Write Great Content. Small Business web site promotions plan
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Write Great Content by Stephen Dunbar
Here is a smart web site promotions campaign, ideal for small businesses, with a limited marketing budget but armed with plenty of industry experience and a passion for writing.
Now, write,"Content > Traffic > PREsell > Monetize", and stick it to your monitor.
Big businesses, who have a big bank balance, can afford an expensive web site promotions campaign. No doubt, big players muscle their online business web site address into people's lives, through plenty of television, radio, magazine, newspaper, online linking, advertising & merchandise. Hundred's of thousands or even millions later, their web address is known by the masses. At a big dollar cost small businesses simply can't afford.
Most businesses are small. Unfortunately 98% of small businesses are doing web site promotions all wrong. When you finish ready this article, A light will go on. It's so simple, and so strikingly clear, that you just REALIZE it's right. Small business people hit their foreheads with the heel of their hands and go... " Of course."
Make sure your web site promotions go smoothly. Give your site readers, plenty of reasons to return to your site as often as they can.
Content > Traffic > PREsell > Monetize
Here is your blue print for success. Make interesting content, attract targeted traffic, Presell by gaining readers trust and credibility, and last and by no means least, Monetize, Convert your warm, willing-to-buy visitors into revenue.
Web site promotions campaign. Step 1: Content
Online, people search for information, look for solutions -- they are not looking for you. Give them what they want by converting your knowledge into high-quality, in-demand CONTENT.
No one likes to be sold. However, warm-up your visitors, take them by the hand and guide them through your inspiring, editorial content.
After all, your visitors were searching for content. She need's to value and respect you first. Once trust is established between you and her, she is in a better mood to read about your products.
Your pre-selling effort delivering high-value content determines how great your traffic will be to your merchants or your own order page.
If your site's information is genuinely helpful to your readers, your conversion rate will increase.
The result? Maximising the return for your hard work and increasing your income. So why don't more web businesses offer great information about their industry, products, area of expertise?. Enough said. More businesses will adopt this approach over time. Get in early before the rush.
Now, the light bulb goes on.
Web site promotions campaign. Step 2: Traffic
Only, I repeat, ONLY, after you have written at least 20 high-value pages of information, genuinely helpful to your readers, now you are ready to build traffic to your site. Not before. Got it?.
As an example, read my 20 articles I wrote for the Online Business Tutor. These are topics I natually enjoy writing about and thrive on. Make sure you do the same and write articles about topics you know plenty about. After all, you want to be known as an expert in your industry. If you are a Clothing designer, you don't want to be known as a so-so authority about colours, textures, patterns and designer techniques and tips. You must be an expert. Write with passion however keep it natural.
The best, FREE source of traffic, is through top search engines.
Your theme-based topical content ranks high at the Search Engines, attracting free, targeted TRAFFIC... interested, motivated, targeted, "open-to-you" visitors.
Web site promotions campaign. Step 3: PREsell
Develop trust, credibility and confidence ("PREsell") by OVERdelivering relevant, original, high-value information tothese motivated, "open-to-you" pre-customers.
If you are stuck for content ideas in your area of expertise, consider these items, with your current small business in the forefront your mind.
Tips about your specific subject. List tips and advice relating to using your product or service. The history of your specific industry, with a time-line. Interesting or funny stories and experiences. Your experiences, either by yourself, or dealing with interesting or unusual customers, suppliers or business partners. Interviews with industry heros, achievers or failures?. What did the achievers achieve?, and why did some businesses go belly-up? What was learnt. List all their case-studies with permission. How does your product or service solve a problem?. Explain a detailed solution. How has your product helped clients to date?. Why is your product better than your competitors?. Explain your competitive advantage. Techniques, to make your product last longer, make your clients happier, save time and be economical.
Web site promotions campaign. Step 4: MONETIZATIONConvert your warm, willing-to-buy visitors into revenue, in various ways. Sell hard goods, e-goods, your personal or professional services... or all three. Or become a "pure infopreneur" and earn substantial income without selling at all, through Google Ads, affiliate fees, finder's fees, etc.
More important tips to memorize...
TIP #1.
Write great inspiring content. Website content is often "poorly written".
On-line copy or website content, is often "poorly written". In many cases content is "rushed" to launch a site early before it's ready. It's not only bad grammar and spelling mistakes that turn people away, more so - no logical site flow of short paragraphs describing benefits under attention grabing headlines. Do not fall into this trap.
Active words detailing your product benefits will get your point across much quicker and get to the heart of your story. Avoid passive words and babble that does not enhance your overall site's objective.
TIP #2.
Choose your words carefully.
Choosing words to sell must always be at the forefront of any on-line strategy. Use words commanding authority. Calls to action. Order now!. Buy today!. Click here now to order.
TIP #3.
How will your site visitors reach you?
Would you prefer your site visitors found you at a
FFA (Free for All Site) or a quality search engine?. She will
feel better about you depending on how she reached you.
Example: I prefer purchasing goods on-line through a business
I discovered using a quality search engine, i.e Google.com,
compared to a seemy link in unwanted spam, FFA site's, or in-appropriate pop-ups.
Be picky about how people find you.
TIP #4.
Don't push your customer to click, make her want to click.
Your web site promotions campaign does not need to cost you tens of thousands of dollars each year.
Do an excellent job at pre-selling, not selling, and your site readers will
want to click and order. You have to earn her trust and respect before she
will want to click and order your product.
TIP #5.
Your next web site promotions campaign must have a plan of action.
I strongly recommend you adopt this proven strategy.
Content > Traffic > PREsell > Monetize
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