Every business needs to examine its strategies to promote its website by looking at overall online visibility and its unique selling proposition. A new web strategy is often needed. A wedding jewelry and accessories site client was in their second year and sales were less that $200/mo, in about five months the site had $1700/mo in sales. On the organic side of our strategy, we built two business blogs, one on the bridal supplies side and the other on bridal jewelry side. Using our keyword research, we helped optimize the website and used the keyword phrases to build anchor links back to the main site's most relevant pages. After a couple of months, buyer traffic was entering the site from one of the blogs and buying. On the direct response web strategy we needed a strategy that had very low risk and put the client's site where there is a lot of traffic already. We suggested for $50 per month to join a data feed service that fed products into Google product pages, Bing shopping pages and another high traffic shopping portal. This put the business in direct competition with other sellers, but pricing and service are areas this business does well in. Much of the competition do not carry inventory and use drop shippers, basically all buying at higher costs from much of the same sources. Our client needed to simply capitalize on the fact that she bought direct, carries the inventory, and ships direct. Quality of merchandise is far higher and the client has a price advantage. A couple of new sources are planned to expand exposure, reaching more people who have intent to buy. Our goal is to multiply sales another five fold. We get that done and earn a bonus of partying in Napa Valley, wine country. That's something we are taking up the client's offer!
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Let's start with finding out how visible your online business is, and go over web strategies that would have the most impact first. It's what we call the 'helicopter view', an all inclusive snapshot showing where you are visible and where you are not. There is a set of algorithms that works out what top five actions must be taken in order to increase visibility the most. This prioritization is run monthly to show improvements and to work out the next five important actions that must be taken. In this methodical way, over the course of a year there are sixty top priority actions that have been taken, and this web strategy leads to a business that dominates its industry in social buzz and search.

As a business owner, you normally have to weigh the cost of getting a comprehensive search and social media report done, because it has to be performed by professionals with software that is not found 'on the shelf'. We have arranged to offer clients and potential clients the opportunity to have one all-inclusive-report performed for free, to help uncover what first five steps will have the most impact on improving an online business. In considering the overall positive impact of getting sixty actions performed over the course of a year, we have arranged a three month trial that is long enough to prove to business owners that increasing to an annual performance agreement is more than worth it.  Skype us at m.j.kristiansen or call direct 480.389.1042 and order a free all-inclusive-report on where you are visible and what to do next to gain greater visibility in search and social networks.   This is the type of report that corporations pay thousands for, and because of our partnerships, we are able to get this incredibly valuable information for you.
The major search engines have integrated social buzz into how an online business is listed in rankings. Social buzz has a lot of weight and if your business is not participating in social media marketing the right way, the future affects on your search listings can be devastating. Those businesses who have embraced social media are gaining top listings.

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marketing strategyGiving valuable information away freely can build a following.  As an integral part of website marketing, a blog takes time to build a mountain of valuable content that people eventually come to value, respect, and are willing to spend money on a recommended product or service. In starting up a client's customized business blog, we approach blogging as a fine cross between link building and working towards becoming a very good 'authority' site. The more passion in the content, the more likely to engage and develop a following. Most blogs are not going to hit it off big through ad dollars, but prove their value by providing in depth information that supports an ecommerce site where business does take place.  
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Website Strategies use Word of MouthNet More Now's website strategies take social search into account by integrating a network of web properties to work together.  Facebook and Bing's new social search looks like a great equalizer for Microsoft to gain serious search share from Google.  The changes Google has been doing are more in line with revenue gain than what they are passing off as better quality, with instant search introducing more long tail keyword phrase and Google Places and Shopping inserts in the middle of organic listings. They're trend seems to be forcing smaller online business off the first page, leaving no choice but to buy in through pay-per-click, which has its own quirks in pricing. Of course Google's claim is to arrive at 'fair' assessments of one website's relevance over another, and it's perfectly ok to tune the results for greatest revenue. The idea Bing has put out to be the future 'decision engine' is gaining traction while Google is fine tuning for greatest revenue at the risk of search share. Wouldn't it be great to have a crystal ball on how search and website marketing strategies are evolving just six months from now. Anyone can see that social search is trending upwards fast. Put the social into an online business, and two-way word of mouth between site owners and 'fans' can open up. It's alright to let go of controlled messaging for true and open communication. That is a great thing.
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social media marketingFacebook continues to change how fanpages are built, and that has an effect on social media marketing strategies. There are more changes coming that promise to make it easier for web developers and businesses who have graphics and html expertise. Third party software that develops applications for fanpages are doing their best to keep their apps working while Facebook changes the rules.

A great app provider is Involver, they provide a suite of applications for Pages, such as polls and coupons, and  tracking and publishing software that allows clients to share status updates, tweets on Twitter and other communications.

While most companies begin by focusing on building fans, they move to engaging the fans in different ways. Some monetize their fanpages, others encourage fans to visit their main site or blog. Some use polls and coupons to build on their email list in order to stay in front of their fans and convert fans into new and repeat customers.  We recently ran a promotion for new business fanpages by offering three types of coupons in reward for three different actions on writing on the company wall (www.facebook.com/mygirlfriendhouse).  This kept new fans on the facebook page and got them into participating.  Over 600 new fans joined in the first day.  Net More Now uses an all-inclusive website strategies program that integrates social media and search optimization into a network of web properties.

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