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SmallBusiness - > Bakersfield Business Connection -> Is Your Company Missing the Simplest Ways to Promote Your Website?
Is Your Company Missing the Simplest Ways to Promote Your Website?
I stumbled across this post by BL Ochman on her "What's Next" blog and thought it would be appropriate to repost considering the topic of our last seminar:
 
Ten years into the Internet economy, many companies still subscribe to the build-it-and-they-will-come philosophy of web marketing. Putting up a site without having a plan to drive traffic to it is equivalent of opening a store on a back road and not even putting up a sign.
 
When I bought this Citron shirt, it came with a tag thanking me for buying it, including a picture of the company's president, and inviting me to the website. I took him up on the invitation, and found a nice greeting and an outlet store I wouldn't have known about otherwise - the free prize inside for visiting.
 
Before you even think about online marketing, is your company including your website and blog URL:
  • on everything you print including business cards, stationary, envelopes, product labels, packaging
  • in all of your advertising, online and off
  • in the greeting and "hold" message on company phones
  • on all trade show displays
  • on signs in your stores and offices
  • in email signatures 
Sounds elementary, but a lot of companies still don't do even these simple marketing basics.

 

Posted in the Business & Finance interest group.
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posted by SmallBusiness on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 08:59 AM
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