Showing posts with label Marketing Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marketing Tips. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

How to Improve Search Results by Customize Google


Since Google is the most popular search engine, Google Search or Google Web Search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the Internet.
Major search engines, including Google, provide free tools for webmasters. Google's Webmaster Tools help webmasters better control how Google interacts with their websites and get useful information from Google about their site.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ Optimize how Google interacts with your website.
Search engine optimization, attempts to discern patterns in search engine listings, and then develop a methodology for improving rankings to draw more searchers to their client's sites.
Many webmasters have become eager to influence their website's Google rankings.Using Webmaster Tools won't help your site get preferential treatment; however, it can help you identify issues that, if addressed, can help your site perform better in search results.
An industry of consultants has arisen to help websites increase their rankings on Google and on other search engines.

Features

  • Use Google Suggest (suggest words while you're typing)
  • Add links to competitors
  • Rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images
  • Removes image copying restrictions in Google Book Search
  • Secure Gmail and Google Calendar, switch to https
  • Remove ads
  • Anonymize your Google user-id
  • Add a result counter in search result
  • Filter spammy websites from search results
  • Add links to Way Back Machine (web page history)
  • Remove click tracking
  • Stream Google search result pages
  • Sticky Google Preferences 
  • Add more security by using https wherever necessary 
  • Filter spammy websites from search results page 
  • Option to remove SideWiki 
  • Add links to bookmark your favorite result 
  • Add links to other news and product search sites

Special features

Besides the main search-engine feature of searching for text, Google Search has more "special features" (activated by entering any of dozens of trigger words) when searching.
  • weather
  • stock quotes
  • time
  • sports scores
  • unit conversion
  • currency conversion
  • calculator
  • numeric ranges
  • maps
  • movie show times
  • public data
  • real estate and housing
  • travel data/airports
  • package tracking
  • patent numbers
  • area code
  • synonym search
  • U.S. Government searc
Yahoo! (Yahoo! Site Explorer) and Microsoft (Bing Webmaster Tools) also offer free tools for webmasters.
Thursday, October 14, 2010

What is Social marketing ?


social marketing is being described as having "two parents"—a "social parent" = social sciences and social policy, and a "marketing parent" = commercial and public sector marketing approaches.
Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing, along with other concepts and techniques, to achieve specific behavioral goals for a social good.
Social marketing was "born" as a discipline in the 1970s, when Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman realized that the same marketing principles that were being used to sell products to consumers could be used to "sell" ideas, attitudes and behaviors.
Although "social marketing" is sometimes seen only as using standard commercial marketing practices to achieve non-commercial goals, this is an over-simplification.
The most popular platforms include:

Ethical Email Marketing ?


E-mail marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every e-mail sent to a potential or current customer could be considered e-mail marketing.
As a practical demonstration of  what does for me, here’s how I sell my Ethical Email Marketing.
Manually entering people onto lists, removing them, sending messages, etc. is a time consuming thankless job that nobody should be doing.
Marketers are predicted to increasingly take advantage of enhanced e-mail application features and strategic email marketing services. Email marketing services administered and applied by email marketing companies.
Email Marketing can be conducted in various frequencies and good email marketing companies can advise you on the best frequency balance to keep your profile high but not alienate recipients. Well planned and executed email marketing campaigns really produce results.
While spam volumes are predicted to continue to rise thanks to unscrupulous email marketing companies, the volume of spam messages reaching consumers is likely to remain steady over the next few years. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will continue to battle spam email marketing campaigns and use progressive tactics to block billons of messages every day.
As it is often difficult to distinguish between legitimate and unsolicited e-mail marketing, it would be wise when considering email marketing to consider an opt-in campaign.
The last thing any reputable organisation needs is to conduct a bulk email marketing campaign and run the risk of alienating recipients and being labeled as a spam email marketing sender in the process.
It's not just good business practice to respect recipient's privacy; you will also avoid legal and ethical problems with your email marketing campaign. Good email marketing companies will include a short, email privacy statement within opt-in forms and link them to the full policy statement on client Web sites.
Note: Do not spam your list. This includes passing their information on to others, or sending unrelated offers to them. Keep any emails you send relevant to whatever they signed up for. It is okay to send them offers, as long as it’s within the bounds of any promises you have made.

Define Social marketing ?


Social marketing is the planning and implementation of programs designed to bring about social change using concepts from commercial marketing.
Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing, along with other concepts and techniques, to achieve specific behavioral goals for a social good. It has evolved from a one-dimensional reliance on public service announcements to a more sophisticated approach which draws from successful techniques used by commercial marketers, termed "social marketing."
Social marketing can be applied to promote merit goods, or to make a society avoid demerit goods and thus to promote society's well being as a whole. For example, this may include asking people not to smoke in public areas, asking them to use seat belts, or prompting to make them follow speed limits.
social marketing is being described as having "two parents"—a "social parent" = social sciences and social policy, and a "marketing parent" = commercial and public sector marketing approaches.
Social marketing uses the benefits and of doing social good to secure and maintain customer engagement. In social marketing the distinguishing feature is therefore its "primary focus on social good, and it is not a secondary outcome. Not all public sector and not-for-profit marketing is social marketing.
Friday, September 24, 2010

What is Digital marketing ?


Digital Marketing is the promoting of brands using all forms of digital dvertising. This now includes Television, Radio, Internet, mobile and any other form of digital media.
Internet Marketing, it extends beyond this by including other channels with which to reach people that do not require the use of The Internet.

While digital marketing is effective using one message type, it is much more successful when a marketer combines multiple channels in the message campaigns. For example, if a company is trying to promote a new product release, they could send out an email message or text campaign individually.

There are 2 different forms of digital marketing, each of which has its pros and cons.

Pull

Pull digital marketing technologies involve the user having to seek out and directly select (or pull) the content, often via web search. Web site/blogs and streaming media (audio and video) are good examples of this. In each of these examples, users have a specific link (URL) to view the content.

Pros:
  • Since requests are inherently opt-in, the size of content is generally unlimited.
  • No advanced technology required to send static content, only to store/display it.
Cons:
  • Considerable marketing effort required for users to find the message/content.
  • Some types of marketing content may be blocked in mixed content scenarios (i.e.: Flash blockers)

Push

Push digital marketing technologies involve both the marketer (creator of the message) as well as the recipients (the user). Email, SMS, RSS are examples of push digital marketing. In each of these examples, the marketer has to send (push) the messages to the users (subscribers) in order for the message to be received. In the case of RSS, content is actually pulled on a periodic basis (polling), thus simulating a push.

Pros:
  • Faster delivery - push technologies can deliver content immediately as it becomes available.
  • Consistent delivery - some push platforms have single content types, making it difficult for the user to block content by type.
  • Better targeting - since push technology usually justifies subscription, more specific marketing data may be collected during registration, which allows for better targeting and more personalization.
  • Better data - marketing data can be correlated to each request for content, allowing marketers to see information such as user name as well as demographic and psychographic data.
Cons:
  • Smaller audience - push technology not implemented on common platforms generally need client and/or server software before content can be created, distributed, and/or viewed.
  • Higher cost - less popular platforms may have higher implementation costs.
  • Lesser discover-ability - smaller audiences mean fewer views mean less visibility in search engines.

Affiliate Marketing Tips and Ideas !!!


Affiliate marketing is a legitimate and effective method of making money on the Internet WITHOUT having your own product.

Affiliate Marketing Tips
This information is aimed at people who are new to affiliate marketing. Most of these tips are widely known and we don't pretend to have the "Big Secret" to success. If there really is a big secret at all, it undoubtedly would have to be: "work hard." We hope that the information provided here helps you get rolling down the road to affiliate marketing success. We also hope it will save you a little time and money in the process. Some of the below suggestions are pretty obvious ones, but sometimes it's nice to have someone else tell you that the obvious answer is a good one. Please also feel free to visit our 10 page Affiliate Training section.

Choose a topic you know –  The most common question asked by people new to affiliate marketing is "What should I start with?" We believe it is best to start with an area you know well. Doing this may not be the best converting, provide you with the highest commission, or even be the best managed program. But it is easy for you to build a site, and it's a subject you know and are interested in. That means you can add your own personal touch and opinions to the site. If you try to build your first site from something in which you have no personal interest, the site soon becomes a painful and boring task. Stick with what you know initially and then grow from there.

Banners, Banners, and More Banners –  If success at affiliate marketing could be achieved from throwing up pages of banners - then the world would have many more millionaires. A site with pages of banners or rows banners stuffed under content, not only doesn't make a person want to click the banner; it also has the added bonus of making your site look pretty ugly.

There is no Best Merchant Program –  Some people can succeed with a merchant where many others have failed. It is often true that some do poorly where others are making a fist full of dollars. Forums are full of posts that begin with, "My Sales this month for Merchant Program X are very poor." These same posts usually end with some one else posting, "Funny my sales are great." Remember that for your first site select a merchant based on what you know. In the early days, when you have just one small site, it will be easy to swap out all the links if the chosen merchant doesn't work out.

Use multiple merchants in the same niche –  As suggested, select a merchant based on what you like, or better yet select a few. Promoting 3-4 merchants on the same site gives your site visitors a variety of destinations to choose from. Doing this provides you with data on what your visitors want to see, and can provide you with important information on how well the different merchants perform against each other when put head to head.

There is no Best Network –  Another question commonly asked is, "What is the best network?" Everyone has their own reply to this question, and ultimately there is no best answer. This is especially true when you consider that many great programs don't even belong to a network at all. Every network has its strong points. Make your network selection based on the tools it provides for you. Also take into consideration if the network has the merchants you want to work with. Sometimes joining an undesirable Network is necessary because they have a merchant you really want to sign up with. Our recommendation is to try a merchant from all the main networks, see what works for you, and then focus your time accordingly.

What are Content Sites – If you visit affiliate marketing forums you'll hear people talk about "content sites." These are sites that provide potentially educational and topical content about the products they are promoting, or appear to promote products as a side focus. Content sites are easier to build when you know about the products you are promoting, or the merchant makes content available to you. However, don't forget the goal of your site is to make your site visitors click off of your site onto a merchant's store. No click-through means no sale.

While it is the ultimate aim of every affiliate partner not to have to do any work, the reality is, especially early on, there's a lot of work to be done. Whether it's in the site's design, updates, education or reading stats, there is a lot to do. The pay-offs aren't instant and it can take a fair few months before you're even making enough to even cover your costs. It takes perseverance, dedication and patience to succeed, don't quit if your first attempts don't pay off.