Friday, June 09, 2006

Be a Public Relations Specialist

Copyright: Earl Williams
http://www.NetMarketer.org

Home Based Internet Marketing Business

There are millions of people out there who have started their own home business through use of their computers. While their ideas are fresh and unique, and their business plan has great promise, owners may have trouble getting the word out about their services. Consider starting a home-based Internet marketing business to act as their “word of mouth”.

If your client’s business is a common one in which many entrepreneurs are exploring, your task is to make this business stand out from all the rest. For instance, if a consumer is looking for a web designer, they may punch in “web designer” on a search engine. Millions of individuals and companies will pop up. They will inevitably browse the first sight them come to on the list. You, as a home based Internet marketing business, can’t let this happen.

Develop a Web site solely dedicated to the services your client provides. If you are not familiar with site set-up, you may be forced to include fees in your contract that allow for you to hire a site creator. Include in this site pictures of the client, samples of his or her work, complimentary comments from former and present client’s clients, client’s educational and work background, service prices and special offers such as free consultations.

Include tons of articles that feature certain keywords in which a Google hunter would type in. For a web designing service, they could punch in web designer, web sites, graphic professional, inexpensive web site creators. Hiring a web content provider who will send you copy written by highly regarded writers containing these keywords would be a good alternative if writing time or skill is lacking within your home based internet marketing business. Hiring this kind of help will increase traffic to the Web site in which you have organized to promote your client’s products or services.

While it would be easy as a home based Internet marketing business to simply sit back and let potential customers find your client’s services on their own through the Web site, if you want to be the best, it requires a little more effort.

Another duty of a home based Internet marketing business is to actually reach out to potential buyers of customer’s products or services. This takes much effort and time, but the payoffs could be bountiful. If you send out 100 information e-mails to business owners who could benefit from your client’s services, chances are at least 10 replies will be received. The odds aren’t very good, but bringing in 10 new customers a day is a pretty successful endeavor. In these e-mails, include an offer for a free newsletter subscription, which will update the recipient on present and new services added, coupons for discount rates, links to the client’s Web site and an e-mail address to contact for more information.

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