Exercise Your Marketing Skills

Written by Doran Roggio


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As you take in instruction on marketing you will perceive there are certain mundane tasks ( advertising procedures, customer care, ad tracking, etc.) that you must give attention to in order to fine tune your marketing results. These are all necessary steps to success.

So thenrepparttar first step in exercising your marketing skills is to obtainrepparttar 121924 necessary knowledge to strengthen your marketing muscles. Develop a plan of action. Continue to reevaluate your goals. Ascertain if you what you are doing is leading you in repparttar 121925 direction of those goals. Makerepparttar 121926 commitment to be diligent and not quit. Think success. Stay focused. Do some- thing daily that educates you and keeps you motivated. Remember 'knowledge is power 'and thru your acquired knowledge you will develop techniques that work. 3...to bring to bear steadily of forcefully...

Through a habitual, laborious and sometimes tiring course of actionrepparttar 121927 bodybuilder achieves results and acquiresrepparttar 121928 desired physical fitness and muscular body. He knows his success came as a result of commitment and hard work. It would be folly on his part to think that he could achieve such results instantaneously. He continued working at it even when it seemed there was not much progress, exercising faith that his continued efforts would bring success.

At first, especially if you are brand new to marketing, you may feel inadequate. There may be times you have tried every thing you have learned and it seems nothing is working. Do not dismay, this does not mean you cannot do it. All success paths start off with trials and even failures. That is part ofrepparttar 121929 learning process. You can succeed if you do not give up. Real success comes with time and work. Do not fall prey to repparttar 121930 myriad of 'instant riches' promises that abound onrepparttar 121931 web. Marketing techniques which will bring success to your business will be developed gradually until one day you will realize that you have acquiredrepparttar 121932 fine tuned skills to market your business successfully.

An excellent first step to exercising your marketing skills, would be to takerepparttar 121933 Free 5 Day Affiliate Masters Course written by Ken Evoy. This is an intensive 5 Day email course on becoming a high earning Affiliate. I can think of no better way to start your journey to acquiringrepparttar 121934 marketing skills you need to be successful. This isrepparttar 121935 very course that took and I refer to daily.

Requestrepparttar 121936 Affiliate Masters Course by downloading this link: http://doranunlimited.com/ebooks/masters/Aff-Masters.zip

Doran Roggio is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She is also an Internet Marketer and publishes an Ezine, the Lighthouse, which is an Internet Guide. Visit her web page to find Internet resources and marketing tools. http://doranunlimited.com


Why Are Your Customers Hanging Out At Your Competitors Web Site?

Written by Diane Leonte


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Determine why.....

Take a look at each web sites meta tags inrepparttar view source function in your browser. You can viewrepparttar 121923 source code of any open web site in your browser by selecting "Source" inrepparttar 121924 "View" function of Internet Explorer or "Page Source" inrepparttar 121925 "View" function of Netscape.

Examinerepparttar 121926 keywords, description, and title that your competitor is using in their meta tags and see how your own meta tags compare (you do use meta tags don't you??).

Do you need to fine tune your meta tags in order to increase your chances of ranking higher withrepparttar 121927 search engines, then do so. This activity alone will bring your more targeted traffic.

How does your web sites sales copy compare to your competitors. Chances are that your larger competitors are using benefit rich sales copy. Fine tune your web site sales copy to address how your product or service will be about helping your customer get what they want and need.

How aboutrepparttar 121928 design of your competitors web site? You can learn more about what is more attractive and compelling to your customer by comparing your web design to that of your competitors. For example... is your web site easy to navigate? Do you have a consistent focus on one or two products/services? Do you have a web site that is cluttered with gyrating banners for unrelated products/services?

Does your competitors web site offer more online payment options than you do? Are they easier to use? Do they send an automatic thank you with each order?

What about customer service? Does your competitor follow up with their customers to determine their level of satisfaction? Do they offer real time online customer support?

What about price? Where is your pricing compared to your competitor?

How about added value? Does your competitor offer more to repparttar 121929 customer withrepparttar 121930 purchase of their product/service? For example, a guarantee, a bonus, or a trial version.

How much advertising does your competitor do and where? To find this out, simply searchrepparttar 121931 Internet using your competitors web site name, or product name to find out where else they are linked to.

***Keep in mindrepparttar 121932 above suggestions do not suggest or encourage copying any web site, web site copy, or HTML code from your competitor's web site. There are copyright laws that protect us all from this kind of activity. You can userepparttar 121933 information obtained from your Internet searches for ideas on how to improve your own web site only.

This is no different from howrepparttar 121934 bricks & mortar businesses gather their market research information about their competitors when they send employees out to "Shop" their competitors stores and buy their services and products....repparttar 121935 glaring difference is that Internet Marketers can gather allrepparttar 121936 information they need from a larger number of competitors in a fraction ofrepparttar 121937 time it would takerepparttar 121938 offline business to do so.

This is a wonderful time to be in business onrepparttar 121939 Internet, and if you have not takenrepparttar 121940 time to do your market research, then stop everything you are doing to promote your business and focus on accomplishingrepparttar 121941 three steps above.

By doing so... you will gain customers and gain on your competitors in market share.

Good Luck Online.

Diane Leonte is a Business Coach, specializing in Making Money on the Internet. Web master of "Wealth In Mind" http://wealthinmind.com and Publisher of the "Achieving Success & Wealth" mailto:subscribe@wealthinmind.com.


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