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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

How To Make Your Website Stand Out To Your Visitors

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It is a common problem faced by people running a website in order to promote their small business or otherwise make money: they have put in a lot of work in order to appeal to search engines, and this work is paying off in the form of lots of additional traffic, but with all this extra traffic, they are finding that they are not making any extra sales; for those who face this issue, the problem often lies in the fact that their website itself does not stand out to visitors - so if you have dealt with this problem yourself, here are a few things to consider doing!
The first thing you will want to do is ask yourself what it is about your website that will make people love it - especially compared to the other options they have among sites that are similar to yours; if you are able to answer this question, make sure the things about your site that people will love stand out - and if you are not able to answer this question, figure out what you can change in order to be able to answer this question, and then make this stand out!

The next thing you will want to do is ask yourself what you can do in order to make sure your visitors will trust you; because there are sure to be so many sites similar to yours, trust will be a big factor, so think of any accolades, experience, or endorsements you have that will make people feel more comfortable choosing your site over another, and make sure these things are visible to all who visit your site!


And finally, it will help you quite a bit to figure out what there is about your site that will encourage people to keep coming back; when you are able to get people to keep coming back to your site, you will greatly increase the likelihood of them making additional purchases - and you will increase the likelihood of them sharing your site with others so that you gain new customers through them.
As you aim to build your website, keep all these things in mind, and you will soon be experiencing a whole lot more success, as your site will stand out to those who visit, and will generate profits as a result.

SEO: Hiring Out Versus Going It Alone

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If you are running a website for your business, you have probably come to realize how important it will be for you to boost this website's online visibility (after all, you are unlikely to get a lot of visitors to your site if no one knows that your site exists in the first place!), but while this might seem like a straightforward issue, there are a couple complications that come into play when you are trying to boost your website's profile: namely, whether it is better to do this yourself, or to hire someone else.

While it would be great if there were an across-the-board answer that solves this problem, the truth is that the answer to this question will be different for every different company.

SEO (which means "search engine optimization") is the process of causing your website to appeal to search engines - and there are actually people who are "SEO experts," and who make a living doing SEO work for different websites; the good news about hiring one such expert, of course, is that they are able to quickly carry your website to the top of search engine rankings pages, but the bad news is that they often charge an arm and a leg to do so!

When you are trying to decide whether or not you should hire someone to do your SEO work, the main thing you need to determine is which is more valuable for you: your time or your money. Some people will find that it will be worth the money they save to study up on SEO themselves, and to build their website without help; on the other hand, there will be those who will lose more money in the amount of time it takes them to learn and implement all this stuff than the money they would pay someone else to do it - in which case, it is well worth hiring out!

Of course, in the end, it does not so much matter how you get to the desired end result (that is, a website that ranks highly on search engines) as that you get there somehow - but with this knowledge, you can decide whether you want to get there on your own or hire someone else to help.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Your Marketing Plan and Social Marketing

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Retaining a competitive edge is the main objective of almost every business. Many of the things you do are able to be duplicated by your competition. Competitors can open more locations, duplicate the products that you offer, and use the same marketing techniques as you. There is really only one way for you to keep your edge over them and it is through social marketing.

A few different techniques are combined into one with social marketing and this allows it to be a consistent method. Many people think of social marketing as something that is done online and on new social media sites. This is a misconception. The type of marketing they are thinking of is really named social media marketing; something different. Social marketing is done both on and off of computers.

The relationship you and your business have with customers is what the main concept of social marketing entails. Every way you can possibly nurture this relationship needs to be used. Visits and meetings on a personal, face to face basis is one option. Keeping in touch can also be done online with social media sites and e-mail. Take is on a case by case basis so you can determine which of these methods is best.

Nurture this relationship with customers at every opportunity and you will see that the rest will work itself out. It will lead into the latter half of this marketing method; the customers telling others about you and your company. Happiness with your business and the service you provide will lead to them talking with others. This will lead to many referral sales opportunities. Converting this referrals to sales falls solely on you.

The greatest benefit of social marketing is that it doesn't involve using capital. It is a type of marketing that has been done since the beginning of organized business. Up until recently it never had a name for everyone to refer to. Social marketing should be at the center of your business marketing plan since the only cost involved is some extra effort on your part.