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Internet marketing tips, EcoQuest, Colorado

State specific methods for Colorado


Internet marketing tips for EcoQuest in Colorado

By ArticleArticle911.com
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Who's earning money online?


You're interested in Colorado or maybe Colorado is the place you live. You're selling a product or service and you wish to market it to people who live in Colorado and other places too. You've read that consumers are spending lots of money each day shopping online and you're commited to learning how you can get your share of the pie.

True Statement #1 People do make good money on the web, but it's likely not you.

True Statement #2 Site owners that do make the money, are not necessarily brighter than you.

True Statement #3 What separates those that make money and those that go broke has more to do with common sense approaches than graduate course degrees. The difference in the 'haves' and 'have-nots' is not measured by any number of college degrees, but rather by the application of a few common sense strategies.

Are you any of the following?
  • A person involved with EcoQuest
  • A distributor, or network marketer representing products or services?
  • An average "joe" with a garage packed with 'junk' you want sell?
  • A small business owner, with your own merchandise?
  • A reseller of products or services provided by another source?
  • Someone pursuing associate or affiliate programs online?
  • A web site owner living in Colorado
  • Or an individual thinking about doing one of the above
Colorado

If any of the above activities sound like you, this article is for you. You are about to be taught step-by-step what to do this year to help assure that next year your business, website or blog is enjoyably profitable.

Internet marketing tips and methods for EcoQuest...


If you wanted to clarify 'what' the Internet is, you could make a strong case for the following:
The internet is a place to search for things
Listen closely to what many people say when they're talking about the internet:
  • "After a little research I found exactly what I needed..."
  • "Let me pull-up the TV guide, I think it's on tonight..."
  • "Yea, $20 bucks on eBay, can you believe it..."
  • "Welcome onboard, how'd you hear about us? Online?"

Everybody's looking, finding, or searching for something. Everybody. So, it's your job to help customers and prospects find you. It's a little work, but it's not nearly as hard as you might expect. Give yourself about one hour to explore in detail each strategy listed below. After you learn the basics, you might wish to pace your efforts so that every week you tackle one approach until you have each one mastered.


STRATEGY #1

Everyone is talking about blogging, but do you have a blog yourself? A blog is little more than a forum for you to rattle on about whatever you're interested in... perhaps things related to your business, your industry, or the benefits and recommendations surrounding your merchandise. Go by focusing on how this all relates to Colorado or the benefits people from Colorado might experience.

The reason a blog is a must for your online promotion strategy is because it gives you an instant voice on the internet to provide news and information about the activities you are doing. Your blog should link to your various web pages and sites. Blogs are "search engine" friendly and much more likely to get ranked in Google, MSN search, Yahoo etc than your website.

Invest a little quality time setting up a 'profile page' on your blog (or connected to your blog) that tells visitors a little about you and your website. Also remember to link to this profile page from your various other web site pages.

Post short but frequent messages every week (more often if possible). Keep it lively, interesting, and topical but above all don't hype and don't write sales pitches.

Need advice? Here are links to a few premier blogs that offer top notch services. Some are hosted others you can host.

STRATEGY #2

Invest a little time reading about "folksonomy" or "tags" and how they can benefit your online marketing campaign. A good place to spend time at is Technorati http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html

Once you understand the basics of how tags function, start using them on your blog and in comments you post to other blogs. Open a free photo sharing account at Flickr http://flickr.com/ to upload photos with descriptive titles and stories related to your business, EcoQuest, or your products and services. Don't forget your tags!

Open a FURL http://furl.net/ account to save and share bookmarks or favorites linked to all your important web pages. Again, add well worded descriptions and associate proper tags to every bookmarked page.

Never stop linking... return to your other site pages, your blog, and your profile page and add links to your Flickr and FURL pages.



STRATEGY #3

Start an opt-in e-mail list and/or give visitors the opportunity to subscribe to your RSS or XML feed.

Most website owners have discovered few people purchase anything on that first visit. How often has anyone ordered or even emailed you from your site? It takes a bit more "dating" to get past first base, so to speak.

Here's what researchers have learned about who's most likely to buy stuff on the Internet:
  • People tend buy from non-brand names AFTER they subscribe to newsletters put out by those same web site owners.
  • People don't tend to buy on those first dates when they first visit the site. It's those newsletters that people sign up for - on the sites - that do it.
  • 91% of opt-in subscribers are more likely to buy... (Source: eMarketer Inc)

What's the bottom line here? No matter how much traffic you drive to your web pages or blog, if you do not provide visitors a good reason to sign-up for a newsletter, you will likely reduce your opportunity to make sales by over 90%. Add a subscription box to every page that you plan to direct visitors to. Do not list any web page on a search engine, business card, or other promotion if that page does not have a way for visitors to sign up for your list.

Internet marketing tips Bonus Idea: Many web site owners now offer XML or RSS feeds as an alternative to newsletter subscriptions (not necessarily a replacement). Explore options to offer XML or RSS feeds to your site visitors. Email as a communication vehicle has lost some of its punch and profitability in recent years. Users are confused about what is quality content in their email inbox and what is SPAM and unsolicited advertisements. XML or RSS feeds are not nearly as complex as they sound and are worth investigating.


STRATEGY #4

A search engine marketing campaign will generate more website targeted traffic at a lower investment than any other form of website marketing. Without question. Yet the vast majority of website owners ignore this route to a continuous flow of highly qualified visitors.

Consider these facts.

Research by Jupiter-MetaMetrix shows that search engine usage is expanding at double-digit rates. A Marketing Sherpa report showed that web site owners who used search engine promotional campaigns realize 25% - 490% revenue growth.

eMarketer research showed that over the past year, search engine marketing (SEM) has skyrocketed. Growing nearly 125% in last year -- in the US alone. Paid search advertising accounts for over 35% of total online ad spending.

All these millions are being spent by small businesses, large businesses and people just like you. It's called PAY-PER-CLICK ( PPC or COST-PER-CLICK ) and it allows you full control over your search engine listings. No more optimizing, waiting and praying only to end up as listing number 5966 on page 604 under the keyword phrase "why bother" because that's where some search engine employee (or worse yet, some robot) thought your site belonged.

Pay Per Click puts you behind the mix-master where you can whip-up perfectly worded ads (referred to as listings) with lively headlines (referred to as titles), compelling descriptions (10 to 20 words or so) and stir up perfect matches between keywords and keyword phrases. YOU control everything and the destination or landing pages you want to link search prospects to.

With pay-per-click, web site owners decide how high in the rankings (or search results page) they want to appear by bidding against your competition for the best spots. Keywords popular among site owners cost more while other more diligent web site owners find less expensive keyword niches that may bring equally good results for much lower per-click bid rates.

The great advantage in PPC marketing is that you can bid on dozens or hundreds of keywords associated to your products, services, business or affiliate offer while never spending a penny until someone CLICKS your listing. Add to this the fact that some keyword listings in some PPCs can start as low as 1 penny or a few pennies a click.

There are many expert websites and eBooks with recommendations about setting up a PPC marketing campaign. Many charge you way more money than it's worth (be careful), but the best we've found is free and is available to people joining this internet marketing newsletter.

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Here are a few hot search engine suggestions and keyword discovery ideas to get you started:

  1. Remember that with PPC campaigns, you are not sending search visitors to a site, you are sending them to a web page (called: a destination or landing page). You must discover keywords and set-up ONE page at a time.
  2. Remember that people search by typing in more than one word:
  3. The 7 most used word phrases in search engines according to OneStat.com:
    • 2 word phrases 32.58%
    • 3 word phrase 25.61%
    • 1 word phrases 19.02%
    • 4 word phrases 12.83%
    • 5 word phrases 5.64%
    • 6 word phrases 2.32%
    • 7 word phrases 0.98%
  4. Start your "keyword discovery" process by visiting the destination page you intend to send your search engine visitors to. Put on the 'reading glasses' of a customer and look at your page through their eyes.
  5. Ask yourself this: "What keywords might a person type in a search box where when they arrived at this destination page, they'd say 'BINGO' this is what I was looking for?" Find these keywords and you've discovered your best keywords.



The Colorado Marketing Secret


Go local. Yes, business owners from Colorado search for things using "Colorado" as their keyword. That means you must include search ads targeting Colorado and bid on keyword phrases containing Colorado.
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The quickest way to results with any pay-per-click marketing campaign is preparation and consistency. Do your homework at the start to find less expensive keywords to bid on, write a quality title and description for your search listing and stick with it for at least 6 months as you learn the ropes. Set a reasonable budget that you are comfortable with (perhaps $59 a month) and consider that your investment in the search engine school of hard knocks. After you graduate, you'll begin to see results. It's an education worth the time, money and energy.


STRATEGY #5

Don't start any other methods until you have the methods outlined in this article implemented. However, you should invest in yourself by reading articles and eBooks on internet marketing.





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