Stop Wasting Your Time & Money: Use These 6 Proven Best Online Marketing Strategies
Posted: Wednesday, October 07, 2009
by Dr. Bryan Stoker
http://www.Autopilot101.com
The Web offers many Services to many people, and one of the most important services is the ability to generate a fortune from something you Find interesting. Whether you like to write, paint, play Games, Sail boats, travel, invest, save money, make money, improve your health, workout, lose weight, fish, hunt, or simply seek products and information you need to do your job, there is a cluster of people out there looking for what you have to offer. You can sell your products, your services, your ideas, or your know-how. However, whatever you have to sell, you need to know how to advertise it, and that is what this article is all about.
What do I mean by Most Effective?
I mean you quickly Present your message in front of the most people with the least amount of effort with minimal or no costs. If you are selling something, successful promotion will get your message in front of genuine buyers; not just Browsers. You will get respectable search engine rankings so Users can locate your website, and you will develop results quickly.
3 of these methods are complimentary, and 3 of them are not, but all of them are powerful, proven, effective, and should be used like members of an effective team. These are the best Online promotion Methods on the web. So, here are the 6 proven Internet promotion methods on the online today. I'll start with number 6 on the list and then Proceed to number 1, the best of the best.
Number 6 on our list is Article Marketing: Article Marketing is simply writing and publishing articles that fascinate your target market. There are 2 important concepts here: First, you write an interesting, informative article and put a quick benefits-oriented link in the Resource Box (a.K.A., the About The Author box) in hopes that the reader will click the Hyperlink and visit your website. The second Factor is whether the reader clicks the link or not, you have now produced a backlink to your website, and the more backlinks you have, the better Your search engine rankings will be. Article marketing is the first free online marketing strategy on our list. You can easily write one or more articles related to your field and automatically submit it to thousands of websites for free.
Number 5 of the Top 6 is Forums & Blogs. Forums and blogs follow generally the same logic as article marketing, but the important difference is you will be writing about topics of specific concern to the Readership of the blog or forum. In other words, the audience is already interested in what you have to say and is more likely to click your About The Author link if you make it attractive and beneficial to them. Forums and blogs are another free Strategy.
Number 4 is to use eBay classified ads. This one will cost you a tiny amount of money (approximately $10 for 30 days), but the central notion here is people go to search engines to search, but people go to eBay to Buy! So, if you are selling something and you draft a good classified ad, eBay is the best place to Promote to serious buyers. Classified ads are short, text ads stating an enticing benefit provided by your product or service (e.G., Free Video Reveals How To Get 1 Million Backlinks to Your Site In 30 Seconds Effort). There are literally thousands of classified ad sites on the Web, and Lots of them are free. The catch is it takes forever to manually place your classified ad on them. Thus, you either need Classified Ad Submission software or you have to pick the best place to publish your classified ad. If you are looking for buyers, eBay classifieds are the way to go.
Number 3 on the list is a Press Release. Look at what you have to offer and Determine how to make it newsworthy. Then write a press release. A newsworthy event can be the pronouncement of a new product or service, a new-found way to apply the product or service, something that occurred by using the product, or a fantastic experience resulting from the product or service. The beauty of a press release is your announcement could in reality end up on the national news! This is maximum exposure for a relatively small cost. Unfortunately, press releases are generally not free and must be in the correct Press Release format.
Number 2 on our list is PPC advertising. PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click. Obviously by the name, this Method is not free and can be Extremely expensive if you do not know what you are doing, but nothing works as Expediently to get your ad in front of people specifically interested in what you are Presenting. The basic idea is you bid on keywords or phrases that people who in the market for what you are offering would enter in a search engine. For the lowest costs and best results, you need to use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) methods on your website.
If potential customers using the search engine don't enter the keywords you bid, you do not pay. If your ad is displayed, but the customer does not click on your link, you still do not pay. You only pay when someone enters your keyword AND clicks on your ad. You can start seeing targeted results in A half hour with PPC marketing. The order in which your ad is displayed relative to other bidders depends on the amount of your bid; the more you bid, the higher your ad placement. PPC is the most expensive of the top 6 online marketing methods in terms of total dollars spent per sale, but it also provides laser sharp targeting, provides fast results, and is wickedly effective when done right.
Finally, number 1 on our list of the 6 proven online marketing techniques is Joint Ventures, and surprisingly, it is often one of the free options. This technique borrows the readership or members of someone else that already has a large following. The most productive way to do joint ventures is to offer an tantalizing freebie in the newsletter your Joint Venture partner emails to his list and capture the name and email of people who respond; this will put them on Your list, and you can build a huge customer list fast this way. When you propose your joint venture, however, you need to make it a win-win-win proposition; it has to be good for your JV partner, her readers, and of course you.
Another form of Joint Ventures is to approach a proprietor of a normal brick-and-mortar business who might provide a discount or coupon for visitors to your site in exchange for letting you place flyers in his store. Regardless of which model you use, there is an art to doing Joint Ventures correctly, so you should investigate more before you Attempt in this option.
So, those are the proven 6 best marketing strategies on the Web today, and they really do work! Of course, things are always changing, but all of these are likely to continue to remain in the highly-effective category of Internet marketing for years to come.
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