Customer Service Management Tips - Part 2

In part 1 we discussed the importance of Post-Sale Customer Support teams in retaining repeat customers, and why this is so important. Now let's look at some practical customer service management tips to help you get the job done.

What Is the Role of Customer Support

The customer support team needs to ensure customers are happy by representing the customer's interests inside the business at time when no one else is motivated to do so.

The customer support team, along with the sales team, represents the customer's interests inside the company. The sales team does it to get new customers. The support team does it to keep existing customers.

The major challenge that customer support teams face within most organizations is that it is hard to tie specific support activity to a specific amount of revenue dollars. There is always a temptation to ignore your existing customers, because they probably won't leave right away. There is always a temptation to ignore any customer that doesn't have an open order because as a business you need to raise enough money to pay your bills and your employees in order to stay in business.

What Can Support Team Managers Do?

As a Customer Support manager, there are a few things you can do to help your cause.

Recognize that fundamentally the Customer Support team is there to ensure repeat orders. Know the repeat order potential of each customer and factor that into the time, money and priority you give any given customer. Very often a small number of customers take up a large percentage of the customer support time and budget. Make sure you are not neglecting the high potential customers because you are busy serving the needs of needy customers with lower potential. I know we like to help everyone, but let's face it you make priority decisions every day on which issues to handle first. Many customer support teams have no idea what the repeat order potential of any given customer is. Make sure you know, and make sure that repeat order potential is at least as big a factor in your decisions as how loud the customer is. Tying action to financials will get the attention and support of upper management.

Get to know the Sales team. In most organizations the sales teams are much more influential than the support teams, it's just a fact of life. The sales teams are also the people inside the company who benefit the most from good customer support. They get the credit and the commission checks for repeat orders. Let the sales team know when their high potential customers are having issues, and when you are not getting the support you need to help them. You can be guaranteed that a commissioned sales rep will not sit idly by and risk losing a repeat customer. Keep the sales team in the loop. When things go well, tell them. It's a great opportunity for them to go in and make their next pitch. When problems are brewing, tell them that too so they can avoid walking into the lion's den with a new sales pitch, and instead make a timely service call to show they care and offer assistance. The sales team is motivated, influential, and has the most to lose from poor customer service. You already have the power to help them; use it to help them help you.

Look for ways to actively help your customers use the products or services they buy from you. Don't just wait for complaints and repair calls to come in. Think of ways that you could help your customer's use your products. Think about this. If you can help a customer use something he or she has already purchased, they will be much more likely to come back a second time. If you can help a customer use up something he or she has already purchased then they will need to come back and replenish their stock. Remember that customer support is there to help the customer use the product or service. Why do you think craft stores sponsor craft fairs? Because it helps people use up their craft supplies, and it also makes them happy. If you can help them use it up, or consume it, then you can rightly claim that you have helped the customer and increased revenue for the business when their frequency of buying increases. Be creative.

Summary

Fundamentally the role of customer support is to ensure repeat sales. Post-sale customer support teams are a critical cog in the business cycle. They should be respected. They should be in constant communication with the sales team. They should be actively looking for ways to help the customer use the products or services they have purchased.

As a customer service manager one of the best things you can do for your team is to learn to tie their actions to the business financials. That's how decisions are made at the top.



by: Daryl Cowie

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Customer Service Management Tips - Part 1

Customer support teams are perhaps the most misunderstood, and underappreciated teams in the business world. In many businesses the customer support staff talks to the customers more than every other team combined. They play a critical role in ensuring customers are satisfied. Satisfied customers are repeat customers. Everybody knows that a large percentage of business comes from repeat customers. And yet customer support teams are commonly staffed with junior, inexperienced people that don't have the authority to make any decisions, or the training and knowledge to answer difficult questions. What's the deal?

What is Customer Support?

First, let's clarify what I mean by "Customer Support", because different companies use this term in wildly different ways. I am talking about the team that takes care of the customer after the contract has been signed and the initial invoice has been paid. You may work in a company where a customer service team handles the transaction from order to invoice. You may have been taught that customer service starts when the customer walks in the door, and doesn't end until the customer dies or decides not to be a customer any more. These are fine concepts, but what I am talking about here is the role of taking care of the customers' needs after the invoice has been paid, and before they have expressed a specific interest in buying again. I refer to this as Post-Sale Customer Support to differentiate it from other definitions.

What's So Important About Post-Sale Customer Support?

As a customer, up until the time that the invoice is paid you always hold the trump card of being able to withhold payment if you are not satisfied. And everybody understands that money talks. After the invoice has been paid you can often be left feeling powerless. The delivery team has collected their money and been assigned a full load of new customer transactions to look after. The sales team is being pressured to focus on customers who have already expressed a specific interest in making a purchase to meet monthly sales targets. So who takes care of you now?

This is where customer support comes in. There is a general feeling within most companies that they need to provide some sort of post-sale customer support, but there is a poor understanding of why. The sales team brings in the customers – which equals the promise of money. The orders team works out the details – which equals the promise of money. The delivery team provides the solution – which equals the collection of actual money. The customer support team ensures the customer is able to use the solution – which equals what? Happiness and karma? Let's face it; shareholders can't trade in their karma for a retirement home. Companies want money.

Here's what people are missing. In a healthy business between 25 and 75 percent of all revenues should come from repeat customers. 25% to 50% is considered typical for a healthy retail outlet, and 75% repeat business would be the top end for a healthy service business. Retail outlets with less than 25% repeat business are probably not meeting their customer needs or more of them would be coming back. Service businesses with more than 75% repeat sales are probably losing their skills at generating new customers and run the risk of severe financial problems if they lose 1 or 2 major accounts. Any way you look at it, a very large part of your business should be coming from repeat customers.

The other factor you need to look at is that the cost of getting a new customer is much higher than the cost of keeping a customer that you already have. Marketing and advertising are expensive business.

Smart businesses invest in retaining customers. That's what customer support is all about. There is no better time to ensure repeat business than when your customers are feeling that they have no leverage. That is exactly when they appreciate your support the most, and will remember it as something that makes them want to come back.

In part 2 of this series we'll look at some practical management tips for customer service managers to get the business behind your team and your customers.



by: Daryl Cowie

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Management Tip: Quit Working For Your Boss

As a manager do you know who you really work for? I don't mean the person who signs your paycheck or does your annual review. I mean day by day, hour by hour, who are you working for?

If you say it's your customers, that's great you've been paying attention in marketing class. Ultimately everyone is working for the customer, but is that really who you work for on a daily basis? Do you personally take their orders? Do you personally answer the support calls? Do you get in the truck and drive your product over to the customer to help them unload and get it ready to use? If you are a manager I truly hope this is not what you come to work to do. These are the things your team is there to do. You may need to pitch in from time to time, but that's not what managers are primarily there to do.

If you say it's your supervisor, well I'm sure they will be happy to hear that. Your supervisor should be the one to define your purpose in the organization and help give you direction. So you could say the work you do on a daily or hourly basis is work for your supervisor. But is that really who you spend the bulk of your time trying to help? I hope not.

Let's look at the activities good managers spend their time on. Employee development, process optimization, cost control. You make sure your people know what needs to be done and are working on the right things. You make sure your people have the tools they need to get the job done effectively and efficiently. You make sure your people get to work in a safe and respectful environment. You make sure your people get the training they need to be effective and advance. You look for ways to make your team as effective as possible. You help your people become the best they can be. You help your team become the best it can be. The bulk of the work you do (or should be doing) is for your team. You work for your team.

So as a manager forget the idea that everyone is working for you. That thinking leads you down the path to ego and conflict. Your team is working to get things done for the customer. You, as their manager, are working for your team to get them everything they need to be effective in serving your customers. The best, most highly-valued managers alive are the ones out there working for their teams and giving them everything they need to succeed.

The more people you manage, the more people you are working for, not the other way around. A bigger team doesn't take away your work, it increases it.

So the next time you draw your team organization chart, flip it upside down with your CEO at the bottom, you somewhere in the middle, and the people who actually come in contact with the customer on a daily or hourly basis at the top where they belong. The goal of a great manager is to create the best team of people at the top of this upside down pyramid serving the customer.


by: Daryl Cowie

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The Unsuccessful Habits of Hard Working People

We've all heard the phrase work smarter, not harder. It's one of those motivational statements that once held a great message, but now days is more often used to mean "You're taking too long. Quit complaining and get it done". In many ways these messages are not that different, but they hold two very different sentiments.

The truth is, many of us need to work smarter instead of harder, but we don't really know how to get from where we are to where we need to be. I was brought up believing that hard work is the key to success and fulfillment. Work harder than anyone else and you'll get recognition for it. While this is true in many ways, this philosophy can also severely restrict the level of success you achieve.

While working hard truly is a virtue, it also has some basic failings. First of all the hard work principle lends itself to measuring how hard, or long you work instead of what you are getting done. Many hard workers feel they are entitled to rewards as long as they put in long hours or carry heavy loads. It can lead to resentment of people who have figured out how to work shorter hours for larger rewards. Instead of admiring them, you see them as lazy and undeserving. Hard workers are often frustrated by the efforts of people around them that they feel are not making the same contribution, or reaching the same level of productivity as they are. What the "hard working" crowd is missing is that every employee is hired to get a result, not to fill an empty space.

Look at it this way. Pretend for a moment that you were doing the hiring and paying the bill. Would you rather pay a hard working man with an axe for 2 months to clear your land of trees, or pay a lazy dude with a chainsaw who can do it in one month? What I'd really like is a hard working man with a chainsaw, but given the choices I'll take the man who made the smart tool choice over the one who works hard. Why? Bottom line, it gets the job done faster and cheaper, which is what I really want.

The second failing of the hard working philosophy is a tendency to want to jump into action without a well thought out plan. Let’s get moving! The problem with this is that the devil is in the details. I have seen many hastily laid plans leap into instant action and gain immediate progress. I have seen just as many of these plans sitting in the trash bin after huge amounts of time and money have been invested in them because they didn't actually accomplish what the customer really wanted. By the time they figured they weren't going to meet the real requirements they had too much invested in the hastily chosen direction to make the required corrections. A common companion of these discarded plans is the discarded manager who goes along with it. Action is critical, but first you must ensure your actions contribute to a plan that actually ends in the right results.

In both cases of these cases, the work hard philosophy is missing the main opportunity. A smart plan is better than a hard working plan every time. But we are taught to spring to action. Get to work. Get it started. The reality is that working hard without a plan is fruitless. Working hard at things no one cares about is simply not productive.

Making smart choices that contribute to the results that matter to other people is one of the keys to success. Solid up-front goals and objectives planning sessions are critical to your personal success and to the success of everything you endeavor to do. If you're a hard working person, learning to effectively recognize the goals and intelligently plan objectives and strategies to accomplish them is one of the best investments you can make in yourself.

My success management tip for hard workers: learn to plan smart first, and then work hard. This is the unbeatable combination.


by: Daryl Cowie

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Why We Use Search Engine Optimisation Services In The UK

Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is one of the new buzz phrases that is being tossed around on the internet. You see more and more web administrators seeking employees who have experience with SEO and know how to implement SEO techniques. So what is SEO? Why do we use Search Engine Optimisation Services in the UK?

Search Engine Optimisation is, basically, a way in which people try to improve the quality and volume of visitors to their websites from search engine search results. It is used as a way of promoting websites by pushing them higher in search engine ranks. It works by using a variety of “keywords” that grab the attention of search engine spiders that regularly crawl the internet looking for new content. The more visitors a person has to his site by clicking on a search result, the higher the site will rise in the ranks of the search engine. The goal among most web masters is to make it on to the front page of Google (or Yahoo, etc).

While it is certainly relevant to learn all you can about Search Engine Optimisation, if you are just starting to build your website, it is in your best interest to employ a Search Engine Optimisation Service. These services can help you add content to your site that is guaranteed to catch the eye of the various search engine spiders crawling your site and they know about the different SEO marketing methods that will work best for the central subject of your website.

Here are some of the reasons to use a Search Engine Optimisation Service in the UK:

Search Engine Optimisation services can usually point you to a proven track record of success. These businesses are not operating on a system of trial and error like you will be when you are first learning. They know what gets the spiders to notice a site and they will make sure that yours gets noticed.

They are time savers. You are trying to market your new site and trying to get the word out about your site. All the while you are trying to come up with content for your site that is original and fresh. By employing one of the search engine optimisation services you are free to run the website without worrying how the search engines will notice it.

Sometimes the search engine optimisation service is also skilled at internet marketing as well and can help you promote and drive traffic to your website from other venues as well as from the search engines.

If you are looking for something on the internet, the best way to find it is to use a search engine to help you find it. If you have a website or are offering a service via the web, you want to make sure that your site is as high as possible in the search engine rankings to ensure a high traffic flow to your site. Using a Search Engine Optimisation Service in the UK is the best way to make sure this happens, especially if you do not have any experience in SEO.



by: Derek Rogers

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SEO Campaigns And What Not To Do

Given the ratio of the internet, and given the fact that so many people in the business world use it to further their goals and ambitions, it is shocking how so many people still have issues with using the internet appropriately. Search engine optimization is one powerful tool that many people use when they are looking to increase the level of relevant traffic to their website, but remember, that like any tool, its efficiency depends on the employer. Take a look at a few of the reasons why so many SEO campaigns falter and fall, and often are unable to rise again.

Bad keywords are one of the first culprits. Look at the text on your website and really think about whether it reflects your company. Will the people who are searching for your services know to use those terms? Bad keywords can work in two different directions. Firstly the keywords are too specific. They are only understood by other professionals in your field, and someone who isn't aware of the ins and outs of your business would never think to search for them. Over-generalization is similarly a concern. With keywords that are too generic, you will simply bring irrelevant people to your site who have no actual interest in what you have to offer.

SEO also means that you have to take into account the format of your page. Are things placed in a logical way that will draw people? Have you made sure that your page has enough content to draw people to it? Part of good page optimization is ensuring that your website has a good place when it comes to link building. The more people who link to you without you offering a reciprocal link, the better your rating goes. Link building is one aspect that the Google search engine uses to push you towards the top of your search page, so make sure that you don't ignore it when you are thinking about optimization and content.

Some companies who try to avoid these mistakes contract with SEO consultants, but even there they might find that they are working with someone who uses illegitimate means to bulk up your numbers. Some warning signs include multiple names, the ownership of shadow domains and a guarantee of rankings through obscure keyword phrases that you would have gotten anyway. Beware of companies that give you a strange feeling or refuse to explain how your website would be getting the hits. Although there are many of them, the concepts relating to SEO are fairly straightforward, so if you catch someone being secretive, make sure you find out why.

When you are looking to conduct an SEO campaign, unless you are a specialist in the field yourself, you should consider consulting with a professional. A professional who cares about his or her work and is dedicated to making your site a success can easily save you from the blunders that could cost you in time, resources and money which is important to any business.


by: Derek Rogers

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Where Can I Find A Good Pay Per Click Company

With the advent of internet marketing, there has been a rise in pay per click advertising. But after showing a booming prospect, pay per click advertising has begun to lose its charm due to frauds that are being committed in the name of pay per click advertising.

In pay per click advertising, the advertiser, for every click on its link by its potential customer pays a certain agreed amount to the advertising company. But over the years a trend of dishonesty is being seen in the advertising companies where they generate fake clicks on advertiser’s link and try to make easy money. In other cases, vengeful competitors can click on such links to increase their bill without getting any genuine customers.

So this becomes quite difficult for companies to find a good pay per click company, but still, there are some measures which can follow to ensure that investments are not being wasted.

You can look for Google certification which is in the form of “Google AdWords Certification” which ensures that the bearer is competent and is very familiar with the way the PPC system of Google works. You can look at testimonials of the company and use your instincts to find out whether these are genuine or fabricated by the company itself. You can also benefit from experience of other companies who have got this type of work done. You can find someone in such a company who can guide you in the process or can reveal their experience with the same. And don’t forget to take warnings from such people if you do not intend to waste your investment.

You can also go through the previous works of the advertising company. Ask them about their clients and the kind of results they have given them and see for yourself how much you are satisfied with the information given by them. You can also check the familiarity of the advertising company with your field of operation and check whether they are really knowledgeable or not.

You can check the professional conduct of the advertising company. Hold your advertising company to a very high level of Professional Demeanor and if it fails, its better to find some other firm.

It may sound tempting but always consider more than one advertising company so that you have many options to choose from. It is always beneficial to consider competition in the market while selecting a service provider for yourself.

Avoid companies that guarantee fast results, because generally, companies that offer speed in their services do not give time to test the results.

Look at what kind of results they provide to their customers. Firms sometimes charge you without increasing the traffic of customers to your website. Go through the contract thoroughly and be sure about all the terms and conditions.

Generally, companies that think of themselves as experts in using Google, consider PPC advertising as their area of expertise but you can easily check their credibility in the side bar ads when you search them in Google.

These are certain points which you can keep in mind while finding a good pay per click company and make sure you are not short of your advertising budget.



by: Derek Rogers

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The Unsuccessful Habits of Hard Working People

We've all heard the phrase work smarter, not harder. It's one of those motivational statements that once held a great message, but now days is more often used to mean "You're taking too long. Quit complaining and get it done". In many ways these messages are not that different, but they hold two very different sentiments.

The truth is, many of us need to work smarter instead of harder, but we don't really know how to get from where we are to where we need to be. I was brought up believing that hard work is the key to success and fulfillment. Work harder than anyone else and you'll get recognition for it. While this is true in many ways, this philosophy can also severely restrict the level of success you achieve.

While working hard truly is a virtue, it also has some basic failings. First of all the hard work principle lends itself to measuring how hard, or long you work instead of what you are getting done. Many hard workers feel they are entitled to rewards as long as they put in long hours or carry heavy loads. It can lead to resentment of people who have figured out how to work shorter hours for larger rewards. Instead of admiring them, you see them as lazy and undeserving. Hard workers are often frustrated by the efforts of people around them that they feel are not making the same contribution, or reaching the same level of productivity as they are. What the "hard working" crowd is missing is that every employee is hired to get a result, not to fill an empty space.

Look at it this way. Pretend for a moment that you were doing the hiring and paying the bill. Would you rather pay a hard working man with an axe for 2 months to clear your land of trees, or pay a lazy dude with a chainsaw who can do it in one month? What I'd really like is a hard working man with a chainsaw, but given the choices I'll take the man who made the smart tool choice over the one who works hard. Why? Bottom line, it gets the job done faster and cheaper, which is what I really want.

The second failing of the hard working philosophy is a tendency to want to jump into action without a well thought out plan. Let’s get moving! The problem with this is that the devil is in the details. I have seen many hastily laid plans leap into instant action and gain immediate progress. I have seen just as many of these plans sitting in the trash bin after huge amounts of time and money have been invested in them because they didn't actually accomplish what the customer really wanted. By the time they figured they weren't going to meet the real requirements they had too much invested in the hastily chosen direction to make the required corrections. A common companion of these discarded plans is the discarded manager who goes along with it. Action is critical, but first you must ensure your actions contribute to a plan that actually ends in the right results.

In both cases of these cases, the work hard philosophy is missing the main opportunity. A smart plan is better than a hard working plan every time. But we are taught to spring to action. Get to work. Get it started. The reality is that working hard without a plan is fruitless. Working hard at things no one cares about is simply not productive.

Making smart choices that contribute to the results that matter to other people is one of the keys to success. Solid up-front goals and objectives planning sessions are critical to your personal success and to the success of everything you endeavor to do. If you're a hard working person, learning to effectively recognize the goals and intelligently plan objectives and strategies to accomplish them is one of the best investments you can make in yourself.

My success management tip for hard workers: learn to plan smart first, and then work hard. This is the unbeatable combination.


by: Daryl Cowie

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What Is A Search Engine Marketing Company

Today, when it comes to popularising a brand around the globe, Internet marketing is what every business owner seeks for leaving behind the traditional methods of marketing like advertisements and promotional methods. With Internet marketing, a business owner can do an online promotion of its products or services on a wider scale by reaching out to both the local and international markets.

Online marketing means popularising one’s brand on the World Wide Web; however, this process is not an easy task with so many competitors standing on the same platform. Behind this popularity there is no one technique that works, rather it is a gradual process and combination of various SEM techniques. So, in order to enjoy the results of a successful business through online marketing, there is a need to hire a professional search engine company.

One of the most important requirements of an online business is to develop a website. A well structured website is crucial for any online business as it is a representation of the company. It is the website which helps a visitor to make an impression about your company, and an effective and attractive website can entice the visitor to transform into a customer. Not only a good website plays its role in SEM, it also needs to be search engine optimised so that it can be seen by the target market. Search engine optimisation includes processes like SEO copywriting, web designing, programming effective coding and link development. These are among the major services of SEO which helps to improve the visibility in the search engine results. The SEO copywriting requires the making of targeted keywords that are commonly put in search engines. In order to find out the targeted keywords, it requires a lot of research, which an SEM company does on its own part. A search engine marketing company knows all the SEO techniques that would help to develop a website and improve the search engine ranking of a website.

A search engine marketing company also offers the services of creating an easily navigable and customer friendly site that would make your target audience glued to your site.

Another most common SEM (search engine marketing) advertising service is Pay-per-click advertising. It is among the most successful advertising techniques in which your ad gets displayed whenever any visitor puts in keywords related to your nature of business in order to seek out information. With your ad reflected on the web page, you become the focus of your target market. A SEM company offers you pay-per-click advertising and helps by finding the most relevant and used keywords for your website.

PFI or pay-for-inclusion services are also offered by a search engine marketing company. With the use of this service, you can make the URL of your site or the web pages get crawled by a search engine spider on a regular basis.

No doubt, the services of a search engine marketing company can definitely guide you to phenomenal growth of your company’s business online, thereby making your brand successful on the online front.


by: Derek Rogers

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5 Reasons To Use Website Marketing Companies

Website Marketing Companies provide effective techniques to establish and enhance your online business. When developing a website for your business, your objective is to create an internet presence. This online visual determines long- term success for any web business. Regardless of your choice of internet marketing strategy, your web site must contain powerful content along with a reliable marketing company.

A successful web page promotion campaign can be obtained through an efficient website marketing company. If the website content is relevant and entertaining, it can achieve high ranking within the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, and AltaVista. If your website manages to obtain high listings with at least three of these major engines, you are guaranteed an overflow of targeted traffic. Subsequently, there are several reasons why applying the techniques of these companies will help your small business to be profitable.

It is important that any online business that invests in online marketing companies must devote extensive time and effort to analyze the return on their investment. More so, because a number of online businesses are relatively new, it is recommended that you recruit your marketing strategy and immediately move to the next step of analyzing. Many effective and affordable tools are available to monitor and analyze your sites traffic. The website marketing companies are the best tool to assist you with subsequential evaluation of the ultimate production of your marketing efforts. Specifically, if you are investing a great deal of money into search engines and keyword buys, you need to know which one is meeting your goals.

Search engines may or may not be your greatest source for traffic. Website marketing tools will also track where your traffic is coming from and why. It would be beneficial to attract significant on- ramps from other websites, perhaps relative online companies who are potential business partners. Furthermore, it is important to know if your efforts to generate new customers and sales leads are effective. Website marketing companies can provide tools that can show you who directs the traffic your way while also monitoring your sites most requested pages. They will identify the most common entry pages as well as any exit pages. If your strategy is working effectively, then you can optimize your site to distribute more of the same. In the worst case scenario; you may need to reconstruct your web pages to present something more intriguing or compelling.

Website marketing gurus use tools that enable you to view the actual operating systems that your users may have. This will allow any defects of your site to be revealed. For instance, a website will become defected if a user attempts to link nonexistent or “404” pages to it. It is rewarding to know what your visitors’ viewpoint is regarding your website and business.

Finally, web marketing companies are beneficial as they provide techniques that allow a small business owner to understand their customers and your targeted audience. Any technology associated with the internet that provides a marketing strategy for your small business helps to develop methods to achieve high ranking and enhance the marketing tools that helps you sell your product. Basically, website marketing begins with a well- written and organized website and concludes with a successful web page promotion.


by: Derek Rogers

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Tips On Choosing A Marketing Company

When you just cannot do everything yourself it is important to consider hiring a marketing company. A marketing company can help you develop a solid and strategic marketing plan to benefit your business and boost your sales. There are many different things that you must consider before you choose a marketing company. What should you be looking for?

First, you need to make sure that you find a marketing company that can offer you many different services that may be beneficial to your company. This is crucial, but what could be more important than the actual services they offer is their experience and expertise. You want to make sure that you choose a marketing company that is knowledgeable, experienced, and well versed in marketing and perhaps in your specific niche as well.

What services might you want to look for?

You might want to look for a marketing company that offers search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, and internet marketing. If you are doing business on the internet, having a company that understands the workings of internet marketing and business is essential to your success with any marketing company.

Another consideration you might want to make, is what the company offers you to help you choose the right company. For instance, does the company offer you an initial analysis and provides you with recommendations as to which services you and your business might benefit from? This would be a good place to start and can assure you that the marketing company does indeed know what they are doing. This is especially helpful to new business owners who are not quite sure what direction they need to take. With the analysis, you can do your research and determine which concepts are most important to your business.

It is important to avoid certain things. For instance, do not hire any marketing company that offers you unrealistic or unproven guarantees and offers. This may be in the form of helping you achieve a specific ranking within search engines. This would be considered unrealistic because nothing is guaranteed when it comes to ranking. Furthermore, you want to make sure that the company uses legal and honest methods of achieving their success. Ask the company what type of methods they use to gain their results. If they refuse to tell you a general overview of their techniques, this it is generally a good idea to avoid that company.

At the same time, make sure that you avoid any company that does not offer you access to any accounts created under your name or the name of your business. Something that always bears repeating is to make sure that you read and understand any type of contracts or agreements before you sign on the dotted line. This can help you avoid troubles or misunderstandings. If you have any questions about the contract or agreement, be sure to ask them, if the marketing company avoids answering your questions or does not fully answer them, find a new company to work with.


By:Derek Rogers

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Pay Per Click Advertising

What is Pay Per Click Advertising?

It is just as it sounds. You place an advertisement, usually text or graphic, and you pay each time someone clicks that advertisement. Sounds simple enough right? Though simple, it is a very powerful form of advertising that in many cases makes more sense than other methods of advertisement. How does Pay Per Click Advertising work and why is it the best choice for your business? That is a good question, let's have a look.

Targeted Audience

With Pay Per Click advertising, also known as PPC, you have the ability to target your unique audience. Sure, you have other methods of advertisement that may target a portion of your customer base, but with PPC, you have a more defined method of targeting. You target your specific customer base with solid keywords. These keywords are crucial to your advertisement. If you operate a chocolate business, you might use keywords such as chocolate, chocolate candy, candy, gourmet chocolate, and the list could actually continue to grow.

However, what makes PPC so useful is that it incorporates these keywords to make it work for you. Your pay per click advertising will not show up until a user searches for your keyword terms. The next way that PPC works best for businesses is that it works well within your budget.

Costs and Budgets

The great thing about pay per click advertising is that it is designed to work within any budget. With many sites that promote PPC advertising, you have the ability to define just how much you are willing to pay. However, it is important to note that you will likely be in competition with other businesses, depending on your keyword. The more you pay per click the higher you will be on the search engine results; this is of course dependent upon your competitors and what they bid to pay as well.

As your pay per click campaign goes along, you will have the ability to monitor your campaign. If at any time you feel that your specific campaign is not working as well for your business as you had hoped, you can change it, add another, or delete the campaign as you see fit.

What makes pay per click advertising so appealing is that you are only charged when someone clicks on your advertisement, hence the name pay per click. With other advertising methods, you are charged when your advertisement is displayed or rotated. With PPC, you pay only when a potential customer clicks on the advertisement to visit your website. This is a great cost efficient method of advertisement.

Just Works Better

Pay per click advertising just works better because you know, if you have chosen the right keywords, that when someone clicks on your ad to visit your site, that they are doing so because they are truly interested in what you have to offer via their search terms. This means that each and every person that clicks on your advertisement is a targeted potential customer, which means more likelihood for a sale or membership.

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Home Base Business

Introduction

Home base business is the most legitimate and reputable small business opportunity available today. One of the mistakes that many entrepreneurs make when looking for the top home base business is limiting themselves to what's popular or in the news.

Owning home base business is rewarding as it is a ways for you to be your own boss and realize triple time profits. This is easier to say finding the right home base business is demanding and time consuming. The great thing about starting a top home base business is that you should have no problem getting your name in front of potential customers. After all, you are an internet marketing specialist therefore internet home base business can be your BEST bet towards financial security.

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As a result, millions of Americans are turning to home-based businesses to achieve their dreams and goals. With your own home-based business, you can become the CEO of your career and your life. Even better, many network marketing business offers an incredible way for you to earn from the efforts of others, too.

Opportunity

Starting a home business opportunities is not for everyone, but if you love to stay home and make money, this opportunity may be for you. This is why you should research very well before starting a home based business. Try to look for a home business opportunity that has been around at least two years, preferably longer. A good opportunity will still be a good opportunity after the "ground floor" stage if all the right elements are in place.

Conclusion

The Success University network marketing business opportunity is one of the most dynamic and potential-laden opportunities in which new home base business people should know today. A positive aspect of a network marketing business opportunity is that it is a long term endeavor and many ordinary people can financial freedom by putting in sincere and hard work. Then, the network marketing business opportunity is your vehicle to your happiness afterward.

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MLM Lead List

A MLM lead list is going to be one of the main tools a person uses when running their MLM business. Your MLM lead list is were all your profit will come from. Best free mlm lead without mlm lead list is required for mlm affiliate program cannot be mlm training material, affiliate lead marketing mlm network, mlm business home free opportunity, also known as free mlm business, online mlm. MLM Lead List is a fully integrated and highly advanced internet based MLM lead generation company.

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The whole idea of a MLM lead list is to turn a profit. The MLM lead list is just a list of names and contact information. MLM Lead List is the perfect source for your business building needs. MLM Lead GenerationThis MLM lead list is computer maintained and is updated on a daily basis to assure you of the very latest leads for your direct-mail offers.



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Website Marketing Companies - A Checklist To The Advantages

The professionals of Website marketing companies help you to provide a good and long-lasting impression online. As people come to your website, they may click away if they do not find your site interesting or full of relevant information. However, website marketing companies are the only solution to this. They help you to ensure more and more people come to your site by marketing your website in different ways.

Today, the biggest factor responsible to achieve success in your business is promotional strategies. Therefore seeking the help of specialised companies for effective internet marketing has become prominent. The website promotional services offered by these companies are most in demand in today’s advertising industry. Their techniques can help you out to attain success in cyber space and can make you known both locally and internationally.

Moreover, around one million web pages are added everyday into the World Wide Web and therefore this has increased the competition on the online front. These promotional companies help you to achieve maximum benefit over other sites by bringing highly targeted traffic to your website.

There are a number of web advertising services that come as the entire solution for all your advertising requirements.

Among the major services are:

Online directory
Search engine submissions
Search Engine Optimisation
Viral marketing
Web linking

While advertising online or in online businesses, the people associated with it should be very careful while selecting a website marketing company to promote their business. Online advertising can prove to be very expensive if you lack experience with website marketing and further, you need to go through a number of advertising campaigns based on “test or trials”. It can be a tiresome and time-taking experience for you to find the best website marketing company for delivering profitable solutions for marketing. For the effective online advertisement, you need to compare every advertising option available on the internet which are dealing in business with website marketing or are great solutions of online media. You may even need to develop a personal relationship with the account manager of the website marketing company you select to meet your purpose. This account manager in the website marketing company will help you deal with your advertising campaigns and will also advise you on its growth. The account manager helps you prepare for the real expected scenario prior to the commencement of all solutions of your website marketing.

It is very simple when thinking of website marketing itself, but when you really need to create a fast effect, it is important for you to consider a managed website company and its strategies. The Web has become an essentially vital source to most of the companies, whether small or large, that none of them want to take any risk in their online appearance. For this reason, getting help from professionals or website marketing companies really proves beneficial to all business organizations.

Choose an experienced website marketing company which would be an efficient and reliable one, entrusting all advertising effort in it to promote your business effectively.



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The Wonderful Things of Network Marketing Company

A network marketing company is a company that uses a network of independent contractors to distribute its products or services. It is defined as one that engages in the following practices: Sponsors individuals to set up their own businesses for the purpose of selling products or services and/or recruiting other individuals to set up their own businesses. Just like any other company that sells goods or services the ultimate goal of a network marketing company is to make sales and increase its customer base. Finding the best network marketing company is easy once you know what to look for.

Start

Start you search now and begin with your money making journey with your chosen internet network marketing company and set up your budget. Starting business through ecommerce is an excellent way to provide you with additional income when marketing nutritional supplements or wellness products. The start-up costs for legitimate network marketing companies are small compared to most other business ventures available outside. You should have a good idea of how much time and money you can invest in the business before you start. One of the most important factors to realize in the first place is that most of the people who start network marketing is about the money they will make and the organization that they are joining are the second consideration. This is the wrong perspective altogether.

Independent

What would you do if you were financially independent and most of your time was free to do with as you pleased? Multi-Level and Network Marketing These terms refer to a marketing system in which individual independent contractors recruit, train and develop a team of product users. What do you think about many downline of independent business people work for you? Network Marketing is now a multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of independent business people. The cost for an individual to start an independent direct selling business is typically very low. In many cases, direct selling opportunities develop into a fulfilling career for those who achieve success and choose to pursue their independent direct selling business on a full time basis.

Yourself

One of the major benefits of a network marketing company is that you are in business for yourself, not by yourself. To realize this benefit, you must sign up under the right person. Make a commitment to yourself that you will work hard and will not quit, and you could find network marketing success. If you truly desire to work for yourself and create your own life then network marketing could be for you. Remember that one of the main reasons why people join a network marketing company is for freedom.

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3 Main Important Parts of Network Marketing Business

Introduction

Network marketing business is made up of 3 parts and they are the distribution of products and services, the compensation plan and the company. Network marketing business is to find, sponsor, and retain. For many people, having home business network marketing is their only realistic hope of making an extraordinary income. And he basics of Internet home business network marketing is nothing but "duplicating yourself many times over. If you are one of those people who have always wanted to stay and be your own boss, the home business network marketing is just right for you.

Distribution of Product and Services

Here are network marketing business opportunity:- between 70-80% of distributors will "throw in the towel" in the first three months- over 95% never make it past the 12 month mark- almost 80% will not know the feeling of sponsoring someone into their business. So with statistics like that, why would anyone consider MLM. I know you have heard this before, but how many distributors continually think in the now and frustrate themselves when they don't achieve immediate results.

Many successful distributors have studied books on visualization and positive thinking and have attributed their success to having learned to reprogram their thoughts. As a beginner, you will have an easier time learning the business with a company that is established and has in place many tools and systems for supporting its distributors.

Compensation Plan

With a little planning and analysis, you can start a successful home business; millions of people are doing it everyday. As with anything else, when you are looking for this type of thing for your home business network marketing plan, proceed with caution. Home business network marketing has the same components of a marketing plan as any business. That’s another good reason to become involved in your community as you make your plans for home business network marketing.

There are many different types of network marketing programs and a vast array of products available through them. At the same time, some programs have restrictions on an individual. Most of the Internet marketing programs typically promote expensive advertising campaigns and buying costly ad packs, buying expensive leads, giving out costly print ads, etc.

Company

If you are doing this, thoroughly check out the company to ensure that theirs is a legitimate business. However, if you have chosen an MLM company as the primary focus of your home business there are a number of principles to be aware of when marketing it. You have to find out the company that is right for you, with good plan and getting started.


If you work hard you can make significant amounts of money every month once your network marketing business is on track. A network marketing business is a teaching and coaching business. Having your own network marketing business is extremely profitable and the secret to great lifestyle income with any network marketing business is to come upon something you can get really frenzied about.

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Network Marketing Success

Network marketing or mlm is a people-to-people business that can significantly expand your circle of friends and it is one of the few businesses that doesn't require employees, yet enables the owner to leverage his or her time by building a network of independent businesspeople. Network Marketing is based on the concept of "Networking". This system is really a team effort and it is all about building people.

Network marketing provides opportunity not only for earning but also for learning. Network marketing is one of the best places where you can find the opportunity to develop a winning mindset. But only those who are willing to learn can hope to benefit from this opportunity. Network Marketing is an often over-looked, home-based business opportunity that is open to anyone and in these current economic times, certainly worth consideration. Residual income affords you the opportunity to have time freedom and money freedom. They are their own boss and each one of these distributors understand that they have a ground floor opportunity to build an organization through the power of duplication. You are in the people business; your core opportunity is just the vehicle.

There's a common myth that network marketing is all about selling, so many people who don't see themselves as "salespeople" shy away from it. The truth is, most of the people who are a huge success in network marketing aren't sales types, and tend to be more introverted. As the networks widen, so the individual leader benefits not only from their own sales but also a percentage of the sales from their network. All the good organizations involved in this system provide plenty of support to its sales force. Network marketers who are serious about building a business should be reading and learning about business fundamentals, the latest sales and marketing techniques, strategies for networking and business development, etc.

Success or failure is not dictated by politics, race, age, background or gender, but always by results. Success requires a business owner to build a large network of people who buy and sell products/services and recruit others who'll do the same. Success in any type of business ventures comes with a host of personal factors which varies from situation to situation. Success in MLM is possible and it has been done. But success in networking isn't based on luck. It's a proven system where the design, creation and expense the corporate team has gone through becomes a road map for your own success. All successful network marketers use this technique to increase their effectiveness several folds. We are trying our best to bring relevant information and tools for your success on the Internet. The secret to success in Internet based network marketing is a simple duplicable system that anyone can follow·not just experienced networkers.

Network Marketing is not a difficult business but it is a serious business and one which is exciting to deal with. There's a common myth that network marketing is all about selling, so many people who don't see themselves as "salespeople" shy away from it. Though network marketing is an old concept it has got a real boost by the development of internet. Internet based network marketing is a rewarding business for those who can do it right.


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Online Advertising for Newbie

You're new to marketing online, and you need to find out what resources are the best for advertising. What is all the hype about this new trend of online advertising called Pixel Advertising? Emagazine advertising is one of the most popular ways to market yourself online.

Netsurfer became the proverbial canary in the coalmine that succumbed to the hazardous winds blowing across the online advertising market. Participating in online forums about online advertising is an excellent way to get new ideas for your online advertising and for new search engine optimization techniques that are effective as the search engines change their ranking rules. Usually an unscrupulous competitor who wants to break a rival's bank, online "vandals" who get their kicks causing other people grief, or search engine advertising affiliates who want to earn fat commissions by racking up piles of bogus clicks.

The corollary to this law of web surfing behavior: Anyone who clicks through to your site via an online advertising link needs to know they've arrived at the right place as soon as they get there. So here it is, the first law of human web surfing behavior, which you absolutely must take into account when marketing your website: While surfing the web, almost everyone will hit the "back" button if they think there's a chance, they've come to the wrong web page. On the internet, your advertising through search engines, directories, email and other sources takes care of getting the visitors to your website, your "retail store" on the web.

You can overcome the advertising challenge by using the techniques outlined in Part I and Part II of what it takes to advertise your internet business. There are many different factors to consider in running an online business, but I think advertising is one of the most confusing for people to grasp and understand. Effective online advertising is based on matching the ad, or site, to people who are already interested in the products and services being offered.

For a home based start up, online advertising is a potent tool that can maximize visibility, drive traffic to the company’s website, up the sales and build a solid brand in the process. But, unearthing these online riches entails balancing the advertising content so businesses can make money while at the same time not alienating viewers who, up until now, have not been forced to endure institutional advertising in their online video clips. Though there is a wealth of techniques through which online advertising can be carried out, the most popular form at the present is through rich media sources.

Those were just a few of the many ways to do free advertising of your online business. Blogging is a technique that is becoming an extremely effective and almost necessary method of advertising your online business. The infrastructure that is necessary for online advertising can become quite pricy if one wishes to develop an elaborate set of advertisements and as such many small businesses shy away from online aspect of marketing.

The fact is that online advertising is really not all that different in principle from advertising in the rest of the world, as some of the truly successful Internet marketing gurus have pointed out. Google made a revolution in advertising introducing the contextual advertising models in their services AdWords and AdSense. Marketers needed new advertising models so they started making ads using Flash.

So how do you keep online advertising traffic from bouncing? The affiliates can build their site and generate extra traffic by advertising their whereabouts through the numerous options available to online users. Article writing is one way for online businesses to create exposure to their products without the need of spending money for the production of advertisement clips that are more often than not, left unnoticed.

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