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Internet marketing for Local Businesses
May 9, 2009 |
Learn how internet marketing can dramatically enhance your business
As a business entrepreneur, it is crucial that you have a grasp of the internet and how you can use the internet to promote your business.
There are over 900 million internet users worldwide. All you want to target is a small percentage of this.
You need to learn how to harness the power of the internet to promote your business and increase your profits
If you are not online with your business, your customer pool is limited to…
Those in your local area. Problem with this is that your potential for growth is quite limited
Off line promotions like newspaper ads [which can be frightfully expensive], business card [ how often do you keep a businesss card that is handed to you], Flyers [can be expensive and when you think about how many flyers a household receives, what chance does yours have of getting read], TV ads [expensive], radio ads [also expensive], word of mouth and your physical presence on the street.
While these methods may help generate a trickle of customers to your business, they can be expensive and are not targeted.
With internet marketing, you can target people who are interested in what your business has to offer and explode your customer base…
Having an online presence has the following effects
1. It establishes you as an authority in your field
2. It makes your business, or at least information about your business, accessible to your customers 24 hours a day. Imagine how it could improve your customer relations if you have just one web page up on frequently asked questions about your business.
3. Announces your business to the world. The only thing that limits how many people you can reach with you business message is how good your online promotions are and how motivated you are.
4. It is reasonably inexpensive
5. It is easy to maintain even if you have no previous internet experience
6. Once your business online campaigns have been set up, they can continue to generate customers to your business long after the initial campaign effort. If for example you put an ad in the newspaper, the longetivity of that ad is limited by the lifespan of that particular edition of the newspaper ie. one day.
The minute you stop paying for ad space, your ads do not get printed and your advertising campaign dies. On the internet, once you set up and publish a well optimized website for your business, it lasts, not just for that day, but for as long as you maintain the website.
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