where V is Volume or the number of
customers is a function of Marketing expenditure. Success is verily dependent
on Marketing.
Well, Marketing can take you from
obscurity to omnipresence ! 90% of our time and 70% of our budget should
be spent on Marketing, as advertising is the lifeblood of business.
We have to understand that Marketing is
different from selling. Never sell, influence. Write about your business field
and give useful tips to your readers and they will revert to you.
Video Marketing.
Now the rage over the Net is Video
Marketing. You can make videos using Windows Movie Maker and then submit them
to video sharing sites like Youtube, Google Videos, Vimeo, Yahoo Videos etc.
Normally 3-5 minutes videos are preferred and you can share your
knowledge with the international community that way. You can tag your videos
with rich keywords and be sure to include a link to your site. Dont bother if
there are stumblings. If there are stumblings, it only shows you are human !
Only by stumbling can a child learn to walk !
You can upload these videos to your site
and then give the url to your readers. You should also give the embed code, so
that other bloggers can dispay the videos on their blogs and this will give
you worldwide exposure.
I
created six videos and uploaded them to Youtube and other video sharing sites
and for one week I was on Video Marketing.
I am using Windows Movie Maker sw to create the videos. Making videos is fun
and it took 2.5 hours today to create my
sixth video, Zodiac $tock Market Astrology. I converted it into a swf file and
uploaded it onto my site, www.stockmarketastrology.com. I have so far got
266 views on Youtube for my six videos so far. And there will be many more
views.
In 2006,Youtube ushered in the Video Revolution. In 2007, Web 1.0 changed to
Web 2.0. The Social Media Revolution ushered in by Facebook and other social
sites changed the Web. Now there are more than 1000 social sites which are
very popular. You can upload photos, videos, music, blog, link etc to these
social sites.
Social Marketers recommend creating profiles on these sites and uploading your
photos and videos to these sites.
So Web 2.0 is more collaborative, participative and interactive than Web 1.0.
We also have to change accordingly. Encourage the mashup. By creating videos,
we can give the url and the embed code for other bloggers. Those who are
interested can insert these in their blog/site pages and lo ! our videos
travel around.
Ideally the video can be of 2/3 minutes duration. People do not have time to
view for a long period. Content is always King on the Net and you should have
quality content in the video.
Each day, more than 100 years worth of Youtube videos are watched on Facebook
and video views are growing exponentially on social sites.
Video Marketing is defined as a powerful marketing tool. You should create
quality videos, keep it simple and short ( Keep it simple, Silly ), optimise
it for the search engines and promote it rigourously. There are many video
sharing sites to which you can sumbit your videos.
www.Youtube.com
www.vimeo.com
www.dailymotion.com
www.netlog.com
www.dekhona.com
www.yourdailymedia.com
www.buzznet.com
www.break.com
www.metacafe.com
www.photobucket.com
www.flickr.com
www.facebook.com
www.plus.google.com
and many other video sharing sites.
Happy Video Marketing !
Software Marketing
You can create softwares and upload them
to your sites as freeware. Many will download these and it will give you added
exposure. For instance, I uploaded a freeware, Transit Forecast, on my
site, eastrovedica !
Social Media .Marketing
You should create great profiles on social sites
like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Orkut etc. Get as many friends as
possible. You can share your articles, photos and videos with your friends,
who will do the marketing for you. You should give links from these social
sites to your sites and blogs.
Not only proflies, but also Pages should be created
on these social sites. You can ask people to like your Profile and Pages.
Web democracy is vital and if many like your pages and profile, your site
will become more popular.
Article Marketing
You can create articles and submit them to
article sites and social sites. Be sure to link your sites and blogs in
the resource box. You should proof read, proof read and proof read.
You can also get someone check your articles. The Ultimate promotion tool
is undoubtedly Article Marketing. There are many who think Article
Marketing is dead. It can never be so, as the Net is a written medium !
Zine Marketing
You should create a eZine and then send it to opt
in subscribers. My Ezine, the Z Files, has more than 40 K subscribers. I
incorporate articles and tips in this Zine and send it to subscribers
free. eZine is a must in Relationship Marketing and it is a great method
to be in touch with your subscribers.
Blog Marketing
You can create free blogs on Blogger. You can
write about the subjects you know and share your knowledge with the
international community. Blogs gives you great exposure. Optimise your
content, as Optimised Unique Content is the marma of the Net.
You should blog daily. Update them with the
latest news. I have a cricket blog and I update my readers with the
latest news. You can give tips to your which will be appreciated
worldwide.
List Marketing
You should join lists. For instance, I
subscribed to many Astro List and I contribute about the psychic
sciences to these lists. In your sig file, you should link these posts
to your sites, blogs, profiles and pages ! Useful information should be
provided to these lists so that people can benefit from your knowledge.
Knowledge should be shared with the international community. Also
wealth.
Offline Marketing
You can write articles and send it to offline
publications. In India the online world is only 10% and the rest 90% is
offline. So offline advertising should not be neglected. You can
appear on TV and advertise yourself sublty. You should be a public
figure in newspapers as well.
Advertising, Marketing and Branding is the A of
business. Let us not ignore this vital factor !
Article
Writing Tips
Be Brief - Brevity is the
Soul of Art.
Be Concise - Nobody has
time to read for a long time.
Proof read, proof read,
proof read to save yourself from typos.
Create great Titles &
Subtitles - Titles should be catchy.
Be Resourceful - Check out
other sites for resources
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Zine Marketing also. For just $2 per ad, your ads will go to thousands of
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