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EMAIL MARKETING

sodrama — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:40:19 +0000

Email marketing is to use email in marketing communications (Mark Brownlow, 2008). Email marketing is a very popular marketing communication technique today because it costs less than the other forms of communication do, and it will be very effective if it is conducted appropriately (2008). According to EmailLabs, email’s average cost per order is less than US$7, while affiliate programs, paid search, and banner advertisements are US$17.47, US$26.75, and US$71.89 respectively (2007). Also, EmailLabs states that email marketing is effective in return on investment (ROI); its ROI is $51.45 per US$ 1 spent, while print catalogs’ and non-email online marketing’s ROI are US$7.20, US$21.08 (2007). Thus, email marketing is cheap and effective. Although email marketing can be very effective, if it is not conducted appropriately, it will not be successful. Simply sending out emails is not appropriate way to conduct email marketing. There are many tips that marketers should know in order to conduct their email marketing effectively, and some of those tips will be introduced here. One of the tips is to identify target market, and to send customized emails to the people in the target market. According to EmailLabs, email-marketing campaigns that target their receivers based on click stream analysis have the open rate of 33%, the average click thorough rate of 14%, and the average conversion rate of 3.9% (2007). On the other hand, the untargeted broadcast emails have the open rate of 20%, the average click thorough rate of 9.5%, and the average conversion rate of 1.1% (EmailLabs, 2007). The data indicates that email campaigns with targeting works more effectively than those without targeting. Another tip is the emails use in email marketing campaigns should have concise subject lines (2007). EmailLabs states that the emails whose subject lines consist of less than 50 characters have a higher open rate than those emails whose subject lines consist of 50 or more characteristics by 12.5 % (2007). Also, the click through rate of less than 50 characters subject lines emails is also higher than that of 50 plus characters subject lines emails by 75% (2007). Thus, the emails with concise subject lines are more effective. In addition, “marketing emails must have a familiar preview” (DS Development, 2008). DS Development remarks that most people decide whether the emails are interesting or not by previewing those before they actually open (2008). DS Development also states that knowing and trusting senders are important to make people open emails (2008). Thus, in order to motivate those people to open and read the emails, those emails’ sender names should be visible, easily noticed, and trustworthy (2008). Also, the emails should have addresses that people can see who the senders are (2008). Therefore, email marketing will be very effective if it is conducted appropriately. In order to conduct a successful marketing campaign, marketers need to know the tips.

Why Buying Virtual Goods

sodrama — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:55 +0000

Let’s facing the truth, buying virtual goods was all about buying pixels. There we already referenced to Jeremy Liew as one of the most informed capacities to find on virtual goods. Today I learned on his blog that Jeremy has written on “Why do People Buy Virtual Goods” for Wall Street Journal. It is very condense and at the same time provides case examples do prove the theory. One of assumption that Jeremy brings out that“My theory is that people buy digital goods for the same reason that they buy goods in the real world; (i) to be able to do more, (ii) to build relationships, and (iii) to establish identity.”

There is no need to look for a distinct motivation set for buying virtual goods as compared to the goods in real world, but why people still tend to buy virtual goods? Is that only because we can not achieve in our real life or that can help us to do social life online?

1) To be able to do more: For example,owning a place on WhatsYourPlace lets you exclusively represent the online image on that place. It is up to you, what pictures and what content visitors to that place get to see there. The propose to doing that is let you friends and family knows more about you even you are in different country. Also it apply a space to people communicate within same hobby.

2) To build relationships: This is the major thing that people welling to purchasing virtual goods. WhatsYourPlace is a great platform to find like-minded people. If you buy a football stadium, supporters of the corresponding team will give feedback. If you are Michael Jackson Fan and you buy Neverland Ranch, other fans will share the latest rumors with you. In general, personal connections to real places of the world build the foundation for social exchange. It is also possible to buy someone’s favorite place as a gift. It could be a ideal gifts for girlfriend. Its shows you can interact and socialize with someone whatever where you living right now.

3) To establish identity: Buying a place on WhatsYourPlace is a social statement. If you buy some place as a fan, this is a strong way of demonstrating your personal support or interest. If you buy a place that you have fond memories on, part of your history materializes – virtually

Search Engines as Tools

sodrama — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:03:22 +0000

Search engines are among the most popular and most useful tools that the web has to offer. There are mass of information that can be found on the internet can be accessed by using popular search engines such as: Yahoo!, Baidu, Google, Excite, Lycos, and many more.There are some tips that teach how to find the prefect result you looking to.

The importance of search engines can be review to find information on any topic. When it comes to search engines there are three types: crawler-based, human-powered, and hybrid ( 2008 Gale,Cengage Learning). Crawler-based engines are the most popular search engines. It is using software “robots” called spiders or crawlers. The purpose of these crawlers is to sift through web pages and follow links within websites. The crawler revisits the page from time to time to check for any changes that may have been made. Among the top search engines of traditional kind are Google, Teoma, Hotbot, and Alta Vista. Human-powered do not look for websites to index them; they prefer you to suggest your site. As human-powered search engines do not have own algorithms to rank websites, they make it according to alphabetic sequence or Google Page Rank. The most of them have “Add URL” pages where you fill out the required information such as the website title, keywords, description, or email. Basically, you select the proper category for the website and then, in accordance of tern, it will be examined by human editors. The decision of this editor could be accept or not to accept the site. Hybrid Search engines utilize both types of listing. For example, MSN presents human-edited listings from Looksmart and crawler-based listing of its own Web crawler. Nowadays, some top search engines also resort to opposite listings such as Google and Yahoo!

Online Free Video Marketing

sodrama — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:57:19 +0000

Mention about free video web sit, The most popular one influence our life most are YouTube which allows users can upload, download and share with other users. Such a popularity of YouTube can not be ignore by marketer who like using viral marketing to influence customer’s thinks, especial young generations. YouTube also apply a prefect set for business organizations for the advertising. It is free and get impact on customers. YouTube not only plays a entertainment tools but as a commercial tool for many organizations. Warner Bros., Dimension Films, Nike, and MTV2 are the examples of companies uploading their commercial video clips on YouTube (Petrecca, 2006). Also, Deep Focus, which is a marketing firm representing studios such MTV2 and The Weinstein Co., has used YouTube for the marketing purpose as well . The firm has uploaded the movie trailer of Scary Movie 4, and the firm has attained approximately 250,000 views within 24 hours and 1 million views in a week after the firm had launched the trailer (2006). The firm also has uploaded the movie trailer of Clerks II and has attained 150,000 views within two days after the trailer had been launched. Thus, YouTube provides significant advertising effect to marketers. YouTube also is a great place for small business to do explanation or advertising for customer exploring.

A website of Small Business Search Marketing provides some tips for implementing effective YouTube marketing (McGee, 2007). The website states that marketers should make their videos fun so that the viewers will be willing to share. Also, those marketers have to demonstrate their products that they are marketing clearly . In addition, they should make their videos real; thus, those videos should not contain any tricks, and also need to motivate viewers to participate in and support their YouTube marketing campaigns. Furthermore, the website recommends those marketers to utilize YouTube tags. They need to identify and use the adjectives for tags and titles that will meet the key words used by their target viewers for searching. The final tip says that the marketers should perform experiments. In short, if a marketer appropriately implements the YouTube marketing, that will bring massive marketing reach to the marketer.

Seven Tricks To Viral Marketing

sodrama — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:34:31 +0000

Viral marketing is a tool for online marketing strategy which encourages individuals to communicate a marketing message with others. It brings WOM , IMC plane which increase company’s sales or reputations. Many companies has been used this strategy. Dan Zarrella as a viral marketing scientist introduces the companies and products, which have been utilized viral marketing, such as Burger King, Hotmail, Coke, BlendTec, Mentos, and Dove (2007).It will provide significant advantages to them if marketers know how to create an effective and efficiency viral marketing program. The marketer does not know how to make a valuable viral marketing program; it would not provide any advantages base on that point. Thus, marketers need to analysis how to implement viral marketing program in a efficiencies way. Thomas Baekdal who occupied in interaction designer and project manager and introduces seven tricks to viral marketing.

The first trick is “make people feel something”. The viral marketing program should make those people “be filled with love or hate”, “be very happy or insanely angry”, an “idiot or genius”, and “be deeply compassionate or an egoistic bitch”. A viral marketing program should evoke people’s strong emotion (2006).

The second trick is “do something unexpected”. The viral marketing program has to show something that audiences do not expect to see or experience. Remember the bear being attacked by a man in John West Ad? That was unexpected – and it is one the most effective viral advertisements ever. The program has to do so in order to be outstanding and be unique. (2006).

The third trick is “do not try to make advertisements”. In traditional marketing is either to promote company’s products or services and is the way to show how good those products and services are. Which also mean the company are focus on the product/service’s itself but not as customer’s point of view. As a result, it is failure to draw customer’s interesting. Nevertheless, viral marketing is about creating the interest, make customer’s needs and wants. Therefore, the viral marketing program should not advertise products or services but should focus on providing interest to audiences (2006).

The fourth trick is “make sequels”. The audiences of the viral marketing program are interested and highly involved in the program. A provider of the program should make sequels such as another program or extra materials and goods (2006).

The fifth trick is “allow sharing, downloading and embedding”. Since the audiences will spread the message and brings into word of mouth, it is essential part of viral marketing to allow them to share, download and embed the information (2006).

The sixth trick is “connect with comments”. The viral marketing provider should build comment functional feature that can connect with the audiences. Since those audiences are excited and want to talk after they got the program, it is important to provide the place to talk (2006).

Move to the final trick: “never restrict access”. The viral marketing should be spread rapidly in a short time like virus, so the provider would not make things that restrict access. They could require audience to register, sign up membership, or offer free downloading for special use software (2008).

In short, viral marketing let users to save marketing costs. Therefore, viral marketing is an effective strategy and worth to put into operation. Let’s draw traffic in and make profit.

Social Networking Tools

sodrama — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:34:15 +0000

Social networking strategy is an online marketing tool that motivates individuals to communicate a marketing message to others. A social marketing scientist introduces the companies and products, which have been utilized viral marketing, such as starbucks, cookies, a talk show, even sports team. Face is an excellent both for marketing which enhance company online business. Trivest Campus shows that how you going to using social networking as tool to creative advantage and bring more traffic to company’s web sit. Common Craft produces short explanatory videos that are focused on what is social networking and they are popular? If marketers know how to create an effective social net working program, it will provide significant impact for them. Thus, marketers need to know how to implement this program effectively. What is the big attractive for those social networking for site like class=”hiddenSpellError” pre=”like “>facebook, myspace, bloster, couchsurfing that a lot people use them Is a factor let people express themselves, and helps people feel special and important. They allow people to update their status in unlimited time. Some people even updated four or five times a day, just update in any active they do. It doesn’t matter anyone check their status but make them feel important. So how you apply that attraction factor to marketing business? The key term is prospects. As an online marketer, you need apply prospects into marketing efforts and put customer into comfortable positions. Use social networking to built trust incurability into prospects. And you can done the job effetely by doing that job. In deed, using social net working to let customer feel they are in an important position in the product they been using. Using marketing knowledge to giving people what they want and providing solutions to the problems and situations that your prospect is going through. Company can apply free content, free information to attract qualified prospects to customer who need what company has been offered. How position yourself in a market place, find customarily needs, promote yourself in stead of active to customers by using online social networking? In position yourself is main point as a marketer need to face to. NMConsultant apply a site for company who want using online social networking to expend their business.

How to implement your online business?

sodrama — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:14:41 +0000

As an entrepreneur, you come up a great business idea that you were passion to actualized it. Then, you made vision and mission statement which indicates a landscape for you business idea.These days the question isn’t can you make it since we have production overcapacity but the question is, “can you sell it”. Advertising is absolutely a method to distribute product or service to ending users. However, how you going to implement or success online marketing？Online marketing service is an intangible service which creative value by increasing the rate of visitors and for that it has to be attractive, implement an effective and efficiency web site to drive customer in and make actually profit would be primary subject for the web site. The advantages of online marketing should include reduced cost, increased reach and precision and compelling interactivity with customer. Creative multimedia services include creating attractive flash presentations and animations that make browsing through a portal enjoyable for visitors. With the use of latest flash technology it is possible to create amazing presentations, animations and graphics that make a site or portal distinct from the rest of the competitors. We also need to invest time into online security is other main point to drive attention with which provide strong production for customer information. Doing advertising online could be an idea for small business who just started.

PathFinder Consulting Group provide business, internet and technology solutions to who want expend or doing business but lacking for knowledge for doing it. Their mission is “help drive appropriate traffic to your web site, maximize conversion rates, and retain customers. Gain insight, expand your influence, or edge out competitors with the PathFinder advantage”.

If you don’t want use a web consulting because short of finance, you can go John Niemira who is a professor of business at Stevens-Henager College in Salt Lake City, Utah. He teaches you how to get a free advertising online and is a good way for a small business that don’t have too much start money.

Function of Online Marketing

sodrama — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:12:38 +0000

Nowadays, the populations of internet usage are dramatically increased since last two decades. There are so many web sit exists try to attract your eyeballs. The four main things consist of a web page are article, pictures, videos and sounds. These elements are the key points to passing and educate viewers like us. Moreover, that information could directly or indirectly impact our daily life and that is the reason why we have online marketing. As a student, we had known that we can do marketing research use search engine like Goolge which apply mass information all over the world. And IT Facts also one of my favors to do marketing research that apply mass of data information with well organized categories.

As working in the business area, we can gain both primary and secondary data online although is hard to measure or accurate marketing information with technology. Those include survey, conversion rate, and attrition rate or customer personal information to help company have better observation and predict customer shopping behaviors. A company’s web page could be both mental and informational processing services. In addition, it could enhance customer relationship between two parties. Nevertheless, online marketing plays a major role in a firm’s product life cycle. Time frame can vary according to the industry but the pattern remains the same: rapid sales growth, mature sales, and falling sales, as the product is launched, grows rapidly, matures and eventually declines. In the first stage, the company was seeking for information about target customer shopping behaviors, age, income, where and when they buy the product and help company to making good decisions. Then, how to better approach and transform customer’s interested into profit would be in their develop stage. A product’s life cycle can be extended by finding new users, new uses, and increased usage and of course, product modification and online marketing plays significant role in this part stage. Using internet is not only do marketing research search but also include information deliver like promotion, web conference, managing, production controlling, tracking and more core product or service relative function which let company functional more effect and efficiency.

Online marketing could be core product like Yellow Page doing online. Surely yellow pages are well established, recognized everywhere and enjoy strong distribution channel to most companies to advertising in yellow pages. Online markeing could be supplementary product like Canada TD bank offer service online do easy payment which let you do your banking online instead of going to face to face customer service. Not only have that, TD Trust also offering free marketing research that available for business people. This online service could help them have better view of finance tends in a period of time. In short, we both benefit form marking online service since let us do more unlimited job in limited time.

Keep Away of Personal Information Abuses

sodrama — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:31:53 +0000

The development of technique these days extremely fast and brings us huge profit, benefit and convince to human society. Internet is soaking into our life and got enormous impact on human behavior. Internet is part of our life not only for customer but marketer. As a marker, internet is a best recourse to tracking customer, build relationship, and bring sales and marketing research. Both in same time and money which brings more profit by efficiency work. For instance, a commercial company cannot provide good free content on the web without relying on advertising revenues. Put in that way, the better targeted the marketing – the more sales they can get. On the other hand, as a customer, we do shopping, banking, entertains, online social, read news or music and movie which may leave personal information instead of get this services. Where all that recourse goes? Who is going to use this recourse and is that will get negative impact on our life?

The answer is certain. It is all invisible for government, hacker and other third parties. Indeed, I believed that no one want to be spy or feels like anxieties around issues such as personal information safety, security and privacy can stand in the way of making the most of what the web has to offer. Facebook as one of the world’s most popular social networking sites and Canada has around 12 million Facebook users which is more that one in three of the population. In August 2009, Facebook has taken effort to changes to its privacy policy that could make users far better protected. Through this action, the user is able to decide what information could pass to third parties and control who can access that information. Many companies realized how important to protect ending use’s personal information and start co-operate with privacy policy. One sample for that is BBG ( Broadcasting Board of Governors ). They had been clearly explaining their internet privacy policy on their web pages.

Not only that can keep away personal information abuse, but we can use cookies to protect our own. Most advertising web sites contract with each other to share sources about users. In general, cookies could tell you how to opt out when you do not want your user journey site be use. Since more and more online company offer to provide a safe environment within which people can enjoy more and we should start to take own responsibility to keep us away of information abuse.