Showing posts with label promotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label promotion. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Writing A Press Release To Get Attention To Your Business

Writing A Press Release To Get Attention To Your Business

by William Cotner

Would you like to increase the traffic to your website and finally get people to know what you can offer them? You might have tried many internet marketing tools as Pay Per Click, article submission and Search Engine Optimization, but did you know that there is another great way to generate traffic? You can achieve this by using press releases, and in this article you will find out how to do it.

First rule is to make your press release NOT look like an advertisement. The less it looks like an ad, more people will read it and more effective it will be. Try to create your press release based on news, something special which your company has, something which can be interesting to read about.

Once you have a newsworthy story, you will want to make sure that your press release actually gets noticed by someone who can do something with it. There are plenty of free sites which offer press release distribution but if you really want to get great results you should consider paying for some publicity. There are actually places where you can PAY to have your story feature on places like CNN and other news stations and radio shows. How would that work out for your business?

As soon as your story got chosen by your channel, you should write a press release. You can do it yourself, or hire someone to do the job for you. A decent press release can cost you about a hundred dollars, but if you are a good writer, you won't find any difficulties writing it on your own. Start with clear and interesting introduction, outlining what the press release is about. This step is crucial, as if you will not do it well enough, you will be loosing the audience.

Also, you want to make sure that the press release is interesting enough to stand on its own as a story. Don't just give information, do something to give it an emotional edge like using specific names and mentioning people who are involved in the story. Stories about people are the most interesting things for other people to read. Finally, make sure that the press release is also information and educational. Selling is really nothing more than educating the public about your product or service and the value which it offers so if you educate without promoting you can still sell people on your message.

So go ahead and get your plan together to set up your press release and see what kind of attention it brings you. - 20490

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

More traffic to your site

by Richard Chapman

So you own a website, probably a very nice one, but this does not get you traffic and without traffic your website is worthless. The only way you are going to make money is if you have good, regular traffic. There are many ways of drawing visitors to your site, although to get the traffic free is a very daunting task. However, perhaps the following will help.

It is a good idea to write articles and feed them to blogs. When an article is accepted by a blog or an article site, it will give you a good permanent link which will remain as long as the blog exists. Article sites distribute your article to other sites.

Contribute effectively at forums of your choice, where you can solicit knowledge. Post often and link your signature top your site. Make friends and utilize this chance to launch your site amongst them. A good camaraderie also establishes trust and at the same time gives you valuable tips from the way others have succeeded.

There are many directories to which you can submit your site and each will give you a backlink. This boosts you search engine rankings. Try to choose ones with a higher Page Rank as they will give you more valuable links.

To submit to a lot of directories consider using a submission service as they can do it very quickly whereas it would take you a very long time.

If you can post your views and thoughts on a blog which is relative to your product or service, it will help to improve the ranking on the search engines. Keeping the content fresh and updated also ensures that the search engines can get to your site quicker.

I hope that you find the suggestions above to be useful; at least they are pointing you in the right direction. Always think links, link, links. Take my advice and never pay for traffic, it is nearly all garbage. Buy links or directory submission, but dont buy traffic. If you want to know more, just follow my traffic blog. - 20490

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Sure Fire ways to expand your Network with Email Marketing.

by MLMAbsolute

In networking business, you need to network with people. The best way to maintain contact with people online is through Email Marketing. You can use it for many purposes; appreciation for joining/ purchasing, product updates, promotional updates.

The invent of online Network Marketing created a gap in the personal touch in marketing. You need to fill up the gap to succeed in Network Marketing

Before you can contact your customers, you need to have their contact. Doing business online, the main contact information is usually the Email address. You can collect email addresses through your website through a squeeze page or opt-in page. The main advantage is that the leads are targeted.

These are your potential cash cows. You need to follow up with them, update them regularly, forming a relationship. The purpose of doing this is to increase their awareness of your company or product. Imagine, today if you keep seeing the advertisement of, say, MacDonald's, the next time you make a decision on where to eat, you will probably be thinking of MacDonald's. You need to get them to see your advertisements. The easiest way is to send them emails.

In order to maximize the results of your Email Marketing Campaign, you need to do more than just sending them information. There are more things to take note when you start your Email Marketing Campaign.

Email Like a Pro

Here are some sure fire tips to emailing like a professional.

- Who is it from?

You need to identify yourself in your email address so people will be less reluctant to open your email. Use emails that shouts your identity e.g. sales@yourcompany.com. Such emails can be created very easily as most hosting plans give you free emails under your website URL.

The next factor that you should pay attention to is your subject line. Your subject must have the power to make people interested in your email. As a rule, keep it under 50 words.

- Main body

After your reader decides to open your email, you have to grab this opportunity to sell your purpose to them. Identify your self and the purpose of your purpose to them immediately. Keep the style of the email close to the style of your website. State the referrer if you have.

Improve conversion of your Emails

Increasing the effectiveness of your emails means to increase action rate. Action in terms of the people reading the emails to visiting the website. Here are 6 tips on how to improve your emails to increase your conversion rates.

- Brand yourself/ The Company

Remember to brand yourself or the Company, whichever you are representing. Good branding will make readers remember you, or your company. Keep to the branding you choose, and use it consistently, every time you email them. Use the branding in your from line or subject line, so they can recognize you.

- Honesty

Be honest and truthful in your email subject line. Don't use false information to trick readers into opening the email. It is also a legal requirement to have accurate subject line.

- Instill Urgency

Use time sensitive words or phrases to create a sense of urgency in readers. Use words like, For Limited Time Only, Buy Now, and Whilst Stock Last.

- Entice them

To further entice them to open the email or action, offer them benefits to action. You can combine urgency and the benefits in the subject line.

- Don't overdo it

In your main body, you can use bolds, colors, and capital letters to emphasize the benefits of your product / service. But bear in mind not to over do it. Using too much bolds, capital letters and colors will not only confuse your readers, it will also piss people and spiders off. Spiders may filter your email and classify it as SPAM.

- Simple and Sweet

Different purpose of email requires you to use different strategy in your emails. But as a general rule, keep your email simple and sweet. Nobody likes to read a long and wordy email. You should keep your email to the main point. If you have too much information to give, it will probably better if you give a short introduction in the email and add a link for people to click to read the full article.

*P.S Include a unsubscribe tab for all your email correspondence. It is a legal requirement for all email newsletter to include the unsubscribe option to reduce SPAM. - 20490

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

3 Tips to Increase Your Videos Views

by MLM Absolute

The internet has evolved a few years to be as advanced and communicable as it is now. The rise of video sharing is one of the latest trend in online internet marketing.

The popularity of videos made big search engines like Google to give higher importance to it and placed relevant videos high in the ranks for natural searches.

In the very least, having a few videos submitted to the various video sharing sites can not possibly hurt your websites traffic flow. Indeed, assuming you know how to make quality videos, your online videos may actually outrank your websites indexed pages.

Videos can create good source of traffic for your website because you can promote your URL in the video and video sharing sites allow you to share your website URL along with your video.

We will discuss 3 tips which you can use to improve your video popularity:

1.Keyword Selection

In order to do this, you need to use a good keyword tool. For my keyword research I like to use Google's Keyword Tool which you can find by going to Google and typing in the aforementioned keywords. You should use the exact keyword phrase in your video title and sprinkle it several times in your description.

2.Look At Other Videos

To make your video more effective and attractive to viewers, you should find videos that have successfully attracted many views, and model after it. See how the title is phrased and how it is described so you can follow the structure of it.

3.Share

Most of the video sharing sites allow you to share your video with other users. On Youtube, you can simply submit your video as a response to similar videos. This allows your video to ride off the exposure of other, more popular videos. - 20490

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