Thursday 4 November 2010

Marketing Tips to Take Your Offline Business to the Internet

If you are thinking of marketing your home business online, then you will need to make some changes to the strategies you have been using offline. You should know what your goals are right from the outset and you should have a marketing strategy put in place, before you start. If you haven't set out a plan, then you should do so immediately and map out your activities and what you want to achieve, and by a certain date.




Marketing any home business, or at least the technology used to market, can be daunting. Most people quit when the going gets tough and they don't see the results - and income - they presumed they would get, but if you map out your plan of action properly - success is guaranteed. Here are is just a couple of basic ways you can get your network marketing business succeeding on the web. I obviously can't cover every aspect, but this should put you on the right path.



To start off, lets take a look at PPC marketing. This is where the keywords you choose for your PPC campaign, will make you money or, and sorry to tell you - lose you potentiially thousands of dollars! In other words, you are targeting what your customer or prospect is looking for and basically giving them what they need when they search online. Done effectively, this is probably the most effective way to market any business online. But understanding how to set up a PPC campaign properly takes a huge amount of work and testing. But trial and error will definitely pay off for you in the end, you just have to be patient!



SEO is my favored marketing method for generating leads and driving a huge amount of traffic to my websites - this is really effective, but again - it takes time to learn. I get great satisfaction that I can place a piece of content somewhere online, and I mean exactly where I want to place it! To get to the top of the search engines, you must first write unique and interesting content, which people find of huge 'use value'. To get a good amount of traffic, your on page - your website - content must be keyword specific, if the search engines are to rank your articles and pages. If you are targeting a certain phrase, then you also need to use that in the page title and also the url of that particular page or article.





Then to get your site indexed, start linking back to it from other websites and other SEO resources. The inbound links to your site are like votes of how good your site is and how specific a page is to the actual title of that page. When you have a great amount of links to your website, then search engines will start seeing your website as an authority and place your pages high enough to get quality traffic. For linking purposes, I use a combination of articles, social bookmarks and other blogs and relevant websites.

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