Marketing on-line – It’s all in the Metrics
posted in Marketing & Advertising Assets, Tracking & Measurement |Almost anyone who has a liberal arts education can work out marketing strategies for the real world. For the most part, it is direct and reasonably straightforward. After all, we have all been marketed to so aggressively for our whole lives growing up in this country that we all know the routine. Most of us have a pretty good idea of conventional target marketing, and are familiar with concepts like viral marketing, word of mouth, and guerrilla marketing. Once you start reading Internet marketing articles, however, it soon becomes clear how much things change once you take the process on-line. Cyberspace is another game altogether.
Market research marketing is king in most areas. You see, the goal is to find a way to reach the target audience and either give them what they want, or make them think that they are getting what they want. Although there is an aspect of this in most all Internet marketing articles, it certainly is far from the whole story. Internet marketing online has more to do with statistics than it does with catchy buzz phrases or clever ads. The whole key is to get as many people to see your product as possible. The more people who see it, the more likely someone is to buy.
The way to get people to see this is through article marketing content. Basically, if you put keyword optimized articles on a web page, people are more likely to be led to it through search engines like Google, Yahoo etc. If you can gain reciprocal links from other affiliated sites, it further increases your Web traffic. Of course, the problem is that everyone is doing this nowadays. According to one Internet marketing article that I read recently, keyword optimization is one of the most common schemes among Web designers. If you want to stay ahead of the game, you have to read more sophisticated Internet marketing articles. You cannot afford to use just one strategy, you have to use them all!
Many Internet marketing articles do not deal with the hardest part of Internet marketing: making the sale. You see, as more and more people surf the Web, it becomes easier and easier to get people to look at your product. It is almost inevitable that someone will wander through looking for something similar. The question is how to make them want yours. Unfortunately, many Internet marketing articles neglect this issue. The Internet is still so new, and so there is no agreement among different Internet marketing articles on how to really catch peoples eyes. The only way is to measure, measure and measure again. In other words track the metrics of what is happening at every touch point the visitor experiences. Test, test and then test some more. In orther words you must continually strive to improve on what you present, usually by rotating visitors between variations of your site content and measyring (tracking) what works better over a control. This should always be a continual circlatory process with the result that your presentation and process becomes an every purer form.
