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By Monika Nolte

 Whenever you talk to people about your business you are marketing. Conversations about what you do are opportunities to promote your business and increase sales.

However developing a marketing strategy will focus your efforts and produce less random results. It does two major things:

1.it will identify the different ways in which you talk to customers, and

2.it will concentrate on the ones that are responsible for most of your sales (the 80/20 rule - 20% of your customers are responsible for 80% of your business and the other 80% account for only 20% of your revenue).

Your marketing strategy should help you develop what to say, how to say it and who to say it to so sales improve. Because timing is everything, your strategy should also tell you when to say it.

Marketing Objectives

Developing marketing objectives will help you focus on getting and keeping customers. Marketing objectives also involve how best to package your products and services, how much to charge for them and how to bring them to the market.

To bring your sales and marketing activities together more effectively, a marketing strategy helps you tailor your messages and put in place the right mix of marketing approaches you will use.

Knowing Your Customers

Understanding your customers, what their needs are and how you can satisfy those needs are the key components of a successful marketing strategy. There are three main ways to understand your customers better: (1) look at your business from their point of view. (2) Collect and analyse data to learn about their buying behaviour. (3) Simply ASK them what they think.

Knowledge is power. Regular two-way communication and your experience with your customers will tell you a lot. Targeted market research can build a more detailed picture of your target market and their needs. Market research can help you target people who will want your products or services and prevent wasting time on people who aren’t interested in your offerings.

You’ll also need to understand how your market works - for example how and where do your customers find out about your offer? From a well developed strategy, you should put in place ways to see how you measure up against the competition and what the new trends are likely to be in your market sector.

Your Marketing Plan

A marketing plan explains how you will put your strategies into action. Within it, budgets and deadlines are set, and it should tell you how you’ll contact your target customers - through advertising, networking, trade shows, direct marketing, etc.

A crucial element of any marketing strategy is when to talk to customers. Understanding customers’ buying cycles and timing your activities to fit those will save you money and maximise sales.

Finally, your marketing plan should look to the future - how will you follow up sales and what will you do to develop new offers. Regular measuring and reviewing what’s working and what isn’t allows you to set new targets as your market, customers and products change.

Contact Monika at http://www.rhwhseo.co.uk/ if you would like to get more information on Marketing. Perhaps you would like something written for your website or blog. Contact her now at rhwhseo@gmail.com you won’t be disappointed. She can help you get the exposure your website needs with well written articles.

Build Your Own Carbon Copy

By Dan Dinneen

 The method began to explode when Jay Kubassek began to see participants earning in excess of six numbers per month. You have to ask yourself why anybody would consider any other opportunity with those sorts of earnings coming in each month? Continuing from the sturdy base that he had laid, Jay continued to build Carbon Copy Pro by bringing in more alliances that are based upon education, and a marketing method that any person can hold on to.

Couple these exclusive features with absolutely paramount aid which include (but are not limited to), forums, technical assistance, live chat, direct phone numbers, Jay Kubassek has produced a cookie cutter business in a box. And, as if that is not enough, Carbon Copy Pro even takes you out of the sales process by providing you with professional call center staff to phone your applicants and close the sale for you. In fact the technique is so automated that it weeds out, and removes those who do not qualify.

As I mentioned before, the community aid is key in marketing these high end products. Should you decide to study this opportunity further, you will meet a class of people that not only have a vested interest in your achievement, but will welcome you and guide you through your training and mentoring activities. So, the issue is - do you have what it takes?

Dan Dinneen is an accomplished web author and internet marketer. His most recent endeavour is an education system that helps people just like you how to market any merchandise online. Visit him at: http//12kmonth.net?t=ar1t

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Marketing Strategies for a Successful Website

By Monika Nolte

 Internet Marketing

Internet marketing, which is quite often referred to more correctly as online marketing or e-marketing, is as the name implies, marketing your products or services over the world wide web - the Internet.

Internet marketing is a lucrative business and not without good reason. It has many benefits that not only large companies but smaller businesses can take advantage of. Even with small budgets, companies can utilise online marketing to effectively promote themselves and their products and services. The Internet has given us some unique ways to advertise and test the results of those advertising methods, as well as the capacity to market to a far wider audience on the basis of 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Internet marketing typically costs far less or could even be free and it is a medium over which it is far easier to quickly distribute information to users who are both local and global.

The very nature of the Internet is dynamic and interactive, in that it offers an instant response from both the supplier and the customer which can mean instant gratification to the person searching for (or selling) a particular product. Suppliers can also advertise a much fuller range, with a broader scope on their web sites plus using other methods like pay per click (PPC) advertising, email marketing, social networking (Web 2.0) and blog advertising, many of which cost little or nothing to use.

Marketing on your website should start with explaining to your potential customers what the benefits of buying from you are to them. Don’t make the fatal mistake of describing only who you are and how long you’ve been in business or that it is the 100′th anniversary of the company. Unless you can quickly and clearly show the visitor to your site what’s in it for them and that there is a very good reason for him or her to stay long enough to see what you have to offer, they’ll be gone in the click of a mouse.

Another great benefit to Internet marketing is that you can tightly target who you advertise to using demographic criteria such as gender, age, area in which they live, socio-economic typing, but also hobbies, such as gardening, boating, camping, etc. and lots of other factors as well.

Advertising through the use of links is another avenue available to Internet marketers. The way this method works is that one company puts a link to their website or a specific product on another company’s website, for example a supplier of flotation devices or fishing equipment advertises on a website that sells canoes or boats. This type of synergistic advertising means both companies are more likely to get noticed because they both fit into the overall interests of people who enjoy water activities or sports.

Businesses who do not make use of the internet, but choose instead to use traditional media such as newspapers, television or cable ads and magazine advertisement will lose out on attracting to their website the huge global market that is now available to anyone savvy enough to make use of it.

Marketing over the Internet does mean that both new technical and creative skills need to be learned and used. These might include new ways of doing market research on the company’s website or developing a website for just one survey or questionnaire.

Another new skill needed is how to make the most of social networking or Web 2.0, for example Twitter or FaceBook, these are up and coming new avenues for companies to put their products and services in front of a whole new audience.

This kind of advertising must be done with great care and much more subtly or more harm than good can come of it. Marketing your products on the Internet today takes in many new methods and/or services and each of these can be learned or outsourced for another company to do, while still keeping your costs lower than they are likely to be with traditional advertising. Some of the new marketing methods you’ll now need to know about include:

Affiliate Marketing

Cause Marketing

CRM - Customer Relationship Management

Display Advertisement

Email Marketing Strategies

Newsletter Marketing

Pay Per Click Marketing

Link Placement Strategy

Social Network Marketing

Amazon Marketplace Selling

Search Engine Marketing

eBay Selling

One mistake that companies new to the Internet tend to make is to believe that marketing their company on the Internet requires nothing more than a web site, whether well designed or not, or a simple banner ad on another site.

Effective marketing and drawing traffic to their site is far more involved than that! If you want your advertising campaign to be effective and to produce results for your company, on-going search engine optimisation of your website, keeping the site fresh by regularly adding new content, etc. etc. is critical for your success.

An effective marketing plan for the Internet requires strategies that are very different from traditional marketing and since the Internet, by and large requires site-driven advertising, it is necessary:

1. to enhance your visual presence by having a really appealing website

2. to research and know who is your target market

3. to know what and how your competition is doing

4. to know what appeals to your target market at any given moment

5. to know what the upcoming trends are in your market sector

Along side all of the above, you need to focus your energy on making the right choices in how and where you advertise, the usability of your website design, and which advertising media is right for your particular audience.

It is imperative to do further media and market research to find put which keywords your target audience is currently using to find the products and services they’re looking for. Be aware that keywords change with time so doing this research once is not enough.

Internet marketing can be remarkably effective and can boost your business in ways you have never imagined if done with skilful planning, as well as skilful and timely execution.

Contact Monika at http://www.rhwhseo.co.uk/ if you would like to get more information on Article Writing. Perhaps you would like something written for your website or blog. Contact her now at rhwhseo@gmail.com you won’t be disappointed. She can help you get the exposure your website needs with well written articles.

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