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Be Social. Lessons Learned From Social Media. – 27. January, 2010

When I first started with Twitter, I didn’t have a clue.  I had no idea what I was supposed to do. Sure, I watched the cheesy Twitter video explaining stuff, I google searched, I read other’s wisdomful nuggets, but I’ll admit, the Internet Marketing guy didn’t have a clue. In fact, one of my own clients (A Life Coach) pointed out to me after I was posting tweets to no one that I was speaking to absolutely NO ONE. I’ve come a long way, but still have  much to learn. I think Social media can be a great tool, I think social media can help strengthen and reinforce a brand, I think social media can help us enhance customer service initiatives, etc. Here’s the biggest lesson I learned:

BE SOCIAL.

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The ‘COMING SOON’ Page. – 27. April, 2009

I was clicking around an alleged Internet marketing expert web site to check out the competition when I went to go read their testimonials, this is what I saw:

Coming Soon!

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Fake Networking. Closing business still requires a REAL relationship. – 23. October, 2008

You have all indeed heard of Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc. Many companies are now trying to figure out how to ‘harness’ the power of the social networking phenomena and several have asked us how they can use facebook, twitter, etc. to grow their business and increase leads, etc.  Here’s the simple answer…. If you have a facebook account, how many of those ‘friends’ do you have that you actually care about, or have thought about in the past fifteen years?  I found myself the other day noting that I had over 102 friends: how many of those are actually true GENUINE friends? Friends that would take a bullet for me? Three of them, tops.

People are keeping score of how many friends they have, they don’t want to be rude and DENY facebook friendship, so they hit accept. Then it becomes a challenge to see how many friends you have.  How can you close business with people who you have not seen in over 17 years? Do you have REAL relationships with these folks? Here’s my point, you can’t expect to close a $10,000 website through facebook or through your popular twitter page. You may alert some of your friends who HAPPEN to own a business that you create websites for a living, etc. and they MAY think of you IF they ever need you, but other than that? No REAL relationship, no closing, no business, no dice, no soup for you.

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Permission Marketing – 3. October, 2008

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about permission marketing. We have a client who firmly believes in email marketing, only, it’s not really email marketing, it’s more, email spamming.  I can’t stand spam.  I’ve argued with this gentleman so many times, he is actually going out, scraping email addresses from the web (govt. agencies mind you) and sending out thousands of unsolicited emails. He was annoyed one day when nearly half of his outbound spam messages got sent back due to our server settings.  Needless to say, I don’t think he’ll be PUSHING his wares via email any longer.

But spam comes in many different shapes other than email:

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Christmas Marketing & Search Engine Optimization – 17. August, 2008

Yes, it’s still 98 degrees and humidity is about 83% today in Orlando, Florida, there is a tropical storm / possible hurricane knocking on Florida’s door, BUT, Christmas is still coming.  I posted something similar to this last year, but NOW is the time to start promoting your Christmas products and services online.

We see it every year, a panicked retailer calling us on December 1 because online sales aren’t up to snuff yet. People, including retailers wait till the last minute to put their products online for the Christmas shopping season.

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Does This SEO Make My Web Site Look Bad? – 25. June, 2008

I was clicking around today looking at some of our ‘competitor’ web sites and noticed a clear similarity between many so called SEO firms: They insist on having UGLY web sites! Maybe it’s a passion, maybe it’s a mission to be ranked or labeled as having one of the ugliest web sites ever, God only knows, but here’s the point:

SEO types trying to sell their services should also be cognizant of basic Internet marketing as well: just because you can get a web site found in the SERPS (search engines) doesn’t mean that the web site will sell once you land upon it!  A site still needs to convert once you get traffic to it.  One of the first things we do with a new prospect is a quick critique of the existing web site (if that’s the case) and identify areas needed for improvement before we send the first organic click through to it.  Why would you shell out cash to us to drive traffic to something that’s not going to make you a dime?

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Let Your Blog Readers Subscribe Via Email Using Feedburner.com – 28. March, 2008

Feeburner.com has some great blog tools to help you maximize blog visibility and allow your blog readers to subsribe easily.  One really cool feature is the subscribe by email feature: here’s how to set it up:

Step 1.: Go To Feedburner.com and create an account. Verify it’s you, etc.

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Web Design Firm Selling Web Design to a Web Design Firm? – 26. March, 2008

A personal rant: our office got a call from an Orlando web design firm telemarketing us for a web site…. I of course had fun with them for a while but then had to break the bad news to them: We are an Orlando web design firm….. And no, we don’t need a new web design from you, but thanks so much for thinking of us.

Why don’t these people do their homework prior to COLD calling a company?  Not only do I feel that telemarketing a company for a web site is crappy marketing and a poor business practice, but why not set your web site up to attract customers to you rather than getting desperate for business and wasting other people’s time?

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Your Blog & Your Web Site – 22. March, 2008

One of the biggest mistakes that we see companies make is signing up for a blog that is not affixed to their domain name.  There are plenty of free blogging related sites out there that makes this simple, but the the truth of the matter is: your blog should be attached to your domain.  Most web hosting companies now offer Word Press or other blogging software as part of the hosting package.

If you are going to spend the time to write content rich articles for your prospects and consumers, use it as an opportunity to solidify the content on your existing web site.  The blog articles serve as rich ‘food’ for search engine spiders and can help enhance the existing content on your web site.

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Set Your Web Site Up For Success – 18. March, 2008

So many times people forget the big picture, I do it, my dog does it, my 4 year DEFINETLY does it…. When people go out and seek a web site, they often too forget the big picture.  They now they want a web site, they may not know why, they just know that they want a web site.  They contact several web design firms, gather quotes, put some LARGE numbers together and sit and wait for the clients to roll into them.  The largest thing overlooked: Marketing.  Yes, a web site is a form of marketing, but NO, not everyone get’s that.  You’ll see web sites with NO call to action, NO phone number, NO Clear directive, basically, no purpose.  Don’t be that guy. Know that a web site can enhance your sales, it can educate your consumers, it can take some of the strain off of your office phone lines by providing clear concise information to your TARGET MARKET. 

Set your web site up for success from the beginning and call a web design / marketing firm.  On Target Web Solutions, Inc. understands the web and understands marketing.  Marry those components together and set your site and corporate look up for success.  Call On Target Web Solutions today at 407-830-4550 and start growing online today.

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