http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog Business Marketing Strategies and Ideas Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:22:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The importance of Internet marketing is continuing to expand. Surveys of all kinds show a major shift in traditional marketing budgets to dollars being spent online to market all types of products and services.Internet Marketing Defined. Internet marketing is the use of the Internet to advertise and sell products and ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=63 All Internet marketing strategies have just one aim: to maximize the website traffic and bring in revenue. At the end of the day, you create a website so that people can visit it and you can get the desired result. You can do it by selling a product or a ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=62 Internet marketing is a strategy and tool for enhancing your online business to drive more visitors or customers to your website. It is a definitive way to reach out to your target audience and position your product, service or business to create maximum visibility. With so many options marketed online, ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=61 Are you ever frustrated or hesitant when you talk to prospective customers because you can’t readily explain why they should come to you rather than go to your competitors? Sure, you might have your 30-second elevator speech, but then they ask you that dreaded question, “So what makes you different?” ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=60 Color is all around us. It affects every aspect of our behavior, including how we feel, what we buy, and how satisfied we are with our purchases. Yet, how often do we take full advantage of color’s ability to motivate others in our business communications? Color is a necessity in ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=59 The ultimate small business marketing strategy is really no secret if you stick to the fundamentals. As a small business owner, you are constantly being barraged with what someone is telling you is the latest and greatest marketing strategy. Before you waste your time and money on something new, you ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=58 I talk a lot about how times, they are a changin'. It's inevitable that we will not be able to reach customers in the ways we did in the past. To successfully grow any business, you have to be open to change. Customers adapt faster than businesses, and that's the ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=57 Countless solo-preneurs and small business owners feel frustrated about marketing. Most have read the marketing books and listened to the teleclasses yet are still unable to attract clients regularly.You can learn as much about marketing as you’d like but when you're a small business owner working to a shoestring budget ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=56 Many people new to blogging feel that once they have joined a blog platform, thought of a subject for their blog and created some great content for their blog, the visitors will just start rolling in. New bloggers often get discouraged when they aren’t getting the high volume of traffic ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=55 I would like to share this forum post from my friend who has been working to build her business. It does a great job of capturing the power of ongoing marketing: "I have had major victories over the past few weeks. I have signed on 3 major clients ... http://www.gomarketingmaven.com/mavenblog/?p=54