A mash up of responses from various senior marketers on digital marketing.

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When I first got started in internet marketing, I had very little money to work with. I was calling relatives and buddies to join my business, with hardly any success to show for it. In actual fact before leveraging the power of the Net, the most I ever earned in a month made was two-hundred bucks.

The first piece of content I discovered that truly open up my eyes to many of the free paths to generate on the web was a book called Building on a Budget. It is brim-full of free MLM and multilevel network marketing business strategies.
There are critical systems for promoting for MLM business, creating leads, creating success — even with very little money to begin with.

The Power of Social Media
Sites such as MySpace and Squidoo will give you the ability to find very many folks who are keen on the same things that you are interested. You will find more folks who are actively hunting for your opportunity, and searching for what you have got to offer. There are tens, if not hundreds, of people on these types of social media sites every day.

One of the most effective things about social media sites is that the people are organized into categories and groups that you can market toward. You will find millions of interested folk, and keep a lasting, effective, personal relationship with every one of them. The simplest way to bring folk into your business is to gain trust with your prospects. MySpace is a great example of a site which will help you to do that.

Great Marketing Power
There are countless millions and thousands of people all over the world who are on the lookout for more information about social marketing, and business opportunities, and paths to supplement their income. As a matter of fact, there could be over 1 bn. web users all around the globe — nearly each one of them searching for money or your MLM business venture. In Building On A Budget, you will unlock the power of writing straightforward articles that your target market will have an interest in and you will become magnetic.

Websites such as GoArticles, Article city, and hundreds of other niche-based article directory sites are available. Besides posting on these tons of sites, a very satisfactory way of posting articles is to also post the article on your own personal blog. By doing this, you are branding yourself as a pacesetter in the niche you are marketing to. You may provide contact information to your readers who have an interest in your article — this brings them directly to you!

Video Marketing Domination
In a whole world of terribly low attention span, it is really important to keep folks entertained and focusing on your info. One of the best ways to do get huge attention is using the power of video promoting. Create an account on a video sites such as YouTube, Sevenload, or MetaCafe. There are several video sites out there, and they all permit you to market specific keywords and niches that your prospects are searching for. You have to put yourself in the middle of the typhoon.

People love to see things moving on camera. And far more importantly, people will be more likely to trust you when they see that there is a human behind the chance — not just another company copied internet site. Fill your videos with valuable info and content that your prospects are looking for, and then at the end of the video, give an action call : ( internet site, phonephone number, e-mail address, and so on. )

Explode In Your Business with a Tiny Budget
When I first got started in social marketing, using these tactics really created a major change in my business. Even today, I continue to leverage these powerful, crucial strategies and excellent tools that give me leads — literally — while I sleep! The most beautiful element about using technology and the internet is that there’s almost a limiteless number of prospects out there. Selling on the internet is far better than using your friends and family.

Leveraging the power of the web, you are in an unprecedented position to make a thriving, potent work at home business with little start up cost. However , 98% of social marketers fail because they do not milk the tools that we have debated in this post. Secrets and systems go way beyond what we have debated here, and if you’d like to discover more about the unending free ways to create leads, take action now.

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In this day of Web 2.0 of blogging, websites, search engine marketing, and You Tube, we lose site of the most important fact in marketing. Each of these vehicles represent different contact points of your business’ prospects and customers. The “central nervous system” of all this information was (and still is) a “marketing database”.

The late Bob Stone in his book, “Successful Direct Marketing Methods, 7th Ed (co authored by Ron Jacobs), defined direct marketing as follows:

Direct Marketing is the interactive use of advertising media, to stimulate an (immediate) behavior modification in such a way that this behavior can be tracked, recorded, analyzed, and stored on a database for future retrieval and use.

The database, and I will refer to it as a “marketing database”, is a central part of direct marketing. Without a means of collecting all the information into a logical and meaningful order, your marketing will fail because you lose the ability to track and analyze each campaign’s effectiveness and ROI. What is a database? It is a collection of information stored on a computer. A “marketing database” is more than a name and address of an individual or company. It is a collection of customer and prospect information from all contact points. Contact points include in part:

• Search Engine Marketing visitors to your site (that left some contact information)
• Inbound telephone
• Direct Mail Responses
• Sales orders-on or off line
• Prospects: website visitors, catalog requests, BRC’s responses, post cards for additional information, subscribers, past customers etc.
• Responses from Infomercials

A marketing database collects and organizes this information and has at least the following pieces of information:

• Name
• Address
• Telephone number
• Source of customer or lead
• Email address
• Ongoing sales information related to each contact/purchase-(date of sale, sale amount, number of purchases, skus purchased)
• A unique identifier for each record on the database
• Responses (and their key codes identifying the specific campaign and media) from all campaigns linked back to the specific recipient.

Having this information, you can begin to develop multiple initiatives. They are designed around the data collected to improve marketing initiatives, and identify historical customer value to your organization. These are not mutually exclusive. The more analysis you perform improves future marketing campaigns. These initiatives fall into two broad categories:

• List segmentation for marketing campaigns
• Customer analysis of data

List Segmentation

• Segmentation by Sales -conduct an analysis by RFM-Recency, Frequency and Monetary variables. These are three metrics found on any transactional database. Having this kind of analysis will identify the old “80/20″ rule. 80 per cent of your sales come from 20 percent of your customers. Identifying who they are and having the ability of scientifically selecting them saves a lot of wasted advertising dollars.
• Select by trigger event-maintain and update RFM information on each customer. Evaluate the change in behavior month-to-month. If there is a decrease at a set amount, say 10%, pro-actively create marketing programs to change the customer’s behavior.
• Segment by Communication Channel response information to identify best customer or channels of communication. For example, you can evaluate ROI by channel. You might find that a two step lead generation and telephone follow-up produces a higher ROI than mailing a large catalog for an immediate sale.

Data Analysis

• Use analytical information to pro actively trigger marketing campaigns. For example, update your RFM scores. Based on the customer’s historic value, create a VIP club with sliding scale of rewards. The more valuable customers receive greater rewards
• Overlay demographic or firmagraphic information onto your marketing database. Identify customer penetration by demographic or firmagraphic criteria. When I worked at a b-t-b catalog marketing company, we overlayed SIC code and employee size data. I found that there were significant pockets of customers in SIC codes other that our core groups. Based on this profiling, I looked for advertising vehicles reaching the uncovered SIC’s.
• For more sophisticate analytical procedures, conduct a model to predict behavior. You will need a specialist for this who understands statistics and data. The beauty of this procedure is that you are able to predict behavior and identify the likelihood with a certain degree of probability that action will take place. You can select only those customers or prospects most likely to exhibit that behavior. This saves you a lot of money because your advertising dollars are spent on those people most likely interested in your service.

The size of your customer base and your technology budget will determine your database software needs. For many small companies, a MS Access database is sufficient. You have to know database technology to properly set it up. Access databases can easily accommodate several hundred thousand records.

In summary, you can lose sight of the key components needed for marketing in Web 2.0. You need a professionally designed website, email communication, direct mail AND a database to maintain a logical order of all of this valuable marketing information. Without a database to analyze the data, you could be spending a lot of advertising unwisely.

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