nolt1968
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| Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:09 pm Customers And Internet Marketing Your Home Business |
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If you are knowledgeable at internet marketing, home business
opportunities abound for you and if not, there are at least a dozen
experts who can help you out. Of course, their expert advice often
contradicts one another, but with most service-related activities, you try
them out until you find one that works for you.
In today’s global market, just about everyone has a website and are in
need of marketing. A website without a marketing plan is a hobby and few
people can make any money and be successful with their hobby. It really
involves a simple formula that shows that zero marketing will equal zero
customers and everyone knows that zero customers equals going out of
business.
Bringing customers to their site is every business’s goal and a well
executed internet marketing plan can do just that. You can have a good
home business doing internet marketing for many customers and you can
start with your own home business. When companies see your advertisements
and contact you, they want to know how good you are. The short answer is
that they were able to find you through an unsolicited means.
Before you get started you have to understand that old style marketing
involved getting your name in front of people who were in need of your
services. In this case, it is just about everyone with a website. The old
saying of not caring what they say, as long as they get the name right,
was focused on the shotgun approach to marketing. Also considered playing
the odds. Sending information to everyone you could think of and hoping
for return percentage large enough to justify the expense.
This approach rarely works with an internet-based business as surfers have
so many companies to choose from that inundating them with information
often turns them away. A targeted approach often can get their attention
and get you noticed. While some believe that a one percent return on
10,000 ads is good, that is still only 100 expressing an interest and if
you close on 10 percent that comes to 10 sales out of 10,000 contacts.
By focusing your effort on only the 1,000 businesses that actually use
your service, a one percent return still equals 100 and a 10 percent sales
rate still equals 10 sales, but you saved the money for 9,000, which would
have otherwise been wasted.
Another form of marketing, guerilla marketing talked about in 1984 in the
book Guerilla Marketing reveals how to achieve marketing on a limited
budget. This type of marketing is ideal for small businesses and it extols
the virtue of customer service and quality. The company uses personal
contact and sells the person, not the product, and delivers a product or
service on time that performs the function that it was promised to
perform. Word of mouth takes over from there.
Noah & Clara Nolt |
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