Feb 08

Marketing is one of the most important business factors.  Now we talk about effective marketing strategies that have helped yourmarketing development, and hope will help your business too.

Here are  effective marketing strategies (good and bad – expensive and cheap).

- Create a directory of web sites on a specific topic.

Give people the option of adding the directory to their web site by linking to it. Put your business advertisement at the top of the director’s home page. This technique will get lots of people to link to your web site and give you free advertising.

-  Pop-ups

Not only is this expensive, but also outright annoying that visitors close pop-up windows without even bothering to know what they’re all about. This is an internet advertising method that you can do without.

Fly ads are derivatives of pop-ups which are also equally irking to the visitors.

- Pod casts.

Broadcast is to TV as pod cast is to internet. It’s one sophisticated internet advertising method that can somehow hamper your budget. But if you’re thinking results, pod casting is worth the money.
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Jan 13

A well-planned and properly executed marketing program should include a sufficient commitment of capital resources to an ongoing, well executed advertising program. Yes, this includes your business.

Businesses spend too many dollars, however, on ads that simply will not result in increased sales and profits. These ads are poorly conceived, poorly written, poorly designed, poorly targeted, and poorly placed.

Sounds like a poor way to do business, doesn’t it?

why they have run a particular ad. A few tense moments will pass while they tries to think of a clever answer. “To get the company name out in front of the public so they can get more business.” they reply, with some relief.

This poor soul has just described a lack of a well defined goal, which leads almost inevitably to what I call an institutional ad. An institutional ad can best be described as one which identifies the advertiser and lists address, telephone number, hours of operation, and (maybe) the company logo. That’s it. What a terrible waste of money!
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Jan 12

The main aim of advertisers is to communicate and influence the prospective customers to buy a particular brand’s product. Often they also advertise in order to improve the brand image. For this purposes every major medium and advertising tool is used to deliver their message. Some of the key mediums like television, radio, cinema, magazines, newspapers, video games, the Internet and billboards are used extensively. To advertise, a company usually appoints an advertising agency or advertising industry to send their message across.
Commonly, advertisements are seen on carts, airport, on the sides of buses, buss shelters, etc. Advertisements are cleverly placed at places where viewers can easily and regularly access visual, audio and printed information.
Mentioned below are some forms of advertising:

Advocacy Advertising:
This type of advertising is done mainly for economic, political, or social issues. Advocate Advertising can be in the form of advertisement, message, or public communication. The aim of advertising through this medium is planned campaign to convince public and form their opinion on a specific issue.

Comparative Advertising:
Comparative advertising works on comparison. One brand is directly or indirectly compared with another or even more conflicting brands. Major industries like airlines and automobile manufacturers these days use this technique.
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Nov 23

Make offers to improve the quality of your site and post New Unique Content to your website but who makes your’s can be the experts?

Check your  Google Page Rank. To do this, you need to install the Google Toolbar — you can get it at http://toolbar.google.com

Although Google Page Rank does little more than tell you how many people link to a site, if the result is less than 2 or 3,  you  have a problem. (Internet ‘experts’  should know how to build their own page rank — shouldn’t they?)
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Nov 11

by Terri Seymour
Posted on November 5, 2009

A lot of us work hard to promote our online business but one thing we might forget is that we can get a lot of traffic by promoting offline as well. Following is a list of ideas you can use to promote your online business, offline.

1. Brochures – Brochures are a great marketing tool because you can provide a lot of information about you and your business. Contact your local Chamber of Commerce and other businesses to see of you can put out your brochures.

2. Newspaper Ads – Run classified ads in some local or not so local newspapers. Remember these points when writing your ads:
You must get the reader’s attention.
Once you get their attention, you must keep them interested.
Turn their interest in desire for your products.
Give them a call to action!
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