January 5, 2010
Many writers on the web are writing articles about attracting visitors to your site, what about when you loose those visitors because your site wasn’t up to par???
You’ve spent all this time marketing your site to attract more prospects to your web site, but what’s this, ooops, the very 1st link they click on gets a great “ERROR 404 - Not Found”.
What just happened to that visitor?
* Did they hit “back” on their browser? - 56% do
* Did they try and “refresh” the page? - 8% do
* Did they move on and search again? - 36% did
Just like that, all your hard work, your new prospect is now gone and possibly forever.
How does this article tie into “Web Marketing”?
It has everything to do with it. Marketing is not only about flash and dance, it’s about creativity, testing, re-testing, and phycology. That’s it. This entire article is about getting into your mind and the mind of your visitors to attract new business.
So what happened to your visitor?
Although a very high percentage of people do “hit back” on their browser, you’re still at risk of loosing 36% that are just browsing for fun, venture and/or something to do. Many people when they browse on the web, don’t actually shop for your product or service, they just happen to bounce into your website and it triggered a sale.
Create Perfection, Nothing Less:
We are all students to perfection, even our site has “dead links” within. It happens to the best of us, the key is to consistently be putting your website through testing and development. Note: I understand that there are many websites out there that never change, if your site is already perfect, congratulations! - BUT … I dare you to start creating new content for your site daily, it won’t be long before you catch something off.
Perfection is a journey, not a task:
Enough said.
A lot of people get really anal when it comes to making mistakes on their site. “You’ll never find a mistake here” - Someone told me a while back. Within 5 minutes I pointed out to them a very important image that wasn’t showing up anymore, they had moved their image folder around. They weren’t impressed.
Let’s Go Back A Bit…
What Happens When Your Site Is Poorly Designed?
This is the #1 reason why you will either fail or succeed online. I’ll repeat that, a poor design will help you fail. Bottom line. I apologize if a few of you are speechless and don’t know what to do about it. Don’t worry, thoughts are things, think of situations that may help your goal in mind.
Is your site poorly designed? Here are some of the things people will think when looking at a poorly designed website…
* - Hmmmm, are they still in business?
* - If so, how are they doing it?
* - Wow, welcome to the mickey mouse club
* - Can I trust these guys with my personal information?
* - They must be desperate
* - Did they create this site 10 years ago?
* - Time to update, until then, I’m gone
* - They don’t seem to take pride in their work
* - They still make sites like this?
* - Must of taken them minutes to create this
You get the point. This article hasn’t been a fun one but, a needed one.
Create Your Site For Perfection In Order To Win :
Would you like to keep all your visitors? Would you like to increase your sales? Then keep putting your website under review.
* - Clean it up
* - Take out the trash
* - Increase your content
* - Create new images
* - Do something to improve your site right now.
Bottom line is no one is here to hold your hand. We can only sit back and watch to see what you feel is appropriate to present your business, your family name, and your honor. Improving your site brings greatness to your work. If not now, maybe later.
My Promise To You:
If you improve your entire site tonight, tomorrow will be a great day for your business. It will have undergone a well deserved face lift that brought life into the picture. You will feel better about yourself and where you are going.
I hope you enjoyed the article.
Martin Lemieux
Smartads - President
Affordable Web Design & Web Site Marketing
www.smartads.info & www.smartads.ca
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November 3, 2009
What is cross promotion?
Cross promoting is when two or more businesses promote
their products or services together.
It is a sales marketing secret that works better for
businesses that have the same target audience,
but are not in direct competition with each other.
Doing cross promotions with other businesses increases your
profits, sales, and beat your competition.
You can find businesses to cross promote all over the
Internet.
Participate in e-mail discussion groups, online
forums and newsgroups that deal with your target audience.
Subscribe to e-zines that deal with your targeted audience.
Note on your Web site or e-zine that you are interested in
cross promoting your products and services.
Search in your favorite web directories and search engines
to find targeted businesses.
Cross promoting has many benefits.
Save money by sharing the advertising and marketing costs.
Save time when both businesses share the workload.
You can offer your customers new products and services.
Get referrals from the other business’ clients.
Receive valuable information from the business.
Once you find a business you would like to cross promote
with simply e-mail them your proposal.
Tell the business owner the benefits of the cross promotion.
Explain to him or her why it would be a win/win situation for both
of your businesses.
Give them a lot of compliments about their business, Web site,
products and services.
Using all three methods above will greater your chance for
a profitable cross promotion.
May these sales marketing secrets help you to make a lot of money.
Warmly,
I-key Benney, CEO
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September 21, 2008
This article tells you the methods used by yahoo mail site to get free targeted traffic, and how you can adopt the same method to get tons of free targeted traffic to your new or already existing business.
Without any doubt, yahoo mail site is getting a lot of online traffic today, with about 2 millions visits per day and number 2 ranking in alexa survey, then you know that this site is a clear leader.
Most of the traffic are free, not because they are running an affiliate program, but because of proper business positioning, they provide what people always use and enjoy.
One of the phrases for assessing yahoo mail free e-mail services is “check yahoo mail”, which has become a hot profitable keyword for webmasters.
Today you can;
check yahoo mail and get protection against spam and viruses.
check yahoo mail and get 1GB of email storage.
check yahoo mail and get message size up to 10MB.
check yahoo mail anywhere there’s a web connection.
and then you can check yahoo mail site and use free!.
The secret of yahoo mail success lies in “the approach from the customer” end. That is, customer satisfaction first, providing solution first, then making profit later. More so, the products are highly relevant and free. Thus everybody always check yahoo mail.
You can reposition your business or start a new one; check yahoo mail style, by following the steps highlighted below;
(i) Provide Info/services in hot demand: People love to check yahoo mail site because they can’t do without yahoo products.
But what can you provide that will be in hot demand?.
Think of your work experience, ideas, hobby, or just any knowledge you know, and then start from there.
But more importantly, you need to search for information connected with your chosen idea or knowledge that people search for often, but are not really targeted by webmasters.
For example: “check yahoo mail” recorded 6843 demand(surfers) and 3917 supply(webmasters) last month. I will call check yahoo mail a profitable keyword because it will draw a lot of visitors to your site, and their is few competition for it.
Every single idea is profitable if only you get an info linked to it that people want. You can use a special e-commerce keyword research tool called searchit! for a good report.
(ii) Build a theme based site: You need a professional site based on your chosen theme, that is, your profitable and researched idea, everything in your site must be relevant and promote your theme.
Using a tool called SiteBuildIt! you can build, host and market your site all together at the same single price, with no additional software, no knowledge of html and your site in the first page of major search engines.
With a tool like this, you can concentrate more on building your business, while other aspects is being taken care of for you.
(iii) Use your site content to Presell Only: Your site content should be presented in such a way that visitors only see what can benefit them, not sales letters. Check yahoo mail site and see what I’ am talking about, keep the aspect of sales to the background and provide information first, make yourself a solution provider.
When they come to love and trust you, they will buy from you. Learn the art of e-persuasion from the book “How To Make Your Content Presell”.
(iv) Choose your Monetization models: After holding the attention of your site visitors enough to read your site content, you can now introduce him/her to products/ services connected to the info he/she is seeking as the solution.
This way, you can make multiple streams of income by;
*Google Adsense
*Affiliate programs of companies who sell products related to your theme.
*Referrer/finder arrangements.
*Other models for your long-term goals(ex., selling services, e-goods, hardgoods, etc.)
Check yahoo mail site to see how yahoo partner with other websites to make multiple income. You too can do the same.
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