Sunday, May 15, 2011

Formidable Cross Channel Marketing

To increase effectiveness with your digital marketing campaigns , you must use cross channel marketing as a strategy. This means that you will be combining your social media strategies with your mobile text message marketing , for instance.

One strategy is using data from customer reports to identify trends that you can add to your market research. At this point, remember not to treat the data irresponsible. Or from a economic point of view. Try to engage your tribe by listening to them and getting good representative data.

Another approach to this is sharing apps on cell phones that promote social gaming activities .This helps to create an engaging atmosphere for the tribe to take part in and share and take action . There are apps that will help you create a custom app for your niche. You can foster competition among groups of friends or tribes that will lead to sharing and dialog. This will help to reinforce your brand to the tribe.

Creating effective mobile strategies starts with the realization that most retailers will have to refine their strategies. This means putting to use other channels such as social media and mobile messaging, because this will allow your tribe to use their smart phones to access and shop. Also, you can keep using your conventional form s of marketing a and public relations activities.

It seems to me that you should remember the old adage, content is king. If you remember this , you will increase your branding strength and allow for quick sale opportunities. Multichannel marketing is still in its infancy and so doesn’t really fit into a model yet. The model is still developing. Leveraging the channels at the same time is what its all about. Some experts think that retaining the human voice is and important part of this also because it will help you make the jump successfully.

Remember this if nothing else, you can't hide anywhere now. It's a digital world and that means you have to take advantage of it because your competition is.

Because of this your brand is out there for the tribe to yay or nay. One way to be sure the tribe is engaging is to make sure you are respectful of the human paradigm. Accentuate it . Make sure you retain that human touch feeling to your tribe by making sure that each touch is unique and distinctive. It shouldn’t sound canned to the tribe or anyone else. It needs to have a connection to the person and the company through some value oriented texts.

When all is said and done, without the human touch feeling , your audience wont follow you.

There are other platforms such as B to B or web analysis and many more that can be utilized for cross channel marketing to your tribe, but here we are concentrating using social media in conjunction with mobile messaging.

If the tribe is interested, maybe we can get more specific with the different social media platforms and how they are unique in this area.

Do you have a platform or strategy or tip you would like to opine about?

 

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Should You Look Into Bing Search Engine Optimization?

Why optimize for Bing? Especially when Google gets most of the traffic anyway? There are quite a few reasons, as it turns out. The Yahoo merger with Bing being the main one for Bing organic search optimization.. Here's a link for more info. Bing Search Engine Optimization It seems to me that the answer to this question is fairly obvious. And the answer is. we need all the help we can get.

Some of the parameters that Bing likes are similar to other search engines, strangely enough. For instance, it seems to be very important that your page title contains the key words that are relevant to the contents of your page. Also, try to make sure that your content has the same keywords as the title of the article. This will help to get your page to the top of the search engine for your keyword.

There's plenty more on the referred page, so I'll just pick a few things here that you can do.

Because Bing seems to be growing and developing, more Corporations should be looking at Bing as a way to stay in touch with their tribes. So this means they need to improve their site ranking with Bing.

Bing is now around about the 3rd largest search engine and that means they are taking a larger slice of the pie. It would do well to watch this one. Bing search engine optimization will become more important in the future.

As most search engines do, Bing seems to like a domain name that has a few years under it's belt. Since your ranking is higher you will get more organic traffic from Bing. More chances for the cash register to ring.

Lucky for me, Bing likes pages with about three hundred and fifty to five hundred words or so. Right in my sweet spot. And of course remember this, Bing seems to give more weight to the contents and title being relevant than other search engines do.

W3C Protocols are observed with Bing, so make sure that your HTML codes are accurate. If you need to validate there is a W3C validation service.

Creating a link to a page outside of your website will not result in a ranking penalty like some of the other search engines. It may still be best to limit the amount of external links though. Using no follow tags will alow you to have external links and not be penalized in some cases.

So after all of this , it turns out that content is still king. Just like th other search engines. Can you imagine that? This fact really hasn't changed much and probably won't. Quality content that catches your eye because it is unique helps you to energize your relationship with your tribe. The search engines also like to see quality articles that help them to decide if it is relevant or not. As usual, the more relevant it is, the higher your ranking.

Specific articles that avoid being to generic are the way to go. Accentuate a particular keyword and make sure that you show the relvancy.

This information holds true for most of the search engine optimization rules you have already encountered, but I would enjoy having some feedback. Let me know what you think.