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Turn Marketing Upside Down – Online
- By Ron Porter
- Published 01/23/2008
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The Internet turns traditional marketing on its head. If you
think in terms of physical business vs. virtual business, you get a far bigger
bang for your buck on the Internet. But it's not just vendors who are obtaining
sales on the Internet. Web-based manufacturers can find brand new customers in
places they never dreamed of, simply by going online and making their products
available to the at-large Internet audience. For some, the sky is the limit.
Businesses of all sizes continue to tap into the Internet to
sell products, services, vacations, as well as to communicate with their
customers. But according to web marketing experts, the Internet advantage goes
to the smaller-sized businesses. These half-pints
beat the big dog when it comes to going online.
The relative low-cost of getting a site up coupled with this highly
flexible marketing channel means it’s easier than ever for the little guy to
get a bigger piece of the action. Many small entrepreneurs discover the market
potential for their niche is larger than they expected, sometimes too large. The World Wide Web’s ability to bring unexpected customers to them
at a far lower cost than old-school marketing has inundated many a small
business.
Search engine marketing, which includes innovative
approaches for improving a website's occurrence on an assortment of search
engines, represented a $5.75 billion industry in 2005, up 44 percent from a
year earlier, according to the Search Engine Marketing Professional
Organization. While much of that expenditure went for pay-per-click advertising,more
than four out of five marketers also reported using search engine optimization,
which can be achieved through careful Web site design and content.
The low-cost nature of online marketing today has
facilitated the rapid growth of many start-ups, without the need for piles and
piles of venture capital or other outside investment, ultimately boosting their
likelihood of success, according to experts in online marketing. Today's
web-based entrepreneurs are underscoring success as they grow. Fueling the
growth are new products and services created by smart businesses owners after
listening to their customers and the complaints of their competitors’
customers.
The opportunity to get your product in front of millions has
never been more affordable.
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