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Articles from April, 2010

Letting Other People Pay for your Marketing

Friday, April 30th, 2010

This point is so incredibly important that ignoring it is fatal.

Look at it this way for a moment:

  • You do not build your own road but use the roads which are already built.
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  • Even if you are a car mechanic, and some real good engineer, you do not build your own car, but you have it built.
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  • When traveling you only put yourself on a bus/train/airplane/ship etc. that has pre-existing routes to your destination, you do not build a new vehicle and create a new route.

So why the dickens would you want to build your own marketing avenues?

Why not put your message on channels and media that are already in existence and which will carry your message for free or at the very least with very, very little money?

Here are a few examples on how to have other people and companies and organizations distribute your message for free or for little.
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A Home-made Video Gone Viral, Getting Over 56 Millions Views.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The boy in this video within a short period of time has become an internet sensation with his after-seeing-the-dentist reactions and has since been interviewed on CNN and the video has appeared on the list of top 50 internet videos on Times magazine.

This is the phenomenon of the vast acceptance of a message that is not trying to sell something, not trying to show that someone is an ‘expert’ etc.

This is just pure family fun.

So, as good students of marketing, what can we learn from this?

What kind of messages are you putting out in your marketing?

Are your current messages saying things like “Dr XYZ has 10 years of experience” or “We have state-of-the-art equipment” etc?
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The Futility of Spending Money and Time On Your Single Web Site

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

As I have consulted business owners on the subject of being found on the internet, I have found that there are many false hopes connected to having one’s nice corporate web site being picked up by Google or Yahoo under different keywords.

Those hopes of being found easily on Google under all kinds of keywords will never come true because your single web site is just NOT enough for Google, Yahoo and Bing to only feature your keywords and to display your one web site, and not considering your competitors’.

Plus Google will never ‘favor’ a site versus another. They have a strict criteria to decide which web sites get featured in the 10 spots of the 1st page and these 10 positions can change from day to day, as one web site might meet their criteria more than other sites and thus climb to the 1st page whereas another site might lose its position from the first 10 spots.

In conclusion, your single stand alone web site will never get you all the traffic you could get.

Even Microsoft’s main site does not come up under all software related keywords. If you Google “Office Software”, Microsoft’s web site does come up on the 1st page (among plenty of other competitors as well).

But type in “word processing software” and Microsoft’s site disappears from the 1st page.

It is already quite an accomplishment to many web site owners to appear on the 1st page of Google under their profession, such as a dentist in XYZ city showing up on the 1st page when someone types in “XYZ City Dentist”.

But how about if you could also appear when someone types in “XYZ City Teeth Whitening” or “XYZ City Dental Implants” ?

That would just mean inquires – by the truckload!!

Most local business owners draw from a 4-6 miles radius in terms of business area. Let’s say you draw from 6 different cities including your own.

But despite your best effort, you can only appear on the 1st page of Google under your own current city name with your profession.

Does that mean you are only getting 1/6 of your potential leads? Unfortunately yes!

For eg, a dentist in West Los Angeles may appear on the 1st page of Google when someone types “West Los Angeles Dentist”.

But when someone types in other city keywords like “Los Angeles Dentist” or “Beverly Hills Dentist” (say he also draws from Beverly Hills) his ONE web site will have a hard time coming up also on the 1st page.

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This dentist may win with 1 keyword “West Los Angeles Dentist” but he could not dominate Google or Yahoo with other city keywords.

The above impasse has frustrated many business owners and after spending quite some time and money already on search engine optimization and ‘redesigning’ and ‘re-developing’ their single web site, most people give up doing more on the internet.

Is there a more direct way to show up on the 1st page of Google without advertising and without spending more time to ‘revamp’ your current site?

Yes, there is. There are actually 2 ways.

One would be to have other large web sites that have traffic carry your messages, your web link and your videos in large quantities (thousands) so that Google will showcase you.

The second way would be to have more than 1 web site – the more the merrier. We suggest at least 25.

Before you start to feel apathetic about the amount of work that is needed to get all the strategies set up, talk to us about how to automate some of the processes and also how to have professional companies doing some of the work for you

http://unadvertise.com/newpatientsmarketing/?page_id=241

The more you educate yourself, the more you can dominate the internet game and leave your competitors in the dust!

Helmut Flasch

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