Business Online Marketing

As we’ve moved into the Web 2.0 world with the likes of blogs, online communities, discussion forums, social networking sites, and the like; how are business owners or professionals marketing their business, their products and services, or even just their expertise?

This is becoming one of my favorite subjects.

For starters, I am finding that a clean, simple website that is clear, to the point, functional and informative is a great way to go.

From there, its all about content. At first, I didn’t build my website with the idea to excel in SEO. I wanted to be low profile, and use the website to sell itself as a credibility resource as I discovered my way through being a business owner.

When it comes to internet marketing, there are dozens of good ways (if not hundreds of ways or more) to promote your website URL. Blogs, social networking and internet advertising are all sound approaches.

It really is a game of capturing one’s attention, and guiding them to and through your website, and leaving them with a favorable impression so they will want to return, time and again.

Everyone is soooo busy these days. The name of the company game is to be on the cutting edge of marketing. Here’s a “marketing niche” …. devote your website to be an information resource on your “market niche” .

Blogging has evolved to become an active part of my business strategy, on multiple fronts. Differentiating my company from competitors is key, so I’ve zeroed in on competitors websites and see they are often planned out to the extreme, and so darn uptight. My website is designed to be flexible, ready to adapt with the times, professional, and down-to-Earth.

The business environment of today is so different than it was just a few years ago. We’re all so interconnected now, and one of the first things people do when they learn about a new company, is to check out their website to get a feel for a company’s energy, offering and personality.

Social networking is such a buzz. Finding that the best way to take advantage of this trend, is to approach social networking while creatively utilizing your brand on the social networking medium’s terms, while putting your own company personality slant on it.

Self promotion is so 2007. Part of the game is to promote, without self promoting. A fine line to cross, but a smart approach if done right, and with integrity.

Marketing is a catch-22 anyway.

I want to touch on one key area that needs to be mentioned: content.

In the interactive advertising industry, content is king. What you are providing to your potential customer without a catch, fee, or other gimmick is critical. It must be honest, useful, and targeted at a specific group to be effective.

One way of looking at content as the foundation for a successful online strategy is cost per customer. The old way of looking at business was how much money it takes on advertising and sales to get one customer. In the new Web 2.0 world you must rethink this concept. What content can we provide a potential customer free of charge to get one minute of their attention. In other words, your content is your capital investment and your return is not necessarily a customer, but a potential customer’s attention.

That being said, there is much more to answering the question. Creating a interactive advertising experience for your potential customers will require throwing out much of what you know about marketing and embracing some scary – but effective – new ideas.

Remember – there is no one silver bullet that will get a successful online response. The new customer is savvy, hungry for information, and desires meaningful online connections before making a brand decision. Be prepared to make the required investment in human and financial capital to vault forward into the new world of advertising before you are left behind.

Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications …. and author of Broadband Nation. Michael also authors Small Business Resources Cafe with resources, tools, tips, & insights for small businesses. The Cafe is always open. So …. grab a cup of Joe & sit awhile!

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Marketing is very important in every business. However, marketing involves many activities and, all are needed in order to meet your future goal. For instance, it’s your responsibility to know the group of people available and also differentiate the people you want to serve i.e. the old, youth or children. Again, it’s your duty to know the kind of services and products each group needs.

You should know all your competitors and do a thorough research in order to know why and how they are able to remain top in the market. The price of your products and services should be a little less to attract more clients and, withstand competition from similar large organizations. Organize yourself on how you are going to offer your services/products. For example, if you are to transport goods to the other town, it could better to use a vehicle rather than a motorbike since it’s faster and saves time.

The position of your business should be put into consideration if you really want to have excellent results. For instance, a restaurant located in a remote area can hardly do well since the residents in that area can not afford to pay the high cost of food and beverages. Advertising and sales promotion is also part of the marketing which may cost you some money but increase customers in the long run.

Do a research for the various methods used in marketing and use them to promote and sustain your business. Plan your business and also budget your products to maintain a steady cash flow. You should update your budget and include all expenses incurred in advertising, promotion, distribution and customers service.

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Ok. So you have bought into an internet marketing program to help your business – or you bought into an opportunity. You did your homework, and found a product that you really would like to sell, because you enjoy using it – or would like to use it – yourself.

You went ahead and jumped right in. You bought the whole program, and you also bought into an automated marketing system. You feel great about this! The system you bought is the perfect vehicle for getting potential customers to your site!

So… You straighten out your folders, neaten your desk, sharpen your pencils, and then you… You what? What do you do?

Hmmm. Perhaps you log in to your site – maybe it’s an affiliate program back office where there are lots of links to training tips. Perhaps you start searching the internet to see who else is marketing your product, and to see how they’re doing it. Your mind begins buzzing with confusion.

Perhaps you see a bunch of people out there all of a sudden, and it seems like everyone is marketing – gulp – the same program. “Oh no!” you may wonder. “How can I compete with them?”

A chill runs through you. What do you do now? Your thoughts go from excitement to fear to doubt…

Ok. This is where your mindset comes into play.

The first thing you do is take a deep breath, and let it out – and while you are letting it out, you say to yourself, “Well, of course there are other people using this system! Of course other people are marketing this product! If they weren’t, there would be no demand for it! If there wasn’t any competition, I’d be in big trouble, because that would me no one wants the product. Boy, am I glad I have a product people want!”

Do you get it? First of all, to put the fear of competition to rest, understand that competition is important! When you market your product, you are not going to use the exact same words in your advertising as everyone else does! You are not going to have the exact same ideas for EzineArticles or press releases that others do!

You will have your own moments of inspiration. You will have your own ideas for what might be a good advertisement. You will have your own story to tell. But – not if you keep harboring fear and doubt.

The important thing here is to have your mindset right. Here are some quick tips (and believe me, if you ever have browsed through the “Self Help” section of a bookstore, you’ll notice that there is no shortage of material on this subject! – so, when I say “quick tips,” I mean it! Take these as starting points!). And please remember – we are only concentrating on mindset and thoughts in this article.

We’re going to concentrate on getting your THINKING straight.

In a nutshell, this is the age old wisdom repeated in volume after volume of self-help works: “What you THINK about, you BRING about.”

Ever heard that? It’s in the Bible, quoted by the famed James Allen in his landmark book “As A Man Thinketh,” and many, many others. If you’ve ever heard of the movie “The Secret,” this is one of the main topics. If you have ever heard of the universal law of attraction, this is one of the primary points.

Your thoughts determine your ultimate outcomes. Have you ever heard people say that they want something, but their voices say otherwise. They may say, “Oh, yes! I just know I really want to succeed,” but their faces are saying, “Yeah, right. It’ll never happen to me.”

Don’t laugh! Have you ever caught yourself in that negative thought habit? Thinking things such as: “If I’m lucky…” “Well, we’ll see what happens…” “I’d better not get my hopes up too high…” – stuff like that?

Well… STOP IT! Decide to release or surrender any negative thought habit you have RIGHT NOW. You must if you are going to master your thoughts and mind – rather than have THEM master YOU.

“Kath, that’s not so easy,” you may be saying. Perhaps not on your first go around. But, once you get into the habit of correcting and releasing your self-limiting thoughts, and replace them with “can do” thoughts, it’ll get easier.

But, to begin with, you need the right thoughts to think – to replace the negative self-limiting thoughts with, right? Of course! So, this is where you take your goals and intentions, and put them into words of abundance so that you can begin to feed your mind with positive self-fulfilling thoughts (Note: The topic of proper wording for goals and goal-setting will be covered in a different article.).

Let’s say you have a goal to earn $1,000 extra this month. Instead of saying to yourself, “Oh, I sure would like to have $1,000 extra this month,” picture yourself looking at $1,000 deposit in your checkbook, $1,000 added to your balance column – and think, “Oh, it sure is nice having this $1,000 extra this month!” (Another Note: You need to FEEL it, too – and yes, there is a lot of literature out there on this, as well.)

Picture having the $1,000 – instead of wanting the $1,000. The mind doesn’t play favorites – if it sees you wanting, then wanting – or the feeling of wanting – is what you will continue to have. Do you really want to want it? Or do you prefer to have it?

You see, all things you can perceive with your 5 senses that are man-made began with a thought. For example, a table or a chair didn’t just appear one day out of thin air.

Someone, somewhere along the way had to have had a thought about a structure or tool that would somehow make life a little more comfortable. The thoughts might have been of a more comfortable posture, perhaps a more comfortable feeling while eating. Maybe sitting on a rock gave them the idea of a more comfortable feeling. The thoughts probably were not about “wishing” to be more comfortable. They probably thought about the postures that made them more comfortable, and opened their minds until the inspiration came to help them develop the tools. Again, this is just a simple example. But, again, primitive man’s thoughts were probably fairly simple too.

Which brings me to the next point – While you are training your mind to think in terms of your present state of abundance as a result of your business success (Again, think in the present – not the past or future.

Think in terms of “having,” not “wanting.” Think and picture having your goals right now. Practice!), don’t cram your thoughts with worry about how you are going to achieve your goals. You could not even possibly begin to imagine the multitude of ways you might find to achieve your goals. Remain completely open minded to what is out there. Help, guidance, intuition, etc., may come from a place you least expect it.

This is not “fluff.” It’s real. May I give you a true example of something that just happened to us? I’ll make it very short. We had a small property to sell, and were told over and over that we’d have a tough time in “this poor economy,” (by the way, another limiting thought), and in “this area, where nothing is selling!”

We chose to ignore such things, and we pushed on. While working on the house, and engaging a realtor to sell it, what kept going through our minds was this: “This is the perfect little house for someone who really is looking for an easy-to-heat, easy-to-maintain place here…This house is great for someone who wants a place in move-in condition…” etc. When I tell you that we had an offer within 1 week of the house being on the market, I am not exaggerating. Furthermore, the person who bought it was born on that very street – 4 doors up – and had been wanting to come back to that town for years.

You see, we absolutely refused to listen to nay-sayers. We had the idea and thought that this was going to work out. We never wavered on our faith that this was the perfect house for someone, and that the perfect someone would appear to purchase it. We completely released and surrendered any thoughts as to where this person would come from – and the person came from two states away! There is no way we could have even remotely imagined this buyer. We handed him the keys to the house today (as I write this article).

And that is just ONE example. There are many others. Don’t you want to have your own examples to tell others?

So, this is how important your thoughts are. Replace any fears about your marketing efforts by thinking about all the great things your product has to offer. Begin picturing people finding your website, and purchasing your product. Begin picturing the emails as they come in, informing you that you have an order! Begin seeing your checkbook balance grow. And – as you do so, keep your mind open to the possibilities as they come to you with regard to the actions you will take. And remember to not try to second-guess how or where or when these customers and prospects are going to come to you.

Embrace your competition. Look at what they are doing with an objective eye – one that is not fearful, but is curious. Hmm. What are they doing? Is there something that strikes you as an interesting method they are using? Use your competition as a learning tool. Be glad for competition, because it means your product or opportunity is in demand.

Once you get your mindset and thoughts working WITH you, with YOU mastering your mind and thoughts, instead of being mastered by them, you will soon find that you are ablaze with ideas and energy to help you get to your goals more quickly.

Remember to stick with it! Again, you may not have any idea where, who, how, or when your customer is coming – just keep those thoughts of abundance going. Keep your mind open. Keep the faith. And, while you are releasing all your previously limiting thoughts and replacing them with positive ones, keep working towards your goals with the knowledge you have, knowing full well that the knowledge you need will be revealed. Because you now have success on your side!

A terrific collection of tools to help you achieve your dreams is available at www.StrategiesForSuccessInLife.com which is THE resource for the renowned Charles Haanel’s Master Key System – the very system Kathy has used to plan and meet her own goals.

“Written many years ago, and nearly forgotten until recently, this work by Charles Haanel taught me how to control my thinking,” she says. Visit www.StrategiesForSuccessInLife.com today.

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When you begin the journey into niche products, you have three choices to consider. Each of these will allow you to put together a good ebook and hopefully make profits from it. The profits will depend on how popular the subject matter chosen is.

The three options of choice are:

Hiring A Ghostwriter

For those who do not write well, there is the option to have a ghostwriter put together your ebook for resale. If the ebook is researched correctly and written in the same way, you can charge hundreds of dollars for it. Paying for the services of a ghostwriter will allow you to claim the ebook as your own and be listed as the author.

Internet Full Of Resources

The internet is full of ebooks for resale or those which offer resale rights. The price you pay will change depending on how long it is, how well it was written, and how exclusive it is to the internet. Anyone can purchase most ebooks so the competition of those selling them may be many. Even though you have resale right to the niche products ebook, the ususal practice is that the author is the one who originally wrote it and can not be changed for you.

Niche Programs

The final and better option for selling niche products is a program designed for the same. The better programs are limited in the amount of people they let in so your competition will not be high. Members will be offered only so many niche products they can sell to the public so the amount of these products showing up on the internet will be low. A benefit to the niche product program is that themes will offer more than one ebook to choose from. You will be the author of the book. This means you will be able to spend the money promoting yourself instead of another writer.

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