Spike TV - Know Your Audience

Written by Nick Smith


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relevant to your business. Group your potential clients and customers based on characteristics they actually possess, rather than on features you would like them to have or that you think they should have. Just because men should be interested in keepingrepparttar kitchen clean does not mean Spike TV should create a show all about dish soap.

Second, distinguish betweenrepparttar 119611 categories of your customers that will purchase what you're selling and those that will not. When all is said and done, your business relies onrepparttar 119612 revenue customers generate to stay in business. If no men watched Spike TV it would not still be a viable, thriving network. It may be helpful, if you haverepparttar 119613 resources, to identify which categories of your customers might not buy right away, but may come back and purchase later.

Finally, discover how your customers will use or purchase your product. Spike TV no doubt was faced withrepparttar 119614 challenge of providing quality service to both Sci-Fi fans and Demolition Derby junkies. Some of your customers may purchase your product based on impulse, while others may be converting from one of your competitor's products. Still others may need information, testimonials, and a personal relationship with you before they spend money. Catering to your individual customers (by identifying categories and marketing torepparttar 119615 ones that will buy what you're selling) increasesrepparttar 119616 likelihood that they will returnrepparttar 119617 next time they need your services.

Knowing your audience and meeting their individual needs can berepparttar 119618 difference between barely scraping by and buying a yacht - or a school bus figure eight racing track of your very own.




Nick Smith is a specialist in network marketing. For information on how to order Spike TV, check out I-Satellite.


How To Promote Your Hotel Website Effectively - And For Free!

Written by David Carruthers


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Site Submission After optimising your site you are then ready to start submitting your site torepparttar search engines. The search engines which Web Ceo submits to, provide about 95% of all web searches and include Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and MSN amongst others. In total, you can easily submit automatically to about 250 search engines and make manual submissions (which take a little longer but are very important) to about another 20 directories.

Rankings After submitting your site you can then use Web Ceo to monitor your rankings with individual search engines based on your keywords. Although you can do this manually using a spreadsheet and browsing all ofrepparttar 119610 search engines, Web Ceo does it so much more easily and saves yourepparttar 119611 time you need to get on with running your hotel!

Linking Many search engines will rank your site according to who links to you. Web Ceo helps to discover which websites link to you and which link to your competition. As a result you can learn who links doesn't link to your site but is linking to your competitors so that you too can request a link.

Site Maintenance

As well as helping you with your Internet Marketing efforts Web Ceo will also help you maintain your site. It can pinpoint broken links, edit your web pages, upload HTML files to your web server, and tell when your web site is down.

Tracking Web Ceo may also be optionally used to track your campaign and who is visiting your site with which browser, operating system etc.

Summary We use Web Ceo at Hotel-Pro and cannot recommend it highly enough. If you are serious about promoting your site then Web Ceo isrepparttar 119612 best FREE tool available - go get it from www.webceo.com Of course after you get them to your site you want them to book! Why not consider our EUBookings package which costs you just £99 per year and allows guests to book securely online in minutes? Our customers have found it pays for itself within days of being up and running!

To find out how Hotel-Pro can help you promote your hotel online and allow you to take online bookings visit http://www.hotel-pro.co.uk

David Carruthers is a director of Hotel-Pro (http://www.hotel-pro.co.uk) who specialise in helping small and medium sized independent hotels and guesthouses with Internet solutions.


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