Mar
10How E-commerce Sustains Hope In A Bad Economy
Filed in: Affiliate Programs by Michael Kowalski on 03-10-10
In 2006 the Internet was second only to television in capturing adult media attention. By late 2008 almost one-third of all Internet users were age 55 and up. These changes, from a younger persons media to a more accepted mainstream media for everyone, means more purchasing power is available to the internet retailer. With the growth in the numbers of older adults using Internet services, escalating gas prices and a more firm movement towards Green, on-line shopping and the many Shopping Carts available to buyers today will only fuel its popularity and use. Although demographic research suggests that the higher the family income, the more likely they are to use on-line shopping, the above trends will no doubt start to affect that as well.
Statistics recently available through eMarketer suggest a 65% growth in US shopping over the internet between 2008 and 2013. In raw numbers this means a jump in US dollars from $133 B to $203 B. In Canada the growth from 2007 to 2012 is expected to equal these percentages with the Canadian dollar value rising from $13.8 B to $22.8 B. From a strategic perspective any company not doing business over the internet today is disadvantaged. However, the growth forecasts also mean that if your not in the game today by no means are you too late either.
Although it is easy for anyone to fall victim to the negativity surrounding today’s economic reality, our world is still full of opportunity if we know where to look. The availability of the Internet provides each of us with a worldwide audience ready to see what we have. And the presence of Internet e-commerce or Shopping Cart technology means all of us are just one step away from building our own personal safety net. Multiple income streams are a reality for anyone with an idea or product and the determination to spend the time to understand how it all links together. And even if you don’t have a product of your own, the availability of many excellent Affiliate Programs allows anyone with a web site to use another’s products or services to generate an income as they start up and nurture their own idea. The Affiliate Program is also an excellent way to understand the mechanics of the internet and shopping cart technology while you grow your idea.
One of the impacts of the internet is a shift away from traditional paper based advertising methods to the internet. The associated higher costs associated with paper based advertising and the sharp eye on cost containment by financially weakened businesses is accelerating this trend. Other Social Advertising media such as Face Book, U-tube, Twitter and more are also available and their low or no cost access ads to the digital draw. Here’s why. Despite what we hear on the news about the economy we can loose sight of the fact that it is not bad everywhere. Look hard enough and you will find a bright spot, areas that continue to thrive; areas were people are still buying. The internet’s world wide reach means you can always gain access to that market. And as these markets of opportunity change and shift with new realities your internet and e-commerce presence means you will always be there for them when they decide to look for your product or service.
Regardless of any economy there are always people wanting to buy today and people looking to gather information to purchase later. If your product and website are convincing enough and your e-commerce solution easy to use then you will get the now buyer. But the shoppers need to be convinced. Therefore, any good shopping cart will have a capability to stay in touch with the shopper. The wise internet seller can source other technologies that can work with their shopping cart and e-commerce programs to deliver on-going campaigns keeping your prospects up to date and interested in your products and services. This means they don’t have to constantly surf your site to see when a sale or other special is on. For an example of a company with an excellent marketing campaign technology check out www.AutomatedMarketingSolutions.com. The social networks such as Face Book, U-tube and Twitter are also excellent ways to build rapport and credibility with future buyers so that when it does come time to buy, your name and product are at the top of their mind. These media provide excellent ways of measuring the reception of your products and services and gauging the readiness of the public for an idea you may have. Therefore, don’t limit yourself in how you reach out to your current and future prospects and customers.
The last two years have not been kind to large companies and some of their outdated practices have given rise to significant animosity. Ill mention AIG and let it go at that. However, we can still learn from them. For example, a February 2009 report suggests that CMOs or Chief Marketing Officers, in their list of Top 10 Priorities for 2009, list the integration of their traditional media and marketing programs with internet services as number 2. There are obvious advantages of doing this and they include reduced costs and overhead in the marketing departments. For the entrepreneur and the small to medium business these same benefits accrue. An on-line enterprise combined with an e-commerce capability, if properly thought out and marketed, can be the key to a second income and additional peace of mind. It could be a stepping stone to a whole new business. As with everything else in the world however, how effective we are in using these tools to attract, convert and retain will differentiate us and our success.
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Mar
09Unique Article Marketing- Strategies That Get Results
Filed in: Uncategorized by Todd Harmons on 03-09-10
This particular lesson will focus on unique article marketing. I will cover two very important areas of unique article marketing. If you are serious about article marketing submitting unique articles is a must. If you just submit the same article to different sites you’re articles will not be as effective or get the traffic you could achieve with unique articles. Read on for my simple but very powerful tips.
What is unique article marketing? The answer is quite simple. It is simply unique articles to the article directories. Simple enough right! Well you came to this article marketing lesson site to learn more than that! Unique article marketing is simple but it is a bit more than just submitting unique articles. Let me back up a bit.
Unique articles must not be essentially the same article with just a few words changed. It must be more unique than that. The search engines will easily detect if you’re articles are basically the same. Here is where you must write your articles with unique content.
Your article titles must be unique. This is very important. I strongly suggest a keyword tool to help you put keywords in your article titles. There are many free keyword tool sites and some that charge a fee but they are well worth it. You can have a great unique article but your readers must be able to find you. I also suggest long tailed keywords. They are more effective most of the time because the competition is so stiff for the top keywords. The main point make each title relevant to your article and include different keywords in each title.
Here is another key unique article marketing strategy. Maake articles at least 30% unique. Simple enough. It will take longer to make your articles unique but well worth the time. When your articles get submitted you may have different ones show up in the search engines. How awesome and would that be. Imagine seeing multiple domains near the top of the search engine
Last but not least is a often overlooked unique article marketing tip. You must and I repeat you must make your resource boxes with unique content. By this I mean use different keywords and domain names in them. What this means is to insert different domains related to your articles in your resource boxes. When you do this you will help the different domains get backlinks which will drive your sites higher up the rankings.
I want to thank you for reading my unique article marketing lesson. I also recommend using article submission software that will submit your articles to the directories in unique content format. I also suggest not mass submitting your articles to hundreds of sites overnight with these services. A recommended submission of 10-20 unique articles a day may get you fantastic results. I use the Unique Article Wizard because it makes my articles unique, submits them to hundreds of article directories, and also gives you the ability to submit your articles in a natural way to the number of sites you select daily. The Unique Article Wizard helps my websites build authority in the search engines which helps me generate more traffic.
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Mar
08Partying And Selling Gold At The Same Time
Filed in: Uncategorized by Winston Forsythe on 03-08-10
If there is any commodity that people dream of trading nowadays, it is gold. This is because it is the only thing in the market that maintains a stable high price. This has prompted traders to aggressively search for persons to make an exchange with. If you happen to meet one, the price they will give is good enough to make your decide to sell gold to them.
Most of these traders do not go knocking on people’s doors to find out people who are interested in selling gold. The most probable thing that you can do is to go to their shops and offer to sell scrap gold to them. Therefore, if you want to make money out of this deal, you have to make an effort of going to them first.
Fortunately, that method is no longer the only option you can have in selling gold. You can now just host a gold party in your own place. If you want, you can have it at another place but you just have to make sure that it is a bit private. This is certainly one way of having fun while selling your gold items.
Of course, to make your gold party fun, you need to invite as many friends as you can. You will have to make sure that these are friends who can actually join the activities that are held in gold parties. This means that they have bring with them pieces of golden jewelry too. Otherwise, they will find themselves out of place.
This event cannot succeed without a gold party expert. He needs to be there before the first guest arrives so that he can arrange his equipment and tools. As the party proceeds, guest can have him evaluate their jewelry of gold. When this is done, they can have the option sell gold.
You have the responsibility of making the party as fun as possible despite of the trading that is happening at the same time. Gold parties may have some serious side because of the trade but these should not overwhelm the enjoyment factor. The party should not, at any point. become a marketplace for gold.
As you sell gold during the party, you do not only enjoy. You also line your pockets with money. The guests can also have opportunities to do the same when they sell scrap gold in the manner done in gold parties.
Gold parties are really new ways of having fun. These are so new that it is normal for people to have second thoughts about its benefits. Allow yourself to learn more about this first. Take time to talk with companies that do business through such events and know how to sell gold while enjoying cocktails at the same time.
The author has been selling gold and instructing others to sell gold for several years. By understanding how to sell gold through non-traditional ways like holding a gold party, selling by mail, or selling scrap gold, you can actually make more cash. Get informed about the best practices and make money from your old or scrap gold.
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Jan
23The Keywords That You Need For Your Business
Filed in: Affiliate Programs, Affiliates by Christopher Rom on 01-23-10
An Internet advertising model used on websites that use a Pay per click (PPC) system is when an advertiser pays the marketer only when their ad is clicked. An advertiser will typically bid on keyword or keyword phrases relevant to their target market. Content sites commonly charge a fixed price per click rather than using a bidding system. The first step is to decide your budget and the level of risk you are willing to take. These aspects will help you determine which PPC search engine(s) you ultimately choose to start with. The larger search engines have a less risky endeavor, because they have an excellent coverage and offer a lot of assistance to their users. But they are the most expensive in terms of how much money you must spend to acquire a visible ranking.
Thee amounts of money an advertiser pays search engine and other Internet publishers for a single click on its advertisement that brings one visitor to its website is called Cost per click (CPC). This seeks to drive a high volume of traffic to one site, PPC implements a so called affiliate model that will provide purchase opportunities wherever people may be surfing. It does this by offering financial incentives (in the form of a percentage of revenue) to affiliated partner sites. The affiliates provide purchase-point click-through to the merchant. This is considered a pay-for-performance model so if an affiliate does not generate sales it represents no cost or loss to the merchant. Variations include, banner exchange, pay-per-click, and revenue sharing programs. The second step is to choose your keywords.
With fierce competition for specific keywords on a given PPC search engine. Most PPC search engines automate the bidding process for you, but personal involvement and the careful use of third-party tools by the user is advisable to ensure that the tracking mechanisms built into the search engine’s control panel are in sync with what is actually happening. The general rule was that the business that bid the highest amount of money for a specific keyword would be ranked first, the second would be second, etc. An element called “quality score” has become the determining factor for PPC search engines to limit the number of PPC ads on a results page to less than 10, and unless you are in the first 3 or 4 of the PPC ads, you are much less likely to be visited by visitors.
The simplicity can be deceiving. You can set up a PPC on a search engine with only a few steps and get results that will satisfy you, but if you want to milk all that you can from the PPC method of advertising, you need to be prepared to take advantage of every option and every advantage available to you. You need to investigate the details of the programs you are taking part in, keep an eagle eye on your bids and the performance of your ads, and spend time keeping up with the latest changes in the search engines to ensure your money is placed where it will do the most good. It takes time and effort, but it is not rocket science – at least not yet!
Utilizing PPC ads on your websites will display an advertisement when a keyword query matches an advertiser’s keyword list, or when a content site displays relevant content. These advertisements are known as sponsored links or sponsored ads and will appear adjacent to or above organic results on search engine results pages, or where an advertiser chooses on a content site.
There are many PPC providers that exist, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the three largest network operators, and all three operate under a bid-based model. Cost per click (CPC) varies depending on the search engine and the level of competition for a particular keyword. There are plenty of free, independent tools available to help you research keywords. Many will also reveal current bids for specific words or phrases on different search engines.
The most popular PPC search engine is Google; their PPC advertising program is called AdWords. The next most popular search engines are Yahoo!, MSN Live, and Ask. A large number of other search engines offering PPC advertising opportunities are available – ranging from metasearch engines that incorporate traffic from numerous other engines and online sources all the way to small, niche search engines that specialize in one or more categories or topics of interest. Here at PPC Universe, we have included reviews of what we consider to be the Top 10 Search Engines, as well as a section of reviews of other search engines that offer paid advertising opportunities.
Being a recent phenomenon with many online business owners not understanding the meaning of the term “pay-per-click advertising,” and they don’t realize its enormous potential for increasing their online presence and bringing more traffic to your website. A PPC’s listings on a search engine results page typically consists of a title, which is usually a short heading (around 50 characters maximum) and/or a long (typically no more than 200 characters) description of your service with some type of promotional wording, as well as a link to your website. Even those who understand basic search engine marketing techniques sometimes blunder when making the distinction between pay-per-click ad campaigns and organic search engine optimization.
The third step is the composition of the headline that will appear on the search results page, and a description of your product or service, or other promotional text. Pay-per-click (PPC) search engines are those that offer a marketing option to the users. PPC advertising is the placement of a small ad on the search results page for a specific keyword or keywords in return for a specified payment when a visitor actually clicks on the ad. Advertisers pay nothing to appear on the results page per se; they only pay the amount they have agreed to (or bid for) when someone actually clicks on their ad and is taken to the landing page on their website. The term “pay per click” means just what it says each advertiser pays you each time a visitor clicks on the ad.
Next, you must open an account with a PPC search engine. Be prepared to supply your name, company name, address, phone number, email address, and so on. As a rule, opening an account is free. No charges apply until you have bid on the search words you want and have funded your account. Be sure to read the fine print in any of the agreements you choose as to be clear on minimum deposits required, as well as what happens to your deposit if you decide to cancel your campaign. The normal deposit for a PPC ad campaign is usually between $20 and $60. Some search engines will even give you a nominal amount of money as a bonus to begin your campaign.When you first register the keywords you have chosen with the search engine you must specify the maximum amount you are willing to spend for those keywords. The price of a keyword can range anywhere from 1 cent to a few dollars or more depending on its popularity as a search term.
With competition so fierce, most PPC search engines do not require a minimum amount of money be invested in a campaign, some will even give you a nominal amount of money to begin your campaign. Some may require a deposit, but this money is then applied to your account. Be sure to check out the fine print in the agreement to be clear on minimums required, deposits required, restrictions when you cancel your campaign. But most of you need to spend a fair amount of time monitoring your campaign, especially in the beginning.
With more and more people looking online for information about products and making more purchases online than ever before, getting the potential client early on takes on even more importance. The highly relevant PPC ads results on the first search engine results pages will be a prime source for conversions and sales. PPC ad programs are becoming easier for first-time advertisers online to understand and use. The programs are flexible, can handle anything from one keyword to thousands of keywords, offer an array of bells and whistles, and come packaged with analytic and reporting options that range that are simple with some parts more complex for the novice.
Since you have become knowledgeable of the basics of PPC and have learned more about the options, tools, and search engines that offer this form of marketing, you will be in a position to fine tune your campaigns and perhaps try some of the niche-market PPC search engines that can offer lower keyword costs and may be more suited to your product/service. Even companies with experience in online marketing struggle with the intricacies of the techniques needed to judge which PPC search engine to use and how best to play the bidding game. Each campaign is different and depending upon the bid amounts, number of actual click-throughs and the Return on Investment (ROI) generated.
If you decided to give pay-per-click advertising a try, to start you need to choose a search engine on which to advertise. Different search engines will offer different advantages and disadvantages and the amount of risk you are willing to take depends upon your needs. It’s not too difficult to begin to consider and evaluate the usefulness and efficacy of PPC advertising for your own products and services. The rewards can be good and the risks can be minimized as long as you check out the keyword research. It is definitely worth consideration for any online business today.
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17Buyer Beware: Green Energy
Filed in: Affiliate Programs, Affiliates, Membership Sites by Robert Holdsworth on 01-17-10
Buyer Beware – Using Power Factor Correction and Transient Voltage Surge Suppression to Reduce Energy Costs.
Today’s energy conscious climate has motivated many to do what they can to become more efficient and conserve energy and money. Unfortunately this same climate has prompted others to take advantage of unsuspecting consumers’ wishes to save energy and reduce expenses.
Companies that tout power factor improvement (kVAR correction) and transient voltage suppression are a good example of this bad trend. Lately we are seeing more and more of these companies cropping up and feel it is time to set the record straight.
First, transient voltage surge suppression (TVSS) plays a valuable role in improving power quality to protect sensitive equipment inside a facility. However, TVSS does not save energy. TVSS’s are only active a tiny fraction of a second to protect against voltage surges which only last for less than a millisecond. To actually reduce energy consumption the TVSS would need to actually cut power consumption for an extended period of time which is not what they are designed to do. Again, TVSS is important to protect sensitive electrical equipment but buyers should avoid vendors promising, or even guaranteeing, that they will reduce energy consumption.
Now what about vendors who claim that improving power factor will save 15% or 20% or 30% of energy consumption and corresponding cost? This one is a little trickier.
For residential applications, power factor does nothing to save energy because the typical home already has an average power factor of about 0.97 which is almost the perfect power factor of 1 or unity. In addition, the device (called a capacitor) is placed at the main circuit breaker. According to IEEE 5.5.3.3 capacitors must be situated at or near the respective inductive loads to reduce power system losses by reducing heat and distribution losses known as I2R losses.
So what about commercial and industrial facilities using power factor correction to reduce energy costs? It is perfectly appropriate for a company that is incurring penalties or a kVA billing structure from the utility company to improve the facility’s overall power factor by employing a capacitor bank at the main service entrance or individual capacitors at or near the respective motor loads. Doing so will eliminate the power factor penalties and/or reduce the kVA demand charges on the utility bill which can save significant money and provide a significant ROI on the investment.
But what about power factor correction reducing kWh consumption? IEEE also tells us that I2R losses only account for 2 to 5% of the total load in a facility. Simple math tells us that it would be against the laws of physics to get the 15% to 30% energy reduction claimed by some vendors. Think about it. Even if your facility had 5% distribution losses and you could correct 100% of the problem via power factor correction at every load (which can’t be done) you would still only save 5% at the most. No where near the claims of some capacitor vendors and manufacturers.
All that said, power factor correction when done properly will eliminate utility penalties and kVA demand charges, improve facility power quality, increase electrical system capacity, and save a little energy when applied to the appropriate motor loads.
So make an investment in transient voltage surge suppression and power factor correction when appropriate and necessary. But caveat emptor!
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17Don’t Lose Your EPAct 2005 Tax Deductions
Filed in: Affiliate Programs, Affiliates, Membership Sites by Robert Holdsworth on 01-17-10
Many businesses have implemented energy efficiency measures in their facilities over the past several years to help decrease operating expenses and aid the local and global environment. What a lot of these companies do not know is that sizeable federal tax deductions are available to them and also that time may be running out.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) provides generous, immediate tax deductions to businesses for making energy efficiency improvements to their buildings. The federal tax incentives center mainly on efficiency improvements to lighting, HVAC and building envelopes and can be as large as $1.80 per square foot.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extended Section 179D and EPAct 2005 so the act will not expire until December 31, 2013. However, that does not mean that time may not be running out for some companies.
For businesses that implemented energy efficiency projects in 2006 it is probable they filed their tax returns before April 15, 2007. If they were unaware of the deductions at that time, they are now at risk of losing those tax deductions forever since the IRS only allows a three year period to amend tax returns.
That means if you have not yet amended your 2006 tax return you have only a few months left to do so!
As an electrical contractor working with commercial and industrial customers you certainly have been thinking about ways to increase your sales and likely how to better utilize your current book of business to that end. You have also most likely been approached by your current customers asking what they can do to reduce their energy costs.
Have you thought about a strategic partnership with an experienced engineering firm that specializes solely in turnkey, energy cost reduction projects on a national level? One that can bring whole facility energy solutions to the table for you and your customers? A company that can provide a fast payback and increase cash flow for your customer?
Bringing in such a company will grow your business as you will be the one who is sub-contracted by the engineering firm to provide the installation services under their management and direction. You can use this approach over and over again with all of your customers and doing so will not only increase your revenues exponentially, it will also transform your customers’ impression of you from simply another vendor to that of a valued consultant.
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12The First Decisions A New Affiliate Needs To Do Is Choose An Affiliate Network.
Filed in: Affiliate Programs, Blogging, Make Money Online, Work From Home by Christopher Rom on 01-12-10
The first decisions a new affiliate needs to do is choose an affiliate network. You will want to find a network with a good range of product choices, decent commissions, good support and easy to use. Founded in 1998 and has now grown to over 12,000 digital product vendors and over 100,000 active affiliates. Processing over 26,000 transactions daily, and averaging over 700,000 unique visits a month, Clickbank has grown into a major player in the affiliate network market.
Your first look you will notice that everything is straight forward requiring only basic address and contact information. The advantage for affiliates is the requirements when you first sign up. Not requiring pre-approval like many networks, With Clickbank anyone can sign up and start promoting. This is great for beginners who are unable to point to an existing website or programs they are can promote. Clickbank also allows affiliates from over 150 countries to sign up – which is more then most. The first thing’s you will want to do is have a look through the Clickbank Marketplace. As I stated above Clickbank has thousands of products that you can choose from. However it is important to take your time in choosing which one to promote. While there are some really high quality products on Clickbank, there are also a lot of sub-par products that should be avoided.
One thing to do is check the “gravity” score of a product. The gravity is essentially a calculation that takes into account how many different affiliates have made a sale in this product in the past 8 weeks; the higher the number the better. Most affiliates recommend that you aim for a gravity of at 30 or more. In addition to the gravity, there are a number of other statistics for each product – these are; * $/sale: This is the average amount that an affiliate earns for each sale of this product, including refunds, charge backs, and tax. * Future $: The average amount an affiliate will make from recurring billing of a single sale after the initial purchase (recurring billing only). * Total $/sale: For one-time purchases, this number is the same as $/sale. For recurring billing products, it equals the average total of the initial sale plus all re-bills, divided by the number of initial sales.* %/sale: Commission rate * %refd: This is the percentage of sales that were referred by affiliates. All this information gives you a snapshot picture of the products – how much you are likely make and how competitive it is.
Clickbank has a straight-forward tracking system – there are two kinds of affiliate links you can use; encrypted or standard. Clickbank also has encrypted HopLinks that hide the vendor ID and affiliate ID. Understandable you may want to hide your affiliate ID, but a redirect is a much cleaner way to bring clients. Also it’s important to remember that if someone buys through your link, you affiliate ID will be visible on the payment page. Some merchants set up more sophisticated set-ups for their affiliate programs through Clickbank. Most affiliate marketers recommend setting up affiliate links in the original un-cloaked format. This is just a personal preference, but it is way easier to troubleshoot any problems if you can see what the code actually is!
Clickbank pays out commissions every two weeks. One advantage of Clickbank is that you can choose the payment starting point which can be set to as low as $10 – so there is no waiting around if your $1 below the threshold. Payments can be posted by check or direct deposit is available to United States and includes 17 other countries . However in order to qualify for direct deposit you have to receive three paper paychecks within any 12 week period – which can be frustrating at first, but once you qualify you’re set. Commissions on Clickbank are generally good with many over 50%. This means you are rewarded for your efforts in other words if you work you get paid.
Now because Clickbank is also a payment network, they process the payment of sales, Clickbank is considerably good at preventing fraud. Merchants aren’t able to try and trick you out of sales (unfortunately this does happen) because Clickbank gives you your cut straight out of the payment. The best advantage of Clickbank is how easy it is to become a merchant. They provide good support material and it’s not expensive to get started. While this might seem out of reach for beginners, you’d be surprised how easy it is to create a product and start selling it.
Now Clickbank has an extensive Help Center, with frequently asked questions and informative articles that cover most of the information you need to know to start your affiliate business. There is also a video library with useful video tutorials and a frequently updated blog that provides up to date information, news and advice. In addition they do have a contact form for direct requests.
One downside Clickbank has no direct way to contact the merchant unless the merchant provides contact details. However most merchants will have affiliate pages on their site – usually located at www.merchantsitename.com/affiliates, so I recommend looking through their site and seeing if there’s any affiliate resources.
So Clickbank is a great network, with simple and easy to use system, easy sign up and good support. While there are a few things that could be improved, overall Clickbank is a really accessible network that should be perfect for people first getting started in affiliate marketing.
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11Marketing Research Characteristics Are Fundamental To Your Online Work
Filed in: Affiliate Programs, Blogging, Make Money Online, Work From Home by Christopher Rom on 01-11-10
Required at all the stages and the process is methodical and systematic is marketing research. So systematic planning is in the procedures at each stage and need to be methodologically strong, well organized, and, and well planned in advance. Marketing research uses the scientific method in that data are collected and analyzed to test prior notions or hypotheses.the underlying principles and rules of organization of a philosophical system
Research is objective when used for marketing. Research attempts to provide accurate information that reflects a true state of affairs. It should be conducted honorably. While research is always influenced by the researcher’s research philosophy, it should be free from the personal or political biases of the researcher or the management. Research which is motivated by personal or political gain involves a breach of professional standards. The motto of every researcher should be, “Research it and tell the truth.” The objective nature of marketing research underscores the importance of ethical considerations.
This research involves the identification, collection, analysis, and circulation of information. Each phase of this process is important. You need to identify or define the marketing research problem or opportunity and then determine what information is needed. All of the information and recommendations are then provided in a format that allows the information to be used for management decision making and to be used directly to check the flow of your web site traffic. It should be emphasized that marketing research is conducted to assist management in decision making and is not: a means or an end in itself.
* Qualitative marketing research – generally used for exploratory purposes – examples include focus groups, in-depth interviews, and projective techniques * Quantitative marketing research – generally used to draw conclusions – tests uses random sampling techniques so as to infer from the sample to the population – examples include surveys and questionnaires. * Ethnographic studies -, the researcher observes social phenomena in their natural setting – examples include product-use analysis and computer cookie traces. * Experimental techniques -, the researcher creates a artificial environment as a control to try to control spurious factors, then manipulates at least one of the variables – examples include purchase laboratories and test markets
One research design is often used more by researchers. You may start with research to get background information, then conduct a focus group. Also you could do a full nation-wide survey in order to retrieve specific information for your client. Marketing information is observing the environment of your location and the competitions location. Small scale surveys and focus groups are low cost ways to gather information from existing and potential customers. Most secondary data (statistics, demographics, etc.) is available to the public in libraries or on the internet and can be easily accessed by small business owners.
Then you will need to provide primary and or secondary data (if necessary). Also analyze the Macro & Micro Economic data (e.g. Supply & Demand, Price change, growth, Sales by sector/industries,interest rate, number of investment/ divestment. Checking the marketing mix conceptions is next which are: Place, Price, Product,Promotion, People, Process, Physical Evidence and Political & social situations to analyze global market situation. Analyzing the market trends, growth, market size, market share, market competition, drivers of customers loyalty and satisfaction, brand perception, satisfaction levels, and current competitor-channel relationship analysis. Next you need to determine your market segment, target, forecast and market position.
Formulating the market strategy and investigating the possibility of partnership/ collaboration analysis of potential partners, evaluating business partnership. Combine the analysis with the SME’s business plan/ business model analysis, Business description, Business process, Business strategy, Revenue model, Business expansion, Return of Investment, Financial analysis Company History, Financial assumption, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Projected profit & Loss, Cashflow, Balance sheet & business Ratio,etc in order to get the right information for your business.
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