Marketing Dashboard

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising your business

I can hardly wait for for the weekend to arrive in order to evaluate my new business dashboard, it is something that many people dream about owning.

Anyone who has been advertising their business online for a number of years will probably have collected or used many different programs and pieces of software to develop their business. The problem is they are not designed to work together. You might have built a site on Wordpress, hosted at Godaddy with an auto responder from Aweber and a conference room from goto meeting. You have made sales videos at You Tube and keep in touch with your friends, via Facebook, Twitter and Skype. Does this sound familiar.

You end up retyping or copying information from one system to another which can be very time consuming. you probably also have developed an number of online profiles on different system which you try to keep up to date.

Now just suppose there was a intuitive system which from the outset has been designed not only to get your message out there but also to gather leads and enable you to keep in touch with like minded people, to whom you can turn to for advice on many diverse subjects at any time of the day or night.

Well one of my catch phrases has been

Turning your Dreams into Reality

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A Step Change in Marketing

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising your business

In a few days time a revolution in Internet marketing is going to occur, no its not something that that you have to sell to friends and family with promises of wealth. it is what I like to refer to as a marketing dashboard.

The system has been under development for a number of years and will be launched in beta on 1st April, so what does the system do, well its a great productivity tool and will not only save you time but will also enable you to keep you companies message in front of potential clients and customers, via many forms of media at the push of a few buttons.

You will be able to spend more time researching content for your informative blogs and articles but at the same time keep in touch with with people in your social circles and business associates.

I have watched the development of this project since its inception and I am completely blown away. What is about to be delivered is much more than initially anticipated and will provide a virtually seamless applications including hosting, training, conference rooms, autoresponders, videos, blogs, business opportunities, 24/7 support for a fixed monthly fee.

You will no longer have to mix and match applications across a number of different websites and if you add or modify a piece of information the changes will be reflect across the who system, which is why I call it my marketing dashboard.

Watch this space for more news

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Regional advertising

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising your business

Regional advertising as the name suggest focuses on local adverting corresponding to a particular region or place. This involves the use of all the basic tactics and techniques used for any sort of successful advertising campaign for the promotion of a particular company's services or products. Regional advertising is often overlooked but can be a lucrative form of advertising.

The techniques involved in the regional advertising is often focussed on a smaller and regional search engines and also local directories which makes a good business sense.

The listings in the web directories and the search engines under the regional category for example with the websites like the DMOZ.com and yahoo brings about the site under more relevant search results.

Regional means within the country and therefore it is vital to use a domain which is based in that specific company in use. For example co.UK is used for United Kingdom just as .ca is used for Canada. These are often used in the domain names also so as to be able to target the multiple regional markets and also search engines.

There is also the question as to what language should be used, whilst English will usually prevail some people prefer to read items online in their native language, so I would suggest sites be written in duel language.

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Advertising Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising your business

Today I attended a webinar hosted by Veretekk's marketing Director Butch Hamilton and he was talking about examining where your target market is situated. Many people make the mistake of advertising globally when they are only offering goods and services locally.

I remember some years ago working with a company that started a GoLocal advertising campaign which turned out to be highly successful as each distributor targeted their own particular area rather than nationally or globally.

Google technology brought local search to the forefront in the past year so you can set now set your search default to any particular town to obtain results which are more likely to be of use to you.

If you are operating a local business online it can be beneficial to include the name not only as a title but also in the name of the website. I have done this myself successfully in the past when selling property with a site called apartmentforsalekotakinabalu. A daily advertising campaign was set up on the Internet using my marketing tools and within two months I had completed the sale of my property.

When you are setting out your next advertising campaign consider your local options you might be surprised by the results.

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Marketing Your Business Tips

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Marketing Your Business
Marketing Dashboard

To create a dashboard, your business will need to be able to capture information from different information systems and consolidate data from campaigns, responses, customer interactions, and new business.

Now all this sounds quite complicated and time consuming, but what if I told you that on the 1st April 2012, you would be able to purchase your own marketing dashboard for the princely sum of just $54.95 per month.

This is not any April fools scam, it is a serious offer for business entrepreneurs, who wish to benefit from a seamlessly integrated set of tools which have been in development for the past three years.

During the last few years the Internet has spread even further afield due to 3rd and 4th generation mobile devices so now you can remain in contact and share your daily life with the likes of facebook and Youtube no matter where you are provided you have a reliable connection.

Social marketing is one of the keywords of the age, so imagine a business interface which interacts with you social marketing site, keeping fellow socialites informed on what you are doing and enabling you to store and share your business tips and success via video, email, articles, press releases, blogs and countless websites.

Does this sound like something that might interest you, if so keep watch this space as more will be available shortly.

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Marketing Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Google

Google is now advising website owners that its future direction in providing search results will rely more heavily on web content rather than grey hatted SEO work. This will mean that sites which have little or no SEO techniques applied to them but have otherwise good content will rise up the results.

The changes as and when they are implemented will certainly help the small business owner who often does not even know what SEO is. The days of some so called SEO specialists may be numbered as content becomes king.

Former Google Webmaster Central creator Vanessa Fox made the following comments

"I don't think it's about just mom and pop vs. big brands,---- Lots of big brands don't know the first thing about SEO. I think (total guess on my part) the sites that will be negatively impacted are those that focus on algorithms and build content/sites based on the things what they think the algorithms are looking for. The kind of sites where someone didn't say 'I want this page to rank for query X. How can this page best answer what the searcher is asking about X' but instead said 'I want this page to rank for query X. How many times should I repeat X in my title, heading, content on the page, internal links…"

Sounds like good news to me, all this page density mumbo jumbo and worrying how to Panda updates effect results will perhaps come to an end.

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Advertising Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising your business

One of the main reasons for advertising is to brand your business, now when I think of corned beef the brand Fray Bentos come to mind, a company established in 1899 which is best known for its range of canned meat pies, including steak and kidney and minced beef and onion.

At the end of last year it was taken over by Baxters and Baxters chairman Audrey Baxter said:

"Like Baxters, Fray Bentos is a heritage brand and is known the length and breadth of the country, holding a special place in the hearts of British consumers both young and old.

We have many exciting ideas to revitalise the brand as we aim to secure a strong foothold in the canned meat market."

It will be interesting to see how they advertise in the future. One thing I am sure of is that they will not become involved in discount advertising which has been the death knell of many brands.

A brand that starts discounting initially attracts new customers, but in doing so cuts its profits and when it stops discounting consumers move gravitate back to their original source. The company is then in a more difficult position having less revenue to spend on advertising to maintain the image of the brand.

If you have a business think carefully how you advertise particularly with special or free offers carry out market research and try to model the results.

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Advertising Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Advertising your business

Advertising play a very important part in marketing your business, but one needs to keep updated with the latest trends and techniques, for instance there was a time that when you included a coupon in an advert it was placed at the top of the copy in the centre, yes a great headline however now your coupon is best placed at the bottom right hand corner where it can be easily clipped off and used, leaving the rest of the copy intact.

Adverts placed in corner shops or supermarkets can take this a step further with having tear off strips a the bottom of every advert, so many people can take advantage of the offer.

When advertising online it is important to provide facts and information about your products or services. One advantage of online advertising is you can use racking codes to see how many time the advert is opened and correlate that with actual sales. You can also use pay per click advertising.

You may prepare email advertising campaigns running over weeks and months providing your subscribers with information about your products and services but take great care with the content, no one like to receive the same old sad advert containing information sent to them in the previous mail. they need something new and informative.

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Marketing Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Email

Now I have never been an advocate of using free email system, such as AOL, Hotmail, yahoo and Google, because it does not look very professional if you have an Internet site not to use an email address connected to your companies website.

Google however is now beginning to make inroads as Gmail's growth has been rapid over the last couple years and is unlikely to slow, especially given the recent user interface changes that make Gmail even more convenient and easy-to-use. Gmail is even changing the B2B perspective on email addresses, as more and more professionals are relying on the service through Google Apps to meet their business needs.

Email is beginning to come more socialised with the spread of 3G and 4G phone technology and consumers will often share links with others via email with friends. Yes there is still spam to contend with but savvy users may now have several email address using one for friend and family one for business and one for dealing with sites which may start spamming.

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Advertsing Your Business

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Marketing Your Business
Phone Contact

The phone is a very important marketing tool which is often abused by the use of automated diallers and the like. Far too many people use it to sell their products and services by using canned messages or advertising scripts. The most successful marketers are those that listen to their prospects or potential customers.

Now I used to actually hate telephoning people but it is essential to keep in contact with prospects and customers as you never know if email campaigns reach them or they turn them off. Many people use voicemail to monitor incoming calls, so you always need to be prepared to leave a message.

My own business involves assisting people to build successfully businesses with a selection of advertising tools, so yesterday I phoned a woman to find out what she was adverting but caught her just as she was going out so I called back today. I was somewhat taken a back when her opening words were "I am not interested" I was offering help and advise and she put the phone down.

Perhaps it was a bad hair day or some telephone marketer had been bugging her, but she was advertising something, I might have been a buyer, she may have lost a potential sale. For my part this is part of daily life some people you can help and some just do not listen. My golden rule is to listen first but in this case it did not work so instead I emailed her, but I doubt she will ever open the email.

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Marketing Your Business Tips

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Marketing Your Business
Email advertising

Email adverting is one of the most fickle areas of marketing but the key is to always get permission – Without having permission (meaning every subscriber asked for you to email them), spam complaints will increase and people will ignore your emails — even worse, they may opt out altogether. Aside from upsetting your new subscribers, you will probably also get the boot from your email service provider or ISP for violating their policies.

Utilize email marketing campaigns instead of "newsletters" . With an email campaign, you can attract specific prospects and send them emails related to a particular topic.

Do not sell, provide information which is useful to your subscriber and let him decide when the time is right to purchase, you may have to mail him for a year or more.

More and more people are using mobile devices so you may need to redesign the email and landing pages so it's easy for mobile users – Realize that the popular iPhone has a viewable space of 320 x 356 pixels. That's not much compared to the real estate of your computer (probably above 1024 x 768). This means you should condense the width so they can read the email without resizing the message.

If you use images make your email readable without images enabled – For privacy reasons, most email clients disable images unless the user allows it. Because of this, any images you include in the email should have descriptive text set for the Alternative attribute.

Remember to provide subscribers with a method of unsubscribing and a note of when they subscribed is useful as often people forget what they signed up for and can accuse you of spam.

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Marketing Your Business Tips

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Marketing Your Business
Free Assistance

I was speaking with someone today who over the past few years has purchased many programs and joined site with the idea of creating an income and like many others has become disillusioned. His Latest venture started in December and like many before him he has been suckered into purchasing something but does not know how it works.

He has purchased a website which advertises phones and accessories and has been looking at free ways to market the site, which is how I found him. He told me the usual tale of false promises and no support. I suggested that free advertising was not really the answer. The first thing he needed to do was to cleanup his website which is based on a wordpress blog and remove many of the 19 add ins which not only confuse him but are liabilities rather than assets.

During our conversation it became apparent that he was at a complete loss at what to do, so I spend about an hour showing him how to do some simple cleaning up and how to post new data to his blog and suggested that in addition to the automated posts coming into his blog, he needed to start writing in more depth about telecommunications to provide more unique substance to his website. I also suggested that he needed to learn about marketing and that for around $55 a month he could obtain a comprehensive marketing system and unlimited training and support, He needs to set that as a short term goal.

I suggested that that as he writes his blog posts he could convert into stand alone web pages which will help advertise his website in other areas. I will follow his website over the the next week and see how he is getting on.

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Marketing Your Business Tips

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Marketing Your Business
Online Censorship

Many people do not realise how much censorship can negatively effect their best marketing methods. I have been aware of restriction on the Ezines articles site where I am an expert author , however they have modified their rules regarding links and I have spent the last two month trying to get as simple article posted. I have now given up because to be honest it is not worth the effort, I get a standard email that suggests what might be wrong, so I guess a computer is doing the vetting using some form of algorithm.

Algorithms seem to be flavour of the month as it is rumoured that Google Pand's update has been revised, so your SEO specialist will have an excuse to charge you more money.

I started to examine a new add in tool for Firefox today which ranks sites for safety by displaying red or green lights and warning you off from certain sites, it offered some surprising results, it would seem some sites I use have red flags. Apparently it uses an Algorithm, surprise, surprise and votes from users, however some votes are more equal than others, sounds like George Orwell's 1984.

My next task is to work out if anything is really wrong with the sites and if there is see about getting it corrected. The tool could be great provided the results are right.

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Marketing Your Business Tips

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Marketing Your Business
Internet Advertising

Marketing entails several functions that include:

1. Developing the products or services that customers want.
2. Pricing the products or services correctly.
3. Making the products or services readily available to the customers.
4. Advertising: Promoting the product or service, which if done correctly, not only convinces customers that the product or service is preferable to its competition, but that it is clearly the only choice. This is the field of marketing "communications" .

From a small business perspective a great deal of research is required in order to provide what customers are looking for on the the Internet and some of this research will be used later in your advertising campaign.

I always tell people that they need to know all there is to know about what they are selling in order to provide good adverting copy. Advertising online is a daily chore to provides quality information that answers customers needs, not plugging the same old stale sales blurb.

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