Most of the businesses reach a point in their growth where they want to expand and establish themselves as a bigger body. With the tools and applications that internet is providing, it is rapidly changing the ways in which business is carried out online. All the online media evolves by bringing in changes in marketing and behavior practices carried out online. To keep up with these continuous changes might be a little difficult for small sized and medium sized business’.
Trends in Online Marketing:
Mobile Commerce:
As the mobile and internet technology converge it is now possible for many consumers to access various websites, buy and pay for many items on their mobiles itself. Most of the manufacturers are now including QR codes to product packaging as they are looking forward to increase their mobile sales. You need to keep in mind that your company website is optimized so that it is easy for users to view it from the mobile phones if they would like to captivate the ever increasing mobile consumer market.
Social Marketing:
Social media platforms are the most forms of inexpensive ways for you to promote your business in the market. Their viral capabilities give you a lot of exposure giving you the opportunity to serve your existing customers and get in touch with your potential customers. While your presence in various networking sites will boost your business growth, some of them will have to focus primarily focus on few yet powerful networking sites like Google Plus and Facebook. Facebook now has more than 700 million users. It is predicted that it might have about a billion people by the end of 2013. Do you know that this social networking goliath is considered as the world’s 3rd populated country? So, I guess you must be able to make out how you can promote your services on such a large platform as this. On the other hand, Google plus has various marketing tools for building reputation, advertisement as an authority. It also enjoys the support of the Search Engine Herculean Google.
Rise of Social Consumers:
Online consumers these days are very much occupied in marketing campaigns, social media popularity, making decisions for purchasing items based on positive feedback from consumers. Search engines are now using the feedback from consumers of various products as search results display. Thereby, managing your brand reputation online has become even more important these days.
Online marketing strategy:
Market Research:
Having passion alone will not fetch you success in online business. You need to know if there is a market which needs the services and products you would like to offer. You need to study the market. Recognize and then target a section of the market. You will need to learn everything about your potential clients or consumers i.e., their needs and their language. Understanding the market and the potential customers clearly is fundamental for content creation and smart keyword research.
Goal Setting:
You won’t know where to head to if you don’t know where to get to. Evaluate your business’ current status, what it has accomplished till date and what should its goals be. Your business goals should be consistent with your website. You can increase conversions as you improve your sales copy and landing pages to encourage many to purchase your websites services and products. You can increase your leads by using list building methods like publishing useful content, adding a squeeze page or an email capture form or by offering freebies for email address. You can earn income by targeting better customers or by increasing prices.
Content development and content strategy:
Posting valuable content with the right keyword placement and keyword density promotes your site by flooding in visitors and the existing ones returning to your site. Quality content advances linking and sharing of the content, it stimulates follows, likes, comments and +1’s which is a crucial factor to gain search engine rankings. An effectual content strategy when implemented consistently is liable to boost a website’s immunity against sudden alteration in search engines algorithms.
Keyword Research:
Including the appropriate keywords in websites’ text content and technical elements gains your website top search engine rankings and search engine visibility. Thereby, increasing traffic to your website. For example, if you are looking forward to start a PPI Claims Firm or a Cosmetics Firm, you will have to insert all the keywords related to it in your web content. This will surely help you boost traffic to your website.
Social Media strategy:
Generating quality backlinks to your website will also boost search rankings and traffic to your website. Social Media is useful for getting in touch with people who can share website content and create links to it and also for uncovering market problems and needs. Press releases can also help as most of them spend their time sharing, commenting and reading new articles they see on internet.
Coping with the accelerated advancements in online marketing might be a challenge. A proper digital marketing strategy must be very simple and easy to comprehend. It must be able to provide clear directions for the manger or owner to implement.
Written by: Joanna Luis. She has 2 years of experience in business in UK markets. She provides many suggestions for investors who were just beginners. In her free time, she writes articles related to business and finance. Presently, she is focusing on income support, a kind of income benefit and Online marketing trends.
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