Off - line Promotion: What is an Acceptable Response

What is an Acceptable Response

Written by S. Housley

What is an Acceptable Response? Many online marketers work odd hours, with no beginning of repparttar

day and no real end. How does this impact support and customer service inquiries? Some small businesses are afraid to reply to customer queries off-hours, fearful that repparttar 124433

message time-stamp will betray them as a small business. The Internet however is timeless. The fact is customers appreciate a quick response. With repparttar 124434

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Internet federal holidays are blurred. Customers expect timely responses and often make little note of repparttar 124436

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vendor they are working with.

While large corporate businesses have a large amount of resources (staff and money) for sales, customer service and marketing are often tied to traditional methods of communication with customers. Sales are in person; customer service is over repparttar 124438 phone and marketing by advertising and mail. Email is often used to funnel customers into these traditional channels of communication. When emailing often repparttar 124439 reply back is to call back or a request you show up in person. More so in repparttar 124440 past then recently, many companies do not respond to email at all. While communicating by telephone and mail is important, email is part of repparttar 124441 fabric of how people interact and companies often do not take this into account.

Targeting Your Customer’s Preferred Media to Lure Them Online

Written by John Calder

You know in your gut that you have a great product and that repparttar

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few thousand searches it gets in repparttar 124433

engines each month. You suspect, rightly, that many potential customers simply don’t know this product is available online.

This holds true especially in repparttar 124434 case of e-books. You would be amazed by repparttar 124435 number of people out there (and I’m not talking about Internet newbies, either) who have no clue what an e-book is!

These are customers with cash to spend. These are customers who would love repparttar 124436 information you have to offer. However, these customers are also repparttar 124437 people who half-glance at your Ad Words advertisement thinking “Well, I don’t know why all those little boxes are over there….” – and they eventually log off and start reading a magazine.

Tragic, isn’t it?

Slip Into Their Network.

Here’s where things get really exciting. You do not have to lose that sale! You do, however, need to slip into their network, their preferred media, and educate them.

You begin by taking a second look at your product and at your target market. You know where they surf online, but do you know where they’re hiding everywhere else?

Each market circulates within its own “secret” communications network. Further, each market displays a preferred (often historical) means of information consumption. What does this mean for you and how do you put it into action?

Consider repparttar 124438 case of repparttar 124439 Arts and Crafts industry. There are millions of potential customers in this industry, and it contains a mind boggling array of niche categories. Professional and amateur artists alike look to repparttar 124440 Internet to order supplies and books, and find tutorials. However, a significant portion of this market continues to rely on print magazines and mail order catalogs for repparttar 124441 simple fact that they offer more content, more variety, better graphics and easy to follow lessons.

Expressions Art Magazine illustrates this point quite well - (see: http://expressionartmagazine.com ).

According to their reader demographics survey: • 78% of their readers purchase art supplies through repparttar 124442 mail • 81% purchase their art supplies over repparttar 124443 Internet

This is just repparttar 124444 tip of repparttar 124445 iceberg. But notice how, for art supplies alone, your average Expressions reader is just as likely to purchase offline as they are online. Obviously, repparttar 124446 market is comfortable buying their art supplies from an online vendor. Your next question should be: “How likely are they to purchase an art related information product online?”

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