Monday 13 April 2015

How to Make a Non-Invasive Online Marketing Strategy?

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks” - - Mark Zuckerberg
                                                                                       
Internet marketing has replaced the invasive methods of advertising, which’s limited just to billboards, TV ads, radio jingles and posters. Currently, marketers are playing smart marketing game to attract maximum clients and generate higher ROI. With no-doubts, the supernatural population of worldwide netizens make online marketing a huge success in the 21st century. Namely, the three musketeers of digital advertising as SEO, SMO and PPC are playing a crucial role in promoting products/brands/services. These three digital brothers are search engine friendly and very well aware of how to execute their job. To ensure the marketer achieves his/her marketing goal, a non-invasive online marketing strategy is required as an essentiality.

What is non-invasive online marketing?

Non-invasive online marketing refers to the modern advertising methodology or 360degree mode of marketing. In other words, non-invasive marketing refers to promotion of the brand via respected digital marketing platforms such as SEO,SMO,PPC and Email marketing. Advertisers must keep in mind the Google guidelines (Penguin/Panda Update) when planning an effective strategy for non-invasive online marketing.

How to make a non-invasive online marketing strategy?

•    Understanding Target Audience: Basic rule of advertising is to know what exactly the customers demand, what is their interest and how they want products and services. To ensure the brand advts reach directly to potential clients, advertiser must research on consumer behavior related to a particular product. In addition, comparing with competitors helps in drafting a plan that leads to the doors of success.

•    Keywords: Online advertising is completely dependent on keywords. Google crawls the web pages in context to keywords and displays relevant results. A well verse research of high traffic keywords on Google Adwords can lead to generating positive business leads for conversion. Other effectual keywords usage is long tail keywords, alternative keywords that ranks web pages instantly.

•    Platform Selection: Choosing the right digital marketing platform for online advertising is a smart decision. Marketer must understand the value of SEO,SMO & PPC in significance with associated business. SEO is favorable for increasing SERP ranking, SMO promotes brands on social networking sites and PayPerClick (PPC) improves web traffic as per click count. For start up business, the complete package of digital marketing including SEO,SMO & PPC acts as a game changer.

•    Planning: No plan-No success! A well streamlined plan offers fruitful results. By structuring the invasive online advertising as per the guidelines set by Google, every brand can promote itself in a lucid way and influence majority of satisfied customers.

•    Execution: Last not the least, the invasive online advertising strategy must be executed with a transparent methodology to directly reach the end-users. By implementing the set parameters of the strategy, advertisers can easily reach their goal within a specified time.

Friday 3 April 2015

Social Media The Best Marketing Tool For Your Business

Sharing is caring! The old proverb implies the modern strategy of social media networking, where people share posts, pictures and videos to communicate with mass audience. Social media has become the marketing tool that helps to market a brand in an interactive way. Keeping the fact of consumers in mind, the social media engagements must be executed. A small mistake can lead to havoc.

When using social media as a powerful tool to convert sales and maintain goodwill. Do keep the following important points in mind.

•    What are you posting : Remember your posts are for interacting with consumers. The content must be relevant and not offending any culture, community or any individual. A transparent text with images increases the visibility rate of the post.

•    Where are you sharing : Always analyze which social media platform is best for promoting your brand. Yes, Facebook, twitter, YouTube and Pinterest are common social networking platforms. But for more relevancy the other popular social media and blogging sites must be targeted. Some other popular social sites are as Linkedin, blogger, Google Plus, Vimeo and Instagram.

•    Whom do your updates relate : Understand your audience, implement your strategies and plan according to the target audience. To ensure your posts reach the desired community, dedicate the post for specific audiences such as youth, girls, kid’s, women’s, men’s, corporate or business groups.

•    Objective : Don’t let your objective fluctuate. If targeting for sales, ensure to maintain the effectiveness in post to attract maximum buyers. Whereas, entrust complete details with links for publicizing services. A planned objective leads to gain tremendous response in short time.

•    How will users react : Reaction of users on shared posts is mandatory for building positive goodwill. Once the customers are satisfied they will like to promote and share the company brand and services. Reaction of users helps to examine the future strategy for social media marketing services.

Apart from basic knowledge of sharing posts on social media, the publisher must be aware of social media technicalties. Namely, hashtags, interlinking, retweet, tagging, bulk messages and direct messages play a vital role in winning the social networks. To ensure the company social networking profiles receive maximum likes, retweets, comments and shares, the reputed digital marketing companies must be consulted. A wide list of reputed digital marketing companies can be easily contacted  by searching Google. The social media experts recommend to choose agencies holding Google certification or experienced in positive result orientation.