging these ideas by making a list of these ideas first. After your brainsorm session, then you can sort and qualify these ideas for the best options

Promoting Your Business With Creative Advertising

by Lisa Musser

Of course everyone is familiar with some of the more popular forms of creative advertising to promote your product or business. This includes article marketing, back linking, bookmarking on social media sites, blog posting and commenting on other blogs as well as Search Engine Optimization.

These are all good ways to advertise or promote your company's product or service, but did you know there are many other forms of advertising that work well also? Some of these methods are lesser-known methods and some work best for physical products. Learn about these different methods here.

Direct Marketing

Direct marketing is the method of contacting your customers or potential customers directly. This may mean sending out mailing circulars, posting flyers, giving away catalogs or brochures, or contacting customers by phone through lead generation techniques.

Creative Advertising through Branded Merchandise

Many companies have followed in the footsteps of some of the larger businesses and offer merchandise with their logo or name on it. Caps, T-shirts and pens carrying the name or logo of a business are given away free or a part of a raffle or drawing. These items can be purchased from a company or you could create your own screen printed shirts, hats, coffee mugs, and etc. Café Press has an option for creating your own products. Creative advertising ideas can be found in many places.

Video Promotion

Many article distribution sites now offer the option of creating a video presentation instead of a text document. The first one to offer video promotion was YouTube and now there are many sites that allow the user to upload a video instead. Yahoo Voices, Howcast and Video Jug are three sites that allow video promotion. The process is similar to writing an article, you just come up with a topic related to your product or service and create a video tutorial that is relevant and helpful. Then just add your link in for viewers to visit your site if they are interested.

Blog Advertising

Blog advertising another method of free marketing. A website owner will create a free blog on Blogger or WordPress and post blog articles related to his business. The blog is then monetized with Google AdSense and banner ads or text links for ad revenue. The website owner then posts a link to the blog on his website. You can also exchange links with other blogs related to your niche. Blogs with a PR rank of 4 or above will direct some good traffic your way.

These are all effective methods of marketing and advertising to help drive new traffic to your website or business.

Stop by Creative Advertising to see a collection of the best ads from all over the world. Find out why these ads are effective and how it is possible to use advertising to bring traffic to your site.

Article Source: EzineArticles.com

With internet marketing, you are advertising in order to drive traffic to your site so the customer can join your mailing list or purchase your services or product. 
 

Complexities of Marketing an Online Business

Marketing online is multifaceted and involves a combination of strategies that can be tweaked, tested and improved. Like this article states, it takes lots of diligent work.

Complexities of Marketing an Online Business

by Simon Volkov

Establishing a thriving online business takes a great deal of hard work and dedication. Few owners would disagree that using Internet marketing to develop brand recognition is a complex task that changes all the time.

There are multiple facets to operating an online business. Owners need to learn about the different methods and determine which are suitable for their company and budget. At the very least, businesses require a quality website to showcase products and engage in lead generation to expand customer databases.

In order for people to find a company using search engines, business websites have to be optimized using methods known as SEO and LSI.

SEO is the acronym for search engine optimization. Just as the name implies, these techniques are used to optimize all kinds of content for search engines.

LSI stands for latent semantic indexing. It is used to help searchers locate content using a variety of keywords. For example, one person might conduct a search about online marketing while another would use the term Internet marketing. LSI helps capture both terms which expand the number of people able to find the content.

Learning how to properly use SEO and LSI techniques is essential for success. These methods are used with nearly every kind of marketing technique including sales copy, photographs, articles, blog posts, social media marketing, and local search.

Link building is a highly valuable aspect of Internet marketing. Acquiring a large number of quality inbound links is a good approach for boosting search ranking. There are many ways to go about acquiring backlinks. Some of the common methods include:

 

• Creating a blog and linking content to the company website
• Leaving comments on other people's blogs
• Publishing company info to a variety of local listing directories
• Video and podcast marketing
• Article marketing
• Social media marketing

 

While creating a business blog isn't a necessary requirement it is a valuable tool for interacting with consumers. Additionally, search engines tend to index blog posts quicker than websites and aid in developing linking strategies.

Local listings directories are a great advertising method for owners that conduct business from a physical location. People often use local search instead of telephone books because they provide additional information such as driving directions and maps that can be downloaded to handheld devices and in-car navigational systems.

Owners can obtain further benefit from local listings by including marketing materials such as sales catalogs and discount coupons. Directories provide a good venue for attracting new customers and supplying company information.

Producing online videos, podcasts, and how to articles offers many opportunities improve brand recognition. Each method provides an ideal way to share information about services and products and is also a good form of link building.

Social media marketing is an affordable way for companies to connect with customers. This venue can be tricky to navigate. It's helpful to talk with a social media marketing consultant to create a plan and train staff members in online etiquette.

Any company that conducts business online should subscribe to reputation management services such as Reputation.com or IronReputation.com. These services let owners monitor what people are saying in social networks, blogs, websites, and forums. If problems occur, companies can have derogatory information removed and defend against online slander.

It is vital to develop an online business marketing plan to maximize results. Working with professionals is the most effective approach for implementing multiple strategies and monitoring results.

If you're overwhelmed by everything required to market an online business, Online Marketing DNA is here to help. We offer several programs to help entrepreneurs and small business owners conquer Internet marketing including marketing assessments, business coaching, and complete marketing makeovers. For more information visit OnlineMarketingDNA.com.

Article Source: EzineArticles.com

 In this fast changing and information packed internet, you have to keep up with the latest improvements and marketing approaches.
 

5 Steps to Success in Owning, Operating Internet …

General steps to success in any niche market is helpful to keep you on track. We all need guidance and direction to stay on course in any business endeavor.

SearchMarketMe Shares "5 Steps to Success" in Owning, Operating Internet …

"SearchMarketMe has released a new video and informational PDF describing the five key steps to success in owning and operating internet marketing agencies. The identification of these five key steps to success follows a rigorous study of the training …PR Web (press release)"
http://www.prweb.com/releases/SMM/5StepsToSuccess/prweb9574524.htm

 
Make a plan and execute your plan in order to achieve your goals. The first and most important step is to set goals. Most success proponents remind you to write down your goals and make a plan to achieve them.

Internet Marketing And You: How To Promote Your Business Online

This article contains some general principals you can use to promote your business, but frankly, promoting your business is much more involved.

Internet Marketing And You: How To Promote Your Business Online

"With all the competition for your business, it is sometimes hard to know where to start with Internet marketing. Choosing a variety of methods for your Internet marketing is essential learning what works and what doesn't. Learn how to get your business …"
http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/content/internet-marketing-and-you-how-promote-your-business-online

 The learning curve for becoming a succesful online marketer is pretty steep. However, you have to start somewhere, so dig in with internet searches and reading blogs like this one. Search for product specific articles, courses or ebooks.