Just One Small Slice of Media PublicityWritten by John Calder
Take a short break from your daily grind and consider following questions- Do you spend large amounts of time and money trying to figure out why Google prefers someone else’s site over yours? - Are you on a never ending quest for a magic trick that can help you blow past 800+ pay per click competitors in your keyword category? - Do Page Rank fluctuations strike fear in your heart? If above applies to you, and if you still aren’t seeing results you desire, you’ve got a clear case of “marketing paralysis”. Don’t worry, though. It’s not fatal when treated early. So, what’s cure, you say? The cure is: Perspective. Internet Marketing (as currently taught) paints a very narrow view of your strategic options. The books and courses you study tout search optimization and pay per click marketing as holy grails of profit when, in fact, those methods may not represent fastest and most appropriate way to generate targeted leads for your product. The Internet: Just One Small Slice of Media Publicity Take out a Post-It Note and write word “Publicity” down in big, bold letters, then stick it on your monitor. When you get stuck in a rut, take a look at that word and let yourself conjure up all ideas, images and associated meanings surrounding it. Once you complete that exercise, remind yourself of following: Your status as an online entrepreneur does not preclude you from exploring advertising outlets in other media. Internet Marketing represents only one subset under general category of publicity. The Internet’s distinction as an entity, apart from traditional media, grows increasingly arbitrary with each passing day. If you want to know what fuels massive search activity, and what creates legendary domain names, pay attention to offline media of print, radio and television.
| | Today, While I Surfed the WebThursday, August 26, 2004Written by eRix
Today, While I Surfed WebThursday, August 26, 2004It was another interesting day surfing web trying to raise my website’s link popularity, increase brand awareness, and advertise to bring in new targeted customers. I keep finding it hard to pay for advertising, as I try to find most inexpensive way to draw traffic to my shopping cart enabled website. I keep fiddling with format of website because what little customer traffic is coming to website, between 5 to 20 customers a day, is not staying or buying. I need to find a way to get them to buy a product that everyone else already seems to sell. I keep asking myself, “How are you going to generate new customers that will be loyal to your storefront?” This question puzzles me because I am trying to copy what my #1 competition is doing, i.e. offering Home and Garden Articles—albeit articles come from same place, linking with same websites, winning same website awards. I can only conclude that all these websites are now reciprocally linked together with no identity and little original content. I guess all of us webmasters are trying to compete with Big Boys (msn, google, yahoo, netscape, amazon, ebay, aol, and a few others). With all this common linking, it seems like all of us individual webmasters are spending our time with each other rather than focusing on customer. How about spending that same time writing an article on a subject you do know about and then posting that to
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