Tag: Marketing

Marketing With a Lead Generation Sonar

A common mistake online businesses make is when they attempt to market their company, web site or product through institutional marketing methods. Institutional or conventional marketing is the kind that simply says “I’m open for business.” It really doesn’t do much. In essence, it simply advertises the mere existence of a business or web site — it does not direct its audience in a clear, specific and succinct way to take some kind of action.

Mastering Narrow Marketing-Mindedness

Without question, people are getting more and more tired if not annoyed of searching through mountains of irrelevant search results. Today. we are bombarded with so much information that the Internet, which is supposed to simplify our lives, is doing the converse. On the other hand, niche-based portals (i.e., vertical portals or “vortals”) promise to save the day.

Get Business Now: Play by the Marketing Rules

Marketing a business is like any game. If you know the rules you are much more likely to win. All to often small businesses spend their limited time and money on advertising, networking, making calls, mailings, meeting with prospects, yet only achieve middling results. The problem isn’t that they don’t know their business or provide high quality products and services, its that they don’t know the rules of the marketing game.

Putting Together the Pieces To the Marketing Puzzle

When I started in advertising…too many years go to admit to…I began to notice that most “do-it-yourselfers” were making the same mistakes. They were treating each aspect of marketing and advertising as a separate entity. Instead of creating a plan based on the marketing process, they were picking and choosing individual areas to concentrate on. Needless-to-say, they didn’t have much marketing success.

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