Online Business Marketing Basics

Let’s explore some creative tactics for marketing an online business. Begin by focusing on what’s unique about what you do. If you service an elderly population with a catalog of health wares, for instance, you will want to create a safe and easy shopping experience for your clientele. Venturing into viral marketing tactics and even into serious TV and multimedia territory may not be necessary here. Before you target a demo with specific campaign ideas, it’s important to understand how that demo gets information.

In our example, a savvy tactic might be to create a Pay For Calls campaign listed through the Superpages directory. When elderly consumers search for goods and services in your target area, and they click through to your ad, they can instantly connect with a live agent on your end to ask questions or to place orders. A PFC campaign takes the “technical” work out of the equation and allows a smoother, more traditional customer sales relationship.

If you are marketing an online business to teens or young professionals, on the other hand, you may need more creativity and moxie. The 18 to 35 year-old demographic is daily swamped by millions of ads of every conceivable stripe. You can’t “conquer” that cacophony of ad noise, instead, zero in on a particular segment, and work that segment through a combination of initiatives, ranging from simple Pay Per Click campaigns (also available through Superpages), web site reengineering, and offline/online marketing.

You can also explore guerilla/viral marketing options. But don’t get too enamored of any one strategy. When you are marketing an online business to an as yet undefined audience, you need to understand your results. Otherwise, you can end up spending thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars for no real return.

Make sure to keep your ROI and net profit calculations in the back of your mind throughout the process. This isn’t to say that every ad dollar you spend must come back to you with interest within a certain period of time. Sometimes, there is an intangible benefit to getting your message out to the public. However, creativity and exactitude are not antithetical values when you are marketing an online business.

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