Want to be successful online?
The key is to get the basics right and put together an internet marketing plan and stick to it, using proven strategies. Here are 7 essential steps to get you started.
1. Clarify The Purpose Of Your Site
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘Disney’? Movies? Cartoons? Disneyland? The little guy with the soft-pitched voice and red pants? Most small business owners think they know what branding is… but they’ve usually got it wrong. Brand recognition is the following: […]
2. Make A Plan To Succeed Online
Almost every person who has ever tried to market online has been told this big fat LIE about the internet. And it’s the one lie that, if they believe it, kills their online business before it even opens. […]
3. Answer These Key Internet Marketing Questions
A good friend recently had to call it quits and give up on a business that she’d been slaving over and pouring money into for years. The problem? It wasn’t her lack of effort – but simply the… name she picked for the business that finally killed it. […]
4. Personalize Your Internet Marketing To Stand Out
Understanding the proper use of color is essential to creating a positive small business branding image. Color can send a positive or negative message, increase sales, excite an audience, or make an athlete perform better. […]
5. Transform Your Website So It Generates Leads Like Crazy
When you use the same approach everyone else does, your marketing takes on a “me too” look and your prospects have no idea why they should bother doing business with you versus the competition or just not doing anything at all. […]
6. Submit Your Website Here… And Your URL Here…
7. Get Links To Your Site
Most business owners worry about traffic. And typically they worry about the wrong things.
They worry about optimizing their own site, about social media and a host of other nebulous activities. […]
May 6th, 2012 at 7:40 am
Items 1 & 2 have the same text description, otherwise excellent advice.
May 7th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
I think far too many people fail in the planning phase. They see lots of free, “mass exposure” resources and they think they have to use them without learning and planning how to most effectively use them. Or even determine whether or not they are effective for their business. Planning is critical in any marketing effort.