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Small Business Enterpreneurs use Search Engines for Branding

⊆ December 6th, 2008 by admin | ˜ No Comments »

For small business companies, online marketing is the easiest way to generate business leads. The search engines are the single biggest source of sales. This article deals with new approach which will be able to leave several perplexed: BRANDING by the search engines. Thus let us leave to side the visitors targeted, the sales and the return on investment (KING) to concentrate on the influence which the search engines have on the mark.

When we look at the figures (353 million research per day to the States-Unis1), there is not any doubt that this place is favourable to influence Net surfers. Nevertheless, it is not enough to be present in the engines to succeed. It is necessary, indeed, to define the new objectives of your countryside (in this case the branding) and thus to work it over again to come to good results.

Concretely, that means not to evaluate one countryside by the direct results more only. If your objective is to generate sales and that you notice that a key word offers performances mitigated for this purpose, you could be tempted to withdraw this key word of your strategy. On the other hand, even if the KING of a key word is weak, it may be that its positioning in the first results has a positive influence on the mark and that it is beneficial to maintain this key word active.

As example, LG decided to lately use 20% of its budget on the internet research at the start of their marketing campaign for portable LED monitors. The objective was to create a buzz around the product. All the campaigns pointed towards only one and single page which misait on the product, but which did not comprise a real call to the action to support the conversion of the visitors. The antithesis of the pages of references (landing pages) traditional.

The results speak about themselves. In spite of less low investments five times in the countryside on the search engines in comparison to the banners and other postings, the countryside on the search engines generated more half of the clicks towards the page of reference and 88% of the sales of products starting from this page2. The strategy thus was of most effective.

In order to integrate the search engines in a strategy of BRANDING, it is first of all necessary to evaluate your countryside and to define the key words which could be associated there. The number of key words will be undoubtedly larger than at the time of a campaign aiming at conversion, in particular since words which are not profitable will be used. For example, a company carrying out a campaign on the quality of its service could decide to buy words like guarantee or repair.

For the level of textual publicity in oneself, it is necessary to use words hookers which are directly dependent with the countryside. The re-use of slogan and words used in the banners or a traditional campaign is also of setting.

While finishing, it is important to recall that such a strategy is not addressed to all the wallets. Indeed, a use of a number of important key words increase the costs appreciably.

The author is one of the founding members of Dassnagar Infosystems, which is one of the leading Web Design India Company specializing in helping their clients to build online business in cost effective manner. The company is lead by experienced Internet consultants, computer scientists and management professionals and backed by recognized companies including but not limited to DIS Web Design and SEO India Pvt Ltd.

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Is Branding a Legitimate Internet Marketing Strategy

⊆ November 21st, 2008 by admin | ˜ No Comments »

Internet marketing is all about hard results, not generic concepts of branding. Still, there are ways to go about branding your product or service on the net without spending a fortune.

Branding refers to the vague notion of creating an identity for a product, service or name with consumers. The classic example, of course, is Coca Cola. Being first on the scene, the company has been able to create such a strong name brand that most people use the word “coke” instead of soda when ordering. This is true even when they prefer Pepsi. In the world of marketing, we all bow before the marketing team that accomplished this branding. The Internet, however, is a different beast. That same marketing team would be crushed if they went after a similar strategy on the net.

The Internet is so large that branding is an expensive and difficult goal unless you are the first major presence in a niche. Sites like EBay and Amazon were the first major money players in their fields, giving them a huge advantage over subsequent competitors. Unless you are coming to a field with a lot of money and no current dominant site, your branding efforts are going to meet with failure or limited success at best. If you want to stick with it, the only cost effective and ultimately successful strategy is to pursue a width search engine optimization campaign.

Search engine optimization is simply an effort to get pages on your site ranked high in search results on the three big search engines - Google, Yahoo and MSN. To establish your brand, the best Internet marketing strategy is to identify every single phrase your prospects use to find services or products in your business area. You then build optimized pages for every single phrase and get them ranked.

This strategy has two benefits. First, it will produce free traffic to your site. If you build 200 pages and each gets 50 visitors a day, your site will receive 10,000 visitors a day. The second benefit is your brand becomes established. Regardless of what the prospect searches for, they keep seeing your site. This creates both recognition and credibility with the prospect as they tend to equate high rankings with quality. As they visit your site over and over, they will also become readily familiar with your unique selling position as presented on the site.

If you want to establish a brand, avoid wasting your money on banners and such unless you are in a niche that isn’t dominated by any single site. Instead, use the width search engine optimization tactic to establish your site and pick up free traffic.

Halstatt Pires is with MarketingTitan.com - Internet marketing firm in San Diego. Visit us to read more about a Internet marketing articles and a branding goal - Internet marketing strategy.

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Advertising

⊆ October 16th, 2008 by admin | ˜ No Comments »

Commercial promotion of services, ideas, companies and goods is known as advertising, which plays a very prominent role in business. Advertising is carried out through various media.

“Word of mouth” used to be the common form of advertising in ancient times. During the fifteenth and sixteenth century, when the printing industry was properly developed, handbills were included as a medium of advertising. In England, during the seventeenth century, newspapers started carrying advertisement for products.

The medicines for diseased Europe and the increasing numbers of affordable books were the two products extensively advertised during this period. The content regulation for advertisements came into vogue due the problem of “quacks” using the new marketing method. For more info visit www.advertisingresourceonline.info

During the nineteenth century, classified advertisements become very popular in the United States. They filled the pages of newspapers promoting various goods. The success of this method lead into another form of advertisement known as catalogues. The first advertisement agency was established in Philadelphia during 1843.

Tempting the consumers with advertisements, which carried their messages with shine using modern and scientific approach, came into effect in 1960s.
The advent of cable television and MTV in the 1980s and 90s, saw the introduction of music videos to promote goods using consumer tunes. Subsequent developments lead to exclusive channels such as Home shopping network and Shop TV exclusively for advertisements.

The “dot com” in 1990s saw another new channel for advertisement in the form of Internet. This was further fine tuned by search engines such as Google, which revolutinised the business by using unobtrusive advertisements, which are relevant to the context of the text displayed in the screen.
To highlight and promote non-commercial issues such as energy conservation, AIDs, ideology, religion and deforestation are carried out through public service advertising.

Media for commercial advertisements include billboards, wall paintings, flyers, television, film and radio advertisements, skywriting, popups and banners in web pages, newspapers, and bus stop bunches.

Placing a product in television serials, films and sports arenas are known as covert advertisements.

The TV networks charge a very high rate for commercial prime time advertisement since it is considered as one of the most effective formats of advertisement for mass-marketing products.

Another recent phenomenon is advertisements sent through emails. Spam is a new word coined for unsolicited bulk email advertising. How effective this form of advertisement is left to every email users guess because most of these emails are detected by the service providers as junk and stored separately.
With different claims made in different contexts, the impact of advertising is a subject for debate.

Lucy Bartlett is a proud contributing author. Find more articles here. For more info visit Advertising or SEO

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