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Internet Marketing People Buy From People They Trust And Like

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You have seen the latest movie trailer of the Green Hornet on TV but you have mixed feelings about whether you would go to watch the movie in the cinema.

You find the acting too cheesy and the special effects too far-fetched. Are you going to spend your hard-earned twenty bucks to watch a movie that you might not like?

Probably not, but what if your brothers or sisters or you office colleague said that they have a wonderful time watching the attics of these actors and you would probably have changed your mind and go to queue for the tickets.

Lessons learnt here: it is not that you do not have the trust of these movie studios’ promotional ads in to getting you to see the movie, but you would rather hear it from your trusted friends’ review about the movie. The word of your friends does help to change your mind and made a decision. You have trusted him and everything he said holds weights. In other words you have related to him and you like him.

So, you see that when you write your sales copy, you do not have to use those powerful words or those sneaky words or have to use all the tricks by embedding those commands and phrases.

You do not need to be a snake-oil salesman to do magic for you. All you need to do is to get people to relate to you. You have to make friends with people, and make them feel like they trust you and like you.

So you have to start identifying what your market you want to be in. Get to know who will be your customer, get a visual image of what is it that they want and that would save you all the heart-ache later on whether you are selling the right product to the right people after all.

Definitely you will not get wrong if you know what your customers is taking about and what they want.

The common mistakes make by copy writers is that they are fast in putting on their sales man cap as soon as people are placed in front of them.

You know, people do not like to relate or feel comfortable to sales people. So do not put up a barrier so early in your relationship with your prospects.

If you would talk to your prospects like you are talking to your friends, they would disarm any barrier and eventually they will buy from you.

It is a matter of how you would talk to a friend, like how you would communicate when you are with them talking in a restaurant.

Knowing them and talking to them is like you have identified your market correctly. It is important to be friends to them in your copy.

People trust you before they like you, and they must like you before they start to buy from you.

Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click Your New Marketing Techniques

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As the world becomes increasingly digitalised, its easy to find your business lagging behind the competitors with a neglected website which adds little revenue. But its never too late to begin online marketing for your business, and theres no time like the present.

2012s new marketing techniques
Local and national newspaper circulations are declining and TV and radio adverts are often too expensive. Fortunately, there is now a new way to increase awareness of your business and expand your customer base.
You dont have to be an online business to make the most of online marketing. Your business no matter how small and how local your customers can benefit from the new techniques on offer from online marketing companies.
Local businesses can feel like a very small fish in a very big pond online. Thanks to Googles location search, you dont have to be in competition with the sharks. A professional search engine optimisation agency can improve your websites prominence with local people, or people searching in the local area.
Whether you have an existing marketing department or youre a one man band looking to promote your business effectively and affordably, dont overlook the importance of these online techniques:

Search Engine Optimisation
Search engine optimisation helps search engines like Google work out what your business is associated with. Keywords related to your business (such as “emergency plumber in Shropshire”, “hairdresser in Birmingham”, or “cheap shoes”) will be researched and focused on, and the aim is to increase your websites prominence in the search engine results pages for these particular terms. The higher up your website, the more visitors you are going to receive from that search engine. Think of your own searching techniques, for example. Whatever your search term, you are unlikely to venture past page one, and most likely to click on one of the top results.

PPC and Google AdWords
While search engine optimisation could be compared to your business being featured in a story in the press, pay per click (PPC) marketing is the modern equivalent of a paid-for newspaper advert. PPC advertisements are paid adverts which show alongside search engine results, and you may have noticed Googles PPC AdWords ads on the right hand side of the results page.

How are SEO and PPC Marketing Achieved?
Each search engine optimisation company uses different techniques to boost online visibility, so speak to potential agencies about their methods. Their work will generally involve writing and distributing online articles and press releases, and creating page content and blog posts for your website, all using the relevant keywords which people are searching for.
PPC like Google AdWords is also targeted to particular keywords, but with these you pay for each click your advert receives. The ads must be intelligently targeted to result in conversions either sales, bookings or enquiries on your website – or you risk paying for clicks which offer little or no return on investment. Fortunately, PPC professionals can manage your account for you and help your business generate sales. These could be online sales, if you have an online store, or offline, such as a booking or enquiry about your services or products in your shop or business.

Hiring the Professionals
Search engine optimisation and PPC Google AdWords can generate a lot of business, yet require time and expertise to be profitable. It is therefore important to hire an experienced agency rather than attempting the complex techniques yourself. You may not require both of these services, and a discussion can help assess which techniques are right for your business and budget. Search engine optimisation is tailored to each business, and offers infinite potential to attract customers and clients to your business.

Overcoming Marketing Clutter

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What was the last marketing piece that blew your mind?

Why companies need to work on overcoming media clutter . . .

Advertising is no longer the novelty it once was and has become so commonplace today that most of us barely notice it. Indeed, marketing clutter surrounds us in our daily lives through television, radio, newspapers, internet, billboards, and even your coffee cup! With such fragmentation of the media it is but natural that only outstanding advertisements catch the viewer’s attention and live on in human memory.

Likewise, ads too have changed. Gone are the days of mere showcasing of the product. Ads today have taken on an emotional hue and products have developed character to become brands. To stand out ads need to connect with the consumer in more than a sales-pitch manner. Aspirational marketing draws on people’s deep-seated dreams making them desire things that they do not truly need. Some emotional advertising even draws on negative cues such as fear or insecurity (eg insurance products) to earn sales revenue.

Advertising designing too has advanced greatly. Simple black and white images have been replaced by hi-fi graphic designs that jump out at you as you walk past. Images have always been a great way to grab audience attention as they say much more than words in a limited time. Some advertisers get carried away and plaster their ad space with words and images to get the most out of the media space they’ve paid for. Quite often, print ads with a lot of white space actually attract more eyeballs.

But the real problem behind ad clutter lies in the proliferation of brands in a booming economy. When people have a choice between 500 different toothpastes, marketing seems like the only way to be the preferred brand. While every company worth its salt seeks to be on every media platform possible, media space costs spiral and so do the costs of the products themselves, leading to a vicious cycle.

So what is the solution to such an obvious problem? The way to overcome marketing clutter is to constantly innovate. Once there is a breakthrough, chances are the new medium will be exploited untill it becomes monotonous to the audience in a very short span of time. In such a scenario, new innovations in terms of creative ideas, media, and message delivery are constantly required to keep the audience engaged.

Some of the greatest breakthroughs in marketing have been thanks to the internet. Social media marketing, pay per click advertising, search engine optimization, have all revolutionized the way companies spend their marketing budgets and given the smaller business a chance against the heavyweights.

The other surefire way to engage the audience today is through interactive advertising. Anything that gets the viewer to do more than passively look at a picture or watch a TV commercial is more likely to make a mark due to the levels of engagement it demands.

With a daily increase in products and brands, advertising clutter is likely to continue. In this media jungle, only the most creative or those with the deepest pockets will ultimately survive.

How and Why Does Article Marketing Work

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Article Marketing

Article marketing is one of the most incredible strategies ever to be incorporated with online advertising .

It has proven to be the most cost-efficient and most effective of them. By the term itself, you probably would know what this kind of marketing is about. By writing articles that are content-rich, you will be able to reach more people online and drive targeted traffic to your website. Not only that, you will be able to brand your company name and project a credible image to those who may have chanced upon your articles.

For a long time now there has been a lot of buzz in the online world about article marketing, but I am still frequently asked how to make it work? A brief answer is that like any large medium, the internet is hungry for fresh content.

Youve heard the saying before that, “content is king”. Thats not completely true, “Unique and Fresh content is king”.

If you have tons of truly great content that the search engines refuse to recognize because theyve seen it before elsewhere, what good is it doing you? None!!

Search engines algorithms are constantly becoming more sensitive to, and tougher on, duplicate content. You need unique and fresh content that will produce results both with the search engines and with your readers.

However, unlike other media outlets such as TV, radio and newspapers, which generally only use content from professional writers, on the internet, anyone can publish. Article marketing is a way of taking advantage of that freedom and using the medium as a way to bring targeted traffic stream to your website or blog.

Modern search marketing trends require staying updated so that a good and fresh content from your articles marketing campaigns matters a great deal for generating targeted Traffic to your website.

Lets think about natural human behaviour – especially natural human behaviour online. When people are searching for information online, they are really scanning words and looking for the title questions and answers that pop out to them, Also, people that search for information online are going through a LOT of words and get a bit tired of reading all the fluffy stuff to try and find their solution.

Readers are scanning answers but what if a good question pops up from the article? What if they didnt even thought this question is related to the basic idea they are reading your article for? What if they find a series of those questions and answers?

In this case the discussed human behaviour above is changing to satisfy the curiosity those questions raised and then your readers will take the time to close reading, take notes, even bookmark the article or better, as statistics shows that probably they will click the link to your website to get what you offer.

Yes, But How To get your website pop up in the search engines when people conduct search?

One of the secrets to article marketing is that you have to ask the right questions, respond with the right answers while keeping the right keyword density rate in order that you article will pop up in the search engines when people conduct search.

The Advantage And Disadvantages Of Brochures In Marketing

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Marketing is a way of delivering information and encouraging consumers to try your product. The most popular ways of marketing is through the television, radio, internet and print ads. One form of print ad marketing is through brochures. Brochure marketing is a popular choice among small and medium scaled businesses because they relatively cost lesser than the other options except internet marketing.

There are several advantages and disadvantages of brochure marketing. It is important that you have an idea about what they are to help you discern whether it will work for you or not. Advantages are:

Having a brochure for your business or your institution proves your credibility. If you have the budget to pay for your letterheads and your business cards, a brochure can do you more. Aside from using it to feature your products and services to attract potential customers and investors, you can also use it to show your achievements throughout the years or your objectives in achieving your goals if you are just starting.

It makes your clients realize that you are serious and you mean business. With the growing competition in the business world today, only a few realize the benefit of having a brochure. Doing so will show that you give importance to all your clients because not all of them have the time to watch TV, listen to the radio or surf the internet. Therefore, giving them a brochure allows you to give them the chance to read what you have to share in their most convenient time.

Giving away brochures saves your time from typing separate letters that you need to give away to your clients. By having them printed at the same time, you do not have to go through the hassle of encoding and printing one letter at a time just to give to those who show interest in your products.

They come in handy. If you want to tell your clients more about your business, all you have to do is to give them a brochure that they can read for a better and clearer understanding of your products and services.
Disadvantages

Brochures do not necessarily mean a closed deal. If you are in a real estate business or if you are in car dealership, giving away brochures does not necessarily mean that you already have the deal. However, it is one way to encourage potential clients to read through it but other than that, nothing follows.

Brochures are expensive to make and change. If you do not know how to make your own brochures and if you do not have the right equipments, you will not be able to come up with the quality that you expect. Having them changed because of missed information and corrections is the same as having a new brochure printed.

Sometimes, if you are introducing a new product that are not of interest to your potential client, they simply ask you to just leave the brochure on the table. No matter how informative they are and how good your intentions are, they make the brochures a kind way of asking you to leave them behind.