Marketing Your Online Business With A Solid Plan

Written by Vincent Romei


Listen up!

I am going to let you in onrepparttar most important "secret" to finding online success with your own business.

If you want to build a strong, long lasting and profitable online business you need to start with a solid marketing plan. Don't be confused with a business plan. This is a plan you need to successfully market and promote your products or websites. An integral part of any business, your plan must be a detailed and precise road map you must follow, without fail, until all your goals are accomplished.

Every successful entrepreneur knows that without some sort of marketing plan to help guide them, they simply will not be able to steadily build their business. Your main goal is to grow, and keep growing.

Of course, there are some basic rules you should follow, but basically your plan is yours. Designing a good structured plan sounds very complex and daunting, it's really very easy if you decide to have fun with it.

When putting your plan to paper, break it down into little tasks and you'll come up with a surefire winner!

Goals.

This isrepparttar 121695 very first part of any plan and shouldn't be taken lightly. Setting a goal to work for isrepparttar 121696 hardest part ofrepparttar 121697 whole process. If not done right you will fun out of drive and motivation necessary to succeed.

Write down complete thoughts and descriptions of your goals. Not 'to make money'. That doesn't work.

Keep your goals in a prominent place within your site and always be reaching for them.

Priorities.

Next, you need to set priorities for your business. Which tasks arerepparttar 121698 most important and should take precedence.

Research.

Now we get intorepparttar 121699 meat and potatoes of your plan. This is alsorepparttar 121700 most time consuming, but pretty easy. You need to search outrepparttar 121701 best methods, tools and places (search engines, classifieds, ezines, etc..) to promote your site effectively. Remember, this is your plan. What works for someone else might not work for you.

Recession-Proof Customers Are Over the Hill - Ha!

Written by Gary Onks i


With allrepparttar doom and gloom recession talk going around wouldn't it be nice if your customers were recession-proof? My goodness that sure sounds wonderful.

* Could such customers really exist? * If they do exist, how would you find them? * Could there be enough of them to focus on and build a customer base from? * If so, would they have any interest inrepparttar 121694 products and services you offer? * Would they turn out to be a bunch of skinflints with no discretionary funds?

Oh, how very wonderful it would be if such folks did exist and could/would buy your goods. Why it would be a business paradise! What a sales dream come true!

Well, it's not a dream. Such customers do exist and they are eagerly waiting for you to call on them. Yes, they want your products and services. Where do these dream-come-true customers exist? Why, they are all around you. In fact you have been looking at them for years, but you haven't really seen them. They are called senior citizens.

Seniors arerepparttar 121695 biggest (over 81 million), fastest growing (1 every 7 seconds) and highest net worth (own 79% of all financial assets) consumer group that exists in America today.

The reasons that seniors are close to being recession-proof are:

* They have stable, guaranteed incomes from their retirement packages, savings, investments, social security and their medicare/medicaid benefits. * Most have little if any debt, owning their homes and cars outright. * They carry small (if any) credit card balances. * Child care costs are zero since their children are grown. * Utility and tax burdens are extremely low for this group. * They are quite cash positive with large savings accounts and very secure investments.

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