Before you get to work creating internet marketing strategies you must first recognize the difference between internet marketing strategies and internet marketing tactics. There's a huge difference between internet marketing strategies and internet marketing tactics. A strategy is an overall plan - a road map with the beginning and end destinations clearly marked. The … [Read more...] about Essential Secrets to Creating Successful Internet Marketing Strategies
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Niche Marketing: Narrowing Your Focus
Niche marketing means narrowing your focus. When you narrow the focus of your marketing messages, you increase the likelihood of creating effective advertising. It's important to keep in mind that advertising never forced anyone to buy anything. If you cannot create a marketing message that addresses the specific needs of your target customers,it will not make it through … [Read more...] about Niche Marketing: Narrowing Your Focus
Niche Marketing and Advertising Effectiveness
There are a lot of reasons why you would want to tightly target your advertising message to a specific niche market - one of the best is that doing so will increase your advertising effectiveness. Many small business owners are reluctant to narrow the focus of their marketing efforts. Seeking better results by narrowing their focus seems counterintuitive to them. They want to … [Read more...] about Niche Marketing and Advertising Effectiveness
Viral Marketing: Be Careful What You Wish For …
I've written before about the perils involved in the pursuit of viral marketing. on the surface, it appears that viral marketing is a GREAT way to get "free" marketing by creating enough "buzz" to elevate a marketing campaign from "ordinary" to "viral". Fortunately, marketing doesn't carry the risks of say, oh brain surgery. When you screw up and make a marketing mistake, … [Read more...] about Viral Marketing: Be Careful What You Wish For …
Focus Your Energy Upon The Marketing… Grasshopper
I'm working with a client who is brilliant and creative. Those are traits that most of my clients share and I consider myself fortunate to have the privilege of working with them. This client in particular is working on developing a niche product... which is a wonderful foundation from which to develop a product. See, instead of tossing together a product that is EASY on … [Read more...] about Focus Your Energy Upon The Marketing… Grasshopper