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10 SHORT MARKETING QUOTES TO ADD PUNCH TO YOUR EZINE, NEWSLETTER OR WEBSITE
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NINE POWER WORDS TO "PUNCH" UP YOUR ADS
As every professional politician and public relations man knows words have the power to entice, persuade and motivate people into a specific course of action.
There are certain words that I refer to as "Power Words" that I learned, back in...
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Make 'em Buy or Make 'em Miserable!
This weekend I watched a program on television called - I kid you not - "Buyology". This show is about marketing and sales of products in the free world. I found the show utterly and completely fascinating -- not because I'm a web marketer, but because it seemed entirely like science fiction, or just plain fiction.
It seems there are people out there who spend their workdays studying "consumer behavior" and how to influence that behavior without our conscious participation and knowledge! As a search engine optimizer, my job is to make small business web sites rank well in search results at the major search engines. The goal of that activity is to attract online buyers of my clients' products to their web site. Fortunately, that's where my job ends and the web site takes over. I generate traffic and the site supposedly generates sales.
In the real world though, there are people dedicating their professional lives to making certain that consumers not only purchase specific brands, but fall in love with those brands, entice them to buy those brands next time, and indeed to feel they can't survive without those products! The program showed a "marketing anthropologist" following a woman through the grocery store observing her buying habits and asking questions about the purchases made.
This woman bought Cascade dishwashing detergent exclusively in a specific size package. When she discovered that size of the product missing from the shelf in the supermarket, she couldn't bring herself to buy the larger box, or -- GASP! -- to switch brands so she could get that same size box! Asked why, she said, "I've always bought that brand in that size, I grew up with it!" This is the ultimate customer as long as Cascade doesn't change the size of that box or alter their packaging. Maybe it's a guy thing, but I honestly don't get it! SudsyDish liquid works too.
Now I'll be the first to recommend changes to a web site if I believe it unlikely to sell products once I generate sufficient traffic for a client because the "buy now" button is
misplaced or because the site seems unprofessional. Thank goodness though that I don't find myself studying consumer behavior to determine brand awareness or loyalty! I admit that server log files and traffic analysis software serve similar purposes online and can be used to determine visitor paths through the site and tell how they searched keywords to make their way to a client web site.
CRM software makes similar attempts to categorize and study consumer behavior but I find it creepy that there are consumer spies viewing my shopping behavior in the department store via security cameras as the Buyology TV program showed me. Session cookies do the same thing online but I can tell my browser not to accept them. My favorite online humor site is called futurefeedforward and they offered a wonderful column this week, "Wal-mart Tags Shoppers with Subcutaneous Cookies" from the year 2009. View the story at http://futurefeedforward.com
There's another article, "Ad Pox Cured by Branded Products" at FutureFeedForward that suggests a solution for branded product loyalty guarantees. Consumers will become ill if they can't get their beloved brands and are rapidly cured once the product is purchased again. In other words, "Make Them Buy It or Make Them Miserable!" This comes to us in the year 2064.
Gaining search engine visibility for small business web sites seems so much nobler, (ahem!) than selling cigarettes to teens with cartoony camels and determining consumer behavior while spying on them with video cameras in the isles of supermarkets. I think we actually enjoy far more privacy online than we do in the real world. My job is to get people to visit client web sites. I'll leave it to the consumer anthropologists to figure out how to make them buy once they get there. Sheesh!
About the Author
Mike Valentine does Search Engine Placement for the Small Business http://website101.com/Search_Engine_Positioning WebSite101 "Reading List" Weekly Netrepreneur Tip Sheet Weekly Ezine emphasizing small business on the Internet http://website101.com/arch/
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