Tuesday 2 July 2013

Inbound Marketing Basics

I will start today’s topic with a small example. On your way to work, there’s a billboard. Let’s assume that it is advertising clothing for the opposite sex; something that you wouldn’t need to buy on regular basis. You may be interested in looking at that billboard if you want to buy clothing for a friend or family member of the opposite sex. However, if you don’t need to buy any such thing, you will not look at that billboard. The question here arises that what good is it if it does not attract people unless they actually want to buy it? How does one turn potential customers into actual customers? Inbound marketing is a term that is used to describe the solution to this. Do you come across adverts that absolutely make sure that you see them? We all do. That, dear readers, is an example of inbound marketing. This marketing focuses on three aspects; content, SEO and social media marketing.

Content marketing
As suggested by the name, this method involves marketing your product through your content. Become a useful source of information for them. Make sure that they learn about your products and services. For this, you obviously need to keep posting relevant and useful stuff very regularly. Your content doesn’t have to be restricted to words; use videos wherever you can. Basically, all you want to do is to make sure that you capture the attention of your customers and potential customers through your content.
SEO
Here, keywords matter the most. You need to make sure that if someone searches for services or goods that your business offers, your business should come up as a result in first few options. For this, you need to include main keywords in all the pages of your website. Arrange them in different orders in order for your business to become optimized when it comes to search engines.
Social Media Marketing
The strongest force that today’s world has is probably the highly active social media; social media controls everything. You need to make sure that you make proper use of these sites. Facebook being the king of these websites must be given the most importance. The best part is that they are either free or are highly inexpensive. You can make the most through these websites.
These tips are the basic tips that one must remember for online marketing. Not only will they help you grow your business, they will also make your business retain its success.

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