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Welcome to our website, where our team of experienced marketing professionals advise our readers on a wide range of common online marketing problems. We look at how you can get a website done cheaply, and then market it effectively across various platforms.
The Importance of Online Marketing
Marketing is a very old strategy for improving the impression people have of a company and their products and services, and developing recognition of said company and their products and services. Although it is old, marketing in the virtual sphere is quite different, with an entirely new set of platforms on which to develop your brand.
Online marketing is in many ways a necessity for modern businesses to compete, but more importantly, it is superior in a number of ways to old styles of marketing. The internet provides normal users instantaneous access to a wide range of business websites, and companies with access to an enormous number of users. Taking your opportunities to expose your company is essential, and we explore how you can maximise your online opportunities.
Online Marketing Strategies
Online marketing occurs in a number of areas and through a number of strategies. The goal of all of them is to generate traffic to your website and converting that traffic into customers. In order to do this effectively, most marketing professionals will agree that diversifying your traffic generation is one of the best approaches to online marketing. In line with that, these are the platforms where you should be focussing your efforts (for small and medium sized businesses):
- Search engine optimisation, including paid ads with Google AdWords (pay-per-click text ads) and Google shopping (pay-per-click image ads) which appear in search engine results pages (SERPs).
- Social media. This is becoming an important tool for business promotion and customer relationship management.
- Online marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay.
If your business is bigger and requiring of more promotion you may also want to consider:
- Promoting your website across high readership blogs and online newspapers for additional exposure.
- Making deals with those you’re supplying products to for additional marketing opportunities.
The Importance of Website Design
The foundation of most online marketing strategies is the website that your business uses to promote products and services and process stock and sales. It needs to have an appealing face to the website with a complex machine helping you to manage a modern day global business efficiently. SEO depends upon a well organised content management system in order to perform as advertised, and it all needs to look good and offer a user-friendly experience in order to convert traffic into sales.
We look at how business owners can get a website design which will serve this purpose. We delve into how you can do this cheaply, but also look at what forking out the cash can convert into an amazing website which wipes the floor with your competitors.