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Marketing to Generation Y and Generation X

August 8, 2010

Marketing is the activity and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers and clients. (Definition of Marketing). Traditional marketing has broadly relied upon these channels: • Word-of-mouth • Fliers, brochures and other printed support materials • Print ads in newspapers, magazines and trade publications • Radio and Television commercials [...]

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Keyword Tool: Detecting Commercial Intention

August 1, 2010

Since keywords are so fundamental to Internet marketing, an online marketer is required to determine which keywords are the most relevant to one’s products or services. However, such research often results in a long list of related keywords. If you are trying to sell a product or service, which keywords should you focus on? Certainly [...]

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Direct Response Copywriting Formula

July 16, 2010

How many times have you purchased something from TV, or via postal mail, email, a magazine ad, or a website? Any time you’ve made such a purchase – especially via TV – you may have passed through the following copywriting formula. The whole point of direct response copywriting, whether used via TV or radio commercials, [...]

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Search Engine Marketing: Get More Visitors

July 7, 2010

One of the things that makes search engine marketing challenging, exciting, frustrating and energizing and any other positive and/or negative attributes you care to assign, is that changes occur quickly and dramatically in the digital marketing industry. Heck, even the term “Search Engine Marketing” (SEM) has not established a universal definition. To many folks SEM [...]

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Facebook Advertising – Not For Everyone

June 28, 2010

Although Facebook is a popular social networking platform, from an advertising perspective, it’s more noteworthy as a large marketplace replete with a generous amount of user demographic data that can be readily translated into more targeted ads to carry your message. But not all products and services are profitably suited to advertising on Facebook. What [...]

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How To Select a Website Name

June 22, 2010

If you are selecting a new website name, which one should you choose? Here are some tips and guidelines for choosing a website name: A) Shorter website names are better because they are easier to remember, and they are easier to communicate to others. (However, all the really short names are taken). B) It can [...]

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What is a Landing Page?

June 17, 2010

A landing page is a special type of website sales page. It may be a page that directly sells a product or service. Alternatively, it could be a web page that sells visitors on the benefits of entering their name and email address in exchange for a free download; or to get more information about [...]

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