10 Awesome Ways to Market Your business OnlineIn the current internet evolution, if you do not bring your business online, you will be Out of Business. This is in fact very true especially in the emerging of Web 2.0/3.0 evolution which is growing at a tremendous rate.
To market your business online, you need to have a well design professional website and rich contents that provides value to the visitors. Regardless of what business you are in, marketing your business online not only create your brand awareness, but brings incremental sales conversions.
The problems with most website owners is that, they do not know where and how to market their products and services online. They created a website and expect visitors to come in and miracles to happen.. and this results in unsuccessful online startup.
Here are 10 Awesome Ways which you could adopt to market your business online and to gain maximum exposure for your business.
1. Press release
Online Press release (PR) is an effective ways to market your business. Any good quality press release will be rank on the first page by Google with a set of competitive targeted keywords. Here are some of the PR site which you could submit your business, Just to name a few. Webwire.com | Prnewswire.com | Businesswire.com | Prweb.com
2. Pay Per Click (PPC)
PPC is an online paid advertisement and this is laser targeted. Adwords is one of the largest PPC advertising sites online and i do recommend that You go through google Adwords training before embarking into PPC marketing. Other PPC advertising sites includes Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft Ad center which offer similar PPC advertising program. There are online business which mainly focus on PPC and are generating millions of sales. However, if you do not master PPC skill, you could be spending a huge amount of money without making any profit.
3. Social Media Marketing
Leveraging on Web2.0 social media site like facebook, Myspace or twitter to market your business. Create a Page to advertise your business on this social media site and invite targeted prospect to join your page. One thing good about social media like facebook is that, you could select people based on interests, country, age groups which makes your online marketing highly targeted. Example, if you are offering wedding services, you might target to a specific age groups and marital status.
4. eZines
EZine is Online Magazine which are distributed to a huge group of subscribers by emails. Some eZine are focus on a specific market or products, some specific ezine focus on Health and Fitness, Computer & Software…etc. Ezine marketing is targeted and is a perfect marketing model for affiliate marketing or any online business. Check out Directory of Ezine to access to list of Ezine.
5. Articles Marketing
Articles marketing is free and is an effective ways to market your business online. Article marketing is highly targeted and articles can be easily indexed by search engine based on the competitive keyword used. Articles submission helps increase back-links and ranking to your website and is part of the SEO Strategy. There are tools which could help to submit your articles to 100s of articles directory at the click of a button. The results from article marketing is long term and its one of the best online marketing methods which i recommmend to any online marketers.
6. Video Marketing
Social media Video sharing sites like Youtube and Metacafe are the most visited sites online. Youtube visitors watched more than 100millions videos per day. Video marketing is a targeted platform to promote any business online. Use a video cam to record a 5mins video on your business and edit it using Window Movie maker before uploading into Youtube.
7. Search Engine Marketing (SEO and SEM)
Search Engine or SEO marketing is a organic traffic strategy which leveraging on Search engine to spider your website based on popularity and backlink. This is a long term strategy and you need to understand the concept of off-page marketing and back-linking. Go to alexa.com and enter your web URL, to see how your website is being rank. Article marketing is one ways which you could increase backlinks.
8. Joint Venture
JV is a partnership program to look for business partners online to market each others business. Choose a partner's business which are in compliment to your business. If you are in health and fitness business, partner with someone who are in the sports equipment related business. JV partnership will leverage on each others capabilities to increase your web conversions.
9. Online Forum
Participate in online forums and group discussion where you can market to your targeted demographic. Introduce yourself and demonstrate your expertise in your business. Forums which you could join for free includes forums.digitalpoint.com or simply go online to search for forum in your niche which you could join. This marketing methods needs alot of patience.
10. Referral or Affiliate Program
If you are marketing your own products. Develop your own affiliate program where you can have hndreds of affiliate to market your business for you. You define your pay out commission to affiliate who market your products. Affiliate marketing strategy is one of the best online marketing to growth your sales, because you are leveraging a group of online marketers who are interested in your products to build business for you.
These 10 ways are by far proven to be effective and hope this is helpful in marketing your business online. If any of your friends who are starting a business, this may help them to increase sales conversions and profitability.
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To Your Online Marketing Success
Allen Tan
Founder of eEntrepreneurs Club
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