Archive for August, 2008

Do Not Ever Promote Your Product Or Services

No matter what kind of business you run, the ultimate goal is to sell your products and services and maximize revenue. The first goal however is to tap the market and lock in new customers or customers that have been loyal to a certain brand. Most companies and businesses overlook two simple yet the ony things that come in play while promoting their products and services. These two elements play the most important role or say the only role in securing a long term customer. So what exactly are these two things? Well, the two things that we are going to talk about is the only thing that any customer will ever buy from any business.

Your customers are interested in only two things while purchasing your product or services – Good feelings and solution to the problem. Everything else is secondary to these two elements that customers require.

In marketing these two elements are of utmost importance as this is what your marketing strategy should be geared towards. Don’t create a marketing message as to how you can sell your product but think how you can provide good feelings and solution to the customer’s problems. Following this strategy will give you a winning recipe each and every time. Read the rest of this entry

Why Social Media?

Social Media today has evolved faster than expected. As a matter of fact, there is at least one social media site born each week. Some get lost in the crowded social media market and some manage to steal our attention and time. We get hooked. We start exploring opportunities to maimize the exposure and revenue possibilities.

Although Social Media is exploited to some extent, it still stands as one of the most viable marketing option on the web. Whether its content on a blog or a product from an online catalog, social media can help leverage both traffic and sales.

The key to establishing yourself on a social media site is by creating a strong profile or portraying yourself as a brand within the community. If you look at some of the users on some bigger social media sites such as StumbleUpon and Digg, you can see some users are often referred to as power users. These users have been able to gain the attention from the community due to their active participation and quality submissions. The networking aspect of social media is what tends to garner the attention of most web users. Without networking no business can succeed and the same goes true for creating social media existence.

Social Media can be used in two ways to generate revenue and market what it is that you are trying to promote. The first is where you generate revenue indirectly and the second where you earn direct revenue.To better explain these two approach let’s take a look at the examples below. Read the rest of this entry

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7 Sites Every Marketer Should Keep An Eye On

Although we would like to cover everything on marketing, it’s not possible. We wish we could become your one stop marketing resource with live updates on industry news and insightful articles each day. We know how bad we wish it to happen but we also know that we are limited. It’s not just the time that limits us but we do have our limitations when it comes to knowledge as well. Although we have spent a fair share of our time in marketing, there are still new strategies that are being implemented as we write and you read.

We would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of the marketing sites/blog that we visit regularly to keep our marketing hunger satisfied. However, this certainly doesn’t mean that you won’t need to visit MarketingHackz anymore. Although these sites might be the marketing giants and what not, we certainly aren’t too far behind…and hey you never know we might be on the list somewhere. Read the rest of this entry

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Did you know there are over 1 billion internet users on the planet? That means you have that many customers available to convince them to visit your website and buy your product or service. Gone are the days where advertising campaigns are limited towards local promotional sales. Now you have the chance to target anyone, anywhere in the world. To get consumers interested in your product or service you should be able to maximise the exposure to your website. For that, pay per click advertising is the key. Pay per click advertising is when an advertising link on a website or search engine directs a user to the particular website. This involves an advertiser being charged only when a user clicks on the ad. The ads are triggered when a related keyword or phrase is entered into a search engine. There are numerous benefits to utilising pay per click advertising.

Pay per click advertising is cost effective and benefits the advertiser as they are only charged when a user clicks on the ad. This is essential for small budget companies as money is not being wasted and only spent on what is being utilised. Because most sponsored links show up on the right hand side of search engine results related to the ad, half the work is already done for you. This is because a user searching for similar keywords and phrases would be already interested in your field or line of work and would hopefully be attracted to click on your ad.  Pay per click advertising benefits your business by targeting users interested in specific products and fields.

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They didn’t just steal the concept, they totally stole the presentation as well. The only difference is they stole it from nobody else but themselves.

Burger King always seems to blow my mind away with their commercials, not in a good way. Most businesses create ad campaigns based on what’s popular at the moment. And presently, the movie ” The Dark Night” is extremely popular. So Burger King decided to create a commercial to promote their “Dark Whopper.”

Please take a look at the two Burger King commercials below. After you watch the first one make sure to compare the second one with the first commercial. Let’s see if you can find something Read the rest of this entry

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The Best Marketing Approach

Marketing isn’t about selling products and services. Marketing is about conveying messages in a manner that compels potential buyers to choose you over your competitors.

The key to effective marketing is nothing but confidence. Leaders are the best marketers ever because they tend to convey messages that mesmerize the crowd. Presidential candidates sell themselves through their speech. Presenters gain customers through their effective presentations. Teachers gain respect from students due to their ability to pass the information effectively, you get the idea.

Before you go out and start promoting your products and services, remember one thing - you are not trying to sell anything. All you are trying to do is provide information to potential customer, that’s all. If you think of marketing as a mere source of providing information without any push strategy, this will earn you not just sales but long term customers and clients.

Any quick marketing tips for us?

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