Archive for July, 2008

Nowadays a lot of people want to buy products and services via the internet because they can perform great deals at reasonable prices from the convenience of their desk, any time, day or night, even at 2am in the morning!

Online marketing is growing faster than other types of media marketing, as it can distribute information about products and services to a global audience quickly and effectively by using interactive advertisements at relatively low costs.

How can you promote your business online? Initially you should provide a site with complete details about your company, products and services offered along with the customer testimonials and a comparison chart with other competitive products.

Another important thing is to prepare attractive, informative articles on your products and publish them on the net, so that they can draw the attention of internet viewers and improve your site traffic. You have to advertise your products and services on high traffic websites, to boost your business online.

Your website should offer good quality product images and information. This will add value to your website. The more visual stimulus you can give to your visitors, the better. Also, remember the internet generation is that of instant gratification, so keep your paragraph short, and highlight your important features in bullet point lists.

By assigning keywords that are targeted and specific to your product and using SEO to achieve top search engine results, you will give your site more exposure and more chance of being in-front of potential customers.

Directly emailing them is yet another effective way of reaching out to potential customers.

The main advantages of online marketing include:

v Reaching a global audience.

v Cheaper, when compared to other marketing media.

v Site can be enhanced, easily.

v Product can be found by millions and millions of people within a second of uploading.

v Viewers can gather complete details about the products.

E-mail is one of the foremost reasons why people use the internet. Email has a lot of facilities in the form of unlimited storage, voice chats, video conferencing etc.

Coming to online business, emails play a vital role. Information regarding your business can be sent to the potential customers through emails. Email marketing is used to reach out to new customers and maintain healthy business relationships with existing customers.

Once you get the targeted traffic to visit your website, the next step is to turn them into buyers. Email marketing is an excellent way to provide focused information and hence achieve your target.

Some suggestions to turn visitors into buyers are:

v Your website should facilitate subscription to newsletters or special offers.

v Build opt-in lists for subscribers, to send the newsletters and promotional materials, as they want. This will avoid problems of spam.

v Provide offers like discounts or other important information about product in the email, to motivate your subscriber.

v Use company or brand name in the “from” line which helps a recipient to identify who has sent the mail.

v Test each email message before it is sent, using different browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer etc.

v Make sure your messages are clear to subscribers.

v Use action oriented verbs and phrases like “subscribe me”, “buy now” etc, for call-to-action links.

v Use call-to-action links in the beginning, middle and end of the mail, so that recipients can click whenever they are ready.

v Use paragraph with 1-3 short sentences.

v Highlight the article which includes the features, benefits and advantages of the products and services, in the beginning.

v Eliminate the usage of spam filter words, so that your messages reach your subscriber’s inbox.

v Mail recipients frequently or it won’t be long before you’re forgotten.

In web marketing, a lot of tactics are employed to attract online visitors. One of the main strategies is web designing. An effective web design will catch the attention of the visitors.

Most visitors enter your website through search engines. Websites are searched for through keywords. Keywords should hence be present in your web pages. While designing your web page, add all the important keywords in title tags, meta tags and alt tags.

Some information to be kept in mind while designing your website:

· Simplicity with regard to number of features about products and services is the main resource for any powerful website.

· A simple navigation system is enough and should be very clear to the visitor.

· Try to reduce the page weight of all your web pages, especially your index page, as a result of which uploading time will be minimized.

· Present the links of important pages in the home page, to guide the visitors to the important pages easily.

· Link colors should be synchronized with page colors; underline links so they instantly catch the viewer’s attention.

· Choosing appropriate background colors, images, and setting different font sizes for text, headers, footers etc… is another way to attract the visitors.

· Centrally position your website design to ensure proper display of your site in different kind of monitors.

· Use good visual elements because aspects like drop shadows, reflections etc can really attract more visitors.

· Use innovative icons which explain the concept better than plain text.

· If you want to offer any promotional discounts, use labels.

· Use attractive logos.

· Make sure columns of your text are narrow because it makes reading easier on the screen.

· Highlight important elements by setting a larger font size but be sure not to make it too large.

· Use traditional design because it makes visitors comfortable.

· Design your web considering the nature of visitors you want to attract.

Everyone at Agriya wants to wish our American friends a very happy 4th of July. We hope the barbeque is cooking up a treat, and we’re jealous we can’t be there to enjoy it with you!

Take a break, relax, and come back to buy Rayzz or Kootali on Monday, we’ll still be there for you ;)

Everyone’s goal is to be successful in their field. You can be successful in online marketing by following two simple steps:

Step 1: Attract more visitors to your site
Step 2: Turn visitors into customers

Right now, you may think that it is easier said than done. Yes! I agree with you. This article will provide some tips that will make it easier for you to go through the above mentioned steps and achieve your goal.
Attract more visitors to your site by listing your site in search engines, advertising your product/service in other popular sites, bulk e-mailing, pop-up ads, building link popularity, and offering e-books or articles and classified advertisements. Analyze the statistics of site visitors, to find out the weakness of the site and look to improve upon those areas.

If your site is not listed within first ten rankings of any search engine, the probability of visitors finding it reduces greatly. Hence you have to use the advanced SEO techniques to be able to fair very well on search engines.

You can also increase your web traffic by writing to e-zines or to any free article sites available on the net. The article should include a link to your site, so that every time someone clicks on your link, it brings traffic to your site for free.

Once you have grabbed the visitors to your site, your next job is to make sure that all of them stay glued to it. This can be done by providing enriched information about the products or services offered. It is also important to keep your content fresh and alive at all times.

Some tips to enrich your site content are, using images, listing out the features in points (to make it easier for reader), posting a list of all your products and mentioning features of each version in detail, providing clear and simple content, and offering guest posting opportunities to motivate visitors to become part of your blog community.

If the visitors find your site useful, you can be sure that they will buy your product. It is hence in your hands to expose your product effectively and promote your business online.