Why is social media marketing so important?

With the evolution of the Internet, social media marketing has become an imperative part of business.  Businesses these days are not limited to boundaries and to make your presence visible to potential customers across the world, you need to use the social media. According to Shayne Huston, the Director of Innovation, CDS Global, the growth of social media marketing is three times faster than that of Internet. More and more online businesses throughout the world are making use of the social media to reach out to customers globally.

When you are running a business, you need to keep your focus on the overall goal. The ultimate goal is to create an interest for your products and services, boost sales, build your brand and create an ever increasing list of loyal customers.

Social media helps you reach your customers

Instead of waiting for customers to come to you, it’s necessary that you take your business to them. Different people have different preferences. Some prefer e-mails, while others may like other channels such as Facebook and Twitter. In this way you can send your message to different people who would be interested in your products and services, instead of insisting them to come to you.

You have to be really careful when using a particular channel for your marketing needs. Most people have at least two or maximum three emails. One they use for work, the other for personal mails and the third where they direct the bulk mails to avoid any kind of spam. Marketers need to ensure that they are sending the mails to the correct email addresses.

Some people get really irritated if you send work related information to the personal email accounts. Thus, you must be really careful while undertaking a marketing campaign through social media.

Tips for social media campaigns

First, you need to select your focus and find out which channel can be your primary choice. It is a good idea to use different channels so that you can reach out to more people. You must also decide on some secondary channels that can help send people to the primary channel.

Your companies can publish the content of your blog and get backlinks through different channels such as Twitter, Facebook, and Digg.  You can also rely on the past experience of other successful companies like Guerilla Marketing to determine which one to use as your primary channel.

You can improve the traffic to your website by offering some exciting offers and deals. You can give out a 5% discount to your Twitter followers for visiting the site on a particular day. Make some unique offers in the different social media channels and watch your traffic soar high.

There are several social media marketing tactics out there for you to use. Make sure to stay up to date with the latest trends and information about social media. By doing so you will get an edge over your competitors and be able to market your products and services faster while you continue to build your brand.

So the question is… are you using social media to build your brand & increase visibility?

1 – Video plug-ins:

Content is the king, no doubt and will remain so but let’s make a small change here. These days video content is the new king on the Web World. You cannot ignore the kind of overwhelming effect YouTube.com has on the world. You now have CNN directly broadcasting its vital news straight through the YouTube link. So, how can you use this to your benefit? Well, it’s simple. You can noticeably raise the profile of your company by creating some interesting ‘how to’ videos.

If you wish to add a creative edge to your website then try the viral videos, which are still very much in fashion. Needless to mention, any video that you create can be easily shared through YouTube. This can greatly increase your website’s backlinks. This further helps in raising your visibility on search engines.

2 – Start a new blog or forum:

Having fresh content on the website always helps to keep it alive. You can start a new blog or forum where you can keep adding some fresh content. If you think that the content that you have in your website is good enough then think again. You cannot build on your ranking by just letting the content go stale. You need to keep adding fresh and new content to ensure that search engines index your site and raise its visibility.

Having a blog or a forum greatly helps to increase the visibility of your website. Build your site around a blog that is updated regularly. You can add fresh content to it whenever you feel like with the easy built-in WYSIWYG text editor. This is an interesting way to add your own pictures and do some SEO. This way you can attract more visitors, let them know more about your services and share valuable information.

3 – Create an Email list Opt-In

It really helps to know who your customers are. Identifying the potential customers and knowing how to contact them can greatly help boost your business. Creating an email list Opt-In is one of the must-haves for your website design. This is among the best methods you can work out to keep in contact with your potential customer base.

4 – Earn free money from your website (This is up to you):

Let your website earn some free money for you. There are some simple and easy methods through which you can do this. Just put up some sort of easy advertising on your site. This really helps. Have you ever wondered why there are so many ads in your web mails? It really works to make some easy money.

The easiest way to monetize your website is by adding some Google, Yahoo or Bing ads to it. Apart from this, there are hundreds of other ways to earn money through your website. You can be an marketing affiliate, sell your own e-books, data feeds, referrals, direct banner advertising, premium content, donations… you name it, the possibilities are endless.

5 – The SEO Advantage:

Search engine optimization is unarguably crucial for your online success. The tips mentioned above will also help you optimize your website. However, you must remember that SEO does not provide overnight results. You need to keep it on the top of your priority list and work consistently to keep your competition behind you. Be creative with your ideas and soon you will be among the top of the search engines in your niche!

Deciding the standards:

Given the fact that Apple and Adobe are at war, you cannot expect Apple to make its iPhone Flash compatible. Furthermore, according to the new Apple developer kit agreement the application makers are forbidden to use any non-Apple tools to make iPhone apps. This is a blow to Adobe’s Creative Studio 5 which includes advanced tools for making Flash-based and other application for Apple’s most selling phones. The larger issue that crops up here is that of the standards.

With this sort of war between the associated industries, the ease of use and predictable nature of Web may change. It would create problems for the smaller firms to create various applications for different devices. Some years ago, people would have wondered what web designers have to do with phones. But, today there is an increased use of web surfing through mobile devices. In the absence of a secure and predictable standard, the future of web designing would remain in mist.

The color calibration:

Today there are numerous devices that display Web pages, and this is supposed to increase in the future. However, there is no simple method to ensure the color consistency of these web pages. Just some years ago, it was enough for publishers to come out with two layouts – CMYK four-color space for printing and the RGB color space for computer display. With an increased number of displays (LED, OLED, LCD, TFT, etc.) available in the market today, there is much variation in the color display.

Web designers spend considerable amount of time trying to get the variation in color scheme for the different displays. This is a mammoth task. Some others try to develop a single color scheme that will be compatible with the different displays. Unless a new and innovative device independent color calibration standard comes in the picture, web designers have to continue struggling to make the best use of the tools, techniques and technologies available.

Menace caused by different displays:

Apart from the impact on the colors, the different displays also present a problem known as the screen real estate. Mobile web surfing from devices like handhelds, small-screen netbooks, iPads and smartphones is rapidly growing. Some progress has been made in interposing some software routines between the website and the user’s display. Though this part of the problem seems to have solved, there are other hi-tech display technologies coming up that can pose a threat for tomorrow. Believe it or not, there is an incredible amount of money going into the display R&D to solve the issues faced by the portable displays. The major issues are related to the way they look under the sun, in shade and in different viewing angles and changing conditions.

Though there are several other challenges faced by web designers today, the three mentioned above (standard, color calibration and different displays) can safely claim to be in the top of the list of any tech-savvy professional. Technology is changing super fast and the complications are likely to increase in future, if the current issues are not properly addressed! So, it’s time to do some R&D and come up with solutions to these challenges.

It is hard to get your business website appear on the first page of a search engine result like Google or Yahoo.

Optimizing your website for search engines is crucial if you want to be competitive within the most popular search terms or keywords of your industry.

Since there are many ways to improve your search engine page ranking and search engine results it is necessary to analyze your website in detail before implementing a strategy.

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• Social Media Marketing & Strategy
• SEO Copywriting / Content Creation
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By now, you’ve probably realized how much work is being done online. You may also realize that the web is where millions of people shop for what they need.

In fact, almost 3 out of 4 people living in North America, use the Internet.
Here are the numbers:

Right where you are, the people that surround you are reviewing products and services online as a matter of their daily business. Can they, and millions of people like them, find you and your business?

They can do a search online and probably find some info here and there about you, albeit limited info at that. Limited that is, unless you have your own place on the web where people can get the story of your company the way you want it told.

Your website is your showcase, your presentation of all the great things that you and your company can do for a customer. It the place that you share information and give the prospective customer compelling reasons to contact you about your products or services.

Your competition probably has a website, and for good reason.

Ok… so why is any of this important?

Why do I need a website?
As a businessperson, you post a website so that people can find you, learn more about your business, and have information about contacting you.

To succeed, you must provide your business information to as many potential customers as is possible. A website gives you a better way to reach those potential customers (and your current customers as well).

What can I do with a website?
With a website, you can provide a place where people can view information about your business and get a sense of what your company can provide them.

You can use a website as a “electronic showroom” for your product or service that is available to visitors 24/7.

How can a website make me money?
A good website is a great representation of your company and is a powerful sales and information tool for your business.

You can use your website as “online catalog” for people to shop from and buy. But most of all to give your customers good reasons to contact you directly and buy.

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The integration of an advanced e-commerce system provides users with more functionalities such as: wish list, buying without having to register, leave a comment, rate this product, etc.

Because Jerky Hut has been around for so long and so many people, not only in the US but in the world, already recognize the brand, we felt it was only logical to create an Online Jerky Community to provide users with Social Network Capabilities while benefiting the company by branding their product even further.

An easy way to understand a website is to think of it as your house.

The house is your website

You can decorate it however it suits your taste and meets your needs. You can add as many things inside it as you want to make your life easier and your guest’s experience more pleasurable; the furniture and appliances represent the content, applications, widgets, etc. on your website.

The address of your house is your domain name

The easier it is to remember and spell your address, the easier your guest will find your website. Unless your services are highly desired, people will not spend too much time trying to find you, they will simply chose among the first few results they find while browsing the net. Also, try to come up with an address that represents what your business is about, the name of your company and/or the location your business operates at.

The land under your house is your web hosting or web server

Hosting can be seen as the virtual land on the World Wide Web where your website sits on. Technically, hosting means there is a server (computer) running 24/7 that hosts all the files (data and information) of your website and “puts it up on the internet”. Hosting works as the connection between your website and the World Wide Web, making it available to viewers.

The road running past your home is the Internet

The internet is the largest computer networking system that transmits data through protocols. That data is sent from server to server until it reaches your computer. For this example we can say that the internet represents all the streets, roads and highways that connect to your home.

If you’re planning on getting a website make sure you do the following:

1. Think of what you want your online image to be and make who your clients are.
2. Chose domain name that is short, easy to remember and represents your business.
3. Find a hosting provider that can guarantee at least 99.9% uptime year-round.
4. Use Search Engine Optimization strategies and techniques to leverage your visibility online.

We can help you with all the aspects listed above for planning, designing, developing and launching your website.

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