Relationship Marketing Online

Written by Merle


Forming good relationships is a part of life; not only for ourselves but for our businesses. You should be thinking of your customers as long-term clients, not just one time sales. When you work hard at forming good relationships with them, you'll find they come back and buy from you again and again.

Remember this: It's much easier to sell to an existing client then to find a new one. It's also less expensive. Another "perk" of making them happy is they'll refer their friends and associates to you, which is great for business. Referrals are like a "personal endorsement" of your work. Byrepparttar time a referral calls you, he's already partially sold on using your products or services. In essencerepparttar 121742 referral has given your companyrepparttar 121743 "stamp of approval."

So how do you go about forming relationships with clients? Well, first of all you need to care about their wants and needs -- not appear to care, but really care. In our rush-rush hurry-up society, personalized care is hard to find. If you care, you'll stand out fromrepparttar 121744 crowd and be remembered in your customer's mind when he needs another service or product like yours inrepparttar 121745 future. The point is to establish long term bonds with them.

There are a variety of things you can easily incorporate into your "relationship marketing plan" on a daily basis:

Finding Your Target Market on the Web

Written by Martin Greening


One ofrepparttar most common questions people new to Internet business ask is, "Where do I find my target market?" Most of these people know exactly whom they want to sell their products/services to, but they have no idea where to find them onrepparttar 121741 Internet.

Most ofrepparttar 121742 people selling online are offering a good product or service, but many of them aren't making any sales. What’srepparttar 121743 problem? It’s not their product. It’s their marketing, specifically where they are marketing.

Hundreds upon hundreds of Internet entrepreneurs are makingrepparttar 121744 very same mistakes every single day. They are underrepparttar 121745 impression that placing their URL on FFA link pages and submitting to billions of search engines will attract tons of ready to buy shoppers to their website. Could they be more wrong!?

These tactics are kind of like trying to sell ice to Eskimos. They have no need to buy ice when it’s all around them. The same is true for most ofrepparttar 121746 people who are attracted to these websites. They have no need for what’s there.

So how do you find your target audience? First of all, you have to think like them. Put yourself inrepparttar 121747 place of your customers. What do they want? Where will they go looking for it online?

The obvious answer is search engines. Yahoo! isn'trepparttar 121748 most visited website onrepparttar 121749 Internet for nothing. But unless you’re willing to spend months just trying to get a top ranking, or pay someone big bucks to do it for you, this isn'trepparttar 121750 best way to find your audience.

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