Celebrating A Decade Of Online Marketing

Written by Syed Ibrahim


Yes, it has been ten successful years of online marketing inrepparttar E-world. Many small companies have made it real big in this online world, by applying different marketing strategies and techniques.

However, what I have seen in these ten years of time is that originality and simplicity survives, just likerepparttar 119642 Mona Lisa’s smile.

So I have decided to take your minds on a way back machine and look into how far we have reached inrepparttar 119643 Internet marketing arena. So fasten your seat belts and hang on to your eyeballs, as I take you right fromrepparttar 119644 start torepparttar 119645 current situations prevailing inrepparttar 119646 Internet marketing world.

Starting Point: Affiliate marketing, Banner adds, Classified Adds (1995)

* Who hasn’t heard of Amazon.com,repparttar 119647 biggest giant of Affiliate marketing technology. Amazon.com started with this technology inrepparttar 119648 year 1995 and is now a multi billion-dollar company withrepparttar 119649 biggest affiliate marketing network onrepparttar 119650 entire web.

Soon many companies adopted this technology and were very successful. Affiliate marketing involves selling your product torepparttar 119651 normal users by a third party who are known as “affiliate marketers”. These resellers sell your product for a timely commission.

* Now coming torepparttar 119652 banner ads, it was also considered as a good marketing technology in order to increaserepparttar 119653 sales of your product. Banner ads, which are small graphical images, displayrepparttar 119654 ad for your product. Many huge sites like Yahoo and MSN use “Banner Advertising” and inrepparttar 119655 process lure in customers to buy their products.

* Classified Ads onrepparttar 119656 other hand were also successful but had some drawbacks. Like a huge number of marketers submitting their ads on large portal websites, wouldn’t getrepparttar 119657 notice of potential buyers easily. Later, it became highly unprofessional byrepparttar 119658 Internet marketing gurus, to display classified ads.

Next Stop: Search Engine Optimization, E- mail marketing (1998)

* Whoever inventedrepparttar 119659 search engine technology, would be getting a million thanks for what he did. Withoutrepparttar 119660 search engines, your site would be lost inrepparttar 119661 no-man’s land. Search engines generate almost 70% of targeted web traffic for your website. According to a recent survey, it reveals that,repparttar 119662 number of searches done on Google crosses 500 million people per day. So now think ofrepparttar 119663 power of these search engines and how much traffic they can generate for your website. It all depends on how you do your search engine placement and how you make your keywords work for you.

Business of Sharing Your Gift

Written by Melissa Jean Quiter


If you are like me, you started your business because you care about people. You have a special gift that, when shared, can change people’s lives forrepparttar better. You are not in this forrepparttar 119641 money or to buy lots of toys and extravagant “things”. The point is to make a difference and serve a purpose. Many of us have stepped away fromrepparttar 119642 corporate world –repparttar 119643 RAT RACE – and are findingrepparttar 119644 peace we always knew was there. We are reconnecting with what is important.

There is only one problem….

Many of our business are not making it. We aren’t payingrepparttar 119645 bills to stay afloat. We aren’t sharing our gifts because we aren’t reaching all those that are searching for our help. We are stuck in a paradox of needing money so we can share our gifts, but not wanting it to be about money!

So, why are so many, with amazing gifts to share, finding it impossible to keep their businesses open?

In my research of this community, and being a member of it, one ofrepparttar 119646 key challenges I have found isrepparttar 119647 public’s lack of awareness of what is available. The people who want and desire what holistic professionals have to offer -- massage therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, homeopathy, tarot readings, Reiki, life and business coaching, naturopathy…. andrepparttar 119648 list goes on – CAN’T find it. They don’t have access to enough information on any given service to “know” ifrepparttar 119649 one or two services they see listed inrepparttar 119650 phone book or referred by an acquaintance isrepparttar 119651 right one for them. They want more information than just a random referral or a listed phone number. They want to get to know you. People “buy” relationships.

There are thousands and thousands of people who are searching for holistic alternatives. The world is growing increasingly weary ofrepparttar 119652 western mentality of over consumption -- bad food, bad habits, bad energy and living for what can be bought next. They are looking for ways to change. The self-development and mind, body, spirit movement is exploding. People cannot get enough of feeling good through natural pursuits. They are searching for new techniques, cutting-edge practices and accessible opportunities to get that good feeling on a regular basis.

So, what isrepparttar 119653 problem? Why is there this lack of awareness of those who seek holistic remedies when there are so many options to choose? Why aren’t holistic business owners getting their names out there for people to find them?

When talking with holistic business owners and practitioners,repparttar 119654 overriding sentiment I heard is, “I am not a business.” It became very clear that buying into being a business implied buying intorepparttar 119655 rat race mentality andrepparttar 119656 corporate lifestyle. This conscious and, more often subconscious, resistance is, actually, negatingrepparttar 119657 true reason these businesses were started inrepparttar 119658 first place -- to help people. Promoting services and products that perpetuate cutting-edge thought, spiritual evolvement and personal and professional growth is imperative. The holistic community must pull together to get this information out. People new to these ideas need to hear and read and see these messages time and time again. The process of adopting new thoughts is based on repetition. New thoughts must have time to incubate as is stated inrepparttar 119659 Law of Gender – every seed must have an incubation period to realize its greatest potential. That incubation period for ideas and messages is repeated exposure from 12 to 17 times (depending on your message and medium of choice). When you promote your business –repparttar 119660 gift you have to share – you allow those, who want and need you, a chance to connect. If Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer andrepparttar 119661 many amazing voices I have been blessed to discover overrepparttar 119662 last 10 years did not promote themselves, I would be lost. I would be stunted in my growth and evolution. But, far worse, I would feel completely alone on my holistic journey. I wouldn’t know ofrepparttar 119663 others onrepparttar 119664 same path as I. We wouldn’t know of each other.

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