Category: Web Traffic

Web Traffic is the topic of this category. Businesses that operate on the Web are similar to those that operate offline in one category. Traffic! Getting traffic – or potential buyers – to your product or service location is the most important thing a business person can do whether s/he be operating online or offline.

  • Traffic Converted to Buyers Equals Money

    Find product. Sell product!

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    I recently viewed a video in which the presenter said, “there are two things you need to do in order to make money online. The first is to to promote and sell, and the second is to find an audience…” (a market) to sell that product (in this case product refers also to service) to. With that in mind the product can be your own which you developed and created yourself, or belonging to someone else, in which case you can get authorization from that person/vendor to promote and sell the product as an affiliate and get paid a percentage of the sale in the form of a commission.

    The first part of this equation – finding a product to sell – has been made exceedingly easy over the two decades since the introduction of digital products – created and made available – via the WWW (World Wide Web), so anyone looking for can take his/her pick from among the vast numbers available in the eCommerce marketplace. It is the second part of the equation and all the various aspects of finding an audience, as well as the inherent challenges that must be dealt with in pursuading – friendly, though it may be – that audience to buy a product from you.

    Traffic to your

    Of course it is understood in most marketing circles that the first step in finding an audience is getting exposure for your product, which is another way of saying attracting Internet users, also referred to as traffic to your website or product page

    In order to achieve this most basic of goals many Web marketers advertise their utilizing some of the more popular advertising resources such as Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, and Bing/Yahoo! Ads, while others utilize the more economical methods like Traffic Exchanges, Link Exchanges and Email Marketing Campaigns. A third category of website owner relies on their own SEO techniques and formatting directly on their sites to induce the search engines to place their site on the SERPs (search engine results pages) which they expect would gain the site maximum exposure.

    The conversion principle

    It is important to point out at this juncture that whether a owner succeeds in getting traffic that is costly, economical or free s/he must still convert that traffic into an audience that knows, trusts and likes who s/he is and what s/he represents (reputation and credibility) before that audience will buy a product s/he is promoting and selling. Therefore certain steps must be taken by the website owner in order to achieve this goal.

    This is where the importance of conversion rates comes into play, along with the steps needed to convert visitors into buyers, and the skill with which to adebtly initiate and execute the conversion process. It is only then that a website owne, Web marketer, product owner or any other entity attempting to promote and sell a product that s/he will be successful in doing so.

    The cold, hard cash factor

    In the Ebook, 110 Bite-Sized Tips to Boost Website Conversion Rates, the author states that, “A lot of factors are involved with ensuring that visitors click on, and then actually buy items they see. There are many things you can do to get the most conversion rates possible which means those website views and random clicks actually turn into cold, hard cash (otherwise known as sales).” It is in the manner of this approach that an affiliate marketer or product owner shoud view the traffic that s/he manages to attract to a website or product page.

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  • The Role of Articles in Building Your List

    Comparative excellence

    What are you waiting for?

    Getting visitors to your site should always be ranked as high in importance as the quality of the products and services you provide. This objective should go hand in hand with providing your customers the satisfaction they get in exchange for the money they have paid for them. Customer service should be as superb as well so that customers are provided with the same satisfaction.

    One of the ways you can combine marketing and customer service is through opt-in marketing, and with an opt-in list you get the opportunity to introduce your site and products in an agreed-upon time frame. An opt-in marketing strategy is a marketing strategy that is actually low-cost and not time consuming, simply because you get the consent of your website visitors to subscribe to your emails, newsletters and other promotional materials such as catalogs and free promotions.

    Opt-in marketing is a process

    Since opt-in marketing is the process by which you send emails to your list of subscribers, these emails can include almost any content you wish to send to your subscribers as long as such content is in good taste, legal and useful to the subscribers. For this reason, it is therefore essential that you present your promotional items in a manner that will attract the interest of your subscribers to keep them wanting (craving?) for more; and the best way to do this is to provide fun, entertainment and informational – if not interesting – articles.

    Well written article content that consists of helpful tips and useful information will be crucial in building your list as increased numbers of your website visitors will be enticed to subscribe to your list. When they read the samples of your website content, they will be intrigued as to what will come next and subscribing to your newsletter is one way for them to get a glimpse of what you have to offer next.

    Placing importance

    It is a known fact that many sites and companies have come to accept and, indeed, place a high value on the importance of articles as they also help in improved search engine optimization; and as more people head to the internet for their information needs, serving the right information to them via articles via your website will increase the flow of your website traffic. And with more traffic, the percentage of your sales will grow, which in many cases can be converted into more profit.

    The rise in importance of well written, information-rich, keyword-packed articles for website content has certainly been noticed and encouraged by major search engines for over two decades, and this has led to a craving for quality content by all sectors of the Internet marketplace. Today, any content that can be described as interesting and/or compelling is placed very high on a website’s must-have list. This includes newsletters, ebooks, blog posts and any other article inclusive product; because these articles provide the information which are sought by many Internet users, and if your site has them, more people will visiting that site for information and research.

    Reputation & credibility

    It is also true that well-written articles would boost your sites reputation, and if they are filled with a lot of useful information you will be regarded as well-informed and an expert on the subjects you write about. Of course, your articles must be well researched so that Internet users who visit your website will trust you, and when you have gained their trust, they will always come to you for the information they need about the topic on which they view you as the expert.

    As a matter of course you must write articles or commission them to be written on subjects that are closely connected with your type of business. So if you have a site dealing with matters of medicine or offering remedies for a certain disease, your articles must be about that disease and its potential cures. On the other hand, if you sell materials for home improvement you must write and publish articles with those themes. Most articles searched for are tips, guidelines, methods, manuals and such, but if you provide relevant articles to your customers and you gain their trust, they will always go to your site for help and advice, as well as for your products.

    Loyalty

    With the loyalty of these customers, they may subscribe to your opt-in list to receive all the information you have; and if you provide them with the answers for their needs, they will be happy to be receiving your emails, newsletters and other promotional materials to keep them well informed. Others may even forward your emails to other people when they find a certain article interesting.

    You should provide links in your newsletter so that when other people read it and wish to read more, they can click on the link and go to your site. With the articles you’ve published to your site that are good, they may decide to sign up as well to your opt-in list. This will build your list and make it bigger, but make sure to keep your subscribers happy and interested in your newsletters and promotional materials.

    Keep on posting and writing good articles for your site and newsletter, and if you have no interest in writing them, or if you just don’t have the time, there are many available, well experienced and knowledgeable writers available to help you compose interesting and compelling articles on the topic of your choice. This is an investment that will pay for itself in time.

     

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  • How Effective is Your Email Marketing?

    A question of effectiveness

    If you are a business owner who utilizes email marketing campaigns to promote your products or services and advertise your brand, the question of how effective your email marketing is might occupy a prominent place in your mind. In fact, questions regarding the effectiveness of any type of marketing effort should be entertained as frequently as deemed practical in order to ensure that such marketing efforts are producing desired results. Asking these questions on a regular basis and continually evaluating the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns will help to determine their effectiveness on an ongoing basis, especially in those instances when changes are made to the marketing strategy.

    In view of the above, this article will discuss the importance of frequently evaluating email marketing strategies, while also providing a few tips which we hope will be helpful to you in evaluating your email marketing strategy.

    First and foremost

    First and foremost, it is important to evaluate your email marketing strategy on a regular basis because failure to do so might very well result in a complete waste of your time, money and efforts; and although email marketing may be a cost effective way to advertise your business the activity doesn’t get done without input from you, the business owner/advertiser. There is still some time, money and energy involved in planning and executing email marketing campaigns. In other words, if an email marketing campaign is ineffective and nothing is done to attempt make more effective your business is wasting resources by continuing to invest in this type of marketing strategy when it is not generating profit for the business or even creating interest in your products or services.

    Second, and perhaps just as important, is the frequency with which a business owner or marketer evaluates the effectiveness of his/her email marketing strategy without setting goals before s/he begins the evaluation process. The importance of goal-setting is highlighted here because failure to do so might help to undermine the email marketing efforts of any business or marketer.

    This is due to the fact that without goals it can be difficult to determine whether or not such email marketing efforts are effective. If, for example, you set a goal to increase the number of sales you make per month, then it will be rather simple to determine the results based on the number of monthly sales generated and therefore just as simple to evaluate the effectiveness of that particular email marketing campaign.

    Deciding on method

    Once you have determined how you intend to evaluate you progress you should be able to easily determine the effectiveness of your current email marketing strategy as long as this is the only marketing you are currently doing. Of course, if you have more than one marketing strategy in use simultaneously you cannot be sure which strategy is driving customers to make purchases, or attract visitors to your website.




    When you decide to evaluate your email marketing strategy according to specific goals you should take care to ensure you are not currently running other types of marketing in conjunction with your email marketing campaign(s). This will help to prevent confusion about which type of marketing is producing the desired results. It will also help to prevent business owners from mistakenly believing email marketing is producing a positive results when, in fact, it is another marketing strategy that is actually generating all the positive sales and traffic activity.

    Customer surveys

    While on the subject of evaluating effectiveness, one strategy that comes to mind is the use of customer surveys to evaluate the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Asking customers how they heard about your products or services have proven to be an excellent way to determine whether or not customers are making purchasing decisions based on one marketing strategy or another; so this strategy can also be utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns.

    Additionally, these surveys can be used to obtain more detailed information about email recipients’ reaction to a particular email marketing campaign. Customers can, and often does, provide valuable feedback about topics such as the layout and appearance of email and the ease and readability of content included in the email. This feedback and other customer-generated information can help a business owner determine how to design future emails designed to achieve the most positive results in a campaign. Armed with such information the business owner can design subsequent emails that might incorporate many of the qualities previous customers found to be useful, and avoid qualities that were viewed to be useless.

  • The Viability of Email Marketing for Your Business

    A few email marketing basics

    While the concept of email marketing can might be very simple to understand and comprehend, analyzing the benefits of this marketing type and making a decision as to whether or not it is right for your business can be much more complicated. The decision-making process is difficult because a business owner has to consider a number of different factors before making his/her decision. So whether or not email marketing could or will be a good idea for your business entails a decision-making process that, while difficult, must encompass some of the important factors that have been considered integral. Factors such as:

    • Target audience having the propensity to utilize Internet tools and resources;
    • Effectively stating an objective in messages delivered to that audience;
    • Eliminating any probability that the message(s) can viewed as spam.

    Answers to these and other important factors must be carefully thought out, as the audience must be identified, the objective must be stated and the message must definitely be clear, unambiguous and to the point. It is only after careful consideration of these basic elements of email marketing that a business owner can determine whether or not this popular Web-based marketing type is right for his/her business. That having been said, of all the factors that must be carefully considered, perhaps the most important is the degree of certainty a business owner feels that a particular target audience will use the Web on a consistent basis. Before a business owner begins to invest money, energy and time into email marketing, s/he should at least qualify the target audience.

    Qualifying a target audience

    Qualifying your target audience is important because an email marketing campaign is not worthwhile if members of your target audience are not likely to use the Internet to purchase or research any products or services you offer. Even if they use the Internet for other purposes it is not worthwhile because they will not be likely to become online customers for your products or services.

    However, if you have a target audience who is very likely to use the Internet to purchase products or services you offer, and to research these items, email marketing is a great idea for your business. In this case it is absolutely worthwhile because you will be providing information which members of your target audience will find useful and which they may already be looking for elsewhere.




    Avoid the spam look-alike message

    Next you should consider the products and services you offer in an attempt to determine whether or not your objective can be effectively stated in an email message. This is important because if you offer a product or service, the value and objective of which is difficult to explain, any emails you use for marketing are not likely to be understood or well received by the recipients of your email distribution list. This aspect of email marketing is important to understand before you get started because it is essential that you are able to convince potential customers of the need for your products and services in a clear and concise manner, not make them feel more confused.

    Finally, an important concept to consider is the possibility that your email messages might be viewed as spam if care is not taken to eliminate such a possibility. This is a very important concept because emails which are viewed as spam are not likely to be well received by recipients and may not even make it to the recipients inbox if their spam filters tag these emails as spam. Even if the emails do reach the intended recipients’ inbox, many Internet users have grown accustomed to weeding out spam rather quickly and will be quick to delete, without reading first, emails which are suspected to be spam.

    Therefore, in determining whether or not the possibility exists that your emails could to be viewed as spam, it is important to consider the subject of your business and therefore the emails you send out. The importance of this aspect of email marketing is highlighted when dealing with certain subjects such as weight loss pills, which are likely to be viewed as spam more quickly than other items. So if you are in the business of marketing products or services that would likely cause your emails to be deemed spam, orchestrating an email marketing campaign may not be worthwhile, because such emails may never reach their intended recipients.

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  • Selection of a Blogging Platform to Fit YOU




    For your unique blog

    The selection of a blogging platform will probably be one of the most important decisions you will have to make as a blogger; because the right platform can make blogging such a smooth and enjoyable writing experience, while the wrong platform can surely make this popular online activity more of a puzzling and frustrating chore. And since the program used to blog with is such a powerful part of an individual’s blogging prowess, it is well worth an investment of whatever time it takes to find a platform that provides the most ideal balance between a user-friendly interface and a flexible framework that allows you, the blogger, to make your blog look and feel unique.

    That having been said, it is also true that finding the right platform isn’t always easy, even though a little contemplation coupled with a bit of research could put you on your way to finding the perfect blogging platform for your purposes. Let’s use video blogging, for example, as a blogging type that might best demonstrate the importance of a blogging platform; especially since video blogging is a relatively new and popular technology. Video blogging has a lot of advantages over text-based blogging, can very effectively grab the attention of web surfers, and can make people much more likely to become excited about the blog’s content because of its dynamic nature; but only when it’s presented properly.

    Ease-of-use versus customization

    But, the wrong blogging platform can make a video blog look terrible, fail to play and get stuck in frames just like the old malfunctioning TVs used work (or not work) when their antennas broke. It is true that video blogs require a lot of digital tools and resources in order to get the best results; including a considerable amount of server space, more time to process and upload a video file, and more time to load. So already there are a number of issues inherent with video blogs which place even more importance on making sure that the blogging platform you choose is supportive of all types of blogging, from text blogging to photo and video blogging.

    Deciding what your priorities are as they pertain to ease-of-use versus customization, it is important to point out that the blogging platforms most adaptable to high customization, like Movable Type, are a bit more difficult to use than very automated platforms like WordPress. So if you are new to blogs and to internet technology, you might want to sacrifice the ability to create a custom background design, or to integrate a unique font into your template, in order to find a program that will be easy for you to use. On the other hand, if you are a veteran web designer with knowledge of HTML or JavaScript, you will probably find the limitations of a user-friendly platform to be frustrating.

    Read between the (reviewer’s) lines

    Keep in mind that there is really not such a thing as a platform that is objectively the best blogging platform, because every blogger has unique needs, and the blogging movement is more about individuality than anything else, so it makes plenty of sense that there would be many different platforms available that are designed to meet the needs of different kinds of individuals undertaking different kinds of projects. But this diversity is a good thing because it means that you will almost certainly be able to find a program that suits your level of technical aptitude.

    However, the fact that no two bloggers require the same things from a blogging platform can certainly make your search for the right platform a bit tricky; so when you are reading reviews of different platforms, try to keep your priorities in mind and do your best to take the reviewer’s viewpoint into consideration. In other words, a negative review written by an accomplished software designer who complains that a popular platform is too limited may tell you that the platform in question is ideal for a beginning blogger.

    What’s your UBR?

    Simply put, there is no such thing as “one size fits all” where blogging platforms are concerned, so instead of looking for the “best” platform, look for the best platform for your specific criteria. It’s similar to many of the conversations me and my buddy, Douglas, has had over the years about why he finds Joomla so easy, smooth and straightforward to work with, but do not like WordPress and can’t do the things with WP that he often does with Joomla; while I, on the other hand, prefer WP to Joomla for all the same reasons. So take the time to look for the blogging platform you’ll most comfortable with, which simultaneously meets your unique blogging requirements (UBRs). Good luck!

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