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Thursday, November 04, 2021

Affiliate Marketing Best Practices

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Affiliate marketing is one potent tactic of leveraging the online influence commanded by an individual or a group of people/organization. Many people make quick money online from affiliate marketing provided they have the right skills to persuade/influence people adequately online. Affiliate marketers survive by earning commissions from the products they actively promote on behalf of product merchants. There are best practices needed to bring that about, some of which are discussed below. Even though affiliate marketing is a fast, inexpensive and very effective way to make money online, there are rules and best practices which must be strictly observed to make money from it. Following are some of such best practices.



Create Fresh Content Regularly

In digital marketing, content is king, and fresh content is the icing. You can create this content as a blogger, a social media influencer, or a website owner. Affiliate marketers rely on the content they create to influence and persuade prospective consumers to invest in a product/service. Therefore, by adding fresh content to your chosen platform regularly, you make the right efforts to arrest the attention of your audience and to keep them engaged. That way, you can better influence them. The fresher the content you churn out, the freer traffic it generates. This makes quality content creation on a regular basis one of the most important best practices in affiliate marketing.

Be Consistent and Focused

Building trust online is always a very huge task for most affiliate marketers. Staying consistent, focused and putting in a sustained effort is one of the best ways to build online trust. That takes quite a while to build though partly because of the nuances of the internet as a market space. To get a sustainable target audience, you need unfettered focus and patience. Your audience may not grow immediately but with consistency and focus, it will eventually.
 
Save Up and Re-Invest

Well, we always hear experienced digital marketers say it is pretty difficult if not impossible to take a business loan online. So, you must depend on other reliable sources of funding. Foremost among these sources is saving up and re-investing. You must be able to save up the initial profits made from your affiliate marketing business with a view to re-investing it down the road. Re-invested profit is a very handy way to grow your affiliate marketing business and to make even more profits.



Invest in Detailed Research

For every profitable business, pre-launch research is always very important. Make sure this is done before you commence your marketing operations. Planning ahead and planning well are very crucial to your affiliate marketing success. It is very important to find out early on if the product you are taking up for promotion can turn out profitable in the short and long term. That vital information can be gleaned from the number of people it would need to reach so that you could generate worthwhile revenue off it. Because affiliate marketing is a time-intensive business, you really need to carry out detailed research to be sure your business will be profitable before you launch out.

Outsource Excess Work

In affiliate marketing, it is at times pretty difficult to do everything alone. That is where outsourcing comes in very handy. It is one unique best practice if you decide to outsource routine tasks to reputable outside professionals. If you do this, your business can expand exponentially as a result and that is good for your profits too. Some professionals that quickly come to mind in this quest are expert developers, SEO experts, part-time or full-time assistants, etc. whom you can hire to help handle some marketing tasks for you.

Saturday, March 06, 2021

How to Use Automation to Boost Your Online Marketing Business

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Experienced online marketers make money by embarking on such marketing activities that help to keep costs low and revenues high. Marketing automation tools are extremely essential in the task of achieving such marketing objectives. To hone their marketing strategies and increase efficiencies, online business owners are increasingly leveraging automation and reducing human intervention to manage routine daily tasks. Marketers now rely on automation to restructure the digital marketing activities that help them to nurture leads, sales and business communication messages. Automation also helps to reduce the tendency of task repetition and delayed timelines. These technologies help marketers to achieve high ROI by simply integrating data and processes that automate marketing tasks. That comes about through high operational efficiency that allows businesses to manage effectively and efficiently, multiple marketing channels with automated tasks.



Find below, some of the benefits digital marketers derive from automation that help boost their businesses in a great way.
 
Effectiveness in Spending

Every responsible businessperson always keeps a keen eye on costs. Personnel maintenance cost is always a major cost element for most businesses. When automation replaces human tasks, the spending on human resources is relatively less. That helps to free up resources for other business activities that help the overall increase in the ROI for the business.
 
Generating and Nurturing Leads

Generating leads and sales are crucial to the survival of any marketing business. Automation helps marketers to better focus on strategies for nurturing leads and customer acquisition. By using effective marketing automation tools, marketers can get great insights into customer behavior and their purchase journey. That vital information is essential for marketers to redesign or tweak their marketing strategies for better results. With these insights, they can customize follow-ups with customers in a more personalized and engaging manner.

Refining Marketing Strategies

Automation gives marketers ample time and information to enable them analyze better, customer behavior and their purchase journey. With that, they can evolve more strategies that better help and enhance customer experience. They can in addition create more personalized content to reach out better to potential customers, process and nurture the leads.

Integrating Marketing Strategies

Automation helps marketers to integrate and execute marketing campaigns better. Marketers rely on automation to handle mundane and repetitive tasks by eliminating repetition through template-based workflows and integration of marketing channels onto a centralized platform. In doing so, marketers save valuable time and resources while still getting very good results from their marketing activities.  When marketers integrate their marketing activities into dedicated platforms for social media marketing, email marketing, and data analytics, the results are great.

Improving Time Efficiency

Time as a vital resource is very crucial to the success of many businesses. For that reason, by leveraging automation tools, marketers can indeed handle better, activities that help to expedite time-consuming tasks. Doing so helps marketers to free up valuable time for other vital business tasks that require direct human intervention. With more time available to them, marketers can be more innovative, focus better on important tasks and be more result-oriented in managing their businesses.

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Leveraging Free Digital Marketing Resources to Grow Your Business

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What is most important in today’s hugely competitive small business marketing world is to understand your customers and competitors as well as the latest market trends. If you fail or neglect to do this, it will be very difficult for your business to have any traction amidst the stiff competition in the digital marketing world. One way out is to leverage free digital marketing resources to gain valuable knowledge with some tricks and tips to boot even if your business is so cash-strapped as not to have enough funds to invest in big-ticket marketing courses. If your business is still in its early growth stages, you can access free digital marketing resources online to aid your business growth. Continuing education is very essential in a fast-moving industry such as digital marketing. You must take full advantage of that in your own business if you want the business to grow. 



What to Do

First, you must be willing and open to learn new digital lessons no matter how experienced you already are. Next is to take concrete steps to enroll in free digital marketing boot camps and courses. These courses will provide you an excellent base knowledge of how the digital marketing industry functions in practical terms.

Here are some free resources that can be of help to you for a practical, hands-on knowledge that you really need to grow your digital marketing business.

Google Analytics Academy

You can hardly do any meaningful marketing business online without the aid of Google resources. Google Analytics Academy appears to be one of the best entry-level courses for digital marketers. From it, marketers learn how to collect/collate market data. Next is, how to analyze the data, and how to derive useful insights from it to help make useful decisions for business growth.

MOZ Academy

Search Engine Optimization, SEO is a hugely challenging marketing technicality for most marketers. This is why most marketers hire experts to do it for them. Without proper SEO on your website, getting organic traffic from search engines is near impossible. Having a working knowledge of SEO is helpful to all digital marketers. MOZ Academy helps to provide marketers a great crash course on the basics of SEO.

Ahref's Blogging for Business

Blogging is one very useful marketing strategy which most marketers now rely on to promote their businesses online. Ahref's Blogging for Business is an amazing resource for mastering the basics of blogging. You learn from it such skills as blogging for business-to-business, B2B, business-to-consumer, B2C, SEO keyword research skills and even copy-writing skills.

HubSpot Academy

HubSpot Academy provides short crash online courses, which generally take several hours to complete. It teaches all aspects of modern digital marketing skills/principles. These include email marketing, social media marketing, inbound sales, and content strategy design among others. 



Hootsuite Academy

In Hootsuite Academy, you have access to a slate of free and paid certification courses depending on what you want. However, in this Academy, only the paid courses offer certifications. Courses available include, social media advertising, content marketing and social media strategy building among others.

Social Media Influencers

There are many free digital marketing lessons to learn if you search out and follow social media influencers in your industry. By entering industry keywords and phrases into the search boxes of popular social media platforms like, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. you can discover influencers and thinkers within your industry who have high engagement. These are the ones to follow. You will learn a lot by not just following them, but also taking very active part in their conversations.

Trusted Marketing Blogs

Marketing blogs are other free online resources you can learn from. These blogs are a great way to keep up on industry news. You have free access to digital marketing industry news if you follow trusted marketing blogs and online news websites. It is advisable to diligently, shop around to find out which platform provides the most insights for your specific business niche. Some expert marketers recommend trusted marketing blogs from Search Engine Land, Moz Blog, Content Marketing Institute and Search Engine Journal among others as very useful digital resources.

Saturday, September 12, 2020

How to Market your Professional Services Online

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If you are in any of the popular professions like law, accounting, medicine, entertainment, real estate, plumbing, haulage etc and you want to market your services online, always be clear who you really want to market to. What most people simply want to know about you is, who you are, what you know and how much what you know can be of help to them. It is as simple as that. As a professional, to market your services successfully online, you must explore every way to get your info in front of the right people at the right time and even in the right forum. That strategy tends to get the best results. With the right marketing strategy, professionals can attract and convert prospects with ease. It is also possible to re-engage existing clients and turn them into regular sources of referrals. First, you must take the right steps that can help you to stand out and be easily recognized in the vast digital world of the internet. These tips can be of help if you diligently try them out.

Personalize and Command your Presence Online

Make sure your biography is fully established on your website. That allows you and your website to make online presence together as a good step to personalizing them for the benefit of your target audience. That way, the traffic your website attracts, directly benefits your professionalized profile. With time, many searchers may indeed be hitting your website mostly because of the info laid out on your biography. You can use free online tools to help personalize your online presence and to command more respect and demand for your professional services. If used correctly, you can indeed witness some appreciable increase in prospects reaching out to you through the “contact us” form on your website. The email address, social media handles and even the telephone numbers you have on site can be very good personalization tools that enable your audience to make easy contact with you and your business. 



Embrace Technology

These days, embracing technology to enhance your professional services is a given. Anyone who genuinely wants to do good professional business online must embrace the right and suitable technology to enhance the business. Smart professionals are increasingly turning to smart tools that easily combine their personal touch with cutting-edge technology to do business online. You now have specially adapted software that computers can use to ease things up a bit for any professional service. Everyone wants to save time and get a good job done professionally and the right technology usually helps a great deal in that quest. Zoom meetings, virtual seminars/learning, online graphic tools are a few of the technologies professionals now depend on to get things done faster, safer and better.

Optimize your Website for Searches

Your website is your online business window in the virtual world. If you already have one, it is just not enough to design and host your website well. It must be optimized to make it visible to search engines. Doing so allows it to benefit from organic traffic which search engines are well positioned to send its way. If your website is not optimized, it benefits only from generic traffic. A generic traffic website tends to speak only to an undefined target audience, the reason it generates only mediocre results in terms of inbound prospect traffic. Optimization positions the site for prospect searchers to reach it from their own search results on their own time and place. With the availability of personalization tools on the site, prospects can easily get in touch with you by way of any of the contact info you’ve provided therein.

Be Consistent

Information consistency helps to build trust and authority. Make sure that any info you provide online is accurate and not contradictory to what you’ve already supplied someplace else. Inconsistency is unprofessional and may indeed hurt your business if you are not careful. Professionally, irrespective of whatsoever marketing tactics you may choose to use online, the important thing is to be sure you are consistent. Consistency helps to build credibility for your business. That in turn helps to increase trust and confidence with your prospects, a development that is very good for business.

Match-Make Other Professionals

This two-way traffic service serves most professionals very well. In medicine, they call it referrals. Medical practitioners always send some of their patients to other specialists for medical intervention depending on their specialized fields. Such Doctors too also benefit from such referrals in their own areas of specialization. Naturally, no matter how good you are in your profession, it is not possible to be everything to everyone. You cannot be an expert in all fields. The real reason it is good to match one professional somewhere with a business prospect where your own expertise is limited. You also benefit from other professionals who benefit from you in similar matchmaking. This is good for business no doubt.

Avoid Generalized Messaging

As a professional, you must have realized that you can’t be everything to everyone. Yes, you do have your own limits as a human being no matter how intelligent and professionally qualified you are. As a professional, you must know your audience well enough to be able to market to them directly at all times. To avoid confusing your audience, desist from sending generalized messages to your specialized audience. Addressing your audience with strange professional jargons is also not helpful at all. As much as possible, your content marketing campaigns must be specific and directed to your target audience even if by way of multi-channels approach on social media, emails, blogs, podcasts or even videos. This is because of the relative ease of leveraging specialized marketing messages across multiple platforms.
 
Be Credible

Factual consistency helps to build credibility for your business. If you are a professional, credibility is one of the most important characteristics on which to build your business. You get a lot of business mileage if you are able to get your marketing messages and thoughts out to your audience solely on the strength of the business credibility you’ve strenuously built up online over time. Your business credibility can earn you a quotation as an expert in the news or having your business featured in large/reputable name media publications. These publications do act as your third-party endorsements. More of such endorsements easily give credibility to your business by way of helping to build trust for it and allaying the fears of clients at having to do business with you.

Be an Expert Author

If you are a professional, your authority is asserted better if you manage to get your name on a good book as an author. A good book helps to highlight your expertise and to educate your clients on your areas of specialty. Writing a good book may be time and other resources consuming but it is something that can truly set you apart from your competition. That no doubt is a very good testimony to your expert professional standing. You can autograph books and give them away as gifts at seminars and other professional gatherings. You can also use eBooks online for similar purposes.

Periodically Appreciate your Clients

Most humans naturally crave recognition and appreciation. To enhance your professional standing and to appreciate your clients better, you can occasionally send them token gifts and even ebooks online highlighting current breakthroughs in your profession. These token gestures can go a long way to get your clients to remember to do business with you when they need to. Gifts are very good as public relations tokens as well.



Write a Professional Newsletter

Unlike writing a book, writing a newsletter can be less strenuous for a professional. You can use newsletters to regularly update your clients on the latest developments in your profession and how these developments affect their businesses. A good newsletter also helps to keep your business name in the minds of your clients even if you send it via email or given out physically.

Embrace Smart Work as Against Hard Work

This is where smart technology is very important. Your professional job is better enhanced with the right technology. That is working smarter. Zoom meetings, virtual seminars, emails, blogs and social media marketing all enable a smarter working environment and better results delivery for your professional business. You can leverage these smart working technologies to relate easily with a bigger audience and to enhance your business effectiveness as a professional. With the effective use of emails, newsletters and social media marketing, you can maintain contact with your clients easily. That is working smarter as against working harder.

Use the Right Metrics to Measure your Efforts

Smart professionals working online always drive their marketing plans based on concrete goals and driven by accurate metrics which you can with the use of Google Analytics, a free online tool. It helps your planning efforts to be able to measure accurately your website traffic, click rates, leads and sales rates. To grow your professional business online, these metrics are very important. They help you to plan how to better attract and convert new prospects to clients. They help to save you the efforts of dissipating your valuable time and resources in the wrong directions.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Highly Economic Ways to Boost Conversions

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Most online businesses are always looking for ways to increase their conversion rates. For such businesses, affiliate marketing always comes in very handy because of its unique qualities of helping to boost conversion rates. It is economical too and advert budget friendly because it delivers effectively on a pay-per-performance model. What that means is that merchants pay commissions to affiliates only on the basis of the conversions they help to garner. That appears fair enough on the surface but merchants still have to experiment with different affiliate partnerships and sales strategies until they find the one that works best for them. That requires some unique strategies to get right.  When merchants manage to get that right, they can then expect a remarkable boost in conversions and ultimately business revenue figures.


 

Here are some strategic effects which help to enhance the process.

Effects of Someone Your Consumer Trusts

This comes into effect by simply targeting people your consumers can trust and bringing them on board your referral marketing chain. In this regard, bloggers and social media influencers are particularly effective because they already have a large following of persons who trust and rely on their recommendations to make a purchase decision.  These people are very effective at helping to grab conversions from their loyal and dedicated fans/followers on the basis of the relationship they’ve established which subsists on trust. To get the desired results, you must as a matter of deliberate policy try to build very strong relationships with your affiliates, be on the lookout always for affiliates who really like your product/service, are trustworthy and have a full engagement of a large following. Such affiliates help a great deal to boost conversion rates at very cheap costs.

Effects of Hyper-Targeting

In modern day online marketing, you get better results when your ads are specially designed to appeal to a very specific group of people. That is hyper-targeting. As a remarkable improvement over traditional marketing methods, marketers are now able to focus on a very specific demographic, down to age, gender, location, education, and even brand preference. The results of such hyper-targeting could be very impressive. When you introduce affiliate marketing in the mix, it not only allows you to control what message is sent about your brand, but also who sends it and to whom. That makes it imperative for you to work with affiliate partners who are closely aligned with your target audience. Doing so enables you to deliver at all times, a clear and powerful message to your consumers from someone they trust.  That is what helps to get the best results which reveal this method as a very effective strategy for boosting conversions. However, for it work satisfactorily, it is advisable that you know very well your target consumer at the outset. Research deep to find out your consumer’s core values as well as where and how they spend their time online using the right online tools which enable you to make changes in your marketing strategy as necessary.

Effects of Bolstering Valuable Content

 
Online marketers have since found out that one great benefit of affiliate marketing is that it contributes immensely to your presence on the internet and, ultimately, your search engine rankings. Influencers, bloggers and publishers who routinely write highly informational and educative posts about your products/services work in anticipation of Google’s need for user-friendly content that serves a useful purpose to the reader. When Google likes your content, it ranks it high on its SERPs. That gets it better noticed for greater readership and ultimate conversions. To be so favoured by search engines, affiliates must habitually write good content that people like to read. Such content must be SEO compliant for better rankings and merchants must regularly frontload their affiliates with vital and current information about their products/services.

Effects of Leveraging Special Promotions

 
Affiliate marketing can help grow your conversion rate by helping to attract new and repeat customers through special promotions. Most online shoppers depend on someone they trust to take most of their buy decisions. In that category are influencers, bloggers and publishers whom the buyers trust and are already following. Even if buyers are hesitant to commit on account of price or some other impediment, a recommendation from influencers or bloggers helps that process along for them to commit to buying. Special promotions which come highly recommended by these online influencers help boost conversions for the business.

Promo codes, discounts, deals and sales on their own may help grow conversion rates but without a good reach, their effects are severely limited. It is influencers and bloggers who help to provide this much needed reach and eventual boost in conversions. So, when merchants combine affiliate marketing with special promotions, they manage to get their promo deals in front of many more people as a result. That helps them to pick up more conversions from both brand-new and repeat customers. For this to work effectively, merchants must always look out for the best ways to regularly offer exclusive deals and discounts using affiliates special promo codes and partnering with such affiliates for freebies and giveaways.

Effects of Building Your Backlinks

Google maintains that, “having other sites link back to your site is like a vote for the quality of your site.” That appears to be why Google uses the number and quality of backlinks to a website as part of its ranking considerations. If your site has high-quality influencers/publishers linking back to it, Google is more likely to rank it higher on its SERPs. That alone can help in a great way to boost conversion rates for your site. Even though backlinks can help merchants rank higher on Google’s SERP, it is possible only if they’re done in precisely the right way. Expert Marketers advise adequate care when building backlinks to avoid “spamming” which Search Engines routinely and mercilessly penalize. For this reason, merchants must not ignore suitable keyword search and usage. All their affiliates must be provided with specific anchor texts for use on their sites and cross-posting actively encouraged among the affiliates. All these help the value of backlinks, search engine rankings and a boost in conversion rates.


 

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

How to Use Affiliate Marketing to Drive Blogging Success

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It now appears that no marketer blogs just for the fun of it, least of all affiliate marketers. Most people are in it for the volume of business it drives and ultimately for the money particularly now that most bloggers are able to deliver brand messages in a succinct, creative, and engaging manner. With that, brands can now leverage affiliate marketing effectively to maximize ROIs on marketing expenses even though many bloggers still face a major challenge of monetizing their blogs for good financial returns. The keyword for blogging success is leveraging. That is what enables bloggers to benefit immensely from association with affiliate marketing networks.

Here’s what gets good leveraging returns.

Bloggers Collaborations



 

As technology changes, the landscape of digital marketing continues to change as well. That is why it can be really challenging to honestly examine what truly works and what doesn’t. What is now not in dispute is that if affiliate networks offer enhanced support to bloggers, better results are obtained. That is collaboration and it is a win-win situation for both parties.  By joining hands with affiliate marketing platforms, bloggers can easily browse through a host of affiliate programs and campaigns before selecting the ones that are best suited to their needs and preferences. Traditionally, affiliate marketing has been one of the most popular ways for bloggers to monetize their online traffic. Smart bloggers are beginning to really understand the value addition that partnering with affiliate networks can drive for them. With online tools from Google chrome extensions which allow bloggers leverage several advertiser programs from just one account, bloggers now work smarter with better results. These tools do help to save bloggers time and the hassles needed to register with multiple affiliate networks and the results can be staggering.

Partnering With Affiliate Networks

Many bloggers often lack the technical expertise to manage attribution, tracking, traffic quality and other intricacies of affiliate partnerships. That is where partnering with affiliate networks has become really important. Partnering with affiliate networks helps to save bloggers the energy, time and valuable resources to research suitable affiliate networks with their preferred type of content, target audience, demographics, etc. That arrangement allows bloggers to concentrate mainly on good content creation while leaving other intricacies for their partner affiliate networks to handle. Thus, bloggers expect these affiliate network partners to provide for them holistic, high tech-backed solutions which facilitate seamless revenue generation opportunities that help them to save time and money. Many of the affiliate networks do not disappoint in that wise. Which is why partnering with leading affiliate marketing networks helps a great deal to enhance valuable benefits for bloggers.

Realizing Market Potentials

 
Social media platforms have become very handy to quickly promote brand popularity in this age and time. These platforms have become very useful to marketers who deploy them to helping their brands realize their market potentials much more rapidly with the power of the internet. Thus, many Brands have been quick to realize the marketing potential of bloggers using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, etc. With social media, many bloggers are presently delivering very rich viral dividends for brands online. Both parties through deftly managed digital marketing strategies are bringing social media influencers, owners of online forums and bloggers on board as affiliates for higher engagement, ROIs and ultimately helping to realize many brands market potentials in amazing ways.



 

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

How to Attract Amazing People to Your Business

Affiliate business network linkages.
 If you are in business and you want to do real good, you need a network. These days, networking is vitally important to your business no matter what the business entails. If you’re looking to improve yourself or change the fortunes of your business for the better, you need to network. Since every network inevitably involves interacting with people, you’ve just got to find ways to get these people. To get people into your network, you need to do the following.

1. Joining a professional networking group. If you’re looking to get into a business or meet people in a specific business, you can arrange to join a professional networking group of the business you are interested in. Online groups found in IBOtoolbox.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ can be very useful here.



2. Doing things you love to do together with others. The most exciting way of networking is simply to do the things you love and you’ve always wanted to do. Things like singing in a choir, playing a musical instrument, sky diving, hiking, taking a cruise, flying and so many other things ordinary people have fun and excitement doing. Moving your life and your business forward begins by attracting new and amazing people into your life. So, it is good to get out there, get to meet exciting people and make their acquaintances by doing the things they love to do together with them.

3. Seizing every opportunity to meet other people. You can form the habit of meeting and talking to people at every opportunity.  Even perfect strangers! Because of the unpredictability, meeting and talking to new people daily can make life very exciting. Fact is, every single conversation you have with a new person is potentially life-changing. That helps you to get to know a lot more of very exciting people you can do business with.

4. Changing hobbies to meet new people. Everyone I know has at least one or more hobbies. If you’re looking to build a network, it might be worth changing up your hobbies or taking up some new hobbies. The essence is to get to meet new people in the new hobbies you’ve got involved with. If you look very well, you will find that people involved in certain businesses tend to gravitate towards same hobbies where they get to meet up regularly. I read somewhere that many business analysts play squash, writers go to book clubs, and middle managers for consultancy firms go road cycling. These are only some of the hobbies you can take up depending on who you want to meet.

5. Leveraging on the people you meet. As human beings, each person always knows somebody else who knows somebody else ad infinitum.  Because of that, many successful networkers always like to remind everyone that: “It’s not who you know, it’s who you know knows.” Any person you get to make a new acquaintance of daily probably knows someone else who can help you in your business. That helps in no small measure to expand your network of exciting people you can do business with.
 

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Leveraging on Infographics to Market Online

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You may want to ask, what exactly are infographics? Marketing experts say, Infographics are simply “graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge” that “present complex information quickly and clearly.” What makes infographics really effective in the presentation of a message is actually their ability to present complex information quickly and clearly. That helps to easily catch the attention of potential customers even within the short attention span of their exposure to the marketing message. That is really the trick behind the effectiveness of infographics in getting across a marketing message.  They allow people to see the true meaning of the data easily and quickly. As marketing tools, infographics derive their effectiveness from the fact that they include SEO-friendly terms in their messages. That is how they are able to drive new users to a website through increased search visibility. In addition, they can easily be shared on Social Media sites such as LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook and Twitter. On Social Media, if such messages manage to go viral, it helps to get your brand to a wider and largely untapped audience without any additional promotional efforts on your part. That naturally engenders a major boost in your marketing efforts.

 

Everyone marketing online is always desperately seeking the attention of very inattentive  people. That is always a very big challenge to all online marketing efforts. Marketers have since discovered that the attention span of many online surfers is always very limited. It is these same surfers who are notoriously and grossly inattentive that marketers always strive to catch their attention with a view to getting them to buy products/services. This no doubt is always a very tough task. What to do then to get around this problem. Welcome infographics! Whether it is connecting with customers, closing a deal with prospective clients or promoting efficiency within your own operation, you just have to device ways to get your message across quickly, efficiently and effectively. Only infographics can make that possible with impressive results.