Internet Marketing is one of the easiest, cheapest and fastest ways for businesses to reach maximum customers today. Internet marketing, also known as Digital Marketing or Online Marketing. The Recent survey says that every businessspending their one in four money for digital marketing instead of prints, television and radio advertisement.
The first step in digital marketing is having an online presence. It means you should have a well-established website and maintain an active social media pages in the name of your entity. With the first step, use the second step such as online marketing strategies and tactics. These strategies will help yourwebsite to get top rank in search engine results and obviously, more customers will visit and buy your product or services.
The best advantage of online marketing is that even a small business can do a better performance by coming into online. For small businesses, they get more benefits in terms of expense and exposure from online. Expenses such as rent, salary..etc are very high to maintain an offline store. But in online, maintenance cost is very less. Same way offline exposure is confinedbut in online, businesses get global reach, you can sell anything to anyone globally at any time. You will get a consistent flow of sales.
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To perform well in online, there are certain strategies you must follow. These are the best strategies;
1.Search Engine Optimization, known as SEO
2.Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertisements
3.Content Marketing
4.Social Media Marketing
5.Email Marketing.
These all strategies must work together to get a constant output. But it is not necessary that you should spend an equal amount of money on every strategy. Try one by one and select the appropriate one which is giving you more returns. But it should be in your budget. It doesnt mean that you should avoid other strategies. Everything should be balanced. Generally, strategys performance depends on who your customer is.
Lets enormouseach tactic;
1.Search Engine Optimization
The definition of SEO given by Wikipedia is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a Search Engines unpaid results often referred to as natural, organic or earned results. The goal of SEO is to get a higher ranking to your website in search results. I mean to say that if someone search for a product/service in a search engine like Google if your site is related to that respective product, your web pagealso should appear on the front page or first page in the search results.
Why is the higher ranking important in search engines? It is nothing but 90% of the searchers never go to thesecond page or third if they find the solution from the first page itself. So just by having a website you may not get the consistent sales flow, you should dooptimization and bring it into the first page of the search results. Then you will get free traffic and more visitors. Ultimately your business will grow.
Important points to remember while doing SEO;
It is an ongoing process. Website optimization never completes in a month. it takes time. But once you build a beautiful exposure for your website, it will be the best profit generator forever. I suggest Rankpay for SEO works. They never charge in Advance. Also, they provide Social Media Management at free of cost.
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2.Pay-per-click Advertising
Pay-per-click (PPC) is one of the method of advertising in online and we should pay only when a customer clicks on our ads.
The best PPC option is Google AdWords. In Google AdWords, businesses bid on keywords. If your bid is high on that particular keyword, your Ad will appear firston the Google if someone searches for that particular keyword. Your Ad will come on Googles first page of the result. Some searchers will click on that and come to your website. It will increase your website traffic as well as sales. One more advantage of Google AdWord is their process is very fast, within hours your ads start appearing.
3.Content Marketing
Content Marketing is nothing but creating a content and sharing or publishing that content to retain customers. It also helps to acquire new customers.
I will give an example to understand this concept;
Suppose if you have a blog and you have written many articles on your blog about Personality Development. These articles are called Content. But my question is that how will these contents reach to maximum people? Here content marketing is needed. You can do marketing for your content through various channels such as social media, email marketing, slide shareetc and acquire more new readers. Meantime your existing readers will read your blog whenever you publish a new article. Same theory applicable for e-commerce also. You can publish your new offers and do content marketing as maximum as possible. it will bring new customers as well get more sales from existing one. I suggest Hire Writers. You get quality and unique content at a cheaper price of 2$/article.
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4.Social Media Marketing
It is nothing but to reach maximum customers, businesses do the marketing through social media platforms such as facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedInetc. Social Media became the pulse of this generation and businesses will get assured exposure through it.
Advantages of Social Media Marketing are;
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5.Email Marketing
Email marketing is nothing but businesses uses emails to communicate with their existing as well as potential customers. In a simple way if I say, using emails to communicate with the customers. Businesses use email marketing to do these all activities;
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6.Other Internet Marketing Tactics
The other major digital marketing strategies are;
Among these, Online reputation management is one of the most important strategies, small business owners should consider. It is nothing but keeping an eye on the reviews about your brand. Good reviews will help you to build a strong empire in theonline platform. Business always depends on the reviews of your customers. Try to create a positive impact.
Conclusion
Small business owners will get a global exposure within no time. You get unlimited sales if your reviews are good. No time boundaries. Grab this opportunity. Coming into Online is not just selling the products, also building a beautiful brand name for your business.
Anish George, the brain behind JUSTMYCHOICE, is one of the co-founders of Bizbay E-commerce Pvt Ltd, the first Customer Retention Loyalty Program in India. He is a Graduate in Business Administration and also a trained SEO professional.
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