5 Vital Avenues to Promote your Business

by A S Kumar Netpreneur

By using the following 5 internet marketing channels to promote your website you can get massive exposure to your website effortlessly and cost-effectively increases response sales by leaps and bounds.

1. Website: An appropriate website is a pre-requisite for online marketing. Your website must accurately showcase the kind of business and the customers you have. The design of the website should put the desired correct and unforgettable impression in people’s mind. The website can either be professional without frills or it can be rich with lots of videos and graphics.

2. List Building : One of the most common advice you will have heard in the Online business/marketing is “the money is in the list”. Why do the experts say that? List building is vital to internet marketing because it gives you ongoing contact with your prospective customers. The first time people visit your website or your affiliate’s website they are not likely to buy the product. It has been said that a person needs to be exposed to something about seven times before they act on it so if you are just letting people drift by your website without getting their contact details then the chances are they will forget about it and you will lose the money. If, however, you have a list building system in place you can expose people to your product or your affiliate’s product as many times as you like and sooner or later if they are really interested they will buy something from you.

3. Using Email As A Marketing Tool : The content of your email is most important ,as that’s the criteria the customers use to decide whether to visit the website or not. The subject of your email should create the curiosity in the reader to open it. You have to follow the protocol while contacting your customers by email to make further sales. There has to be some restrictions, Otherwise you may violate the laws of spamming by breaking the protocol.

4. Advertising Campaigns For Your Business :Campaigns have to be tested using specific techniques and software that can track the results by which you can determine whether a particular campaign is effective and profitable or not. This process must be repeated often to keep abreast of the changing business requirements and customer preferences, just like traditional businesses change their ad campaigns periodically to make them more effective. Even offline advertising should be planned through Fliers and classified ads.

5.Social Networking : We all know that people have been meeting friends through friends in real life for centuries. With the phenomenal growth of the Internet, and especially the World Wide web, people are now able to meet new friends and acquaintances in more different places and in larger quantities than ever before. Just by putting up a profile listing your name, likes and dislikes, age, location and a photo you can meet as many people as you want from all over the world. The first popular social networking site was Classmates.com, started in 1995. This site was aimed at getting people together who had graduated high school, in more of a reunion format.Today's teenagers and young adults often find their place among Internet society in these social networking groups. You can meet lot of people interested in your products/services on these networks.