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Eunice Coughlin, Your Online Marketing Specialist
 
 
 

Website Marketing Strategy that Works

Building Your List

Your main website marketing strategy should revolve around building a list. List of what, you ask? People, of course!

Well, not just people but their names and email addresses is what you're aiming to acquire. The scary secret that most people who are just starting out don't know is that when someone visits your website for the first time, they're not going to buy your product.

In fact, they may not buy until the 10th, 11th or 12th time they visit. Your website marketing strategy should be to keep in touch with them via email so that they will eventually decide to buy from you. Your strategy is to cultivate a relationship with them so that they will eventually trust you enough to purchase from you.

Before You Start Building Your List, Consider This...

With online business, you need to establish credibility and trust with your site visitor so that they will feel comfortable making a purchase from your site.

The most effective website marketing strategy will do this by providing your visitors with valuable information in the form of a free report or ebook.

If you are indeed an expert in your field, writing a 3 – 5 page report on a topic that you know something about shouldn’t be too difficult. Include tips that will be helpful but don’t give everything away. You want your visitors to keep coming back for more.

When you provide a free report or ebook, your visitors must provide you with their personal information to get it. Most people see that as a fair trade-off. Those who decide to opt-in to your offer will make up your list!

People who are interested in your niche are your target market; your audience. Focus your website marketing strategy on relationship building within this list.

Whenever you add something to your website or hear of something new that is happening within your niche , let your target market know about it through a newsletter or ezine.

Once you’ve formed this relationship with your visitors through giving away something valuable and maintaining constant contact with them through an ezine, they'll have a reason to come back to your site.

By the way, it always helps to have a good email marketing system to organize all those emails. Believe me, it's a time-consuming process that can be easily automated as long as you have the right email service. I recommend Aweber as an easy to learn and use email system.

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As time goes on and you are perceived as a trusted, credible source of information genuinely interested in helping, your visitors will be much more likely to buy based on your recommendations. You'll start to see your website marketing strategy really start to pay off when you develop your list and serve their interests and needs.

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