Long Tail Niche Marketing

November 23, 2008 by Elizabeth  
Filed under Internet Marketing

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Long Tail Marketing

If you are thinking about having a small business, or already have one, you’ll want to use every avenue at your disposal to increase business. The newest frontier for business is the Internet. Each year, someone comes up with a new way to enhance business in this area. One strategy to try is long tail niche marketing.

The concept of long tail niche marketing uses multiple keyword phrases to target traffic to your site and increase business. By adding words to the phrase, the person searching will have to be quite specific in their words in order to find you.

Long tail niche marketing is another way to increase your standing in the page ranks on popular search engines. Anyone who has used SEO content and keywords on their website pages knows that everyone fights for the first page of results. Most people don’t look beyond that; if it is not found on the first page, the chances of you being discovered drop.

A business can benefit in a number of ways from long tail niche marketing strategies. For one, it saves time on other marketing campaigns. When we buy lists of names, the category that those names fall into is a broad one.

Let’s say that you are selling rafting equipment. A list may include people who live in states where white water rafting is a common sport. That would be a broad category. Everyone living in Colorado doesn’t go rafting. There are a lot of names on the list who won’t buy from you. Also, the list may exclude people who love to raft but don’t live in the geographic location of the list.

Marketing is a trial and error process, but we try to get as close to our target as possible. Employing more than one marketing strategy is best to overcome this learning curve. With longer keyword phrases, a person won’t just look for rafting in general, but can include other keywords like state, or type of rafting equipment they are looking for. The results for “rafting” may be in the millions, but the results for “rafting suppliers in Colorado Springs” can be in the thousands.

This marketing strategy directs the appropriate traffic to find your business. Visitors are more likely to buy because they are looking for your products. Creating a list from those who buy offers a solid base of customers to work with. From there, you can target specific products to customers. The possibilities are endless once you reach the right type of customers.

Long tail marketing does require that the right keyword phrases be used. The entire process is still used experimentally by Internet marketers. With a little research, you can create phrases that will bring in reliable new leads for future sales.

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The Three P’s Of Business.

July 16, 2008 by Elizabeth  
Filed under Marketing Articles

I found myself the other night going through a couple of thoughts that have gone through my mind and things about my business mostly.  I realized that over the past couple of years of so of working on online and teaching people about internet marketing and continually learning new things myself. I came to the conclusion that running a successful business online takes a lot of heart. But mainly it takes three things that I call the three p’s of working for your self and making the decision to go solo. You might ask well what exactly are the three p’s that I am referring to.

Well the three p’s are what I call the main drive behind something that pushes you to move forward no matter how many times you fall. It is what gives you the edge to try new things continually over and over again until you are able to find what works for you.

Then sticking to that one thing and making it work through all the sweat and tears that you put into. Having the control and long term vision to see things through the long haul and knowing that within in yourself that it will work out in the end because you have faith that it will.

These three P’s include:

  1. Persistence
  2. Patience
  3. Performance

Patience is the one thing that many people lack a lot of. However If you are going to run a business and go into with your eyes closed and not realize. All the time and research that It takes to bring your dream to life, then you are selling yourself short and not giving yourself the true chance that it deserves. By sticking to just one thing and making it work. Patience is something that can be learned and although one may not see results right away in their business, they need to know that if they keep patience as one of three p’s of running a business then you know in time you will have success.

Persistence is what runs the business and the ultimate force behind whether you continue with something or not. When times get hot in your business and sometimes every thing that you do seems to not be working. That is when you continue with persistence and keep trying something new and learning new things, and that one thing adds with the next thing and finally one plus one equals two. Get it, persistence is what keeps you doing things and completing things even in the hard and beginning times of your business.

Performance is the love you put into your business, this is what shows in the product you produce. Do you put all your heart into your business or do you just fumble along and put only half your foot forward afraid to take it to the next step. Performance involves taking risks and trying new things in order that you can improve your existing state of your business and making it the best that you yourself can make it for your self and for those that listen to you.

I hope that you follow the three p’s of patience, persistence, and performance. And make it work to the best that you can and put all of yourself into your business and stop cutting your self short and realize that with a business comes responsibility and attitude on your part to make what you want to happen to come true.