Wednesday, September 8, 2010

How to Leverage Your eMarketing Effort in 2010


Written by Ann Liu

The world of busi­ness is a world of com­pe­ti­tion; almost every busi­ness wants to find ways to go beyond the strat­egy and left their competitor’s way behind from them.

As we enter to the New Year 2010, beside those cel­e­bra­tions, as an entre­pre­neur, a busi­ness owner, a divi­sion man­ager, a boss, a team leader, or a head of the firm, the respon­si­bil­ity for the suc­cess of your orga­ni­za­tion falls on your shoul­ders. Beside hired those highly skilled employ­ees who are your most essen­tial assets and are fun­da­men­tal to the prof­itabil­ity and via­bil­ity of your com­pany, mar­ket­ing and sales, finance and account­ing, cus­tomer ser­vice etc also need you huge attention.

In addi­tion to under­tak­ing an annual, or bet­ter yet, a semi-annual review of your orga­ni­za­tion devel­op­ment progress, exists strat­egy eval­u­a­tion and busi­ness per­for­mance audit­ing etc. Have you seri­ously look into the mar­ket in year 2010? Have you ever thought (if you haven’t) to start to imple­ment some of the online mar­ket­ing strate­gies to mar­ket your prod­ucts or ser­vice, to com­mu­ni­cate bet­ter with your mar­ket and poten­tial cus­tomers? Have you ever thought of how to strengthen the rela­tion­ship with your exist­ing cus­tomers, build bet­ter rela­tion­ship and engage con­ver­sa­tion effi­ciently with your new, prospects and poten­tial customers?

Since each com­pany is dif­fer­ent, there is no right or wrong answers toward which online mar­ket­ing strat­egy should adopt. For in case if you haven’t do so, video and social media mar­ket­ing are the two online mar­ket­ing meth­ods to use, you should inte­grate them into your mar­ket­ing mixed portfolio.

Accord­ing the study, online search will get more social, such as get real-time con­tent in results, like Twit­ter Posts, adding infor­ma­tion from social net­work friends to results, and using col­lec­tive infor­ma­tion from other web users to hone search relevance.

In today’s social realm, real time con­tent, word of mouth trav­els far and above the vin­tage phys­i­cal con­ver­sa­tion, and it can truly influ­ence users across the globe. Retailer sec­tor, for exam­ple, will become more seri­ous about try­ing to mea­sure social media’s impact on their sales or brand loy­alty in year 2010.

Speak­ing of how to effi­ciently use the power of social media to lever­age your mar­ket­ing effort, in his recent arti­cle, Greg listed down 12 points to guide you on how to cre­ate a bet­ter social media pres­ence in 2010! He gives advices such as spend­ing more of tra­di­tional ad bud­get improve­ment of cus­tomer ser­vice, to train­ing and edu­cat­ing of works, among oth­ers etc.

…. there is a lack of social media strat­egy and they are engag­ing because they think they have to. Sit down and put together a list of goals then work to find a strat­egy that will work to accom­plish them. Don’t just Tweet because you saw it on CNN, don’t make a Face­book page because your com­peti­tor did. Come up with a list of goals and a strat­egy to achieve them. Tac­tics and strate­gies are cru­cial in social media, as Sun Tzu elo­quently stated: “Strat­egy with­out tac­tics is the slow­est route to vic­tory. Tac­tics with­out strat­egy is the noise before defeat.” … con­tin­u­ing read full arti­cle 12 Social Media New Year Res­o­lu­tions for 2010

The right pro­ce­dures will make your busi­ness run more effi­ciently. If you need help in regard­ing to social media mar­ket­ing, tweet­ing, blog­ging and other related online mar­ket­ing strate­gies, please con­tact us.

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About Ann Liu
Ann Liu is a certified professional Internet marketer, author, infopreneur, e-marketing consultant. She is also a passionate blogger. Signup her newsletter or RSS feed to receive her latest news, tips and articles at MarketingbyAnn.com. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook too. If you enjoy this above article and want to use it on your own website, you are welcome to use it, ONLY if the Author's Resource Boxes is included. Thank You!


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