Customer
Experience Management(CEM)
Every month I try to write an article on creative, strategic or
newly tested Internet Marketing strategies. I have dedicated myself
to always exploring new ways to market. This always helps in gaining
an edge in an extremely competitive Internet market.
This
month I have been testing the effectiveness of creating a sound
customer experience through customer service oriented emails. I
am not using any CRM tools like Seibel, Right Now, Oracle etc...
I do not know what the customer bought, what they are thinking about
buying or if they are upset at the company. I am using some of the
methods I was taught in offline sales and customer management. I
worked at Circuit City, Rooms To Go, Brandsmart and City Furniture. I was a top 10 salesmen and in management. I had
excellent training in Customer Service Management especially with
Circuit City and City Furniture.
I experienced
success with a short email I wrote to customers who had been called
by salesmen repeatedly. These customers initial contact was from
filling out a form on the Internet. These were not customers who
clicked on a pay per click text ad. They were from standard or organic
search. Standard search customers has proven to be a higher revenue
customer in every research that has been done. But why do companies
and individuals still shy away from creating standard search engine
marketing campaigns.
The Customer Experience Management (CEM) theories
I will discuss in my next article. Today it is all about Search
Engine Marketing(SEM). I actually wrote this information
for a company I was working for. But it is great information on
Search Engine Marketing and I wanted to share or re-share with people
again. Everyone knows SEM is one tool in the Internet Marketing
mix. Just because you get a word ranked in the top 10 doesn't guarantee
success. There are still other variables involved. But getting ranked
high in the search engines is a hell of a way to gain traffic!
What is Search Engine Marketing?
Search
engine marketing is the art and science of achieving high rankings
in search engines and directories based on their dynamics and ever
changing search algorithms. Search engine marketers use proven techniques,
methodologies, technology, software and experience to gain search
engine visibility. Search engine marketing starts at understanding
the clients target audience and marketing goals.
Search Engine Marketing is NOT:
-
A $39 submit to 1500 search engines solution
- A cut and paste HTML page with meta tags
- Automated program submission
- A one size fits all marketing approach;
- A book and search engine software
- Re-wording your title, keywords and descriptions
- A one man create all operation
Having the most beautiful, interactive, or advanced website
in the world will not attract the visitors or generate the business
that you need to create a successful Internet business.
Although
no single marketing strategy is sufficient to build a long-term
business plan, when it comes to the Internet, ranking high in the
search engines searches is the Number 1 place to start. There is
no sense even attempting to do business online if no one can find
your web site.
Professional Search Engine Marketing Requires
-A
SEO HTML Editor
-An Algorithm SEO Specialist
-Optimal Search Engine Mix Research
-Website Architectural Strategy
-Utilization of SEO Applications
-Audience Query Language
-Website Traffic Behavior Analysis
-Critical Individual Manual Submission
-Search Engine Visibility Implementation
Top Research Companies Prove Search Engine
Marketing is #1
Everyday
millions of people use search engines looking for product or services
to buy. If your website is not in the top 20 searches you are losing
valuable customers and revenue. CyberAtlas reports
that 56 percent of Internet users don't bother looking through more
than two pages of results on search engines. The fact is your competitors
who are in the top 20 are taking your customers and revenue. The
smartest marketing campaign a company with marketing intelligence
can create is Search Engine Marketing. The importance of search
engine marketing is paramount to your website's long term growth,
increased revenue and competitive advantage.
ActivMedia Research reported the #1 marketing or promotional
tool used by top eCommerce websites is Search Engine Positioning
The top 3 Internet research companies Nielsen/Netratings,
Forester Research and NUA have reported overwhelmingly
that Search Engine Marketing is the #1 source for targeted search
engine traffic.
Jupiter Research reported Less than one-third of
marketers use agencies for SEM. Therefore, agencies must shift the
focus of their service offerings from planning and buying media
to measuring and optimizing campaigns. Keyword management and landing
page strategies present prime opportunities.
How Users Find Your Website?
Many
companies feel the best way to gain traffic to a website is through
TV, Magazine or Banner Ads but that is far from true. The
Meta-Group (Business Intelligence) reported that search
engine marketing is the best way to gain traffic to your website.
How Users Find Your Website:
Targeted Email 1%
TV Spots 1.2%
By Accident 1.4%
Magazine Ads 2.1
Word Of Mouth 20%
Random Surfing 20%
Search Engines 46%
The key is while you invest in other methods of advertising your
competitors are investing in search engine marketing. Your competition
clearly understands the tremendous advantage of search engine marketing.
Search engine marketing has proven to be the most cost effective
and targeted way of gaining qualified traffic.
Search engine marketing is extremely challenging. Improper marketing
techniques such as "bait and switch, cloaked pages and spamming
can result in the site being excluded from the major search engines.
Hiring an online marketing service requires the trust that the contractor
will accurately represent your business on the world wide web, will
bring traffic relevant to your business, and will use methods resulting
in long term ranking and success in the search engines.
Search engine marketing requires a minimum 3-phase process. Starting
with careful keyword relevancy analysis, competition research and
familiarization of the services/industry being addressed, the actual
optimization and coding of the web site and first submission is
just the beginning. In essence, the more pages you have in the engines
that are optimized for high keyword ranking, the better the chances
of a prospective client finding your website
The Benefits of Search Engine Marketing
•
Targeted Traffic
• Lifetime of Quality Prospects
• Increased Revenue
• Low Cost Advertising
• Excellent Return Of Investment
•Increase Revenue
Search engine marketing is only for serious companies who want to
increase revenue, gain qualified traffic, beat their competitors
and reduce advertising spending. These companies understand that
search engine marketing can create these opportunities. They also
understand that search engine marketing is not like a banner that
you can put up the next day and see traffic. It does take time to
achieve search engine ranking.
The Truth About Search Engine Marketing
What
are the challenges of a search engine marketer? If you search for
almost any keyword phrase there will be between 50,000 and 200 million
keyword results. A SEM's goal is to get your website ranked in the
top 20 in these searches. Everyday there are 1 million new websites
added to search engines that a SEM has to contend with. In addition
search engines constantly upgrade their search technology for better
more accurate user searching. Hence, these changes affects the algorithms
of website rankings and create additional challenges. Similarly
directories change guidelines for user search usability. SEM's have
to make quick adjustment sometimes daily to keep pages ranked.
For an SEM to achieve top 20 ranking in any search engine
is a monumental task. Simple submission software, meta-tag
adjustments and templated doorway pages are dinosaur methods to
achieve high rankings in the search engines.
It
takes up to 3 months to get ranked in some of the top search engines.
No two search engine search algorithms are the same. This means
each search engine has their own individual methodology of ranking
websites. This uniqueness makes search engine marketing extremely
challenging. Back in the day you could bulk submit to search engines
and get a top 20 ranking. Now search engines have their own technology
that bans this type of submission and can potentially ban a website
for life.
Banners and Pay Per Click vs. Search Engine Marketing
Banners, Pay Per Clicks, Pop ups/unders, Sponsored Links, Google
Ad Words, MSN AD Center,Yahoo, and Newsletter advertising
are great forms of advertising that can cost a lot of money and
potentially create a low Return Of Investment.
SEM
is one of the best investments for marketing your site on the Internet.
The top research companies have reported this information for years.
So please make sure you create a sound lifetime strategy for SEM.
I guarantee you will find it one of the most cost effective ways
to reach your goals.
Please feel free to email this to your friends or place on your
website.
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Trent Partridge is an Internet Marketer/Photographer/Music
Producer. His Internet Marketing techniques include SEO,
PPC, article marketing, blog, link management, viral, desktop, screensavers
and creative strategies. He is completing an ebook called
'Internet Marketing for Models, Music Artist,Photographers
and Entertainers'
Contact at trentpart@gmail.com
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