Marketing is the lifeblood of any business. Marketing builds awareness.
Awareness lets potential customers find out about your product or service. Just as with a bricks and mortar business, marketing is essential in order to let people know your business offer exists.
Although the World Wide Web can be thought of as a media channel where prospects will see your copy day after day, the truth is that unless you attract those prospects to your website first then your efforts are in vain.
The term 'World
Wide Web' should really have a fourth word, 'Wilderness', because that's where
any website begins and stays if no efforts are made to attract visitors. Any business that
builds a store, for example, must make efforts to attract custom in order to
succeed. The very same principle applies online and just as in the offline
world, the amount of benefits reaped is proportional to the amount of effort
put in. In order to
maintain any kind of competitive advantage, sustained efforts must be made with
a long term plan in mind. Compared to
traditional offline methods of marketing, one of the distinct advantages of
marketing online is the speed at which new marketing strategies can be put to
test. For example, a pay per click campaign could be launched and the results
analysed all in a single day. Such campaigns can promote the smallest
businesses amongst the largest industry relevant websites viewed by thousands
of qualified prospects.
One of the
greatest Internet marketing fallacies is those services offering automated
submission to hundreds of search engines as an effective means of search engine
promotion. When 80% of all search engine usage is carried out using the three
largest search engines (Google, Yahoo! and MSN), the only others worth being
included in are those that are highly relevant and/or localised. This means
that automated submission services such as these can offer limited benefit and
then only to those websites that don't already appear in a search engine's
listings.
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