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Indextree Solutions to Key Marketing Challenges |
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By Lawrence Johnson
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Now that we've navigated our way through the whole "paid placement" and "natural rankings" maze of online marketing terminology, it's time to look at a few real-world challenges many businesses face in their marketing and advertising efforts.
In the simplest terms, you have places you want your business to go. Growth, increased sales, higher visibility, more Web site traffic-those aren't just admirable goals, they're business necessities in today's highly competitive marketplace.
Knowing where you'd like to get is half the battle when it comes to reaching your marketing goals. Along the way, of course, there are obstacles. We're here to help. Let's shed some light on some of the most common marketing challenges businesses face and how online marketing can serve as one of the most powerful, cost-effective tools in your marketing arsenal.
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The Challenge:
Who wouldn't? Companies that don't make increased sales their highest priority aren't around long. So, how can you generate more qualified leads for your sales team, especially in new markets?
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The Answer: There is simply no better means to attain increased leads, and increased sales, than online marketing. Your Web site's primary mission is to generate more demand for your products, and pay-per-click advertising is an excellent means of bringing customers to your site. With pay-per-click advertising, you can control the timing, targets and intensity of your campaign.
Here at Indextree, we'll not only lead you through the process of establishing a highly effective pay-per-click strategy, but we'll also help with the process of optimizing your site's key pages to improve your site's natural rankings with search engines.
Each piece of the online marketing puzzle can result in more traffic, more leads, more sales. Those beautiful words. Are we having fun yet?
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The Challenge:
Sure, your business is doing just fine. Holding steady. There's even some moderate growth. But everyone wants to expand—into new markets, perhaps. Or maybe it's time to take your mostly local business to a national level.
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The Answer:
Online marketing provides an unprecedented opportunity to grow your business. It starts with understanding your target markets and your competition. If it's not you, who's dominating your business segment online?
Through the wonders of pay-per-click campaigns, you can go after your audience geographically (called “geo targeting”), you can elevate and reinforce your brand, and you can build a deep understanding of the buying practices of your audience. Simply put, online marketing provides a hassle-free, inexpensive means to map out customer behavior, increasing your ability to reach and meet the needs of the people who matter most—your customers.
Online marketing gives your company a rare opportunity to measure results and adjust your campaign to maximize your returns.
Of course, any good online marketing campaign also includes strong lead management, as well as the development of targeted Web portals and landing pages. An orchestrated online marketing effort can serve as the jumping off point for exponential growth for your company. Translation: Expansion rocks.
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The Challenge:
Unlike the traffic that causes you ulcers during your commute, Web traffic is a decidedly good thing. You may have a great Web site, but it's a little like a Zen koan, “If one builds a great site but few are there to use it, is it really a great site?”
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The Answer:
Building traffic for a corporate Web site is one of the greatest challenges facing many businesses. Making a site easy to find is easier said than done. Once found, a site has to provide a reason for customers to do business, as well as a reason to return in the future.
Indextree can help do an in-depth analysis of what's working and what isn't on your site. Then we can bring you traffic. Qualified, measurable traffic. Without sending you into the red. Sound good? We thought so.
Your online toolbox to bring in traffic is virtually limitless. Paid placement provides immediate results, with the unique ability to optimize your campaigns based on keywords that yield the best results.
Again, getting customers to your virtual doorstep is just one part of the process. We can help you with lead management, too, to ensure you maximize the revenue you garner from your increased site traffic.
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The Challenge:
People in your business don't make snap decisions. They're thoughtful, deliberate, and often have to navigate a minefield of decision-makers to get to the buy. The ugly reality is that you can lose the business anywhere along the way.
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The Answer:
When it comes to dealing with long sales cycles, it's all about lead management. Lead management strategies allow users to access information they need at each stage of the buying cycle. At Indextree, we're lead management experts.
We can help you effectively attain and retain quality leads.
Lead management is as much an art as it is a business function. We can help you analyze your current lead management practices, then we'll help you take it up a notch.
We'll help you take a long, hard look at your Web site, too. Improve your lead management with improved navigation, content, calls to action, landing pages, feedback mechanisms and a sales lead hand-off procedure that treats the customer like the valuable corporate asset they are.
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The Challenge:
Again, who doesn't have a limited budget? Even Sumner Redstone and Bill Gates have limited budgets. So, how do you make the most of what you have?
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The Answer:
Search engine optimization is a dream come true for companies with a limited marketing budget. With a few straightforward steps, your site pages can be improved for both your customers and for search engines (thus increasing your natural search results).
Seeing the results of page optimization might take a little time (usually several weeks), but the effort more than pays off in terms of higher rankings in key search engines. A higher search engine ranking can generate a significant number of new leads since such results mean getting a higher click-through rate and better conversion.
Low cost. High return. What could be more appealing? Page optimization is a lot like magic, except you don't need to clean up after the pigeons or white tigers.
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The Indextree Solution
Whatever the online marketing challenges you're facing, Indextree has solutions. Contact one of our online marketing specialists today.
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| Lawrence Johnson is the CEO of Indextree, Inc. |
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| Indextree helps manufacturers and distributors dominate their markets by designing and implementing winning lead management, online marketing, search engine optimization and pay per click strategies. Call 1.866.528.4924 to speak to an Indextree Online Marketing Expert. |
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