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I Learned A Valuable Internet Marketing Lesson
How many times have you groaned when you heard you need to publish articles in order to sell products on the Internet? Do you really believe that writing articles will produce results? Over two ago, after I published my fourth Rocketedition (now...
Internet Marketing
Is internet marketing something for you? Do you dream about working at home where your kids are, where you feel you should be? Internet marketing can promise this and so much more. But, tread lightly and do your research before jumping into the...
Make Sure Your Marketing Expectations are Realistic
Once a week I spend a few hours cleaning our house. You’d be correct if you guessed it’s not one of my favorite tasks but it does have some benefits. It burns a few calories, which is not a bad thing. And, it’s actually somewhat relaxing. (Sometimes...
Of Habits, Focus and Success in Online Marketing
Of Habits, Focus and Success in Online Marketing
by Ed Duvall
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee".
- John Donne
The above literary quote may or may not be familiar
to you. Its' meaning - We are all mortal, and...
The Small Business Marketing Secret You Can Learn In The Cereal Aisle
Have you walked down the cereal aisle lately?
There is a lot you can learn from sitting surrounded by the boxes and bags of artificially sweated corn, rice and wheat for a few minutes observing marketing in action.
If you look closely, you will...
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The Sheep, The Shepherd and an Internet Marketing Fleece-Job
You have a site that's just returning on investment; nothing more or perhaps a lot less. You believe in professional services as they're the experts. You have little knowledge in their field, nor the time and resources for private research or independent consult.
Perhaps its Internet promotion and advertising this time round and your parting with $1000's a month for ho hum returns on your Web site investment.
BANNERS BABY!! Your net marketing agent says over and over... "We're going to expand the banner campaign." When this advice hits your desk, another $500 a month gets released to the professional coffers.
Next week, how are those sales stats going?
Some Internet promotion 'professional' may be fleecing you $1000's a month in worthless banner advertising. Fortunately for you, this expenditure imbalance is exposed with the help of a text log on your Web site's server, raw website statistics. GOLD BABY!!
I recently submitted a proposal to a new client for, you guessed it, website promotion and advertising. The first request to the client was for their website stat logs, secondly their tentative figures on banner and other forms of advertising on the Internet.
Web site stat logs are black gold. Each hit to your site is recorded by the Web server in a text file. Much information about those individual hits is recorded too; among that array are all your hit 'Referrers'. A referrer is the site page from which a link was used to land on one of your Web site pages.
For my new client, I found a big, fat gold nugget worth $4477.05 in these web stats. The client's banner campaign was restricted to one site, one domain, one referrer. There was no evidence of an acceptable conversion to sales by visitors from this site. Unique visits from these banners also generated .004% of total traffic.
This client released equal money to that of banners for a major search engine campaign. Without tallying up all
the miscellaneous referrals from 3rd party sites that used the same search engine and ads, 57% of total unique traffic was being referred by the major search engine.
The search engine campaign bought in 150 visitors for every 1 from banners. Please keep in mind here that banner visitors were also not notable sales converts either. The cash spent on banners in this case is nothing more than gold leaf dunny paper.
The "Sponsored Links" you see next to your favourite search engine's results are usually priced by the key terms used for your search. A successful bid on the ad's account for those terms determines the cost of a click through to the ad's destination site. After a quick enquiry using one such ad account, I found a low bidding term which related to the client's needs and delivered 30% more visitors. All this for the princely sum of $22.95.
In other words, the client could have the $4500.00 banner visits delivered for $22.95. For how many years has this banner campaign been going?
Scenarios such as this indicate one of 2 things; your getting fleeced or gross negligence on your trusted professional's behalf. Black gold is not Texas Tea these days. It's also not newspaper classified ink. Black gold is currently your Web site statistics logs.
Always ask your prospective advertising agency or promotion agent whether they can back up campaign decisions with statistics. Assign someone within your company the task of analysing site statistics against ad methods. If there is nobody suitable, then you could save $1000's by paying for an independent 3rd party assessment of your Web site statistics logs.
About the Author
Mark Senden is an Australian professional within the commercial art and display service industry. His services are sub-contracted to media studios in Australia, UK and USA. His services can be found via;
Web Site Design and Promotion at v2Media.
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