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Article Marketing – A Low Cost Tool For small business owners
In the present scenario, millions of pre-existing websites are being further populated by newer additions on daily basis, as the majority of business concerns are going online in order to exploit wider markets across national frontiers. As a domino effect, the advertising and marketing of websites have gone extremely competitive and expensive. Under the circumstances, it seems only a financially resourceful websites can survive. But it is not entirely true.
With advent of Article Marketing, small business concerns have renewed hope of survival and success. Article marketing is a cost-effective and logical web-marketing stunt being extensively employed by seasoned SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers) or web marketers, to enhance Internet visibility of a website.
Article Marketing basically involves a website submitting informative and coherent articles to other websites. The topics of the articles are carefully chosen to stick to the basic business of the website. The articles contain a resource box with a short bio of the website and a link to the website. As articles are submitted to hundreds or even thousands of forums, blogs and e-magazines, which have their own faithful following of hundreds and thousands of readers per se, these articles result into high quantity of quality inbound links for the website from outside, without having to buy, beg or reciprocate links.
As a rule, these inbound links from other web addresses act as “votes” of confidence for the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. The number of these votes of confidence determines the ranking of the website address in SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Pages). And of course, higher the ranking of the website, the better Internet visibility for the website, which in turn translates into better business prospects and optimized turnover.
With an easy opportunity to showcase expertise and wisdom, the articles present themselves as means of confidence building measures to a prospective customer, who is thus reinforced about the quality of the products and services of the website in no uncertain terms. The articles pre-sell the products and services of the website and offers seven to ten times better advertising than regular advertising. The articles allow effective filtration of the net traffic to render highly qualified traffic mostly. After reading a coherent and informative article on a product or service, a first time visitor to the website visits it with a positive outlook and is easily convinced about the authenticity of the offerings of the website.
What’s more, Article Marketing is incredibly economical in nature and has the least toll on the marketing budget of any website. To undertake article marketing, all the site needs to do is to write informative, easy to understand and articulate articles on subjects relevant to the business of the website and submit these articles to maximum of web based forums, blogs and ezines. These websites are always seeking informative articles free of cost. They do not charge anything while accepting an article. However, some of them may charge a nominal amount to further the articles to other forums / blogs / e-magazines.
With Article marketing, a website may relieve itself from other marketing stunts involving cold calls or face-to-face sales appointments to sell their products and services. A small-scale business website may feel rescued from the need to buy links or beg for links, which also involves spending valuable effort, time and money. Unlike direct marketing and paid advertisements, a well written article may continue to be republished on various newsletters, websites, forums, blogs and trigger a viral marketing effect, to last for a longer span of time.
About the Author
Jonathan White has been involved in article and other online marketing for over 4 years. He owns:
Articles Marketing Directory
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Affiliate Marketing
is the denver bbb worth the cost?
We have read quite a bit about the BBB several forums and info from 2007. It is now 2010. Are things any better with the BBB? Would like some feedback on the value of the denver bbb and the cost.
We understand each one is a franchise and their entire livelihood rests on selling memberships.
Two of my greatest concerns are that it collects only bad reports, not good reports and that since the implementation of the ‘A – F’ grading score system that the bad reports bring your company grade down to sharply.
We are a new small business on a shoestring budget, working with consumers and home owners.
Does the BBB also protect small businesses for consumers who have nothing better to do other than complain?
You will probably get different opinions on whether membership in the Better business bureau is worth the cost, but from my perspective, it is the best thing a small, growing business can do to promote itself. There are so many small businesses out there that it is hard to stand out from the crowd. And consumers are very suspicious about fraud and other problems, that they tend to go toward the big name companies. Even if your larger competitors don’t offer as good a product or service as you do, your customers know them, and they don’t know you. Being able to say that you are a member of the BBB gives you a marketplace presence–a sense of being a “real” business–that could otherwise take years and lots of advertising dollars to develop.
And yes, it is true that the BBB collects adverse reports, but as I understand it, it bases its ratings mostly on how you handle those complaints. In other words, it’s not just a counting game. If you respond to complaints and *either* satisfy the customer or satisfy the BBB that you tried to be fair with the customer, you will get a good rating from the BBB. To that extent, the BBB gives you some protection. You can show that you deal honestly. Every business will have some dissatisfied customers, but BBB membership can be a shield against the effects of being bad-mouthed.
If I were you, I would ask myself this question: If we don’t join the BBB, what could we do instead to get the same quality image? If you have an answer to that question, and the answer is cheaper or easier than joining, go for it. But for most companies–and especially for most young companies–the BBB can be very worthwhile. By the way, while I am talking about the advantage to new companies, the BBB will not accept you for full membership until you have been in business for a certain length of time (12 months, I think).
Good luck with whatever you decide!
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