To be effective in Atlanta online marketing a company must own their website, have valuable, fun, engaging, and often entertaining information about not only their products and services but also the surrounding Atlanta Georgia community features and benefits. Following these simple tips in this article will not only help the business to capture local area web traffic but worldwide global web traffic as well.
1) Add Local Community Links and Surrounding Area Features
Such as offering details of Atlanta area culture and cuisine through links to partnering website owners. This kind of link sharing allows businesses to feed off of each others advertising.
Caution should be used however to not get too detailed and have too many external links as you may wind up directing traffic away from your website. You want to have just enough to encourage the web visitor to see that your business is an active part of the Atlanta community.
2) Keep The Info On The Website Current and Updated
Regularly updating your website helps too in increasing your website traffic both locally and globally. Search engines love to see new information. Keeping your website from going "stale" by adding events, promotions, coupons, even just updating photographs will encourage visitors to check back more often.
Plus as already mentioned the search engines will love you for it!
3) Offer Ways To Engage The Visitor To Participate
One of the best ways to ensure a loyal and repeat visitor to your website is to offer a way of engaging the visitor into the website. This is easily accomplished by adding a blog to your website. Posting new blog posts and allowing your visitors to participate in the discussion by commenting adds a real personal touch to the business website. Plus the website owner or manager can be more relaxed and informal with their readers at the same time.
4) Add A Newsletter
Of all the things you can do for your website to gain traffic and increase your leads, signups, and sales offering a way to capture your visitor's contact information should be top priority. The absolute easiest way to do this is to simply offer a newsletter signup from the website.
Have someone in your company to create a short article once a month, distribute it to your newsletter subscribers along with any special notices, deals, coupons or alerts and you will see your website traffic begin to soar. Not to mention your leads and sales.
A newsletter is an excellent way to stay in contact with your proven paying customer base and prospective customers as well. Newsletters also offer the ability to remind subscribers of special events, sales, closeouts, and discounts too. The advertising power of a newsletter should not be over looked!
Simply put to be effective in Atlanta online marketing a company must own their website so they have the ability to control the content that is being made available to the website visitors. This website should have valuable, fun, engaging, and often entertaining information about not only the company's products and services but also the surrounding Atlanta Georgia community features and benefits.
Following these simple tips will not only help the business to capture local area web traffic but worldwide global web traffic as well.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Making The Most Of Atlanta Online Marketing For Your Business
Friday, March 26, 2010
Georgia Boy Self-Made Millionaire Vic Hutchinson Review
Seems these days there are tons of so-called self-made millionaires claiming to offer visitors to their websites training in either PDF, email, webinar, or video form for a set fee - usually an exorbitant charge of $2k or more. Most of the time the methods taught by these individuals is all theory and even though they offer to show you proof you never hear of anyone else who makes their fortunes with these trainings.
However once in a blue moon there comes out of the woodwork a true professional that can substantiate their claims and is willing to help others do the same. This is the case with a recent self-made millionaire georgia boy, Vic Hutchinson, that I recently met online.
Vic is a former ex-marine who after being leaving the armed services decided to pursue an offline/online marketing career instead of settling for a 9 - 5 job like the vast majority of ex-military do. His first ventures into the marketing world consisted of your typical offline network marketing schemes and matrices; of which he learned quickly that most of these turn out to be ponzi type schemes or setup so that the first in makes the money and the ones joining afterwards become the "cannon fodder."
Not to be deterred Vic continuing in the network and MLM world decided to try the online world in the same genre, soon to find out that nothing had changed except that the failures happened faster. He did learn a lot about marketing in general through these endeavors, and as he says in his current video trainings, "Some of these guys are geniuses and really know what they are talking about."
Having learned the basics of marketing the hard way Vic decided to venture in another direction by entering the How-to niche marketing world. Drawing on his previous experiences he soon began seeing $1000 and sometimes $10k sales days. Quickly he began to become a marketing leader with companies and products he promoted, but also he realized that the true money made online was from selling your own products, of which Vic started creating.
Struggling at first and eventually "figuring it all out" as he says, Vic along the way got into some aspects of self improvement and law of attraction type philosophies and decided it was time for him to share the wealth, or more precisely share his knowledge of what he had learned in the past 10+ years of learning to market online.
So in Oct of 2008 Vic Hutchinson decides to "come out from underground" as he puts it and launches his first ever Internet Marketing tutorial/training product "The Tank Method" This product consisted of a 5 part video training series that walked the student through setting up a website through Yahoo hosting and setting up a payment processor, Paypal, for receiving online payments for products sold from this website.
Included within this series of videos is a video Vic termed "The Marketing Miracle" because he delves into some of his self-help and law of attraction training for a brief lesson on how to truly be in the mindset of being successful. Finally in the last video Vic reveals how to setup an exact copy of the Tank Method website so the student can become an instant reseller with their very first product of their own online.
This is just the beginning though. The Tank Method is a product that the student can sell as their own, but the training stops there at getting the student's website online and functional. The next step is learning how to actually market this or really another other website and generate traffic and sales.
Until recently these trainings were by invite only through video series sets that Vic created and sold to only select few. In Jan of this year Vic decided to open up this training to the world by offering an initial set of free videos along with the offer to get further advanced training through his $1000 in 7 Days project. This has also been called the "Make $200 per Day" course by some individuals.
Now if you're still with me and reading this you might be thinking, "So what makes this different than any other Internet Marketing video training classes or courses?"
I don't know any other way to put it than just to say the difference is in the trainer Vic himself. Vic is a down to earth southern boy who speaks his mind freely during his trainings. In fact he is known to sometimes veer totally away from the training session and off into another world of thought all together. Usually though he can tie these ramblings back into the current lesson though so as not to just waste time needlessly.
The methods that Vic teaches are a variety of new and common techniques, but in each he adds his own spin on how to make them more effective. Recently I began testing one of his methods and to my surprise, even though the method was not new to me, using Vic's spin on it I made a sale in the first 48 hours of implementation. So this to me spoke in and of itself of how well the video trainings Vic gives are to being effective.
To conclude Vic Hutchinson is really a one of a kind individual, truly unique in his approach to both online marketing and his teachings of his techniques. He loves to talk and will crank out video after video on anything thats new or excites him about marketing or sometimes just life in general. Oh, did I mention Vic is a avid fisher? He loves to talk about spending time out on the lakes and with his family too.
Anyone that's looking for a new perspective to marketing online or just totally brand new can learn a lot from Vic. He definitely is willing to pour his heart and soul into his video trainings - that become evident from the very first one you watch.
For more information or to get access to some of Vic's free training click the link below:
Vic Hutchinson's $1000 in 7 Days Video Training
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