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Strategic Internet Marketing - 5 Basic Keys to Online Business success.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up
somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter US educator & writer (1919 -
1988)...
When you think about starting your online business, success
depends on the value of your strategic Internet marketing plan.
It acts like a roadmap to guide you from one milestone to the
next along your business journey.
What's Strategic Internet Marketing Plan?
There's an old saying that goes like that, "Success depends on
planning your work, and then working your plan."
In the most successful business, the strategic Internet
marketing plan is a fundamental written document which crafts a
business idea in terms of goals, objectives, time lines,
financial declarations, marketing consequences, competitive
positions, directorial factors and goes on to show how the
business owner will realize those goals, including a detailed
marketing strategy. A complete business plan also contains a
formal break-even analysis and a profit-and-loss projection
analysis designed to give you an idea about the business's
profitability, growth and cash flow.
Your plan must clearly define each step in the process. Be
accurate and honest. Identify time lags and non-value-adding
steps. Identify responsibility for each step. Brainstorm For
problems in the process. Each step should illustrate an action
in specific, clear and measurable terms. Keep your business plan
flexible and simple so that you can quickly make changes as
necessary. More importantly, your employees need to read and
understand your company's goals, the activities required to
achieve them, the timetable for accomplishing assigned tasks and
each individual's responsibilities as part of the team.
The people most successful are those who have clear, specific
goals and a timeframe; and they have an internal mechanism for
monitoring the progress of business. They have been passionate
about their business and eager to find ways to improve their own
performance continuously in the search for excellence. These
people dedicate themselves to learning everything they need to
know about the business to achieve their dreams. They have
exceptional knowledge of creating, managing, marketing and
running their business with integrity and responsibility. And
they pursue their dreams with persistence, passion and a
continual confidence that they will succeed at any cost.
Is the importance of creating a personal plan before starting a
business sounds dull? Miss this step and you'll almost certainly
fail in whatever you try and accomplish. If you still doubt why
I stress the importance of planning, go throw the web and ask
any one you come across and you will learn in practical terms
what happened to most of them in the creation of any project.
The reason behind the MOST online failures is that people
believe in the hype they heard from unethical marketers. They
believe in "give me your money seat back doing no thing and you
will start making $12.000.00 by the next month scheme". If it's
that ease why they need your money!
If all people understand there is no sweet thing without hard
work, we would be seeing many more online success stories and
fewer online failures.
Remember, you need 5 basic keys to be successful:
1 - You need a strategic Internet marketing plan (even if you
are starting small business and you are not going to lean money).
2 - The need skills to run manage and market your business.
3 - You
need the right tools to crate a system that works on
autopilot.
4 - You need to invest time and money (investing time is a must
but investing money is up to you).
5 - You need to be passionate and self disciplined.
If your online marketing plan consists only of a Website, you
are not using all the channels the Internet has to offer.
Strategic Internet Marketing plan opens multiple channels and
exponentially more opportunities to help you achieve your
business and marketing objectives.
Here you will discover exactly how to draw up a highly potent
action plan that will focus your mind and help you achieve your
goals in a reasonable time.
Why Strategic Internet Marketing Plan Is a MUST?
As a small business owner, you do not have infinite resources to
compete with the big guys. You need to prioritize how you spend
your money to build and market your business during tough time.
By following the step-by-step strategic Internet marketing plan,
you can create your very own home-based Internet business and
position it in the right place at the right time and with less
risk.
Your strategic Internet marketing plan must uncovers the
following:
- Get the needed skills to build your business.
- Search your market well before you decide you are ready. Find
out what your targeted market wants and needs. Analyze your
competitor's strength and weakness.
- Find a product to sell: Create your product, buy reseller
rights of hot product, find an affiliate program, use Google ad
sense.... etc
- Select the most effective, low cost marketing tools and
strategies that fit your business needs and budget.
- Analyze information before; during and after you implement the
Strategic Internet Marketing plan.
- Continuously revise your plan as you learn what works and what
doesn't.
Note: Errors are part of the process. Don't try to avoid them.
When a strategy fails, view it as part of trial-and-error that
you can learn from.
If you are truly passionate about your business success, build
your business with your customers in mind. In other words you
must think about: - How to attract targeted visitors to your
website. - How to entice them to take action (Either they buy
your product or they subscribe to your email list)
- How to make them enthusiastic about the quality of your
product and/ or service
- How to build relationship to convert them to loyal customers
- How to bring them back to your website.
- How to continuously add fresh subscribers to your list.
Conclusion: To make good money online you need an opt in
email list. To build an opt in email list you need to build your
business with your customers in mind. After you build your list
then and only then look for ways on how to make money from your
list. Once you find the combination that works for you the sky
is your limit.
Here's your chance to 'short-cut' the learning faze and follow a
step-by-step blueprint to success by going through these steps.
About the author:
Gley Yahya owns the Strategic Internet marketing website,
designed to help small business owners build their opt in email
lists by following a proven to work procedure, that leads online
people to their websites. If you need information and assistance
with your online growth, we can help. You can learn more by
visiting http://www.email-list-builder.com
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