Common Online Marketing Mistakes

Let’s review a few common mistakes that green entrepreneurs make when setting up an online business marketing initiative. Most small business owners only have a few thousand dollars in cash to spend on an umbrella online business marketing effort.

It’s common for “newly flush” entrepreneurs to spend quickly in hopes of generating a fast buzz. Sure, once in a while, a daring move can pay off with volume traffic. However, the vast majority of all or nothing, hard-hitting strategies either flame out or produce middling results.

Indeed, probably 90 percent of “bold” online business-marketing efforts that succeed are products of lots of behind the scenes testing and recalibrating. After all, it’s an odds game. The chances of you pulling a brilliant online business marketing strategy from the ether are slim to none. Conversely, the chances of creating such an adept strategy after lots of battle testing and creative analysis are much higher.

Another mistake is to lock into a system of advertising early on. Stay flexible in the beginning. There are literally dozens of ways to reach out to your customers. If you find some success with a Pay Per Click campaign, you should definitely pursue that campaign and zero in on ways to integrate it with other online business marketing ideas. However, you shouldn’t neglect other marketing ideas. A Pay For Calls campaign, for instance, may prove to be even more lucrative than your PPC campaign.

Another all too prevalent error is to focus on generating buzz about a brand or web site traffic at the expense of creating sound sales conversions. True, the Internet is a marketing medium unlike any other human history. However, business principles dating back to the time of Adam Smith still apply in cyberspace. You must make sure to solidify your bottom-line and gain enough sales to keep your ad campaign rolling. It doesn’t matter if you spend $10 or $10 million, your ad campaign has to justify itself.

A final word of warning, avoid choosing a domain name for your web site that’s convoluted or that places your business in a second tier first level domain (e.g. .info, .name, etc.). Customers are inherently suspicious of non .com extensions. Keep your domain name simple, and make sure it’s descriptive and catchy.

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