Free
Marketing Resource
Ever short of
advertising dollar, we all are, maybe except a few really big fish.
Most of us strugglin to pay for good advertising and hate when it
does not work. The internet boom has changed quiet a few thing like
how the marketing goes. The usual TV dominace has continued at this
point but internet advertising is starting to challenge the established
practice. Word of mouth applies heavy in the virtural world as in
the real world. If you have a good service or product, it will snowball
itself very quickly. Hotmail is a very good example of power of
word of mouth. There are also a major difference for internet, this
is there is no boundary of sell, you can located in Russia and sell
into USA. What happen on this side of earth, can affect the other
side in a blink of eye. The internet has redefined what market means,
it is global, no longer regional.
Ok enough rumbling,
sufficient to say internet
marketing is different and just as important in the "real"
world. Everybody knows, marketing cost money, so how to use least
money and achieve best return is the common goal. There are resouces
and methods that are unique to this virtual world which can be used
to good effect. There exists some excellent free
marketing resource, just waiting to be used.
Search engine
is a good example of this, if you do it right, you can bring in
literally millions of hit and the much desired customers. A lot
of search engine now has a listing fee or like goto.com has bidding
for the position. However most of major search engine's main service
is still free and you can use that to the best of advantages. However
in order to listed in a search engine, you have to do search
engine submission first, so search engine can index your pages.
Manual submissions take a lot time, so programs like Dynamic
Submission 2000 can be extremly useful in this area, it automates
the submission to 1000+ search engine and also have tools like meta
tag generator and such to help you to improve the web ranking. This
enable you to save hundreds of valuable hours and able to forcus
on other tasks.
Another much
talked about, however rarely used properly free marketing resource,
is email. Most of people tend to think sending email to millions
of addresses will generate them sales. That is not correct, this
just constitutes as spam and does not help you at all. Try to use
opt-in email and personized it, this will enhace your chance of
getting a sale. Say you spammed 1 million email and got 5 sales
and send 1000 opt-in email and got 10 sales, you can tell me which
one you are better off. Send email to people want it or interest
in the related area, you can reduce spam and increase effectiveness
of the email. This at same time builds trust with client and in
virtual world trust is a very valuable commdities indeed. So don't
spam and use targeted email, and you will be surprised how good
the responses are.
These two tools
complements each other, as email marketing can increase your site
popularity and thus gain a better ranking in search engine. A better
position in the search engine means more traffic and this implies
more email and resulting in the need for sophiscated email tools.
Online business builds relationships with customer by using email
and newsletter. Usually it takes up to 6 to 7 views of products
before a customer is committed to the buying. Thus the importance
of email is showed, not only in directing marketing also in after
sale communications.
Getting
the traffic and interaction with the customer is probably going
to be the most important things a online bussiness needs to look
for.
Two
highly recommanded tools are Dynamic
Submission 2000 and Dynamic
Opt-in Emailer. Dynamic Submission 2000, does an excellent job
of submit web site to search engines, and also optimize and rank
URL. Dynamic Opt-in emailer is your ideal direct email tool, which
can personized the email and also packed with powerful mailing list
management features.
To download trial version of either program please
click here.
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