As any successful businessman will confirm, having a great product or service is just the beginning. After all, in this day and age, everything comes down to marketing. The more creative you are in your marketing efforts, the more successful your business is. There are many ways to promote your business without spending a fortune. In this article I will describe one of the most powerful tools on the Internet – ecards!
How to Get Started on Your Marketing Plan
When developing or updating a marketing plan, knowing where to start is often a challenge. To better develop effective marketing strategies, begin by gathering information about both your business and the larger business environment (competition, trends, statistics, etc).
Are You Marketing to Your Potential
Many small business owners struggle to grow their businesses only to find themselves stuck in a morass of marketing, management and delivery tasks. As your business becomes more complex and time consuming, the original vision of the business usually changes or gets lost, and it can become increasingly difficult to define and implement a marketing strategy that helps you achieve your business potential.
Marketing 101: A Market You Can Reach
“I want to sell Arabian back-scratchers online, can I make money doing that?”
“How about selling used celebrity hankies?”
Evaluating Your Marketing Capabilities
Here is a scenario I have witnessed time and time again while working with growing software companies. Once the product is half-baked, the company’s founders and top executives start drumming up business. Whether successful or not, at some point they bring in the “Professional VP Sales” – either to bring in the sales they could not close or to take sales to the next level and build a sales organization. Sooner or later, the VP Sales comes to the conclusion the sales people need more leads.
Could Froogle Ruin Affiliate Marketing
Due to a rising concern among affiliates that Froogle’s causing a drop in sales, Brittany called members of the affiliate industry to get their take.
The Marketing Secret To Page Rank (PR)
Since Google implemented PR, the link popularity consortiums have gone crazy. PR, PR, PR, that’s all that anyone seems to be focused upon. Did someone forget about what makes the WWW? Freedom of information, not how big my PR is. So, what is the big secret about PR and just how do you obtain that high six and above? Its called, a great website! That’s it, no more, no less. Anyone who has a great website, with information that others find useful, exciting and refreshing, will generally have a high PR. Why? Because its an informative website that people like and will happily spend their time browsing. Often, browsing leads to spending.
Is Your Marketing Message Holding You Back?
Your marketing message is like a key. If you’ve got the right one, it will help you unlock doors to new business and start the process of converting them to clients. If you’ve got one that is the wrong size or poorly crafted you’ll be locked out in the cold, wondering why your business isn’t growing faster.
Last Minute Marketing Strategies
Oh yeah, the holidays… It came to my attention that the holidays are upon us. If you’re like me you may have procrastinated some on your gift shopping. If you went and bought gifts you may still have some marketing to do.
Network Marketing is a Relationship Business
Heavily branded websites like amazon.com are household names and carry an implied trust with visitors. However, the vast majority of websites are not well known and are found and visited as a result of search engine searches. In these instances, the visitor is probably arriving at the website for the first time and human nature often dictates fear or suspicion of the unknown.