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New Internet Marketing Tools
Copyright © 2008 Titus Hoskins
New Internet marketing tools are coming online each
and every day. Why should you care? Mainly because these
new marketing tools can have a dramatic impact on your
online traffic, leads and sales. So much so, your
online competitiveness can greatly depend on you finding
and using these new marketing tools before everyone
else does.
And as Internet marketing grows more and more lucrative,
it is becoming more competitive each day, so staying
aware of what's happening has become vital to your online
success. More importantly, if you're a full-time marketer
like me, your livelihood will largely depend upon you
being able to keep on top of all the new ways of marketing
on the web.
With these considerations in mind, I would like to
list some new or relatively new marketing tools that
have been effective for me in my online marketing. Some
of these are marketing software, others are SEO strategies,
marketing tips and the like... all have helped me achieve
my online goals.
Here are some new marketing tools you can try:
1. Real Link Finder
Neil Shearing's "RealLinkFinder" is a handy
little link-building tool you can use to increase your
link popularity and SE rankings.
It lets you find targeted blogs that don't have the
"nofollow" attribute tag so your links will
count in all the search engines. Great way to build
targeted links related to your site's main keywords
or keyword phrases. This is one "No Cost"
link-building tool you should try: www.reallinkfinder.com
2. Peel Away Ads
Simple ads which sit at the corner of any webpage,
when a cursor hovers over the pulsating image - the
page peels away to reveal your ad or promotion. Might
seem a bit gimmicky, but like the pop-up or fade-in,
they do work. You do get more sign-ups and sales. www.pealawayads.com
3. Video Marketing
Using videos as marketing tools has now become commonplace
on the web. If you're not promoting with videos, you
are losing a large portion of the online traffic or
surfers currently on the web.
Even using videos to explain your site or product will
increase your conversions and sign-ups. Viral videos
embedded with your links or site url can produce results
when placed on YouTube or Google Videos. If you need
help, one recent commercial product has been from Simon
Grabowski (GetResponse) called TalkStream, which lets
you put streaming audio and video on your sites. Just
google to find it.
4. Social Media Bookmarks/Tags
One of the most significant changes in recent years
has been the rise in importance and use of social bookmarking
sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati... these sites
are now commanding huge traffic numbers and should not
be ignored in your online marketing.
You must connect your content with these sites. This
is very simple to do since social media sites use tags,
which are more or less simple keywords that help classify
content and links. If you're using the popular Wordpress
blog software, each category will be considered a tag.
You can create a simple tag in technorati by using
this code:
<*a href="http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]"
rel="tag">[tagname]<*/a>
<*a href="http://technorati.com/tag/new+marketing+tools"
rel="tag">new marketing tools<*/a>
Remove the *asterisks in actual codes.
5. Add this Button
One of the easiest ways I have found to tap into the
whole social media bandwagon is to put the Addthis button
on your webpages and let your visitors bookmark your
content for you.
This button is free and only takes seconds to set up
on your pages. In case you're wondering if this button
works, I recently received 70,000 visitors to one of
my sites in one day from these social media sites. Granted
most of this traffic is transitory and not permanent
- the huge traffic numbers will only last as long as
your links/bookmarks are on the front pages of these
popular sites.
But where there is smoke, you can make fire.
6. Blogs RSS Feeds
Likewise, you must have a blog and RSS Feed associated
with your site or product. It is vital that you take
advantage of this technology to get your content broadcasted
across the web and around the world.
RSS is only simple code that syndicates your content
to all interested parties; it originally stood for "Rich
Site Summary" and was a way of summarizing your
content and broadcasting it. Most people now refer to
RSS as Really Simple Syndication. You need a "newsreader"
or aggregator such as Newsgator, Google Reader, My Yahoo!
or Feed Demon to access all your feeds.
One little blog traffic tool I find helpful is John
Reese's BlogRush, which helps syndicate your blog posts
on other blogs. www.blogrush.com
7. Expert Marketing
Another effective way to market online or off is to
promote/prove yourself as an expert in your chosen field.
Creating articles, ebooks, websites on a subject that
interests you will make you an expert. Once you gain
credibility as an expert, your marketing will become
much easier.
Some obvious places to help build this credibility
would be Ezinearticles, SelfGrowth, Ideamarketers...
I have found these places are excellent for getting
your name and your content noticed.
8. Long Tail Niche Marketing
One of the most effective ways to market online is
to use long tail keywords in your niche market. This
simply means instead of targeting very general and very
competitive keywords, you target less competitive long
tail keywords in a smaller niche market.
I have found this tactic especially good for affiliate
marketing, and the trick is to find the exact long tail
phrase someone is using in the search engines and then
construct content/url to match it. I find Brad Callen's
Keyword Elite software program extremely helpful in
finding those long tail keywords.
9. Guru Fast-track
One of the fastest and quickest ways to earn large
amounts online is to hook up with big marketing GURUs
and use their huge contact lists. If you have a high
quality info product, then JVs (joint ventures) with
these savvy marketers can be a very viable option for
you to try.
These marketing gurus or experts are valuable marketing
tools you can use to your advantage. Granted, their
aggressive marketing methods do turn many people off,
but there's no denying their methods do work.
10. Micro-List Marketing
Micro-List Building is one of the most effective online
marketing tools you can use. Quite frankly, I have found
building a large opt-in list is not the real key to
online wealth but instead creating small micro lists
for each of your promoted products to be much more effective.
You can have hundreds, even thousands of these different
micro-lists. Use an unlimited autoresponder program
like Aweber to handle and manage all these lists.
Studies have shown interested customers may not buy
on the first visit, that it may take up to six or seven
reminders. So keeping in contact with an interested
customer, one who is looking and in the right mindset
to buy, will definitely increase your sales.
Here, rather then the hard-sell, the emphasis should
be on collecting contacts in order to give them helpful
informative content on the product they're interested
in buying. Supplying quality content should be your
main goal; let the selling take care of itself. If you
get the first part right, the sale will come naturally.
In conclusion, you must remember when dealing with
such a complex creature as Internet marketing, in most
cases there's no one single marketing tool that will
do the job. Instead you need a whole orchestra of tools
working together in order to make your online marketing
the most effective. So why not try some of these tools
in your own online marketing and see the results for
yourself. You have everything to gain.
Author: Titus Hoskins
The author, a former artist and teacher, is now a full-time
web marketer who regularly sells 1000's of dollars worth
of affiliate products/services each day. He owns and
runs numerous websites, including two sites on Internet
marketing. For the latest web marketing tools try: http://www.bizwaremagic.com
or http://www.marketingtoolguide.com
2008 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed
if this resource box stays attached.
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