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Internet Marketing Solutions, One Size
Fits All? by
Rick Carbone exclusive to Home Business
Research
Internet
Marketing comes in all shapes and sizes
and so the answer to the question is,
no, one size does not fit
all. Each website
business can employ vastly different
tactics to accomplish the same
results. There are many different
ways in which to promote your online
business, some will work for your
individual business and those same
tactics may not work for another.
For example traditional marketing
techniques such as banner advertising and
ezine advertising may just not work for
your home based business, they may be too
costly or totally ineffective for your
product niche. If this is the case,
it may then become necessary to think
outside of the box for cost effective
internet marketing tactics.
One way to do this is to create
test cells for different marketing
campaigns. One way to accomplish
this is through multiple landing pages
for the same product. This tactic
is fairly basic but is used widely in all
marketing segments. In this way you
can test the effectiveness of ad copy by
varying the sales message on each landing
page. To complete this tactic you
can also vary the ad copy as well
maintaining consistency within the
campaign. This tactic has been used
in the direct mail industry for many
years.
A very cost effective and
simple way to do this is to set up
two separate landing pages and two
separate ads. By varying
ad copy and landing
pages you can
multiply you test matrices to find the
most effective combinations. Once
you have found your best combination, it
will become your standard offer or what
is know as the "champion" strategy.
All others will be challengers to the
champion. Each time that you run a
campaign you will test against
this standard or
champion offer. If the test or
challenger strategy performs better
then the test now becomes the
standard. In this way you are
constantly modifying your ad campaigns to
return maximize your conversion rate or
overall performance.
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