Monday, December 18, 2006

Online Marketing: Tips To Excel

If you're marketing a product or service online, you are in a humongous,
often highly competitive market. The online marketing world can often be
very tough - only the tough can survive! Here are a few tips to help you
succeed and thrive in the internet marketing world.

Tip #1: Innovate

Offer your visitors and customers something that your competitors don't or
can't offer. This could be anything from free shipping to just a free
valuable e-book related to your industry. People are very mobile on the
internet - if you don't give them good reason to stay on your website, they
will quickly go to your competitor's site instead.

Tips #2: Track

One of the most powerful aspects of online marketing is the ability to do
extensive tracking of customers in real time.
With the right tracking software, it is very easy to know exactly where your
customers came from, which ad they clicked on, which pages on your site they
visited, which page converted them, how much that conversion cost you, etc.

With good tracking data, you can easily manage and adjust marketing efforts
to maximize your profitability.

Tip #3: Leverage

If you want to have long term, dependable success, you need to leverage your
traffic. Without leverage, your traffic can go up and down drastically,
depending on your search engine rankings, or other factors.

There are two ways to leverage your traffic:

The first is by creating an email list. If you can get your visitors to
signup for your email newsletter, then you can make sales to those visitors
long after they have left your site. A well built list can become a powerful
marketing resource over time, too.

The second way to leverage traffic is through an affiliate program. This
way, instead of directly promoting your site, you promote your affiliate
program. Once you recruit a good affiliate, they can bring you sales for
years.


About The Author: Visit
http://www.datadial.net/pages/online-marketing.aspx for information on using
Online Marketing to promote your business.

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