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Break On Through To The Other Side
Heres ten simple yet very effective marketing ideas that can help you breakthrough to higher and more consistent profits. 1. Create a directory of web sites on a specific topic. Give people the option of adding the directory to their web site by...
Defy The Odds For Success
If the statistics that are floating around are correct, only two to five of every hundred will be successful online. This is a very frightening statistic. Why are so many doomed to fail? There are many reasons for failure but I am going to tell...
Discover 7 Powerful Ways To Grab Free Advertising
Make a search on MSN for the word "directories" and it turns up a list over 27261 long - and some of the excellent submission list sites are not even listed here. Now come on do your math...If you could get your site mentioned in just 1000 of these...
GET their email addresses on YOUR newsletter
In today's competitive world of internet marketing, it is essential to be able to communicate with your prospects. Any visitor that has found your website is probably already interested in your product or service, so to convince them to buy you need...
The Art Of Writing Powerful Classified Ads
One powerful little classified ad can make you a fortune! It will sell your product or service for months, even years, to come in any advertising venue you choose. On the other hand, a weak ad won't produce enough income to justify the time it...
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No Marketing Required
A few years ago I lived in a tourist community. During the peak season nearly 120,000 people were crowded on my little island on the Atlantic coastline. There were literally 150+ restaurants but only one that I knew of never, never advertised – anywhere.
It was not large or overly elegant in décor. And because town laws forbid neon lighting, that was not the attraction either. Even the parking lot was minimal often overflowing into neighboring businesses.
Yes, the chef was talented and the menu selection was the best. Charley didn’t offer the popular “early-bird” specials every weekday and drinks were never discounted for “happy hour”. His doors opened at six every evening and the dining rooms were full an hour later. They were all early – and his customers were all happy!
But consider this – shouldn’t all businesses, even restaurants, advertise on a continuing basis to keep up with competition? Offer incentives and menu specials? Why would Charley’s be the exception? Is it possible to have supply and demand in perfect balance? Would marketing therefore increase demand, thus causing his service to suffer?
As restaurants go, this is the point where most of them up and move to larger, more lavish quarters, hire more staff only to find out that business-as-usual just isn’t what it used to be. Charley never fell for that mistake. He still operates a tight business – no marketing required.
Sadly, we cannot apply this to our Online Business.
Even the dotcom millionaires who made their bucks in the 90s when competition was minimal, produce a constant flow of eBooks and Reports. The bigger their name, the bigger their price tag however, and that tells me you will pay if you have been properly indoctrinated. Much is poorly written and most is merely regurgitated garbage.
You can certainly automate 90% of your marketing, and bring your efforts as close to zero as possible.
*run your own FFA page with an automatic message to every person who posts
*design a template for your Ezine, and spot-fill it each week with new material
*start writing Articles and forward them to an article submission service
*set up your own website with your own domain name
*put a Resource page on your website offering all of your programs
*submit your website to a Search Engine submission service
Once in place, this strategy should allow you days away from your computer if needed or desired. It’s always a good practice to spend some of your “away” time reading Internet updates. New technology can leave you behind unless you stay in the know. The best sources for this are free (or fee) subscriptions to factual Newsletters that come right to your desk.
© 2004 Esther Smith
About the Author
Esther Smith is editor of Partners-For-Profit Newsletter and publisher of ThePermanentVenture.com clendon@thepermanentventure.com/newsletter.htm editor@thepermanentventure.com
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