If your business is primarily B2C you need to be where your customers are. All arguments about not having the time or money take a back seat when you actually know where your customers are. Pingdom.com has come out with statistics on social media behavior. The statistics are primarily based on US demographics.
The surprising result is the young and tech savvy below 30 crowd’s presence is as strong as the 35 to 45 year crowd.
Here is a breakdown of where to find your consumers as per the age...
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Major search engines, reacting to local search statistics, are increasing their focus on personalizing and localizing their inquiry results. This evolution benefits small business owners in many ways including:
- Raising Local Awareness Using locally based keywords and phrases such as the names of a neighborhood, city, or county combined with relevant search terms gets SEO results much faster than competing for search terms on a national or global basis. These are, in effect, long tail keywords which define niches in both...
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The main objective of this weeks post? Interviewing Your Potential SEO Company (part 2) is to cover the areas of partnership between the prospective SEO company and your business. The blog consists of questions which help in determining?? whether the company is going to take an active interest in the success of your business or just punch the clock and charge the monthly search engine optimization fees. The basic questions that a company must ask are:-
'How often will we communicate' , 'What is our timeline and how will we...
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The daily evolution of search engine optimization results in the birth of new myths on a regular basis but the old ones dont seem to die with the same regularity. This may be due to the idea that some myths make it easier for companies to sell their SEO services, while others just carry on under their own power. The following is a list of some of the new myths as well as those that might take either a silver bullet or a wooden stake to kill.
- That Google partners with or approves SEO companies - This one is unlikely to die...
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Advances in alternatives and the decrease of associated costs have taken search engine marketing techniques far beyond the optimization of written content, blogs and articles. One of the most visible and well-known of these advances is YouTube, the video sharing site purchased by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006. A second advance, though not as ubiquitous as YouTube, is the podcast. A podcast is a digital media file which can be distributed over the internet using syndicated feeds for playback on portable media players, laptops and personal...
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Keeping up with innovations in the alternatives to written content could be considered a full time job as the role of websites continues to evolve from simple information dissemination sources to whiz-bang multimedia experiences. While the options have expanded dramatically, the ultimate purpose of any research based, optimized content remains the same; to bring visitors to the site and then keep them interested while they move through the conversion process. With visitors becoming more discriminating, the sales process may require multiple...
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Visitors who has arrived at your site, like what they see, and go to your shopping cart to make a purchase are much like patrons at a restaurant who have perused the menu and have decided on what they want to order for dinner. While the order is being placed the restaurant's waiter or waitress usually plays one of two roles; that of an order taker or that of someone who is trying to enhance the experience of the diner by suggesting appetizers, side dishes, and/or a bottle of wine to complement the main dish. This activity...
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Direct marketing has been an important part of the marketing mix for small, medium, and even large businesses.
Outsourcing your direct marketing campaign is a wise decision as you can get the help of professionals. A number of multi-national and even small companies have made use of these contact centers to get in touch with their customers and have increased their sales. You too can join the bandwagon and opt for the services of contact centers. Direct marketing involves a number of activities like
Online businesses go out of the way to promote themselves. Often the promotion is blatant.
But there is no single step to conversion and after the fist step often nothing happens. So how do you convert your leads into interested prospects?
Simple: Go beyond the usual.
In the offline world we see it happen often. The handyman may thoroughly clean out the garage though it wasn't a part of the job. Your garage mechanic may use some petrol to clean out an old stain in your car upholstery. What will you do? Next...
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In business we have to trust our service providers. SEO companies are our gateway to online success. But it’s a good idea to keep a tab on what they are doing on our websites. Remember in the online world the website is your business store and you wouldn’t want a wrong description or profile projected! Or worse you wouldn’t want to be taken for a ride after paying those dollars!
Ask them for a keyword list and make sure that they get them right.
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