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Hopefully you have received some testimonials from clients in the past. If not, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you aren’t valued by your clients – sometimes it pays to ask for them! So why are testimonials so useful? And how can they be used to their absolute advantage? … To YOUR absolute advantage?… They should be used in ALL of your marketing materials. So your website... Read more...
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How to Utilise your testimonials Effectively
September 19th, 2010 | By Simon In Building Your Business, Effective Marketing Strategies, Lead Generation, Protect Your Business, Social Media Marketing, Viral Marketing, Your Customer Comes First | 1 Comment »
Video Marketing – Getting Started
July 27th, 2010 | By Simon In Building Your Business, Effective Marketing Strategies, Video Marketing, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Video marketing is one of the most powerful ways to communicate with your target audience, as well as an effective way to potentially appear near the top of the search engines for the terms and phrases that your prospects are searching for. Given these two facts alone, don’t you think it might be something that you should be using? The first objection that most business owners have with regard... Read more...
How to use Podcasting to Gain Authority for your Business – Part One
July 15th, 2010 | By Simon In Effective Marketing Strategies, Lead Generation, Podcasting, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Podcasts are perhaps one of the most under rated tools that you can use in order to help promote your business. In Part One of this article I will walk you through exactly what a podcast is and why it is something that you should be using for your business. It is evident these days that with the continual advances in technology that we’re seeing, the ability to record and produce a podcast has... Read more...
How to Use Social Media Marketing For Your Business – Part Two
June 12th, 2010 | By Simon In Building Your Business, Effective Marketing Strategies, Lead Generation, Social Media Marketing, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Part One of this article walked you through the basics of why social media can benefit your business’ marketing strategy. Part Two will now look at some specific reasons why, and explain how you can leave your competition trailing in your wake. As consumers these days, we are all so busy with life. We work hard, we spend time with our children and our families and we do not have time to... Read more...
Quality or quantity lists in email marketing
October 8th, 2009 | By Simon In Building Your Business, List Building, Traffic Generation, Viral Marketing | No Comments »
When you think of email marketing, most people are of the impression that the larger is their email list of subscribers, the more successful they are going to be with their email marketing. However this is not necessarily the case, as it is always better to have a list of qualified, quality subscribers and not a large quantity of subscribers who are not really interested in you or your product. Quite... Read more...
Offline marketing strategies for online businesses
September 16th, 2009 | By Simon In Building Your Business, Viral Marketing | No Comments »
Though online marketing is the more popular form of marketing today, I do agree that you have to implement some offline marketing techniques to effectively market your bricks and mortar business. Including your website and email address on business cards and any print marketing material you have is a great, and effective offline marketing technique. This may seem an obvious marketing technique to you,... Read more...
Tips for effective viral marketing
April 23rd, 2009 | By Simon In Building Your Business, Traffic Generation, Viral Marketing | No Comments »
Viral marketing is a great tool to use to increase online sales. This is a form of marketing connected with mainstream networking where contacts get to know about you and your site. And as the word viral would suggest, you expect them to pass on this information to someone else, just like a virus – hence the name! However just expecting them to promote your site is not sufficient; I have to say that... Read more...
Using link bait for internet marketing
March 25th, 2009 | By Simon In Linking, Viral Marketing | No Comments »
Those in the internet world will lap up link bait and happily use it for internet marketing. This is because it is through link bait that you work at attracting visitors to your website by kindling anger, curiosity and interest in the reader. It can be said that link bait is content written with the intention of educating, entertaining and inflaming readership to prospective readers. It is through... Read more...
The latest in worldwide advertising and marketing; viral advergames
September 13th, 2008 | By Simon In Building Your Business, Viral Marketing | No Comments »
The latest advertising medium used by small businesses and worldwide brands are branded online games. And only if it used correctly can it be an effective viral marketing agents. This is because unlike other advertising methods, these advergames can keep your audience occupied, and have repeat interactions with your brand. This makes your campaign much more memorable and in the process increases the... Read more...
Tips to get indexed in Google
April 1st, 2009 | By Simon In Linking, Traffic Generation, Viral Marketing | 2 Comments »
Getting a good listing in Google is important for internet marketing as Google is the search engine that refers more traffic than any other search engine. Latest reports show that it accounts for about 60 per cent of search engine traffic. So follow these tips to ensure that your site gets indexed in Google as quickly as possible. The first thing you have to do is to submit your site to Google through... Read more...