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Internet Marketing Solutions: 3 Tips
by Rahimah Sultan
You need three key things to grow an online business: Targeted traffic, something to sell, and a marketing funnel.
Learn how to copy the experts so you don’t have to try to work it all out yourself – how to build a website, which products are best sellers or how to send responsive emails.
Here are three Internet Marketing tips to help you move forward with your business adventure.
1) Affiliate marketing is a simple online method and you’ll make faster progress if you work with the guidance of a good coach or mentor. Choose someone who is very successful and has years of experience.
When you have chosen a trusted mentor, just follow that expert’s plan of action. You can search “YouTube for experts in your niche or do a Google search and find the best marketers, the best article writers, or Google experts (Martin Shervington explains Google+), for Facebook (take a look at Marie Smith) or Twitter experts (Yasmin Dendror “Understanding Twitter”). (“SEO step by step” Caimin Jones).” The time spent on research is worth it.
2) Offer an incentive. Create some sort of free bonus offer for everyone who signs up to your email list. This will get people excited about giving you their information because they’re going to get something of value for free. It could teach them something that they did not previously know about the world of internet marketing or whatever niche you are promoting. You simply add an opt-in box, a short description of your gift, and then drive traffic to your site.
3) Build Relationships. Now that you’re all set up with your blog or other platform and are ready to advertise, you need a way to stay in contact with prospective customers. You can do this with an autoresponder which is a program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
Although an autoresponder is usually set up with prewritten emails set to go out at certain intervals, you can also use it to send out broadcasts whenever you wish. You can set up a couple of automatic emails such as a “thank you” for signing up to your list as well as an email with the download link for the free gift. Then you can send out broadcasts whenever you wish, as opposed to relying on an autoresponder sequence.
In summary, Internet Marketing Solutions: 3 Tips includes doing some research to find mentors to help with setting up your online business, offering an incentive for people to join your list, and following up with those people to build relationships so you have someone to buy your products and services.
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Internet Marketing: Building Your Brand
by Rahimah Sultan
You must have an online presence to build your brand. That means using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. But, you can’t just open an account. You have to have a strategy to generate a following. It takes a lot of work and talent.
“If you’re currently plotting your break into the social media realm, then you will quickly see that competing for the short attention span folks today have today is rather daunting. You’re going to need a content marketing strategy that will not only interest but engage your audience.”
You must watch for new trends, use your own voice, not be afraid to experiment, be diligent, and maintain quality. Hugh Benjamin details this in his article What It Takes To Successfully Build An Online Presence.
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Internet Marketing Tips
by Rahimah Sultan
Online advertising, also called online marketing or Internet advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to deliver promotional marketing messages to consumers. It includes email marketing, search engine marketing (SEM), social media marketing, many types of display advertising (including web banner advertising), and mobile advertising. ~ Wikipedia
Online marketing involves methods used for promoting products and services on the Internet. It includes a wider range of marketing elements than traditional business marketing due to the extra channels and marketing mechanisms available on the web.
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Internet Marketing Solutions: Social Media Tips
by Rahimah Sultan
Social media is a fantastic, low-cost opportunity for visibility and brand awareness. Even if you’ve been using it for a while, there is always something you can learn about social media that can help boost your business.
Check out some tips for social media marketing that include showing up, being you and keeping things simple. Remember that social media marketing is real marketing.
Read Social Media Tips for Entrepreneurs, which covers these tips and more.
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Internet Marketing Mistakes
by Rahimah Sultan
When you finally muster the confidence to start a business, you may think that the Internet is the easy road.
Digital marketing takes time, investment, and knowledge. “Digital marketing is any form of marketing products or services, which involves electronic devices.”
If not done correctly, it can lead to some serious mistakes that will severely limit your marketing efforts.
Read Ten Rookie Digital Marketing Mistakes You Might Be Making, for the details.
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Use The Rule of Three in Your Internet Marketing
by Rahimah Sultan
It’s no accident that the number three is pervasive throughout some of our greatest stories, fairy tales, and myths.
It’s also no coincidence that some of the most famous quotes from throughout history are structured in three parts, nor is it surprising that the Rule of Three also works wonders in the world of comedy.
Use the rule of three in your internet marketing so that you are more engaging as a writer.
People process information by patterns, and three is the smallest number of elements required for a pattern. Use storytelling, sticky ideas, and humor – each with three elements or three bullet points – to engage your audience.
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4 Steps for Internet Marketing
by Rahimah Sultan
In order to accomplish anything you must take the first step toward it. Consider what needs to be done and make a plan. You lay out your goal and the steps to reach it. It is like putting one foot in front of the other in order to walk, run or sell… you get my drift. Here are four steps for internet marketing to get you started.
Say you want to start an online business and think it will not work for you because you do not know how to sell. Do not let that stop you. Do what you are good at and learn the rest as you build your business. That’s like putting one foot in front of the other, taking one step at a time while gaining momentum.
Set up a blog and write about what you know. The articles should be about your area of expertise and how to do what you do. Good content is the backbone of marketing. Your content should provide value, solve an existing problem that people may be experiencing, create connections, form relationships, and build an audience.
Add a call to action with a link to be clicked for more information or to buy or to follow.
Use an autoresponder to create a mailing list of the people who visit your site so you can connect with them to provide help, solve problems, and continue to deliver great content. This does not involve selling.
You can be social by using a couple of the major social media platforms, which will in turn get you visitors without you selling direct. Always be about helping people and you will gain customers.
So, do what you are good at and use these tips as your first steps toward long-term online success. To summarize:
Step 1) Set up your blog
Step 2) Provide content
Step 3) Add call to action
Step 4) Create mailing list
This is selling without always being direct. Once you have a list of prospects, you can email them every so often with your offers. Use these Four Steps for Internet Marketing for your long-term business success.
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Getting Your Emails Opened
by Rahimah Sultan
We all want our email marketing to be successful. Getting your emails opened is the goal. After all, we have great things to share with our audiences, and we want to gain their trust. So, if we can get more people opening and reading them, and what we are offering is relevant to then, we can get more sales.
Anne O’Dwyer has some suggestions to get all your emails opened by eager followers.
Do You Have an Internet Sales Funnel?
by Rahimah Sultan
In his article Why Your Sales Funnel Sucks Lemons, Brian Carter says, “If you sell online, or market for leads online, you definitely have a sales funnel. You may not know what your sales funnel is, but you have one.
The question is: how effective is your funnel?”
Brian covers the 5 most common mistakes businesses make with their digital sales funnels. They are: too many steps, not getting enough people into your funnel, keeping it too private, only one idea per funnel segment, and being so inbound that you don’t close the sale.
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Marketing: Engagement With Social Media Content
by Rahimah Sultan
It’s not always easy to engage your online connections. You have to have a desire to hear what others want to say.
Engagement ideas include asking questions, sharing interesting and funny content, and letting people know who you are.
Once you have managed to engage your target audience, it is no small challenge to keep them engaged. As long as you are committed to them, you will be successful.
Read Michael Cohn’s Sharpening Engagement With Your Social Media Content here.
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