Marketing Your Business Tips

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Marketing Your Business
The Internet Marketing Agency

It is interesting, I have started to research "The Internet Marketing Agency" on Google some 5.75 million results, however I noticed that there was no advertising on the results page so I used the Google adwords keyword tool for the exact phrase and sure enough no results, so nobody is interested in bidding on this keyword. If a broader search is made, keywords such as "Internet marketing agency" and "web marketing agency " appear in the results which have moderate competition. These might be good keywords to pursue.

The Internet Marketing Agency when searched on Alexa does produce sites such as internetmarketingagency.com with an Alexa ranking of 1,465,103, so even though the domain name includes the sought after target keyword, its ranking is nothing to brag about and there appears to be a room for another site to target a top position for this keyword.

Hiring an Internet-marketing agency is cost effective unlike advertising. Advertising is very expensive, especially if it is carried out in traditional media like television, radio, and print. It can reach a large audience, but it is very expensive. Today, the Internet has changed everything because many people are using it extensively. In order to succeed in Internet marketing it is necessary that you search for a company that is equipped with qualified professionals who are at home with the complexities and scope of online marketing. If you get a good Internet marketing agency this will connected your business with different types of clients worldwide even when you are sleeping.

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Email Advertising

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Marketing Your Business
Email Advertising

Legitimate email advertising has got a bad name due to illicit use in recent years. There is however no reason not to use this form of adverting, but it's often not as cheap and effective as other forms of Internet marketing. The term "email marketing" generally refers to 2 strategic practices:

1. Sending e-mails to improve customer relationships. Either to maintain current customers, or re-invite old customers back for repeat business
2. Placing advertisements in e-mails which other organisations send to their customers who have signed up for a newsletter

Email marketing is a bit like a digital version of the traditional paper mail-outs businesses have sent their clients for years. Without printing costs, emailed newsletters usually end up being cheaper than traditional pamphlets, but only become really cost effective for huge e-newsletters with 500 000 or more recipients. The crucial factors for email marketing campaigns, are the number of recipients who receive, read, & respond to a mail-out, and finally convert to sales. Good adverting content is essential.

People unfamiliar with email advertising often wonder what all the fuss is about. Didn't spam kill email as a advertising vehicle? And if spam didn't kill it, what about blogs, Twitter and all the other clever ways we can communicate online? Isn't email outmoded? The answer is no, legitimate Businesses engage in email marketing because it works. And works well. Here are a few of the numbers...

• The DMA puts email marketing's ROI for 2011 at $40.56 for every $1 invested. The figure for 2012 is predicted to "fall" to $39.40, when email will account for $67.8 billion in sales (reference).
• A 2011 MerchantCircle survey of over 8,000 local business owners in the US found email marketing cited by 35.8% as a Top 3 most effective marketing or advertising method. Only social network profiles and search engine marketing scored higher
• A 2011 business survey by Ireland's Marketing Institute saw 84% claiming email marketing was important or very important to their marketing strategy (reference).
• In a 2011 Focus survey of marketers, the channel cited most often as the best performer over the previous 12 months was email

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Marketing Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Security

Online social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter continue to grow in popularity. According to The Nielsen Company, the amount of time we spend on social networking and blogging sites increased 210% over the past year, with the leading sites boasting hundreds of millions of users.

These virtual communities are not only a great way to stay in touch with friends, but are also increasingly being used for online marketing and this has opened a door for scam artist.

Thieves are devising increasingly clever ways to use these popular sites to run their cons. They'll hack into an account, pass themselves off as your friend, and then trick you into downloading malicious software....or they'll make a desperate, emergency plea for you to send them cash to a mail box, Yes that has happened to me...or they'll lead you to a fake web site that asks you for your private banking information.

Another ploy are the quizzes and games that ask for your cell phone number so that the results can be sent to you—and you don't know you've been conned until you see mysterious charges on your next phone bill.

So how can you Protect yourself?

• If something you get from a friend looks strange maybe an odd-looking web address or wording that doesn't sound like something they'd write check with them or over the phone or skype, and ask if they sent you the message.
• To avoid your own account being hacked into, protect your login information and use strong passwords (easy for you to remember, but hard for others to guess) that you change frequently.
• Limit what you share on your profile page or as part of online games. Revealing information like birth dates, cell phone numbers, travel plans, and activities that take you away from home can expose you to all kinds of criminal activity, including identity theft, stalking, and home robbery.
• Install and run anti-malware software that can automatically block any malicious files before they land on your computer and do damage.

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Marketing Your Business Tips

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Marketing Your Business
Security

Once you start advertising your business online you also open up your website to the risk of being hacked, so you need to take precautions. Serious hackers target popular websites, Military, universities, large companies etc as the challenge is to break their security. The risk to other sites come from amateur hackers who just want to disrupt peoples lives.

Passwords need to be secure, do not use words that can be found in a dictionary, in any language. Use a mixture of upper and lower case with numbers the longer the password the more secure it will be. If you use WordPress do not use Admin as a user name,

File transfers using FTP provides a major loophole, if you search on Google there are 33,000 results on how to hack FTP. FTP transfers files in plain text exposing your credentials, so you need to use a secure file transfer system (SFTP) which encrypts your data.

Wordpress has security issues and you need to keep the software up to date or go through the PHP files with a fine toothcomb and customise the system, simply hiding the login and admin PHP does not work because potential hackers know where to look for these files.

Take care when using any ad dons or widgets, where possible examine the code for possible exploits.

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Marketing Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising

Advertising Advertising techniques for many businesses include marketing strategy based primarily on word-of-mouth advertising. While word-of-mouth advertising is an excellent source for new customers; other advertising techniques should be utilized to retain your existing customers.

It is a well-known fact, that gaining a new customer is more expense than retaining an existing one! For that reason, retaining customers in a any economy is a matter of practicing good marketing techniques.

Recognizing and rewarding repeat customers is an excellent method for assisting those that are struggling to remain with your business due to increasing financial burdens.

For example:

• Depending on your business you could look to provide additional services that complement your main business.
• Offer some form of discount for multiple purchases such as buy three and get one free.

The possibilities are endless and require only a bit of imagination. Your customers will appreciate your courtesy and will in turn, reward you by repeat business that will more than pay for itself in the long run.

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Advertising Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising

The very first key role of advertising and branding is generating awareness and recognition of a certain product or service. The second most important thing is to actually condition the minds of consumers as to what image you would want them to associate with the product, whether its cheap, durable, dependable, etc. This is the intrinsic value of advertising and branding and can be a little harder to determine. For example, if you mention toothpastes, what brand would first come to mind to consumers? Or if you ask for a most wonderful vacation hotspot, what would be the first word they would be likely blurt out? This does not necessarily mean they have actually been to that particular place, its their perception of the place for what they have seen and heard that made them believe its actually the top choice. I can still remember some adverts from my childhood such as Smash.

However, on the other side of the coin, once having established a very strong and powerful brand name, companies will find it hard to step away from its shadows. If in the future, the company would want to project a new image, or take on a different market position, it can be a difficult task to veer away for the identity that have been established. This would take another series of powerful marketing effort to transform the image of the product. It all whole new ball game, and a very expensive one at that. This is the beauty of advertising and branding. It is certainly the most powerful marketing tool that can make or break a company.

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Advertising Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising

David Ogilvy is often know as the father of advertising, one of his first forays into advertising was to use postcards for direct selling and later on he became the genius behind the Dove advertising slogan

"Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream".

He has written a book "Ogilvy on Advertising" which is a general commentary on advertising . In early 2004, Adweek magazine asked people in the business "Which individuals - alive or dead - made you consider pursuing a career in advertising?" and Ogilvy topped the list. His best-selling book Confessions of an Advertising Man is one of the most popular and famous books on advertising.

If you are needing to improve your advertising techniques I suggest you get a copy of his book from my book store.

Ogilvy's advertising mantra followed these four basic principles,

• Research: coming, as he did, from a background in research, he never underestimated its importance in advertising. In fact, in 1952, when he opened his own agency, he billed himself as research director.
• Professional discipline: "I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance." He codified knowledge into slide and film presentations he called Magic Lanterns. He also instituted several training programs for young advertising professionals.
• Creative brilliance: had a strong emphasis on the "BIG IDEA."
• Results for clients: "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."

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