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Successful marketing requires that, in simple ways, you present your products and services to potential clients. A marketing calendar helps you to accomplish specific marketing goals in a time frame that will be best for your company.

Victor Kiam, a famous entrepreneur from the US, was quoted as saying, “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” Since effective marketing relies heavily on good timing, this quote definitely applies. Using a marketing calendar to keep all of your strategies organized and streamlined is an excellent way to keep beneficial opportunities from passing you by.

Use a marketing calendar to automate planning and preparation as you look for ways to market and increase your business’s sales. Here are some ideas for how to implement a marketing calendar into your company.

* Choose your calendar – Marketing calendars are not all made in the same format. You can use a desk calendar, a wall calendar, a planner, a spreadsheet, or anything else that works best for you. Using a large wall calendar is often a good idea since it will be visible to your entire marketing team.

* Develop a plan. Assign each marketing project a specific day, week or month on the calendar. Include a description of the project, cost estimate and tasks necessary in order to complete the project. If desired, you may assign different tasks to separate dates on the calendar. Allow for plenty of time to promote your product if you are marketing prior to a specific date or event.

* Try new things. Occasionally try new marketing techniques that haven’t been used within your company. While you should first utilize those techniques that have proven successful in the past, a previously untried method may yield even better results.

* Update the marketing calendar regularly. Make notes regarding the outcome of each project. Mistakes are valuable only when they are learned from. Use these results to determine what projects will be included on next year’s calendar.

Any small business can increase its sales with successful use of a marketing calendar.

Ray Perry is an Internet marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience. He is the Chief Marketing Officer at MarketBlazer, a small business marketing company and authorized Duct Tape Marketing coach. You can get more information about a marketing calendar at www.MarketBlazer.com.

Search engines like Yahoo and Google can find anything you are looking for when they execute their search. There is a significant difference though, in how these searches are executed. While these major companies will never reveal the precise way that their engines search the internet and rank different websites, there are ways to improve your website so it increases it’s search engine ranking.

The first thing to do, to improve your website, is to remove all of the useless content. Search engines almost always scan the content on your web site, and the more content you have that is related to the key word they are searching for, the higher the ranking you will get. The opposite is also true, the more useless content you have, the lower the ranking will be. The engines also validate the links on your site, and check the links to see if they are relevant to the key word as well. All of the links on your site should be to relevant, valid sites. These are just some steps you can take to help improve your website.

Of course the best way to optimize your website, and in turn increase the traffic to your site, is to hire an SEO Management company to perform the optimization for your. In addition to the steps previously mentioned, a dependable SEO Management company can further optimize your website, and help you climb up the search engine results list.

An SEO Management company can help you develop a plan to improve your search engine ranking, and help you implement the plan as well. When selecting a company, you need to do some research, in order to make sure you are using a dependable company, who has a good reputation, and follows all of the rules established by the different search engines. There are ways to improve your site which violate the search engine rules, and your website would be penalized if this is the case. A dependable SEO Management company will follow all the rules, while optimizing your site, which should increase the traffic to your site.

There are a variety of ways that a seo company can make certain that their website has the best possible search engine optimisation. If you are just starting out and want some assistance with making your company a success log onto www.seomoves.com.au.

When his internet-savvy nephew suggested promoting his small business on the Internet, Robert designed a simple but attractive five-page small business web site. He added meta-tags and keywords, and waited for the search engines.

Robert wonders, “What now?”

Robert’s experience is common among small businesses getting started on the Internet. He has just faced the first big lesson for a small business web site: the web site is not enough. Unlike the weekly advertisement Robert places in the local paper, he needs to promote the web site itself. In a sense, he needs to advertise the advertisement.

What Robert doesn’t realize is that he already has the most valuable asset a small business can leverage online — knowledge and experience. Anyone who runs a small business off-line is an expert on something that other people would like to know about. Writing articles can turn that knowledge into targeted traffic. Article writing is the ideal free method for a small business to promote itself on the Internet.

Every small business has expertise it can share in 500-1,000 word bites. A landscaper could write about the uses for different kinds of turf grass. A window installer can describe new types of energy-efficient windows. A home cleaning service can provide cleaning tips.

Customers ask Robert five questions repeatedly. He can easily write five simple articles to answer them. Then, he just needs to add a “resource box” which advertises and links to his web site.

Robert can also include a few of his web site’s keywords in each article, and, if possible, in his resource box. Robert’s business depends on local customers. Including his city’s name in anecdotes within the articles, or in the resource box, can help his articles to appear in local searches for that city.

Robert would start by uploading his article to a new web page. This gives visitors more to read — and starts to establish Robert as an expert. More importantly, the article becomes “spider bait” for the content-loving search engines to find and index.

He could stop there, but his new article gives him a more valuable opportunity to promote his site.

Next, Robert can offer his article to other web sites. Most article directories accept submissions of articles. They offer those articles for others to use in newsletters or on web sites. A quick search for “article directory” will yield a sizable list of sites that accept article submissions.

Prepared, with a simple text file ready to copy and paste, it takes just minutes to submit an article to an article directory site. Once posted, the article provides a link to Robert’s site. Other webmasters may reprint his article, also linking to his site.

Article marketing is viral, multiplying the links — and visitors — to the author’s site each time an article is republished. Just one popular article can attract a growing number of information-hungry visitors as the article spreads across the Internet.

Many article directories also include new articles in RSS feeds and e-mail announcements to their lists. Robert doesn’t even need his own e-mail list or feed to advertise his web site to readers of his article.

Finally, if Robert has more time, he can search for “ezine directories” to find newsletters that accept articles and offer his article directly to them. If he is willing to spend some money, he could use article submission services.

Over time, the growing number of links to a web site can improve its “link popularity” and Page Rank. As the site rises in the search engine rankings, it attracts even more visitors.

Articles spread those all-important links across the Internet without the tedious process of sending out link exchange requests (often declined or ignored). Better still, webmasters who reprint articles rarely ask for reciprocal links back to their own sites.

The benefit of writing an article builds over time, yet articles require no ongoing maintenance once they are written and submitted. Other options like newsletters, blogs, and forums can demand more upkeep than a small business can afford.

Best of all, articles can remain up on web sites indefinitely, driving free traffic immediately — and long-term. Most other kinds of advertising stay posted only as long as they are paid for. An article’s “views,” “reprints,” and “click-throughs” can increase — without increasing advertising costs.

Writing articles is a powerful way to leverage a small business’ expertise, transforming it into traffic. The currency of the Internet, information, makes advertising a small business web site affordable. Promoting with articles can jump-start the online presence of a small business and continue to market it for a long time to come.

(c) 2006 Wendy MakiMay be reprinted in email newsletters and on web sites. Must be unedited and include the resource box. All other rights reserved.

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For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers – as we do – and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

Even though there are more sides to internet marketing than just email marketing (permission based), email has been the foundation that our business sits on.

I came across an e-book written by the founders and owners of one of the biggest articles directories at http://www.articlebase.com

I was really impressed by the contents of the e-book. It explains all the “do’s and don’ts” of Article Marketing and gives tips and instructions on how to use this magnificent ad tool to its fullest potential.

To anyone who wishes to increase site ranking, publicity and advertise effectively at a low cost, I highly recommend this e-book. You can read more about it at Entrepreneur’s Guide To Article Marketing

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