Posts Tagged ‘362’

The Lost Art of Forum Etiquette

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Marketing using forums is a slowly rising traffic technique used today. The benefits are great and simple to get. They are, at least, if you know what’s expected of you at any given forum. While they’re all different in their own way all forums will follow the same basic rules. Somewhere between the 1990s and now this knowledge seemed to have been lost. This is even more apparent for online marketers, some who have never used a message board before. What also has been lost is forum etiquette. It seems online marketers are the biggest group of people that don’t seem to know about or understand this, as most of it is unwritten, until now. (more…)

Know Your Marketing Territory

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

When you market your business, this is one of the many things that you should do to effectively create an ad campaign such as your brochure printing – you need to define your marketing territory or your target market.

Target marketing is focusing on a particular target or niche that has a need for your product and service, and then creating your ad, your full color brochures for example, to answer their specific needs and issues. Your target market then is your potential buyers who require your product or solution and would actually buy from you. Your target market is often made up of smaller groups who have the same needs, problems, issues, experiences and interests.

So who is your target market? They are the ones who ‘want to buy’ from you because they know that your product or service is essential to their lives. (more…)