In this day and age, opening an online business is only half the battle in achieving your desired level of success. But what if you already have an offline business and want to “crush it” online? Good question for a lot of current and would-be web-preneurs looking for that secret sauce.
So let’s delve into this. By the way, there really are no secrets, just smart moves. You might even have a sophisticated, well-designed ecommerce site with an enormous product line, but people still have to find you and visit your store before they can buy. Then consider the literally millions of other stores/sites out there; even more important to stand out from the crowd. This is where marketing enters the fray. While there are lots of ways to inform the public about your business, attract them to your site, and engage them with your offers, the most important and unique marketing tactics are done digitally.
The three main ingredients you want to add to the marketing mix giving your site a distinct advantage digitally are:
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You’re busy. You run a small business and have limited time to keep up with your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn updates, not to mention, um, Pinterest. So, what to do; hire a high school kid to manage that for you? Not recommended!
Instead, we make our pitch for HootSuite (yes, we are a customer and affiliate) and yes, it’s something we use everyday to make our business life that much easier. That’s because HootSuite is the most reliable and comprehensive set of social media management tools available anywhere at any price. In fact, if you can imagine a one-stop shop to cover all of your social media tasks in one fell swoop, HootSuite is the answer to fulfil your needs. We think it’s hands down the best way to compress time from something you know you need to be able to keep pace with; your customer engagement.
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Here’s a special invitation for you. Ryan Deiss, digital marketer extraordinaire, is inviting you to get a sneak peek at his latest work before anyone else. You see Ryan Deiss is launching a new book on Amazon Kindle and he’s going to do it live and in addition, let you see how he promotes it, gives it away and eventually sells it!
Ryan’s goal is 10,000 downloads and 500 real sales within the first
month. We get to see the whole thing in real time…
He’s calling it: The Great Kindle Challenge. IF (and I do mean IF) he succeeds, he will have discovered how to build micro $1,000 a month info businesses out of thin air… BUT, if he’s wrong, he’ll be eating crow in front of everyone.
Either way you’ll see it all live.
My friend Don Crowther is back again with a most impressive video in his series that is turning traditional social media on its ear. Oh, and he’s giving away a very cool business-building tool to anyone who watches the video until the end.
First however, I want to set the record straight — Don is not normally a troublemakerm but if there’s one thing that gets him hopping mad, it’s watching people do the same things over and over that don’t work. People get caught in this trap because it’s the way we’ve always done it before.
Well, suffice to say in Social Media, you have to be on your toes, especially when someone comes up with an infinitely better system, like Don has for making money on social media. That’s why he is GIVING AWAY his very own systems-building template on this video.
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Did you know you can easily publish and sell ebooks, reports and newsletters on Amazon’s Kindle? Yes you can and this awesome new $7 report will reveal step-by-step “How To Partner With Amazon” and in fact, have Amazon do all of the selling for you.
One thing to keep in mind as you consider this (and if you’ve been wasting time with other info-selling business models). Amazon is KILLING Clickbank! Did you even know that you could sell ebooks, reports and even monthly newsletters on Amazon?
Did you know Amazon does all the selling for you?
I’m just presenting the facts here for what I know are a lot of frustrated online local and Internet Marketers. Forget Clickbank,
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Are you involved in marketing on Facebook? If so then no doubt you’ve already heard about sweeping changes coming to Facebook Fan Pages this Friday (March 30th). If you would like to learn more about how to adopt these changes and profit from them, by all means take some time out to read through this important information…
We are pleased to announce a FREE Video Series Revealing New Facebook Tweaks that helps to convert up to 52.6% better than standard landing pages using the new fan page timeline layout. If that doesn’t just grab you, check your pulse because after that we’re going to take you by the hand and show you how to increase leads and sales by over 52.6%.
Small businesses are starting to take social media a lot more seriously. They say timing is everything and right now not even the greatest of skeptics can deny the shear power in numbers. Indeed the numbers don’t lie and the fact that over 800 million users just on Facebook alone is enough to sway the resisters.
If nothing else, business owners such as real estate brokers, plumbers, dentists, you name it need to take a closer look at the real benefits of adopting and implementing a social media campaign. More to the point, they would be wise to set reachable goals towards making their social media campaign a success.
That being said, let’s explore some ways to harness these timely social media opportunities so that when you, Mr and Ms. Business Owner are ready to take action, it won’t seem nearly as daunting.
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Guys and gals, heads up because this is a must-read if you are serious about improving your business website’s Google ranking. Now that I’ve got your attention, here’s a question for you: Did you know that Google is now ranking YouTube videos that can leverage just a few simple hacks? It’s true. These little bitty YouTube hacks will have you ranked above well established 10-year old webpages so in essence, you now have pretty much guaranteed way to literally CRUSH your competition.
Okay, let’s cut right to the chase. Download YouTube Google Hack Report right now. The report teaches you exactly how to Rank Almost Any YouTube Video #1 on GOOGLE in 3 Days Flat!
The price point is ridiculous. So ridiculous I can’t even say here, but rest assured, you would probably spend more money on a two small coffees at Starbucks for you and a friend.
Finally, after all those years of frustrating how-to’s and having to kowtow to elitist SEO gurus, local search engine marketing mysteries are at last being solved for small business. So if you’ve been struggling to find ways to increase online sales and are bound by budgetary constraints where your local SEO is concerned, today is your lucky day.
If you’ve tried marketing on Facebook with absolutely ZERO success, join the club. Facebook marketing is complicated, time consuming, frustrating and can be painfully slow. Not to mention many business owners report their efforts have yielded minimal returns at best.
It’s enough for a lot of businesses to turn a blind eye to Facebook marketing, but we’re here to suggest the exact opposite. Please be advised that ignoring the massive consumer shift to the preferred social media platform, Facebook, would be a significant error in judgment. The real challenge to be addressed is how to harness the tremendous marketing power of Facebook and use it to increase revenues for your company.
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