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Awesome Marketing And Promotional Ideas

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Awesome Marketing And Promotional Ideas

Marketing and promotional ideas! Free! Most are related to internet-based businesses, but even those can usually be adopted in some way to other businesses. Here are some awesome marketing ideas to get you thinking.

A one-hour coupon. Offline businesses that want to increase the traffic to their websites can announce an “internet coupon” good for a free drink (or whatever). The coupon would be up on the site for an hour, sometime on a Friday, say. Visitors will return again and again to try to be there at the right time to get the freebie. If you collect pay-per-click advertising fees, this repeat traffic might be especially profitable.

Free gift article teaser. A free gift is certainly not a new marketing idea, but it hasn’t been done much in internet article “resource boxes.” Your click-throughs from articles could increased when you starting putting in the author’s resource box, “For more information and a free gift, visit…” The gift is usually a short course, or an e-book. If you don’t want to write an e-book, you can find one with free distribution rights or a PLR book.

Word links for sale. Maybe you have heard about the entrepreneur that sold a million pixels on one web page for a dollar each. Advertisers could buy a minimum of 100, and the image would link to their site. I’ve seen many copycats, but I haven’t yet seen anyone selling words. This could be even better for advertisers, because they could buy the words that are relevant to their products. A page full of random words isn’t pretty, but these things get publicity and traffic for their novelty.

Product user contests. If you have a product that’s used in many ways or many places, this is a great promotional trick: a contest to see who has used their cell phone, watch, or whatever in the wildest place or the most unusual way. Customers could post their stories and photos directly to your company web site. They would return repeatedly to see new stories, and the results of the competition.

Advertising on cereal boxes. A lot of time is spent staring at cereal boxes. Perhaps you could get a good rate on advertising on them. There have had some advertising, but no boxes covered in ads yet. Brokering ad space on cereal boxes could be a good business to get into.

Pay for article placement. Many of us distribute articles to generate traffic to our web sites, and many also pay to advertise. Since articles are especially good marketing tools, why not pay to have other webmasters put them on their sites? This is done for free now, but not often enough. Maybe offer a small one-time fee, with a minimum time commitment. Explain that leaving the article there forever can generate search engine traffic.

Put ads on cars, advertising on sidewalks or stores,give away free offers. There are endless possibilities for new marketing and promotional ideas.

Lead Generation And Sales For Your Business

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Lead Generation And Sales For Your Business

There are agencies that specialize in providing qualified leads to businesses. The process of lead generation is actually very easy. An agency develops a website or partnerships with several websites in which they promote and advertise your product or service. A consumer finds these directories or informational sites and they are able to complete an online quote request form. This form is submitted to the agency. The buyers information is verified and matched to the appropriate providers.

These matched leads are then sent via email to the prospective providers with full contact information and purchasing requirements.

Lead generation is a win-win for both the buyer and seller. A buyer is able to request information from several businesses that offer the product or service that they are looking for and the seller is given the opportunity to pitch their product or service to someone who has given them permission. Conversion rates on leads that you receive often have a higher conversion success rate than cold contacts because the prospect is pre-qualified before you ever receive the lead.

Lead generation has become popular with businesses because it enables a business to:

Determine pricing on a per lead basis

Choose the product or service they wish to offer to prospects

Select the geographical area that the business is interested in

Control the number of leads a business wishes to receive per month

Pay only for the leads that are received

How Much Does it Cost?
Lead generation can be extremely cost effective. Leads range anywhere from $25 to $500. Price often depends on the measure of difficulty in getting the lead.

Is Lead Generation for You?
If you need business fast, lead generation is a way that you can grow your business rather quickly. It’s an easy way to increase your ROI and grow your business. Approach it just like you would any other advertising endeavor, set aside a reasonable budget to test it and see if it works for your business. The key to being successful in lead generation is to brush up on your sales and marketing skills so that the leads you receive convert at a high sales rate. Do not try to approach this method of marketing without the ability to follow through and close the sale.

What’s the Downfall of Lead Generation?
Lead generation is a great way to drum up business, but over the years there are lead agencies that have adopted unethical practices. When you purchase leads you don’t have control over how many providers that lead is sold to. You also don’t know how accurate the information is. A lead is really only as good as the lead agency that you are purchasing it from. Leads can also get costly and if you are relying only on lead agencies to provide you leads.

Using a reputable lead agency to purchase leads is still a great way to grow your business, especially in the start-up phase.

As you get more experience and practice. Start combining the higher quality or fresher leads with your aged leads to experience both. You will figure out what balance of leads will work best for you and your budget.

Parting Tip: As you get better, your leads will get better, regardless of the age or quality of the lead.

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