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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Unique Way to Start Off With Offline Marketing

The offline marketing world is becoming more and more open to online marketing gurus. As more and more online marketers figure out how powerful offline marketing and promotions can be, it becomes a much easier approached field. Over the last few years, interest in offline marketing has gotten much bigger. Web marketers are getting real results by taking the offline path and there is no doubt that it is going to work. For lots, however, offline marketing still sounds like something that will fail. Talking over the phone, cold calling, connecting in real-time, having face to face meetings - all of this seems to be stopping aspiring marketers to explore this area. Of course, it doesn't need to be this way. This article is going to teach you a few ways that you can get offline marketing to work for you.

One unique way to start off with offline marketing is to rant about your blog whenever you get a chance. This especially helps when you're networking with people from your industry or if you meet a lot of people on a regular basis. Then you just bring up your blog in the conversations you have with people so that they will be interested in it. For example, if a particular topic comes up that interests everybody then you could probably say, "Oh yes, I should blog about that soon". This could be a great way to get people interested in your blog as well as what you have to offer through it. All you have to do then, if they are interested, is hand your business card to those people. Or you can also verbally let them know the URL of your blog.

Flyers--both posting and handing them out--can be a great way to get more exposure. Malls, public places, etc are great places to hand out flyers. Bulletin boards in department stores, grocery stores, etc are all good places.

You never know who might spot them. Print them in yellow and be sure that they include both your URL and your email address so that people will know how to get in touch with you if they want to do so. Your overall goal in this situation is to get the word out about what you have to offer to as many people and in as many places as you can. It's also good to get in touch with Internet browsing places and distribute your flyers there.

If you want to generate lots of attention for yourself, the easiest and most effective method of doing so is using word of mouth. Get people to talk about the product, service or whatever you're offering on your website.

You want to be so good at what you do that people can't help but talk about you. Ask your customers to tell other people about you. It's important to get your friends, family and even colleagues to tell their friends, family and colleagues about your website. It will take some effort to get the word of mouth jump started but that effort will really be worth it. Don't just depend on word of mouth happening on its own, initiate it if you can. You can get so much from offline marketing if you have the right approach. Whether it is targeted exposure or building your brand that you want to do, there is lots of success to be found here. The only thing that you need to keep in mind is not just depend on offline marketing. You need to take your efforts up to the next level by milking both online and offline marketing. Try to marry them and use them together. Try to figure out how to gain even more success by using online and offline marketing in tandem. Make sure that you take consistent action so that you can get consistent results, as much as you would if you used Google Places optimization.

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Are You Driving Website Traffic, Just for the Sake of Driving Traffic?

We all want to increase traffic for the same reasons. The higher the amount of website traffic, the more sales and money we will make, right? Not necessarily.

I recently was on a conference call with a prospect that was in the market for search engine optimization and he proceeded to explain to me that he created a job posting on several popular job websites and included a link back to his company's website simply to increase traffic to the company website. Huh?

I know we all like people to visit our website and we love to take a look at our website analytics and see 100 new visitors every hour. This is a great feeling of accomplishment knowing that people are interested in visiting your website and seeing what you have to offer. Unfortunately, all it does is offer an ego boost because these people are not interested whatsoever in what you have to offer.

Let me say it again. Website traffic means NOTHING if it is not targeted to the right people. If your company website is receiving 1,000 visits per day and not benefitting from the traffic by the way of either leads, phone calls, purchases, advertisement clicks, etc.. then the traffic is utterly useless. Consider the following example.

An example is a company who provides professional SEO services to small and medium sized businesses. If we go ahead and create a job ad and paste it all over popular job websites, the only thing that we are going to accomplish is driving in 500 visitors who are looking for a job. That is not targeting people who are looking for professional SEO services. You would be better off getting 2 visitors targeted to business owners rather than 500 people looking for a job. Then at least those 2 visitors could be potential prospects.

Have you ever seen those annoying banner ads offering to send 1,000 visitors to your website for just 10 bucks? How many of those visitors do you think are actually qualified for your website? How much of that traffic will be useless and how much of that will simply be some kind of automated technique to send thousands upon thousands of automated traffic to your website?

The moral of the story is this: no matter what type of online marketing campaign you are employing, whether it be search engine optimization, pay per click campaigns, social media or otherwise, make sure that you are targeting your ads and website to the right people and qualifying your visitors. Otherwise you will be left with no money and a bruised ego after you find out that all of that traffic was useless.

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