What is the true purpose of public relations and how can it really help impact the growth of your small business? In order for the media to succeed, they need information that is both useful and entertaining for their readers. This is where you, the business owner or marketing executive, come in.
Guide to a Profitable Marketing Mix
You may have heard the term Marketing Mix used in connection with marketing planning.
Viral Marketing! Are you missing out?
Many of you are reading this article because you would like to further promote your Internet business and are looking for new ways in which to do this. You have read lots of articles covering various Internet Marketing techniques and are still looking for the “Holy Grail” strategy that will take your website to a higher level. After all, others are achieving this so why shouldn’t you.
Image is Key to Your Marketing Success
In virtually any business first impressions are lasting impressions. Most people have heard this statement for years, and yet some people completely ignore the first impression they are conveying to potential customers or clients.
Tracking Your Advertising Dollars with Overture’s Marketing
If you use Overture (which is owned by Yahoo) for your Pay Per Click Advertising, you might be interested in another powerful service they offer called “Marketing Console.” It allows advertisers to measure the performance of all marketing campaigns, no matter what type of online advertising that is being utilized.
Internet Marketing Is One Huge Oxymoron
You give away something for free and suddenly you have a bunch of leads for your business opportunity,a ton of sales for your web store and a successful online business. That is what internet marketing is all about.
If Big Ad Agencies Can’t Handle Search Engine Marketing, What’s A Small Business To Do?
A recent online news article entitled “Five Reasons Why Ad Agencies Hate Search Engine Marketing” struck a responsive chord in the search engine marketing (SEM) community. Lots of posts, both critical and supportive, showed up in online forums. The article made some points that I have noted myself in previous articles. The most important ones are that good SEM is labor intensive and expensive, that profitability is hard to achieve, and that the search engine companies keep moving the goal posts. I think it’s worthwhile considering the extent to which these problems also impact localized search engine marketing.
Online Marketing Law! Whats Happening?
You read that right. There’s a new law in California for online marketing. This law is thanks to the California’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Sponsorship: A Key to Powerful Marketing
Sponsorship is the fastest growing form of marketing in the U.S. It is still very much in its infancy, especially in the trade show arena. With this in mind, you can find unlimited opportunities to broaden your competitive advantage by increasing your credibility, image and prestige in sponsoring events attracting your target market.
The Internet: One Big Marketing Channel
Whether you’re a designer or a marketer, understanding user behavior should be a top priority. That was what compelled me to write my article exploring some recent studies on search engine user behavior patterns. And, with questions now flowing through my mind, I picked up the phone and called Gord Hotchkiss, President and CEO of Enquiro, one of the companies that have been studying search behavior.