Owning an online business is worthless, if you don’t have a great marketing plan in place. A good marketing plan is just as valuable for the online business as it is for the brick and mortar business.
Having a an successful marketing plan should include strategies that will ultimately be used to drive targeted traffic to your website, grow your sales and increase you your overall conversion rate.
If you’re not that experienced in marketing strategies, you can start with the simple ones first, then graduate to the more sophisticated strategies later, but you will have to integrate all your strategies to be successful, you can’t just use the simple strategies and skate by.
Marketing strategies should include short term goals and long term goals for your ultimate success in building your online business.
There are marketing strategies that have proven most effective for affiliate marketers and they include:
• Owning a blog is a great way to build your business. Blogs are the best sites to optimize for search engine. Search engines show a lot of love to the good blogs.
• With owning a blog, you can write your own article content to optimize each page with keywords, this will help you with ranking and the search engines can find you easier much for the keywords you use.
• Article marketing is one of the great ways to show you as a expert in your selected niche market. It’s a good idea to choose a niche that you are familiar with and have a passion for. You want to market yourself first, you want to build creditability and trust in your visitors to your blog, then you can market your product or service. You want to offer visitors great information and facts pertaining to your niche, the more you offer the more you build their trust.
• Building inbound one way links to your blog will result in a higher ranking with the search engines and create a cavalcade of targeted traffic to your site. To build backlinks, you must use the article marketing to it’s fullest, this means submitting your articles to the article directories. Don’t waste your time submitting the same article to more than one article directory, each article directory should have its own unique article. When writing and submitting your articles, you want to make sure you include your link at the bottom of every article.
• Your blog should be equipped with an opt-in box, so you can capture the names and email addresses of each visitor to your blog. You will want to have a product that you can give away to each visitor to your site. You can write an e-book or have one written for you. Whatever you decide to give away, make sure it is something of value for your prospects.
• With having an opt-in box, you will need to have an auto-responder to implement your email marketing to those that have opted in on your site. You can have all your pre-written emails to be sent at whatever time you choose to have them sent. One thing you don’t want to do and that’s making yourself unwelcome with inundating them with emails every day and becoming a pest to them.
• If your affiliate products is something that you sell in order to help others to build their business, then you have to educate them in your product or service, the more they know about your product or service the more they trust and respect you and you will build a relationship with them that will last. Write a series of informative articles about your products or service and at the end of your email put in your link where they can purchase what you have to offer.
• Building your business will take time, dedication and patience’s on your part, but it will be worth it, when you are working from home with your online business opportunity and no longer make that commute to work or punch a clock.
