Strengths and Weaknesses of SEO

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One of the most popular Internet Marketing technique used in the market today is Search Engine Optimization, or simply known as SEO. It is also considered as one of the cheapest, yet one of the most powerful Internet Marketing technique used in the industry.

Strengths of SEO
According to many experts, SEO is considered as one of the most successful and powerful Internet Marketing technique. Part of the reason why is because of its effectiveness in increasing a website’s traffic through search engines, particularly among major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.

Because search engines are highly visited and used tool for surfing the Internet, many online marketers used this as their main market to increase their business’ success in the World Wide Web. This is when SEM or Search Engine Marketing was first developed.

Before SEO, there where other popular SEM techniques used in the market, usually involving paid placements such as the popular PPC (Pay-Per-Click), contextual advertising, and even a paid inclusion which involves paying a search engine company to include their website in a specific keyword.

Eventually, SEO was introduced in the market. Although similar in their target, SEO and SEM are different Internet Marketing techniques. The first difference is that SEM uses paid inclusion while SEO makes use of several techniques which aims to improve or -optimize- a website to achieve higher ranking in search results via the process of selecting specific keyword expressions associated to the website. And compared to SEM, SEO is usually free of charge (although hiring an SEO company is usually very expensive).

Its less expensive costs is one of its many strengths, another popular strength of SEO compared to other Internet Marketing technique is that it can also increase a website’s authority in its own market through its many techniques.

One popular technique of SEO is link bait. A link bait, according to many seo Philippines experts, is any content or feature, within a website, designed specifically to gain attention or encourage others to link to the website. This technique is not only very effective in SEO, but also effective in increasing a website’s popularity other than SEO.

Weaknesses of SEO
There are, however, a number of weaknesses that many seo Philippines experts have experienced in using SEO. Although very powerful, SEO can only go as far as to increase the volume of traffic coming from search engines and other popular sources. Sales and conversion usually depends on how well the website is built. Without a convincing web design, SEO won’t be as effective as it should be in Internet Marketing.

Finding Career Path In Digital Marketing

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Digital Marketing:
When was the last time you booked a train ticket at the station?
(Or)
Looked into an Encyclopedia to find something?
(Or)
Posted a letter / card to someone

The world has gone digital and so have modern businesses. Internet based companies have become very dominant over the past 15 years beginning 1995 since the days when Netscape went public. Over the past decade, business models have evolved and become more sophisticated in terms of offering products and services to individuals and other companies.

Online marketing is a challenging profession. It calls for lot of visualization and understanding of the market. To be successful in this profession, the aspirant should have proper training. Recognizing the importance, many institutions have started to conduct courses to train youngsters in the art of digital marketing. Science and technology keep changing. With new inventions, new concepts are introduced. The new approach calls for updating the knowledge. This updating can be done only through proper training programs.

Digital Marketing (DM) includes marketing using digital tools and technologies. Unlike traditional marketing, it is targeted, flexible, measurable and more cost-effective. Plus, it can efficiently use both pull and push methodologies to reach out to an audience. Some of the Channels and Tools of Digital Marketing include:
Search Engine Marketing: Targeting Existing and Potential Customers when they search on the Internet.
Social Media Marketing: Targeting Existing and Potential Customers on Social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Blogging.
Display Advertising: Hiring space on other websites to display banners.
Mobile Marketing: Leveraging location information to advertise on mobile.
EMail Marketing: Using the power of e-mail to communicate a message.

Like in traditional media, you need trained professionals for:
-Media planning
-Designing, Creating, Executing, Analyzing, Optimizing and Reporting of campaigns.

Within the media landscape, there are companies on different sides of the spectrum such as:
-Advertisers, Agencies, Media Buying Desks, Demand Side Platforms and Ad-Exchanges.
-Data Suppliers/networks, Tools, Yield optimizers, Ad Servers and Publishers.

The global ad industry is worth $700bn and Internet comprises $50bn of that. The Indian ad industry is worth $5bn with the Internet advertising comprising $200mn of that. While today Internet Advertising is a small portion of the total advertising, it is expected to grow at the rate of 30% over the next several years. It will therefore, throw open a lot of opportunities for Digital Marketing agencies to be a part of this next growth story. To ensure that the advertising industry is not found wanting in terms of skilled and competent digital marketing professionals, NyooMedia has designed training modules just suitable for their needs.

So a trained digital media professional can find an opportunity in these media sectors specializing in the tasks as above.

Film Marketing How Independent Film Makers Can Promote a Film Costing $15,000 or less!

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Online Film Marketing – and insiders guide!

First of all there are 2 main elements to the marketing of your movie:

1. Offline – major premieres, a film festival, electronic press kits, any real world publicity

2. Online – viral marketing via: email/social networking sites/PR newswires/newsletters/social bookmarking – anything that is an -internet’ based opportunity. Let’s examine how we can use social bookmarking and web2.0 to maximise these opportunities.

Introduction

It goes without saying that different films, types and genres require a different level of approach, however there are some general rules that you can follow to generate high traffic levels on the internet.

Where’s the best place to drive all this traffic? I would suggest perhaps your own movie website is the best place to start, but equally it could be a blog (especially during the early stages of your production and you don’t yet have any imagery) or a Facebook Page, or another website which I’ll talk about later.

Your Movie Website

A domain can be purchased relatively cheaply and it is worth building a site that fits the style of the movie – a horror – clearly must have a different style to a romantic comedy. When building your site you must optimize for search engines and there are some basic rules to remember – and your site must be optimized for what are known as -On-page factors’:

1. Put some written content on the page – Google and other search engines focus heavily on text based content so on your opening page make sure that this is there and available for google to see – it should not be image based, and if you do use images make sure you place your keywords in them! i.e. instead of 1234.jpg call it HorrorMovie.jpg. In this way it is visible to search engines.

2. Keywords – keywords drive traffic to your site and therefore your main keywords should be included in your: title, H1, H2, tags, meta description, (and if you can URL) – use different keywords for each page of your site. Use the keywords early in the description.

3. Do your keyword research – it is no use entering keywords that have a massive amount of competition since it is unlikely that unless you have a huge PR budget and lots of high quality sites linking to you that you will ever really be competitive for these keywords. It is best to use what are known as -long-tail keywords’. Typically this means instead of -Romatic Comedy’ as your keyword, you might choose -Action Flick for Girls’.Targeted and more likely to peak an interest.

4. The order of your keywords matters, make sure you are consistent.

Now these on-page elements, which you are able to control, account for a probably 1/3 of the traffic that will be driven to your site. The rest comes from ‘Off-Page’ elements and these are absolutely crucial to how to drive traffic to your website.

What are off-page factors? Off-page factors are things that are effectively beyond your control. Backlinks – i.e. links from other websites and pages which link directly to your website. Certain websites will have more -authority’ than others and therefore command greater respect from Google and backlinks from these sites will push you up the rankings. However there are ways of doing this yourself and having -influence’ over the search engines.

Here’s what I am going to suggest you do. It will be a pain, and take some time but believe me the benefits are really worth it. We should create accounts on the following websites and then aim to link through to your blog or website:

1. Digg

2. Propeller.com

3. Del.icio.us

4. Mister-wong.com

5. Hubpages – write articles about your film, what is involved in the making of the movie etc.

6. Squidoo – create a -lens’ to talk about your project

7. You Tube – use video to promote your film and drive traffic to your site

8. StumbleUpon

9. Mixx.com

There are of course, some sites which have been left off the list, quite deliberately, and these sites should be used to provide a major source of traffic and promotion to your production:

1. Facebook – the obvious choice since it is easy to invite your friends and get them onboard to follow you, as well as keep them updated with the latest developments on your movie project.

2. Twitter – an awesome way to generate interest in your film to thousands!

(For both of the above see the brilliant Mashable.com for great ways to effectively build a fan base on this platform and it would be impossible for me to add to it – its that good!)

3. One Fat Cigar – a new website for professional and up-and-coming film makers specifically to help them market and promote their productions. It’s good because as soon as you have the idea/script for your project you are able to really promote it from day one, and begin the marketing there and then so that by the time you are finished the production you already have a following. There’s a great networking tool too and it is also possible to cast and crew your project through the site.

So what can you do to build more followers and fans?

1. Content is king – without having a significant amount of high quality content no one will become a fan, and once you have people as fans, they need to be continually updated with new, and more importantly interesting content to keep them engaged.

2. What types of content work?-

a) You’re a film maker – use film content!!! Film the ‘makings of’ as it happens, conduct video blogs of your crew, interview the cast and crew (p.s. release forms!), where are you filming? why? what’s difficult about the next stunt you’re going to pull?

b) Stills photographs – very important! imagery and styling always help promote the movie and give the audience an insight into the production

3. Frequency – Updates 2 or 3 times a week are perfect, it could just be a piece to camera discussing where you are with the production and status updates can be done whenever there is something interesting to say, perhaps 2/3 times per day.

4. Interact – why not get involved with your fan base? ask them questions, talk to them and let them feel like they have direct access to you, the film maker. In this way the tie is an emotional one.

5. Share – recommend other high quality film projects you have been following – your fans will thank you for bringing another exciting production to their attention, which present you as a -cool’ authority and generates trust with your fan base.

6. Be Interesting – do things that are fun, and show the more interesting side of film making – the characters, the challenges, the difficulties in achieving certain shots.

Once you have a fan base you can then drive the fans to do what you want them to – buy your DVD, watch your film in the cinema, check it out at a festival, or even petition a distributor!

(In terms of One Fat Cigar, fans can sign up for free to the site, but you’ll need premium membership to be able to create projects but the membership charge isn’t significant and there are discount opportunities for launch to fans of their Facebook page and 500 free 1 year premium membership available. We think it will certainly be worth a punt!)

What to do once you have set-up your One Fat Cigar Project/Facebook Page/Website

While it is likely that you’re going to pick up a fair few fans by simply having your project up on the site, it is also important to promote your project to the search engines.

1. Use a number of the high authority sites (Digg.com/StumbleUpon etc.) listed above to link to your project on One Fat Cigar, Facebook and Website

2. Use Ping-o-matic.com to ping the address for your particular project

3. Link to your project through Twitter/Facebook and then do status updates every time you post something new on the One Fat Cigar site

4. Use anchor text which focuses on your keywords to link through to your page – i.e. if your keyword is -Psychological Thriller’ use this text to link through to your project page on the One Fat Cigar site, and not the name of your film or the One Fat Cigar site. This makes it easier for your keywords to appear in the search engine listings.

5.Put your One Fat Cigar link, links to your Facebook/Twitter and website out on any press releases you may have – that way the press have access to your material online for viewing.

6. Keep adding content – and don’t forget that your fans will immediately have the opportunity transfer over to your next project and so you’ll begin promotion of your second movie from a running start!

Conclusion

So hopefully that provides a solid basic introduction to film marketing and promoting your film online and will begin to generate interest about your project.So hopefully that provides a solid basic introduction to film marketing and promoting your film online and will begin to generate interest about your project.

Don’t forget you won’t get high in the Google rankings overnight, and you will need to track your progress. You’re not looking for the name of your movie, but you are looking for your competitive keywords. There are various rank tracking tools available to do this.

To search for the best keywords Google provides its own tool to help get you started:

http://www.google.com/sktool/#

Susie Tulllett (former head of DDA’s PR unit in Cannes for over 10 years) guide to Film PR can be found on the One Fat Cigar blog.

Ross Grayle Jones is co-founder of One Fat Cigar.com a movie website for people who love film.

Pieces Of Marketing Materials To Look For In An Affiliate Product

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Promoting affiliate products is not without its hassles, but if youre dedicated and have a strong plan you can make money month in and month out.

Selecting the right affiliate products is key in getting results from affiliate marketing. With the wrong product, you wont be able to make money no matter how much traffic you send through your affiliate link.

One of the hallmarks of a good affiliate program is the marketing materials that the publisher includes with their promotion package. If youre searching for an affiliate product to promote, look for the following marketing materials on their affiliates page. The more they offer, the better.

1.Product graphics

One of the best ways to show your market what youre promoting is to include a picture of the product on your website or on a pre-selling landing page. Product graphics help increase the perceived value of the affiliate product and will increase your conversion rates.

Look for an affiliate product that offers several different sizes of product graphics.

2.Banner ads

Although banner ads are less effective than they used to be in the first days of online marketing, they can still be an effective promotional tool.

Why create your own banners when you can use premade ones provided by the product creator? Banner ads from product creators are generally professional produced and are of high quality.

3.Block ads

Just like banner ads, block ads can be very helpful in your promotional efforts. This size is useful to display in the sidebars of your blog and in areas where you need a smaller size of ad than a banner ad.

4.Articles

Pre-written articles can be hit or miss. Make sure you read through the articles completely before using them. Give preference to products that offer articles that you can adjust to suit your needs.

This way you can get a base version of the article and make it unique so you can submit it to directories for backlinks. Even better are affiliate marketing programs that give you monthly articles that you can use in your promotions.

5.Email marketing messages

Although youll generally want to edit your email marketing messages so that they are unique and fit your style/voice, having a base email marketing message can help you save time and get a quality message out to your list in a shorter period of time.

6.Twitter messages

Twitter messages can help you save time and figure out exactly what to Tweet about when you are promoting the affiliate product. Its not a necessity, but this can be an affiliate program perk.

7.Rebrandable reports

This is one of the most helpful pieces of affiliate marketing materials available.

If an affiliate program has a high quality promotional report that you can rebrand with your own affiliate link, you can get on the track to making affiliate income really quickly.

Rebrandable report should be helpful and interesting. If they meet this criteria, then put it to use right away.

Marketing Management Process

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Marketing Management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of marketing techniques and the management of a firms marketing resources and activities.

Marketing trend is the most of the business units make the production in the anticipation of demand. In these circumstances, if the insist dose not takes place according to the expectations in the fixed period, and then individual efforts are to be made for this. It is clear that the extent to which the sale is more to that extent the working capital cycle will also be speedy and the profitability of the unit also increases. In short, the power of the business unit and long life depend on the sales. In the same way the employment opportunity arises due to growth of the business.

The activity of entire useful services necessary for the business activities increases and as a result the economic development of the country also becomes possible. Thus, the sales activity has a special importance. In the developed countries about 50% and in developing countries about 20 to 40% of employed personals are engaged in marketing activity. So, it is necessary to put special weight age on the marketing management process.

2. Meaning of Marketing Management process: Marketing is not just an advertisement or a process of sales or distribution. Actually, the analysis of market opportunities and formation of marketing strategy are also included in marketing management process.

In a simple definition The process related with the formation of marketing strategy and implementation means marketing management process.

As said by Philip kilter, the marketing process consists of marketing opportunities, researching and selecting target markets designing marketing strategies, planning marketing programmes and organizing, implementing and controlling the market efforts.

Marketing Management process is a part of business activity related to the sale of profitable products in the targeted market. It includes the analysis of business opportunities, selection of targeted market, formation and effective implementation of the marketing strategy.

3 Stages of marketing management process:

Following stages are included in the marketing management process:

[1] Examine marketing opportunities.
[2] Searching and selecting target markets and audience.
[3] Formation of marketing strategy.
[4] Preparation of marketing programme
[5] Implementing and controlling the marketing efforts