A Successful Marketing Campaign - Bounce Marketing Inc

A Successful Marketing Campaign - Bounce Marketing Inc
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Marketing is not a fly-by-night, one-time event.

Small-business owners are experts in the businesses they own or partner in. Most times, they are not necessarily professional marketers. A professional marketer generally has 5 to 10 years experience in the industry and went to college for a degree in business marketing or some variation of it. Most professional marketers have a specialization like: art design, web design, branding, advertising, sales marketing, and so on.

New business owners wanting to build their brand overnight plus those veteran business people wanting a quick fix to a cash-flow issues, often believe that throwing money at marketing it the answer to all their fears and concerns. They generally come to me looking for two things: an increase sales and high paying work immediately. Neither of these happen quickly unfortunately due to website authority, web ranking, the age of the brand, lack of brand knowledge in the area, and other important factors. Business owners need to understand marketing is like fishing, just like making a cold sales call. Sometimes, you run into someone interested ‘now’ and other times it may not be the case. A successful marketing campaign takes planning, industry knowledge, knowledge of the area, of course following the pre-determined plan, plenty of time to grow the brand or product image in the community, and a little luck doesn’t hurt either.

No matter if you’re looking at SEM, social media marketing, direct mail, EDDM, promotional materials, or any of the many other types of marketing—none of them work overnight. And if someone promises you they will, run. Don’t waste money paying someone who tells you they’ll give you the world, when, in fact, they cannot.
1. Marketing is not a fly-by-night, one-time event. Your strategy should be ongoing and consistent, not launched in a panicked fury when things aren’t looking good. If you begin to panic or feel nervous – so marketing right away – don’t wait for when you are fully in crisis mode or looking for the quick fix for your cash flow shortfall.
2. It should be targeted. Who is your audience? When does your audience want or need your product or service? Where is your audience located? How much is your preferred target market household income or business gross income? If you don’t know, find out and gear your marketing toward them. Otherwise, you’re throwing good marketing money down the drain. Not everyone is your type of customer and not every targeted customer is the same, so having different pre-determined brand messages might work for your business.

Regardless of what marketing route you take, do your market research, review your business plan and update it regularly with the most up to date demographic information. Plus, find out who your audience is and make a plan, if you don’t have a written one. Once you have those things in order—along with the understanding that marketing is a slow build—you’ll be in good shape.

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Print Is Now a Missed Opportunity

Reputation and Reliability
Print is tangible and holds a power over people that digital can’t replicate. It’s been around since before digital was even conceptualized, and it has been delivering reliable information to audiences since it was created. Take Time magazine, for example — the average person would trust an article they published over one of the many less-credible digital sources. While online publications often produce content that gets debated or disproven, print remains a stable, trustworthy resource for people to get the information they want.

Stay Off This Bandwagon
Because of the fact that so many businesses have all but left the print game, a customer receiving an actual parcel in the mail is noteworthy due to the rarity of the occurrence. With everyone clamoring to announce the death of print, and multitudes of newspapers and magazines closing their doors, there exists now a power vacuum into which an authority like your company can step. The key is precision targeting by engaging a niche audience, and using what you know about your audience to your advantage.

The likely reason our society has not translated virtually all of our books and advertisements to the digital world is that, ultimately, print advertising effectiveness is still real and demonstrable. The intangibility of articles hovering in cyberspace leaves something to be desired in customers. Yes, internet marketing has its advantages, especially because of easy national and international distribution potential. However, consider print media the underdog in an exciting matchup. With everybody betting on digital because they “got a hot tip” that print is washed up, leveraging the medium and making revenue from your efforst is within reach of your brand.

Print Is Now a Missed Opportunity
As multitudes of advertisers maintain their focus on digital, you can stand apart from your competitors by utilizing the medium that is getting left behind. There’s a print publication for every type of audience, and yes, people are still reading them — especially loyal readers. You can tap into a market you’re missing out on, and make a lasting impression that differs from your digital messages. Print advertising effectiveness boils down to your ability to develop a strategy that appeals to the publication’s niche audience, no matter if we’re in a digital era or not. Market pessimism may be holding you back, but the truth is that print still leads to ROI that will add to your bottom line — and you don’t want to miss that opportunity.

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SEO Tipswhen it comes to Keywords!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques related to keywords, and how they can help your business get found online.

Keywords are words and phrases people type into the search engine (i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), to find what they’re looking for. This is the verbiage that drives the web; triggering advertising and marketing initiatives. Effective use of keywords means inserting them into appropriate website content, which search engines use to “find” content online and index it according to specific search terms.

This process works exactly the way traditional book indexing does, in that the system identifies the location of words of interest and enables users searching for the words to know where to go to find them. The only difference is that the medium is digital instead of print, and the words are accessed by clicking “search,” as opposed to looking them up in an alphabetical list

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Researching Keywords 

All this only works if the keywords used in your content are the right ones. There’s no point, for example, in using keywords relating to your brand, unless people are likely to use your brand name to search. For example, if users search for “facial tissues” and your keyword is “Kleenex,” they aren’t going to find you, so you need to know which specific terms they are using when they search. “Tissues,” “facial tissues” and even“soft facial tissues” might do it, but if what they are really searching for is “extra thick soft facial tissues,” some research using Google’s keyword tool will demonstrate this fact. 

Long-Tail Keywords

The more specific the keywords are that you use, the fewer the results will be and the better your chances of appearing in them. So, while millions of people search for “tissues,” only a small percentage may be looking for your product. However, if you sell only extra thick soft facial tissues in pink, you want to use keywords that say just that. This is called a long-tail keyword, and it’s far more targeted and specific, so only users who type in the full phrase will arrive at your search result. However, given that those who do are more likely to buy your product than, say – someone searching for green tissues, it’s a worthwhile effort to make. 

Keyword Density

Gone are the days when you could publish content jam-packed with keywords. At one time, a keyword density of 7 % was considered optimal. That means using the keyword seven times in every 100 words, and it was called keyword stuffing at one time.

Now, that might be doable if you’re using a generic term like “marketing,” but for a long-tail keyword like “extra thick pink facial tissues,” it’s a little more difficult.

When Google realized that too many websites contained text that read like gibberish, just for the sake of getting keywords in the text, and/or used a higher density than 2% or 3%, their Panda and Penguin algorithm updates of 2011 and 2012 penalized those sites. Now sites are also checked for quality grammar and spelling, as well as duplicate content. Today, keyword density is down to between 0.5% and 1.5% tops! 

Keyword Ranking

This is the effective use of keywords everyone wants to achieve – high keyword ranking on their main keywords. “High” ranking means your website is ranked in the top 100 sites for use of a specific keyword. After 100, they stop counting. The level of difficulty of the keyword, as determined by its competitiveness, also has bearing on this, because it helps to balance the equation. For example, the lower the number of searches on a keyword, the less competitive it is, and the more likely you are to be in the top 10 or 100 with that keyword. So it might be easy to rank highly for “extra thick soft pink facial tissues” because nobody else is using it, than it is for simply “tissues,” which might have 100,000 monthly searches, but is also being used on countless unrelated websites.

Understanding the effective use of keywords is a critical “get found” online marketing strategy. Using it to your advantage can be a difference maker in your online marketing success.

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Does your website build client trust?

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Did you know that a few website hyperlinks can be one of the most trusted forms of "advertising" online for your business or charity? 

People that are ready to spend their money today are wary and don't spend unless they have to. (or if they know with some certainty that they're dealing with a reputable business or charity) 

Your website is that 'avenue' to gain their trust.

Here are some interesting percentages of people that feel they can gain a high level of trust when getting information about an individual/organization online. (This survey was done by: Source Forrester Research Inc.):

*Email from people you know: 77%
Consumer Product Ratings/Reviews: 60%
*Portals/Search Engines: 50%
Yellow Pages (not online): 48%
Print Newspapers: 46%
*Social Networking Site Profiles from people you know: 43%
Print Magazines: 39%
Radio: 39%
TV: 38%
*Email from a company: 28%
Direct Mail: 25%
Message Board posts: 21%
*Online Classifieds: 20%
*Personal Blog: 18%
*Social Networking Site Profiles from a company: 18%
*Company Blog: 16%

All the starred items should have a live hyperlink to bring them to your website. This hyperlink will help gain trust and confidence of your prospective client. Do you need to re-design or design a website? Call us at 386-734-9600 or check out our website: www.bouncemarketing.org