We all know how to use the internet right? Unfortunately though, making money using the internet is something alot of people still consider to be a scam.


In many cases, this stems from the fact that we all have at least *some* familiarity with the online world. We take that knowledge and immediately believe we can use specialist networks, ignoring basic fundamentals which we wouldn't normally do in any other area of business.

And although I admire their enthusiasm greatly, their execution? ...maybe not so much.

The obvious truth here is that there is a lot of money to be made using internet marketing and as an example today, let's take Google Adwords - because although it's a great way to accomplish this you really do need to have knowledge of what you are doing in order to succeed.

So, in this particular blog post we are going to give you some examples of what to bear in mind when putting together your Adword Campaigns if you must do it yourself. And of course being Mediatasks, instead of writing this up normally - we're getting some extra special help from James Bond because, with the following attributes, we're sure 007 would be outstanding in the art of making money with Google Adwords.

 

Know your objective.

The most important and basic thing that you need in order to succeed is to really know what your mission is going to be. Bond always know what his mission is and this is the reason why he always manages to get the job done no matter how many obstacles he finds on the way.

The same applies for Google Adwords and by knowing what you need to accomplish, you will definitely see the results you want. Always know what your goal is, typically who do you want what to do. Do your homework on the way the system works and what is efficient and useful.

 

Get committed to the cause.

We have seen Bond do anything that is required to get to the job done. He has stepped on hungry alligators, bungee jumped to the bottom of a dam and performed all kinds of stunts in all sorts of vehicles. Adwords isn't something you can dip in and out of and still expect to get great results, it will simply end up costing you a lot of money.

The point is, you need to do whatever it takes to become a successful Google Adwords Campaigner and stay committed to the cause. Our experts at Mediatasks go through many hours of training before they are let loose on actual accounts, you shouldn't do any different just because it's your own money.

 

Stay abreast of everything.

Bond keeps track of all things that are going on around him in order to complete his mission. This is something that he would definitely use in his tactics for Adwords. You can get priced out of Adword campaigns quickly, so you need to keep track of how things are moving along and you can’t just rely on the analysis offered by Google.

You need to get involved and this means getting as much external information as possible in order to get the most accurate results. Here at Mediatasks our software analysis tools allowing us to compare the stats we get in great detail. You could too.

Lastly, you need to work your way through the rough patches. Adword campaigns fluctuate daily, there will always be difficult times, but only those who persevere will ever see the kind of results that are truly exceptional. Bond knows that nothing comes easy and the most rewarding missions are always the hardest ones to accomplish. If you view your efforts online with the eyes of the iconic agent, you will be on your way to a successful outcome.

If you'd like a hand with your online advertising, please use book your free strategy call. There's no obligation, although we can guarantee you will be shaken and stirred with the results.

The internet revolution is upon us and more and more companies are finding tremendous success by business blogging.
 
Blogging is great, not only for individuals, but for businesses, companies, and services as alike. Some would even say, that as far as your company goes - business blogging is cooler than James Brown!
 
james_brown_coolNow, James Brown was a pretty cool guy, cooler than most, and still cool to this day. His lyrics, the way he sang, and his songs still ring true today. C'mon, "I feel good", now what could be better than that? Well, the answer is in blogging!
 
Cool businesses are successful businesses, and successful businesses are found higher up Google search results. A great way to get up those rankings is to blog as it keeps your content flowing, increases your link building and shows your expertise.
 
In fact, companies who blog on a consistent basis have found their revenues skyrocketing, their business visibility increasing and their customer base growing every single day.
 
The reason for all this is simple.
 
With the countless amount of prospective customers who are searching the internet for new things to buy and services to purchase, businesses who successfully blog are using it to "speak" to these prospects on a 1-2-1 basis. Blogging has proven to be a more personal way for businesses, companies, and services to advertise than any other method out there.
 
Blogging allows business to do their marketing using the internet which ends up saving them heaps on advertising costs when compared to traditional methods as well as tons of time that could be spent on another area of business.
 
Blogging gives businesses, companies, and services the ability to create content that is able to be tailored perfectly to alert prospective buyers about new deals, promotions, and any other information that the business is trying to convey, at that point.
 
It actually makes no sense for a business not to blog in their day to day operations. But, like with anything else, it is advisable for businesses to adhere to a few guidelines when writing their articles.
 
The first thing businesses should do when creating their content is follow certain SEO rules. All blogging content must include keywords that directly relate to the business as a whole, and are regularly searched for on search engines like Google or Bing.
 
When this is done correctly, prospective customers will be able to locate any business, company, or service with ease, resulting in businesses with very high brand awareness.
 
To maintain the benefits businesses need to keep going because like everything that is worthwhile, blogging requires commitment. But if they do, a regular blog with clever keyword analysis and careful link building can really up the ante and help companies stand out from the competition on the internet, on search engines and therefore in their industry.
 
And that's pretty cool to us!

Is your email marketing activity struggling to gain traction?

As the latest series of 24 is back on the air, we thought it'd be fun to ask WWJD - what would Jack do?


Jack is THE modern day anti-hero who within just 24 hours, manages to save the world. By hook or by crook, he definitely gets the job done.

Now it is a bit of an unusual idea but if your email marketing activity is struggling, imagine for a moment Jack was in charge of your email marketing.

Not seeing it? As I said - an unusual idea.

But on a serious note, what could we learn from Jack, if he was in charge of your email campaigns? Read on...

1. Jack would adapt each campaign to its environment

Jack has been in New York, L.A and now London. Completely different places and yet he manages to survive getting shot at, blown up and still remain Jack Bauer. Learn from this, what works for your weekend advertising campaigns is not necessarily going to work for a holiday campaign. Keep in mind that seasons will change, holidays will pass and soon it will be Monday again. Learn from Jack, ADAPT your strategy, maybe change your appearance or vehicle but do not CHANGE who you are.

2. Jack wouldn't fix it, if it wasn't broken.

Torture, while not suggestible, works for Jack – it’s featured in every season. Similarly when a particular campaign consistently attracts customers then continue it. While it is important to expand your ‘repertoire’ so to speak, you should not forget what made you successful in the first place. New campaigns should ADD to the success of an existing one – not replace it altogether.

3. Jack would be creative

Instead of just calling the president to warn him of an attack, Jack goes through a complicated process of getting caught to break out another prisoner whom he intends to use as bait for the bad guys. When you have a specific goal in mind but the ‘proper’ way of achieving it is unlikely to work, you need to be willing to think outside the box. If your brain says ‘NEVER GONNA WORK’ then you could just be thinking right.

4. Jack would make friends.

Every season Jack has old allies like Chloe O'Brien and a few new ones, although they tend to end up dead by the end of the season - which is unfortunate. If you get an email from someone promoting a complementary product to yours, why not make mention of it in your next campaign or even join forces?. And remember the partnership may work again in the future so keep in touch once the campaign is over. (If it goes wrong though please don’t kill them - that would be bad!)

5. Jack knows it is not all sunshine.

With every campaign there are going to be chores you don't want to do. The boring, repetitive, ‘but I don’t want to’ parts that tend to get pushed to the bottom of the list because they make your head ache and your fingers numb. A battle is half won that is well planned. And planning unfortunately includes fine print or in his case, getting captured by Chinese Intelligence.

6. Jack keeps on going.

There are going to be campaigns that fall flat, even ones that knock you back a few steps. But one of the biggest parts of marketing is taking risks, trying something new or rethinking something old. Don’t let these setbacks discourage you. My advice? When you get knocked down, don’t stay down. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, channel Jack Bauer and KEEP ON GOING!


Naturally, here at Mediatasks we are ace at Email Marketing Campaigns and easily on a par with Jack. So, if you would like to explore the benefits and have a chat - fill out the contact form or give the office a call on 020 3303 0005. There is no obligation and we absolutely guarantee no blacked out SUV's will start following you, if you do.

So, all the hip cats are talking about this “social media” thing, and the old guys in suits are keenly interested in staking a claim on their share of the social marketing pie.


But if senior management just doesn’t “get” Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, the temptation is usually to push the task of Social Media Management onto the youngest person in the office. The Junior Staffer. Or worse, the intern.

Big mistake.

Here are seven reasons why.
 

1. In the social landscape, company reputation is everything.

All it takes is one tweet in bad taste to ruin a career, end a product, recall an advertising campaign, and forever mar a businesses’ legacy. You want all that responsibility on someone who spends the whole day playing Candy Crush Saga on his iPhone?

 

2. If you do goof up on social media, you can delete it (but you know you can never really delete it right?).

That snarky post your intern made about the competition may have been quickly scrubbed from your Page, but you know it’s screencapped, and screencaps can go viral quicker than… well, a virus spreads.

 

3. We’re not saying Social Media Management is hard, but doing it well and doing it right is not easy.

And because of the ever increasing importance of a company's social reputation, you should really consider profile management to fall under your marketing budget. In other words, outsource it to a Pro before you hand it to an internal n00b.

 

4. Brilliant social media marketing can make a brand.

And that’s the ultimate goal, right? If you feel like you’re managing a Facebook page out of begrudging obligation, you’re thinking about it entirely backwards.

 

5. Your Page or Profile is the face of your company.

So think long and hard about the face and voice you want to put forth. You need someone in the driver’s seat who is knowledgeable about your businesses, and a competent, engaging communicator or copywriter.

 

6. Customers are increasingly turning to social media when they need support or have questions.

It’s just a thing nowadays that when people have problems with the airlines, they tweet at their social media team. Customer support via Facebook messaging and Twitter needs to be handled efficiently and effectively.

If potential customers see you ignoring requests for help, they’ll think you don’t care about them.

So make sure that the person you peg to post on your company’s behalf can handle that role with grace.

 

7. In this emerging social landscape, reputation is everything.

It was point number one too, but it bears repeating. You cannot afford to mess up your social media. And if you toss it to an underling, you’re missing out on a golden opportunity to bolster your brand, increase customer engagement, and cement your position ahead of your competitors.

Search Engine Marketing can be a mystery to most people who have been entrenched in more traditional business marketing strategies.


Many of the nuances of SEM are lost on small business owners and entrepreneurs, simply because in terms of advertising, this kind of thing has only recently really become a major player.

Just like Miley Cyrus...

Here are three other things, search engine marketing and Miley have in common.

 

1. No one is disputing their effectiveness

Miley is a money maker, no one is questioning that. So is landing number one on Google search results.

First page of results will guarantee you traffic. Second page makes you competitive. Beyond that? You need a new SEO strategy and to invest in some Pay Per Click ads.

Being acutely targeted in nature, effective SEM brings in your ideal customers, without blowing your marketing budget. You simply have to know what your market is searching for. Pay Per Click puts your offer in front of the eyes of your buyers--but you either have to research to know what they’re searching for, or have a strong intuitive sense about your target market.

Miley seems to excel in the latter (but who knows? Maybe she has some kind of wacky brilliant marketing team behind her). She understands what her ideal audience wants to or is ready to see, and has gotten really good at delivering the goods. Love her or hate her, that’s a business lesson to take to heart.

 

2. Is it art? Is it exploitation? It’s both.

Miley’s new videos walk a line between art, exploitation and expression. Sort of how Search Engine Optimization does with your web presence.

Sure, you want to provide useful, meaningful, and valuable content to your customers, but you also want Google to pick up on that. Striking a balance between writing for robots and writing for people can be tricky.

Thankfully, there are SEO tricks that you can use to boost your rankings without sacrificing your content. On-page optimization, will give your site more flexibility and rank your site higher in search results. It can be as simple as ensuring that your content is styled for search engine visibility, or as complicated as embedding specific keyword phrases and code into your copy.

 

3. Search Engine Marketing is here to stay.

So long as people are searching Google for any kind of information at all (and can you imagine a scenario where humanity would suddenly find search engines useless?), SEM is going to be a part of every successful business marketing toolbox.

How seriously you take SEM in your business will have an impact on your bottom line. As, thanks to the internet small and local businesses find themselves competing on a much grander scale.


So you might as well jump on board now, because like Miley, SEM is going to be on the scene for awhile.

 

future_is_video150pxIf a picture speaks a thousand words, how many does a video say?
 
With the advent of super fast broadband at home and when mobile, video content is about to get a whole lot more popular.
 
At the moment, 1 in 3 Britons watch an online video every single week, that's nearly 20 million people. Youtube gets more than 1 billion unique visitors a month which is second only to Facebook and it is set to grow. According to Cisco, by 2017 video will account for 69% of all consumer internet traffic. Video-on-demand services like Netflix, would have tripled.
 
Think back through 2013, what caught your attention? Was it the gangster rapping baby Mother or the trio of videos from Volkswagen which got over 155m views?
 
Whichever it was, almost every commentator out there predicts it will grow rapidly. One of the main reasons behind this is accessibility.
 

How can small businesses get a piece of the action?

No longer the remit of production houses with hugely expensive equipment, with the advent of HD cameras in our pocket and services like Vine from Twitter with it's 6 second clip length, more people will find themselves creating video content than ever before.
 
Follow these tips and you could be seeing a huge increase in traffic and brand awareness...
 
1. Get creative
Often the most successful videos are not the most costly, but they will be the most creative and not just in the way they are put together either. Remember the delivery, be creative in marketing the video too.
 
2. Remember the audience
Is the video topic relevant to the audience? Even bearing in mind the above, is it the most appropriate way to get your message across?
 
3. Don't forget mobile
One tenth of all videos are viewed on them and this is set to grow hugely too.
 
4. Be social
To get the most benefit from your video production you must include social media in some way. Videos are very popular items for people to share and you can keep the conversation going by creating your own Twitter hashtag.
 
Ofcourse, Mediatasks can help you create & execute a winning strategy involving video so if you have any questions please use the contact form to get in touch, or simply call the office on 020 3303 0005.
 
And finally, the answer to my question - according to Forrester Research, if a picture paints one thousand words, then one minute of video is worth 1.8million. Certainly worth thinking about.

makethemostofsocialUsing social media as a business tool can puzzle many SMEs. Typically they use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+ as a consumer so setup a company profile, write a few posts and then realise that they're competitors are doing far better with astronomical follower numbers.
 
Instead of getting disheartened and abandoning social media all together, it is important to understand why this is happening and put things right.
 
Social media is far too powerful to ignore and once a position of influence is reached, companies will have a valuable direct connection with their customers, suppliers and partners.
 
Often, especially in the case of the big brands, there is a dedicated team tasked with optimising that companies social media marketing. This can make you think you are fighting a loosing battle but it is not the case. If you are willing to put in a little effort SME can get great results too.
 

1. Give yourself a headstart

There's a myth about social media which says, all you need do is create a profile and huge follower numbers will fall from the sky. Not true. Unless you are Scarlett Johansson. SMEs should not be averse to advertising their new profiles to give them a real headstart. The large social networks have new very low cost options starting at only a few pounds per day. You can target people by interests and some only charge when a user actually clicks through to your page.
 
TIP: If your budget doesn't extend to paid advertising, at least let people know about your new profiles. Add a link to them on your website and in your email signature. If you regularly send out client notification emails or an email newsletter, put a link in the footer - ideally with a great strapline accompanying them. It worked for hotmail.
 

2. Don't overthink your posts

Social media posts do not need to win any pulitzer prizes. Too many people overthink what they want to say and end up saying nothing. Do not do this. But, don't be too pushy either. Another mistake companies make is being too sales orientated with their updates. Every post does not have to talk about how fantastic you are. Treat social media like any other engagement, you wouldn't constantly bang on about how great you are whilst networking face-to-face so don't do it online.
 
TIP: Make your posts a mix about who you are, what you do and what makes you great. Join in conversations, chat to people and get to know them. If it's Twitter, get to know the hashtags for your business area, if it's LinkedIn look for any specific groups you could contribute in. Hopefully, you will raise your profile to the point that when someone does need your service, they know who you are.
 

3. Find your niche

Niches work online. You don't have to have millions of followers to be effective. Instead, research the influencers in your business area and engage them directly. Enjoy being small. Big corporations try to appear more personable but more often than not fail. SMEs are small, so being personable, friendly and even possibly funny - is much easier to pull off.
 
TIP: It is more beneficial to have 1k people talking about your brand than 10k simply liking you. Concentrate on building user engagement instead of simply followers.
 

4. Keep score

Use tools like Google Analytics, link shorteners like Bit.ly or Ow.ly and Hootsuite to keep track of how successful you are being. Review these results regularly. These applications can help you monitor activity about your brand and conversations from the large social networks that mention your company.
 
TIP: These tools take alot of the guess work out of social media. By focusing on what is successful, you will be able to make informed choices and grow your audience faster.
 

5. Treat it with respect

 
The days of leaving responsibility for social media to the office intern are long gone. Like all other marketing, your social media campaign strategy needs to be approved at the highest level and handled professionally. If you feel you are lacking the skills, experience or even the time to get your social media sorted in house, consider using a specialist.
 
TIP:A Social Media Management Service like ours can give you access to an expert at a fraction of their usual salary, if you were to employ someone with the same skillset in house. We can handle the essentials, freeing up your responsibility and allowing you to concentrate working on your business.
 
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howcanSEO380pxSearch Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the business of getting your business to the top of the results page on Google when someone searches for a term related to your industry.
 
This is important because more people search online when looking to buy a new product or service than do anything else.
 
As a general rule, sites that appear near the top of the results page get more traffic and therefore more potential business. Your mission is to get to position one on the first page, which, depending on what industry you operate within and how achievable it is - varies greatly in time and money.
 
If you operate in a niche and follow these basic principles you stand a good chance of getting to at least page one...
 

Keywords

Search providers like Google & Bing use 'spiders' to determine their search result rankings. A spider is a piece of software that crawls the web to identify what is written on website pages and in particular any keywords and phrases. So, when someone searches for that keyword on Google (for example) they can work out how relevant your website is to that request.
 
Because of this, it is important to make sure your website has all its keyword areas correctly filled out and includes the words or phrases which people may search for; when looking for a business like yours.
 
If this sounds a little Greek don't worry, Google has a free tool to help called the Google Adwords keyword tool. This is actually designed to help potential advertisers identify the most relevant words to use in their ad's but you can also use it to research what should ideally be on your page.
 
When you know which keywords should be on the page, make sure they are in the body of text and not in places like imagery which is an SEO no-no. In addition to the body of text, keywords should also appear in an unseen area called 'metadata' which is where spiders will look for key information.
 
If you don't know how to do that, your web designer can help. But if you have a little knowledge of HTML or your website is run by a management system like WordPress, then it may be more straightforward that you think.
 

Linking

Your sites PageRank is a score out of 10 that is based on Inbound & Outbound links to and from it. If your site is linked to by another site with a good PageRank, your ranking will improve.
 
At this point you may think the more links the better but you would be wrong. Artificial ways of linking, like Link Farms, are especially frowned upon by search providers. It is not just the number of links, but also the quality. Social Media - like Google+ - is particularly good for this, as are professional bodies and certain directories.
 
A good rule of thumb is to make sure whenever you reference an external site or source, you use a hyperlink. Internal links (to and from pages on your own website) encourage people to spend more time on your site by real people and spiders mentioned earlier. It is worth making sure your menu structure and available quicklinks are clear and easy to use too.
 
Just like the Google Adwords Tool, there is something which can help here too and it is a Google Chrome browser plugin called PageRank Status.
 

Content

The more your site content changes, the more frequently spiders will revisit your website. This is a particular reason why a regular Blog is so good for SEO. That, and the fact that is illustrates your expertise in your area of business.
 

Staying upto date

Google and Bing change their algorithms periodically so they can improve their search results so more people will use their service. Because of this, SEO is something which needs to be monitored in order to get the most benefit although some basic principles - like those described above - are universal.
 
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WordPress is an amazing platform. It is free to use, straightforward to setup and extremely flexible. It can be an Online Shop, a Web Publisher, a Business Directory, even a Social Network. However because it is so widely used it is a target for unscrupulous people and in this instance spammers. As a user you can be subjected to a *huge* amount of spam in the form of comments on your posts.
 
To reduce comment spam (because you'll probably never eradicate it permanently) a good option is to install a plugin that requires membership of a Social Network like Facebook before they can post anything, instead of relying on WordPress own comments system or forcing people to join your site which could open you up for further abuse.
 
First thing to do is install a Facebook comments plug in (like the one by Alex Moss called 'Facebook Comments' as it is particularly easy to use).
 
Next, you will need to create a quick app on Facebook (details can be found here) and configure it to work with your site.
 
When that is done and tested, login to your site and go to Settings > Discussion, and disallow people to comment on new posts and close commenting on older posts after 1 day. This now forces people to be logged into Facebook and stops people posting junk.
 
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In our Marketing 101 Series we demystify Digital Marketing by walking through the industry fundamentals and basic terminology. So, if you don’t know your SEM from your SEO or the difference between Opt-In and CAN-SPAM – this one’s for you!
 
Social Networks, we all know about them right? Facebook, Twitter, that business one called LinkedIn. Sure. But wait, that's fine if your looking at photo's of your Aunt Suzy, but what about for helping your build your business?
 

Let's start with the obvious - Facebook

I'm hoping I don't have to explain what Facebook is generally about. I'm going to assume I don't and jump straight to what you need to know about it as a marketing platform for your company.
 
First up - the numbers. Over 1 billion people are on it. Although it's pretty hard to actually leave it must be said. That being said though you can safely say that most of your customers and prospects are there. Facebook users can be any age, gender, race or religion - and generally location. It is the most used Social Network on the planet.
 
But what do people do there? Great question because that matters alot. Typically this is where Aunt Suzy comes in. People are sharing their experiences, uploading photos, videos or audio, sharing interests and 'liking' many many things.
 
Are they there to buy? Probably not. It is not Amazon or eBay after all. But, could they be pursuaded? Absolutely. And, because of the sheer volume of users, connecting with friends - in the right hands it is extremely powerful at raising brand awareness for the right type of product or service. So you should care, alot.
 

Twitter

Often wrongly dismissed as trivial, the influence of Twitter and it's users cannot seriously be played down. It is massive. In the UK it accounts for 7% of all people online (opposed to 44% on Facebook). The key difference here though are their users profile. Twitter users are categorised as 'influencers' meaning people who like to be in the know, ahead of the curve. Crucially, this also means people who like to talk about things and hopefully, products like yours. Good old word-of-mouth again.
 
On Twitter users can post news items, observations about what they are doing or plan to do, articles, jokes, promotions - whatever they can think of in 140 characters or less. Where a character can be a letter, a number or a space. If someone 'follows' someone else on Twitter they get sent all their updates automatically, which is extremely powerful for any organisation wanting to keep up their communication levels. Which is all of us.
 
Why does this matter? Marketing these days is all about creating discussions. For new sales, product feedback, customer service, etc. and Twitter gives you a real time channel to make that happen. To potentially millions of people who are adept at talking about things. The technology is also free, which cannot be said for traditional marketing, TV, newspapers, radio, etc.
 

LinkedIn - the business one?

LinkedIn is widely known as the Social Network for business and this is largely true. It is the world's largest professional network with well over 175million users in more than 200 countries.
 
So who is on it? Business people. Lots of them. Professionals mostly but not exclusively.
 
How do they use it? Users create profiles and professional connections based on their interests and experience. These can centre around Group Discussions and Answering Questions to display their knowledge in any particular area.
 
Does it matter? Absolutely. LinkedIn is a great way to create professional connections for you and your organisation. It can give you ideas, advice and feedback for running your business - helping you spread the word about your product and service.
 

Google+

Still relatively new in Social Network land but when you're backed by the worlds largest search engine it doesn't matter, Google+ tries to make sharing on the web much more like real life by making it much easier to segment your contacts so you can share what you want with the people you want.
 
Does it matter? Ofcourse. Did I mention it's backed by the worlds most popular website? The latest way being anyone signing up for a Google account automatically gets a Google+ account whether they want one or not.
 
What could it mean for my business? It's too early to say. The company pages side of Google+ is very young, barely out of nappies. It could be great, we will have to wait and see, but it is definitely one to watch and if you like being ahead of the curve, consider getting a head start on it now.
 

Which one is right for you?

This depends largely on what it is you do or sell, and to whom. Are they businesses or consumers or both? What's their age range? Level of education? All these things matter.
 
It's crucial to get this right to maximise your Return on Investment but generally most people start with Facebook because of the overwhelming user numbers and organisations are generally 'expected' to be on it so far as for customer services. The next alternative is almost always Twitter.
 
If you'd like more information on our Social Media Management services please click here or use the contact form to get in touch. Ofcourse if you prefer, you can give us a call in the office on 020 3303 0005.

Technology has changed our lives. What we do, where we go, what we buy, how, why and what we share with others. How businesses market therefore also needs to change. If they still want to sell. The days of 'if you build it they will come' are long gone. Even for Kevin Costner. Sorry Kevin I loved that movie.
 
That's not to say traditional methods of marketing are now completely defunct though, the landscape is just different.
 

Here is what you need to know..... the Marketing 101.

 
Marketing is the business of promoting and/or selling your products and services right? Well, yes.
And, the journey of a person becoming a customer is called a funnel right? Absolutely. Marketers talk about a funnel to describe the way they attract new prospects and convert them into customers.
 

What Do We Mean By Funnel?

 
Traditionally with limited resources, organisations have had to prioritise their time on trying to best find and convert prospects, whilst juggling the needs of their existing customers.
 
Generally that was because the science of keeping customers was largely unknown. It's just about good customer service right? Wrong. It's also about communication. As we now know, after people purchase your product or service, it's about keeping that conversation going. This is where the good old 80:20 rule comes in.
 
And happily, in case you don't have a small army of telesales people who can do this for you - Social Media has stepped in to help you maintain client contact. Hoping that, when they are ready to buy (or their friends are) they will remember your great Customer Service and come back for more.
 

Social Media — the new Word of Mouth

 
Social Media Marketing helps you maintain the relationship with your existing customers - by keeping in contact with them. What is more, technology enables us to influence consumer behaviour at all points of a sale, before, during and after.
 
Using Email Marketing, Pay Per Click Advertising and Social Media Marketing as business owners we no longer have to hope that customers come back. We can reach out and remind them; making word-of-mouth as easy as clicking a share, like or tweet button.
 
Successful businesses know that marketing does not end with the sale, it is just the beginning. Social Media is not though a replacement for other forms of marketing your business. It is not a magic pill and is best used as part of a larger marketing strategy.
 
If you would like to discuss your Marketing Strategy please use the contact form to get in touch or give us a call in the office on 020 3303 0005. Thanks!

Did you know that Google Analytics is free, yet it is incredibly powerful?


It will, for example, show the real name of businesses that have visited your website and the keywords they used to get there. So, you've not only got the name of the company that has visited but also what they were looking for when they did! Here's how...

Open Google Analytics and navigate to Audience > Technology > Network > ...

Here you will be able to see all the network service providers of those visiting your website. Some of those will be broadband providers, but many will actually be static and therefore have their name included in the result.

 

So that's Part One.

To find out what they were looking for add the secondary dimension as keywords, and you have a powerful tool that has already generated a warm lead for your business.

 

What can you do with this information?

The best option is to look up their MD or CEO on LinkedIn and send them an email offering your services. If they're not ready to go ahead right now, they should be impressed as to how you found out about their enquiry.


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