03 July 2016

Make A Successful Marketing Plan With These Tips

By Zonta Mauro


Whether you're looking to sell products, services, or something else entirely, the internet is a great way to market. The internet allows you to reach a massive audience, often for little to no cost. In this article, you'll find some tips that will help you make your internet marketing attempts a success.

If you are currently creating print advertisements, consider putting a QR code on them to engage people online. In this way, you merge print advertising and internet marketing into one. A QR code is a checker box that people can scan with their phones, in order to visit your website, possibly being directed to a coupon page or other promotional resource, for your business.

When you link to another page on your site, use your keywords in the anchor text. Provide your consumers with links to other relevant site content in order to keep them on your site for a longer period of time. Internal links are a free way to advertise to current customers and to help get you more hits from other advertising avenues.

Use your email list to build a relationship with your customers. If you are just sending out form letters with no personal content, eventually your emails are going to be hitting the spam folders. Include content that will make your readers willing to open and read your emails.

Provide examples of problems that people may be looking for a resolution to and very subtly, weave in a recommendation of a quality product in the content. This will make it very easy for the readers to find the product as soon as they are ready to make the purchase.

When you send an order confirmation email, include a coupon code for a nice discount if the customer makes another purchase within the next 30 days. This encourages repeat business and gets them in the habit of returning to your website more often. A future discount cost you nothing unless you make another sale and it builds good will in the process.

Try to avoid following someone else's path verbatim if at all possible, especially if you're in the same type of market. Internet marketing follows the same basic formulas for success, but you cannot become so alike that customers cannot tell you or your competition apart. You need to separate yourself from the pack.

Offer something for free when a customer visits your website. Have visitors fill out a form with their address and send them items with your business name and logo on them. Whether it is a pen or a t-shirt, it puts your business name out there and gets your business noticed.

Be sure to create a good landing page so that you can begin and maintain an opt-in e-mail list for marketing. When you build a good e-mail list you will have an organized record of people who have expressed an interest in your product or service. You will make a lot more sales when you send your information out to a select list of people who have given you permission to contact them.




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