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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Why Exhibition Stands Make Great Marketing Tools

Marketing is all about promoting a product to the right audience, in the right way.There is absolutely no point spending marketing budget on the promotion of a product to people who are never going to buy that product, such as targeting children's toys at teenagers, prestigious cars at first time buyers or mortgage deals to people who aren't on the property ladder.The key to successful marketing is to make sure the right people are informed of the right products, and one of the greatest ways to do this is through the use of exhibition stands.If coordinated correctly, they can help to promote your business to thousands of potential customers at exhibitions and fairs, distributing your brand and increasing sales and potential leads.

Exhibitions attract many different kinds of people that can help make your product, or company a success.As a result, it is important to make the most of all exhibition stands connected to your business, from large scale productions to smaller roller stands.Their purpose is to attract the initial attention of the potential customer.Once gained, it's over to you to convince them that you could do business for them.

To do this, you should treat every visitor to your stand as a potential customer and therefore give them your full attention.If you were the consumer approaching your exhibition stand and were greeted by someone who didn't seem to care if you were there or not, would you really want to give them your business?Of course you wouldn't.Therefore, it's important to always be polite and treat all visitors as you would expect to be treated.

The main purpose of your stand is to get the attention of passerby's and transform their passing interest into a successful sale of your product.Therefore you should always assume that the customer is always right.Anyone visiting your stand should be given respect and attention.Showing disrespect or ignoring them will not yield the results you desire.You may think that your product is only applicable to a certain market however you shouldn't ignore the interest of people who may fall outside that category.
It could open up new avenues for your business and allow you to start marketing to new networks of customers.

Bearing this in mind, it's also important to adjust your sales pitch to each customer accordingly.For example, if you are selling textbooks, do not spend ten minutes trying to sell a Biology textbook to a Physics teacher, just because it's a new bestseller.It's essential to market the right products to the right people.You just need to be flexible and adjust to the different requirements.

Time limits are also important when planning your schedules for an exhibition.If you are planning on arranging meetings, you will need to arrange allocated slots for different customers.Ensuring you keep to these appointment times will be essential.If you run over by an hour and keep a customer waiting, it won't reflect well on your business ethic.You will need to consider this when designing your exhibition stands, and if you need meeting tables and extra meeting space, then this will need to be arranged at the planning stage.

In the age of the internet, busy exhibitors may just spend just a few minutes with each customer to gauge a basic understanding of their requirements and asks them to fill in a customer details form, so they can they follow up the lead by email after the event.Some company's even take a Polaroid camera to the exhibitions and take a snap of the customers to pin with their customer forms, to help recognise each customer when they refer back later on.Whatever works for you, however it's important if you say you will follow up with customers that you do, with every single potential customer.

It's important that exhibition stands look the part and play the part.They need to be attractive to grab attention; however they also need to practical in order to hold that attention.There should be enough space available and all the appropriate products being promoted should be available to view.If this isn't possible, you should be able to refer to catalogues or DVD's of your products.Everyone likes to visualise a product, before they buy it.


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Dominic Donaldson is an expert in Marketing

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Friday, January 9, 2009

The Four Different Leaflet Distribution Flavours - Which One Are You?

For years the advertising and marketing industry have been selling their wares and getting their messages across through leaflet distribution.It's a simple and cost effective way of raising a profile and selling a product, but there is a lot more to it than a piece of paper with text and graphics printed on it.There are several other factors at play; location, amount, coverage and even what type of leaflet.

The type of leaflet used in a leaflet distribution campaign can say a lot about the product or service you are advertising.It can convey humour or seriousness, the quality of your product and the availability.The choice of what type of medium you choose in your leaflet distribution campaign should be one of the first decisions you make.Making the wrong decision could completely negate any positive effects that the rest of your campaign has.

The word leaflet is widely used to encompass all forms of printed material that can be used in leaflet distribution but also has a more specific meaning.There are in fact four different types of printed material that can be used in a campaign of which a leaflet is just one.

Leaflet - A leaflet is a single printed piece of paper which is usually folded.These leaflets are also known as flyers.They are the easiest to produce, both logistically and economically, and can be used to promote everything from businesses to products and services.They are commonly posted through letter boxes, handed out in the street or inserted into newspapers.Flyers come in many sizes and can be very plain or given a glossy finish to convey a certain image.

Their widespread use has been complimented by the increase in desktop publishing and the ability to combine text and images on home computers.The finished products can be printed at home or sent to a commercial printer.In both instances the images, the message is printed on just one side although this is not always so and leaflets with print on both sides are increasingly common.

Pamphlet - A pamphlet is an unbound series of printed sheets.For businesses or products that have more to advertise or say using a pamphlet in a leaflet distribution campaign is preferable to a leaflet in that it has more space and scope to explain sometimes complicated or list several products or services and any variations on those products or services as well.The fact that it is unbound also means that it is still an affordable option for most businesses.

Pamphlets are often used by businesses that offer a more bespoke service or to sell products that are more exclusive or high end.The look of a pamphlet conveys more of a degree of quality and that can be important depending on what is being advertised.

Poster - Posters can come in all sorts of sizes, usually from A4 onwards.Although posters are more suited to site specific campaigns and are associated with billboards they are becoming increasingly popular in leaflet distribution.They are not as disposable as pamphlets and leaflets and so the thought is that they will be kept longer and displayed in places that it is not easy to get a message displayed.They also convey added quality.

Brochure - A brochure is a step up from a pamphlet in that it is often bound and printed on higher quality material.A brochure is designed to be kept a lot longer than pamphlets and leaflets, often as long as a year.Brochures go into more detail and contain more information and are used in leaflet distribution to advertise top end services and products.


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Dominic Donaldson is an expert in the leaflet distribution industry.


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Teleseminars: The Perfect Communication and Marketing Solution for the iPod Generation

With advances in technology, teleseminars are being used in ever more creative ways by individuals and companies to expand their client base and dramatically increase revenue.Part of the massive appeal of a teleseminar is that while it is possible to listen to event live, it can also be recorded and made available as a podcast that can be downloaded to an iPod and listened to at the convenience of the listener.

Podcasts can be ready in mere minutes after the completion of the live teleseminar.It is a question of how much editing you want to do.The fortunate thing is that Internet audiences tend to be more forgiving regarding teleseminars.They are hungry for great content rather than a studio quality recording.

Teleseminars are highly versatile.Regardless of the business you are in you can leverage the value of teleseminars.Just think of them as a means of delivering an audio message to your staff and or clients.Then decide what information you are going to share with them.

Some examples of the many uses of teleseminars include:


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Announcing Product launches,


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Selling products,


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Publicising events,


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Promoting books,


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Training staff,


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Training affiliates, and


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Fundraising.

Plus, with teleseminars you have the benefit of being able to deliver your message to a global rather than local audience.

Podcasting is an ideal solution for long teleseminars.Jay Abraham and Alex Mandossian are examples of Internet marketers who sometimes host long teleseminars.It is a challenge for individuals to maintain focused concentration for hours on end, irrespective of how riveting the material is.Also, some people cannot afford to put their life on hold or take the time off work to listen to a live teleseminar that is over two hours or even over 4 hours long.However, if you save your teleseminar as a podcast that subscribers can download to their iPod, then people can listen to your material in bite-sized chunks.

And there is another advantage to podcasting your teleseminars.You can create a single podcast for the entire presentation or you can divide the teleseminar into segments.This can make it easier to download and easier to listen to especially if a presentation is over an hour.The teleseminar can be simply divided at logical or natural breaks in the presentation so that when played sequentially it flows seamlessly.

Alternatively, the podcasts can be branded separately and you can do a recap of the material in the former podcast so that each mini-podcast is a stand-alone product.This can then be used as a teaser especially if you want to sell the teleseminar rather than offer it as a free download.

Many presenters have products consisting of numerous CDs but they are relatively bulky and can become scratched.Avid learners soon start to run out of room to store the many programs they have purchased.Making your teleseminars available as downloadable as MP3 and MP4s which can be downloaded onto a device that can fit into the palm of your hand or your pocket saves space and makes your content easy to consume.

Nightingale Conant, the world's leading producer of personal development audio programs, now gives its customers the option of purchasing a CD version or an MP3 version.With the MP3s customers can download them to their iPod and be listening to life-enhancing material in minutes rather than waiting days for the program they ordered to arrive.And, in an age where 'speed to market' is becoming increasingly important; offering your material in MP3 format which your customers can immediately download to their iPod gives you a competitive advantage.


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Expert Tip: When selling high ticket items which include teleseminar recordings, offer them to your customers on a pre-loaded iPod.

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Niche Marketing-Giving Them Exactly What They Want

Niche Marketing is the art of giving people exactly what they want.After you find a potential niche using tools such as Google and WordTracker, you still have to test that market to see exactly what type of product offer will solve their current problems.

If you don't provide the "right" offer to this potential market, the niche will not be profitable for you, regardless of its potential.

Therefore, you have to determine exactly what problems this niche market is facing, what solutions are already out there, what is good about these current solutions, and what is lacking in those solutions that need to be present in your offer so that it will be perceived as a better offer for their problems.

To find out the answers to these questions, you have to conduct some research on that niche market.There are several ways to go about doing this.

One way is to ask people already in that industry or market what problems they are looking to solve and what features and benefits the current solutions already out on the market are lacking.This way, you can tailor your offer to include those features and benefits that the current solutions don't have.

You should also determine what the market does like in those current solutions so you can make sure your offer also has those beneficial features and benefits.

You can also go to established websites in that market to see for ourselves what type of offers they are offering.You can check out what types of products they offer (ebook, MP3, audio, video, etc.,) what bonuses they include with them, what prices they are selling them for, how their websites look, and any testimonials they post related to their products and service as a way to gain helpful insight on who your competitors are and how you can differentiate your offer from theirs.

A really easy way of determining what will satisfy the niche market is to hang out in forums dedicated to your niche market.In today's world, there is at least one online forum for virtually every niche market out there.

See what they are talking about at those forums, including what problems they are having, what offers they are using to solve their current problems, how well those solutions are solving their current problems, and what features and benefits they are still looking for in future offers.This way, you can determine from prospective customers what problems they are still facing and what features and benefits they'd like to see in future product offers.

Utilizing this information from these different sources, you can develop or find a product offer with the features and benefits the market is looking for.However, to make sure that this offer will satisfy the market's demands, you should again TEST the market to see if it will respond to your offer like you think it will.The following methods can help you test the market after you have developed or obtained your product offer.

You can provide complimentary copies (if you are legally able to do so,) to people in that niche market in return for their honest feedback on your offer.This way, you can find out what they like about it and what they feel needs to be improved in order to satisfy the needs of the market.

Another way to determine whether your offer will satisfy the niche market is to set up a simple webpage with a subscription form that asks a few questions about your offer.In return, you provide them with a valuable reward, such as a short report, another of your products, or a coupon code that gives them a discount on your offer.

You should use a pay-per-click search engine in order to drive targeted traffic to that page, as targeted traffic is needed in order to provide the best feedback about that niche market and the best feedback on whether your current offer will satisfy the desires of that market.

Even after you have found a potentially profitable niche market, you still will likely need to test and tweak your offer in order to be able to satisfy the demands of the niche market you are serving.

It's important to remember that just because you've found a potentially profitable niche, you still have to have a strong demand for your offer in order to profit from it, and in order to find out what the niche market is looking for, that will take some research.

Even after developing or obtaining an offer that will seemingly meet their needs, you need to continue your research to make sure the offer is as good as can be.If it isn't, you need to tweak and improve the offer as much as you can based on the feedback you receive in order to profit the most from that niche market and to be considered as the person who can best satisfy their desires in the future.


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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Potential Profit You Can Earn With Affiliating

This page tells you all about what the top affiliates earn and the affiliate programs they join.
I only selected the best programs which super affiliate use.These programs are designed to make you the most earning potential.

googlenemesis, The same guy who made day job killer is doing a new program.We all know how well he did with day job killer and how much the top affiliates made so this one is a sure winner.If you want money advertise this product.

sixfigureyearly, This is still a winner and has been for a little while now.He has a great site with decent information.I have heard of top affiliates making around $19,000 in one month just promoting him.

topsecretmagiccode,Again this is a new product which seems to be talking the affiliate market by storm.The top gurus love to promote all the new a good products and this one is both.If you are a newbie definitely check it out.

How to become a super affiliate?
You need to know how to advertise with adwords.This is a must if you want if you want to make the most money as possible.All the gurus are masters at this and that is why they are so successful.

This first thing you need to do to have successes with this is find your niche.The best niche in my opinion is the how to get rich one.The reason why it is the best niche is because everybody wants to get rich and everyone needs more money.

There are a couple main things that I will talk about on how to be good with google.But you have to remember I can only say so much on here you should still educate yourself by getting as many ebooks and informational videos on google adwords.You should definitely checkout the book I talked about earlier google nemesis.I read it and it is probably the best on the market for this niche.Here are the main things that you should focus on:


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Finding good keywords- Finding profitable keywords There are many tools out there to help you find good keywords for your niche.The best one is google adwords.People overestimate how good this is.You can see how many people actually hit each word and how much the minimum bid is for that word.

2.Adcopys that sell- Adcopys are what internet marketers use to write text with ads.If you do not have a good one then there is a big chance you will not make it.You want to make sure that you always put a price in your ad.Because if you do not then you will get a lot of people that are not buyers.You do not want that because the more people that come to your site the less ratio you have.

3.Quality score- This is how much google will charge you for your ad.A site with a good quality score might be able to get in the first position and pay less money than the guy who is in the 3 position.It also makes the ranking of the position where it shows up on google.This is the internet marketers dream system.

I told you a little about the programs but I can not tell you everything.You are going to need to find the information on your own but I can not stress it enough educate yourself.


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Melissa is an established online marketer who has learned many tips and techniques about online marketing and she wants to teach you what she knows.

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Improve The ROI Of Your Dental Website Design With Online Marketing

Good dental website design will bring in new patients for any practice, regardless of size.If you seek to grow the numbers of patients to increase the profitability of your practice, consider using some online marketing techniques to increase the effectiveness of your dentist sites.These techniques will build on your relationship with current patients, will bring in new clients by showing your expertise, and will provide information on new dental treatments to your existing patients, encouraging them to schedule a consultation to see if these new treatments will work for them.

Blogging


An easy an effective way to improve the return on investment is by blogging.

A blog gives you the ideal chance to connect with new and existing patients on a personal level.Blogs can work to answer patient questions, inform patients about any sales or treatment discount specials you offer, provide news about new dental techniques and procedures, give information about things happening within your practice, introduce staff members, and much more.

In addition to providing information, blogging can bring new visitors to your dentist website design when written with search engine optimization in mind.While dentist sites usually contain written blogs, there are other alternatives.Video posts and becoming more popular because they are convenient and provide visitors with a sense of your voice, personality, and character so visitors can be visually familiar with you before scheduling an appointment.They also provide potential patients with a look at your office.Audio posts are even simpler to put together than video posts since you can usually record them easily from your computer for quick uploading to your website.

E-Mail Marketing


By integrating an e-mail newsletter signup within your dental website design, you will have an additional outlet for marketing to new and existing patients.

An e-mail newsletter can work similar to blogging on your dentist sites.Newsletters serve as a way to provide information about your practice.Another benefit of e-mail marketing is that your newsletter subscribers are likely to forward your e-mails to friends and family, increasing your reach further.In addition, e-mail marketing is cheap, much less expensive than printing a newsletter and paying for pricey postage.

Press Releases And Articles


Another effective tactic for great dental website design includes using press releases and search engine optimized online articles to improve the search engine rankings of your dentist sites.

This will also provide you with links that lead directly to your website.Press releases have a wide audience.When submitted through a news service, they can be picked up by any news medium throughout the world, including famous newspapers, television news networks, magazines, RSS feeds, online news outlets like Yahoo news and Google news.Many other websites may even pick up your article or press release to display on their site, providing you with a link where visitors to their site can click to directly visit your online practice.

With excellent dental website design and a few marketing tactics, your dentist sites can show a massive return on investment.With a little promotion, your existing patients will refer their friends and family.Your website will also work to bring in new patients on its own.As you continue to promote your dental website, it will serve as the perfect business partner to make your practice a profitable success.


About the Author

Christine O'Kelly is an author for the dental website design experts at Officite.

With their performance based dentist sites, they have generated more than 100,000 appointment requests.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

4 Steps to Making Money Selling Ebooks

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to make money online.However, you need to steer clear of the "get rich quick schemes" that many people are trying to promote online.Making money online is simple, but it is not easy.You will have to put in some work.

One of the best ways to make money online is to collate information on a particular niche in to an ebook, and then sell this information for a profit.

Here are some tips on how to make money through selling ebooks.

- Make sure that it is a buyers market- Millions of people worldwide use the internet to search for information in millions of different niches so there are a variety of opportunities for you to make money.

The first thing you need to do to make a profit is to ensure that the niche you are looking at is a profitable one.There is no point in spending time writing an ebook if no one is going to buy it.

- Do not waffle on with useless information and flowery words- When people are searching for information online, they want that information quickly.To make your ebook popular, you need to make sure that you get right to the point.Write a clear and concise ebook with no irrelevant information or flowery words.

- Do not be boring- Concise does not mean boring.If you want people to recommend your ebook to others, and become repeat buyers when you write more reports, you need to make sure that what you write is interesting.You need to ensure that customers want to keep reading what you have to write.

- Have a great ebook cover to make it look professional.This point is really important but often overlooked.You are more likely to make money if you have a professional looking ebook cover and website graphics.

One of the most popular ways to make money online is to write your own ebook and then sell it to make money.

A business writing and selling ebooks can be broken down in to six steps:


- Research Your Niche- Niche research is the most important step if you want to make profits from selling ebooks- for two reasons.

You need to make sure that the niche you are interested in is profitable.

There is no point in writing an ebook that no one is prepared to pay money for.The other reason that niche research is important is that you need to know what you are talking about so that you sound like an expert.You also need to present your information in a way that is unique.

- Plan your ebook- After you have researched your niche it is time to plan your ebook.The planning process is important because it helps give your ebook structure and clarity.This means that you will probably write it better and this means that your customers will enjoy it more.

- Write your ebook- You have planned it and now it is time to write your ebook.Just sit down and write it.You can not make money with an idea.You need a product to sell.

- Create an ebook cover- Once you have written your ebook, you need to create an ebook cover.This will add an air of professionalism to your product.

- Market your ebook- You have written your ebook and designed your cover; now it is time to get your ebook out there and market it.There are a variety of ways you can market your ebook and you need to find the marketing solution that works best for your niche.

- Sit back and watch the profits roll in.With some hard work, after you have written your ebook, you can automate much of the process.This means that you can work less hours and watch the profits roll in.There you have it.Ebook profits are possible.Just make sure that you follow the tips mentioned above to boost your chances.

Selling information online is a great way to make money.However, you cannot just put out crap and expect to make money.Make sure that you follow the tips mentioned above and you are on the way to success.


About the Author

Thomas is a Direct Response Graphic Designer.

You can see his latest sites here: Online eCover Generator and eCover Action Scripts Package


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