Small Business and Personal Branding: What Should My Business Card Say?

June 7, 2009 by Matt Turner

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I am going to have to give in and get business cards. Not because I think that having a business card will make some wonderfully amazing difference to my marketng and branding but I have thought about some of the more practical aspects of branding – because when you’re actually trying to embrace you brand more thoroughly, you may be in a lot of situations where you’re meeting people but there isn’t the time or the opportunity to really give some detailed pitch on who and what you are and do.

It’s one thing to create “wow” factor but it’s probably a good idea if people also understand what it is they’re actually associating that “wow” with. I think building a dynamic brand is a great idea but not if it actually starts to eclipse the product it’s supposed to represent.

Especially in marketing you see these guys and they’re doing all sorts and everything so it’s hard to get a grasp on what exactly their bag is, what their key activity is.

CD DVD Duplication is basically my main business day to day, where I make most of my money so I feel that has to be represented in some way, especially if I’m actually doing this to build my business rather than showboating with my bloody business cards. My poster printing and distribution is also a regular earner, and whats more I’m going to be pushing further into colour copying services. Of course the whole point of the card is to let people who I meet know that I actually do a lot of stuff so there’s something I can do for them.

But we don’t want to make it too cluttered. We don’t want to lose focus on the main activity I’m trying to advertise.

So the big question is how do I cover the marketing stuff right. I’m liking “Online Promotions” right now because it reinforces general promotions as our platform and I think “promotions” sounds more personal and “brandy” than “marketing” because “Branding” does sound too vague and pretentious. A big company needs branding. A medium company needs marketing. Little guys need promotions. That’s the feeling I get anyway.

Finally it comes to the less business oriented stuff. Nothing else that I’m thinking about it my business is worth considering for the business card aside from promoting the space but I’m sure that can be a future addition.

The Pirate birthday entertainer stuff is the one exception because I want to stay involved with that just as a personal challenge. It’s something I gotta do.

I mean, ultimately I have this stupid idea of being someone who stays in business from the reputation and uh brand generated by my art not funding my art through my business. I want more people to know that I DJ in Auckland and I make beats and I put on parties and I want to continue to make more music and video . . . even if it it detrimental to my business.

So the question is

if someone wants to get 1000 dvds done is this the card to give them?

If someone is interested in printing a whole lot of posters or flyers, will this card work?

What about online marketing? Will this get people who get this card interested in what I can do there?

Can I give this to A pirate party mum so she’ll pass it to her friends to book me?

Am I actually going to push forward my music by promoting it in this way?

Small Business Marketing and Promotions Strategies Online 2009

January 10, 2009 by Matt Turner

SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING

1: Website Development
2: Google Adwords / PPC
3: Blog Promotion
4: Online Video Marketing
5: SEO

Online marketing is one of New Zealand’s fastest growing industries.

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One of the viral marketing phenomenon is Youtube Marketing; We have encountered this as we go through on our daily life, emails, television shows and social networking sites.

How this can be emphasized by the social networking sites like You Tube where you need to deliver your message and circulated amongst your target market?

The powerful selling tool considered is the word-of-the-mouth; videos are integrated to online profiles, websites and forums. Word-of-the-mouth works even faster like wild fire. These videos travel internationally hitting your targeted market viewers and even the news media.

“The objective in producing successful viral marketing programs is to recognize individuals with high Social Networking Potential (SNP) and compose viral messages that would give a greater impact to the population and eventually have a percentage of being omitted”.

Source – Wikipedia

Why use video marketing above any others? It is simply because we know how it works. This is evident in the music industry, where struggling artists created inspiring or provocative music videos on You Tube which are viewed and voted by huge viewers to get into their target audiences, recording companies, news media, and music lovers. You can refer to the Sick Puppies case study shown to your right.

Building new profile or even manage new perception is done by video marketing. One example of this case is Cadbury in the United Kingdom. Cadbury’s Dairy Milk 2007 Gorilla advertisement was strongly popularized on You Tube and even on Face book. Video to your right is shown.

It takes proper planning and promotion when considering viral marketing. Study further on how your business grows using video marketing.

Online marketing is one of New Zealand’s fastest growing industries.

Online marketing has many elements; all of them aim to make a website more successful in the internet. In business it means more sales, for others more enquiries – but whatever your objectives of having a website you have to consider some vital considerations to take into account before joining the business into online marketing.

Now, you must first ensure that going online is the right decision for your business. Few questions will follow, like:

  • Is there an online market for your product?
  • Is anybody ‘out there’ looking for products and services such as yours?
  • Can you compete with the competition already out there?
  • How much time will it take before the online marketing of your website makes an impression on an internet user’s radar?

Optimization really helps a lot. The most sophisticated online market research tools available are in us. That’s why researching the online market in New Zealand and commissioning reports on overseas online markets on request are now very easy. Our knowledge of the online market will help you assess whether your business will benefit from investing in going online and online marketing.

You might consider building or redesigning a website if you have the market already. Then, we can help you start on the right foot before you commission your web developer. Consultancy right at the start of an online project is offered that is to ensure that your website is up and running and its search engine is friendly. This will ensure that your website can be marketed online to over 90% of people using the internet.

Start right now, it’s worth investing. We are specialists in marketing many types of websites and driving them to success that nobody could imagine.

Website marketing and search engine optimization techniques are the appropriate techniques for web marketing campaign which will be based on its structure, competitive situation and the budget of your website.

Since our clients start with ‘toe-in-the-water’ campaigns, we make sure to give them regular reviews and respond to their business and budget growth. We also supply them additional online opportunities and present them the latest campaign elements. This is what we do to see them in the highest rank and increase the amount of the traffic of their websites.

Basic elements of a Website Marketing Campaign include:

Keyword Selection – is useful in the generation of relevant traffic to your website for a realistic budget.

Search Engine Optimization – used in generating long-term organic traffic. This includes:

· Link building – links strategy, essential for high rankings are created

· Submission strategy – manually submitted to directories and search engines.

· Advertorial pages – promotes site’s rankings

· Competitor Analysis – monitors the competition’s activities

· Technical Solutions – one of search engine friendly solutions which are relevant to each website.

Search Engine Optimization Maintenance – monitors the results, search engine algorithms and campaign reviews.

Search Engine Advertising – is where search engines for immediate traffic.

Content Review – is copywriting and editing service to keep website content fresh.

Branding Promotion – which focus on optimization of a company’s name or products.

Banner Advertising – is the brand exposure to large markets.

Additional Domains - are for promoting websites for effective online marketing.

Email Advertising – is placing an advertisement to relevant publications for extreme exposure.

Email Marketing – establishes customer relationships and encouraging repeat purchase.

Affiliate Marketing – works with partners in your industry for mutual advantage.

Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a tool in internet marketing which enables to reach branding and marketing communication goals through involvement in different social media networks like My Space, Face book, Bebo, You Tube, etc.

Source - Wikipedia

Social Media Marketing (SMM) is also defines as a way in marketing/creating a campaign which produces any of the following:

· Branding brand awareness

· Boost user participation

· Encouraging feedback & dialogue

· Increase Visibility

· Create Hype

· And More Importantly Selling products or services

Different forms of online and offline marketing like SEO, SEM, Viral Marketing, Word of the Mouth Marketing, Email Marketing work hand in hand with SMM. It also forms new content which would lead to direct and influence members of a social community and aid to link to your business.

Why choosing Social Media Marketing?

1.3 Million New Zealanders used Social Networking Sites

258,869 New Zealanders registered in Face book last February 2007

Sourcehttp://socialmedia.globalthoughtz.com/

When creating hype and when people is already talking about you it gives an additional forms of online marketing like SEO, SEM linking and as wells real time forums for feedback and conversations.

Feel free to talk to our team for and see how this can boost your marketing with Social Media Marketing (SMM).

Are you considering your business to be online and need to create a website? Got a business plans and take focus on marketing strategy. Can you think of marketing your website? These are few of the queries of website owner which they fail to answer during the preliminary stage of their online business. In most likely manner, new user over the net have more chances of finding your website through search engines. This will promote your online visibility. The importance of technology and website developer plays a significant role in this aspect. So one must put more impact on it.

The following are few things to begin with:

· Can the search engines look into your web pages?

· Can the search engines see what product, categories and services you are offering? If the answers to above queries are positive:

· Will it be possible that your website ranks and increased its page ranking the soonest possible time?

Website development plays a key and significant role in accomplishing your online marketing strategies. A well-organized website development will not only give your assurance of being found over the net by users but also ensures higher conversion ratio.

The factor to consider on online success is to have developed a user-friendly search engine at a minimize cost without compromising the quality of your website. A friendly environment of your search engine website will be main core of your business plans.

Let us talk about your website designed now and developed and optimized it the right way for the first time!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the method of increasing the volume and quality of traffic to a website with the aid of search engines through “natural” results.

source: Wikipedia

It is also one way of incrementing the rank of your website’s position in the search engine results. “Search Engine Optimization” is the acclaimed famous in New Zealand as people perceive that a website without visitors looking at it is merely useless.

Can we use other forms of searching tools other than search engines? People can reach your website from other resources too.

Statistics in the industry shows that people discover new websites by volumes through searching on Google, Yahoo and MSN. When you know that your website does not rank on search engines for “key phrases” where your potential customer may look into, you must be alarmed as you can loss higher percentage of opportunities day by day. See these numbers for your reference – these are the figures that people searching using key phrases daily.

· Flowers

· Fresh flowers

· Queenstown apartments

· International recruiting agency

The great news for us is that the websites that we’re looking for are in the first page of Google. Moreover, Google is the largest traffic driver to all these websites.

Optimize guarantees that your website could be listed on search engines and it also works to produce visitors who are good prospect for sales in your business.

Don’t waste a minute to speak to any of our team today or simply click on the above link and start discussing the above matter and see what we can do for you.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a type of Internet Marketing that works to publicize websites by getting to increase its visibility in the search engine results pages (SERPs) and with evident ROI (Return on Investment).

Source: Wikipedia

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) works with search engine optimization process one step ahead as it develops strategies to increase online visibility. It includes search engine optimization to ensure that you are visible on search engine results as well as other effective paid promotional ad programs to strengthen your online marketing campaign.

Search Engine Marketing concentrates in getting your website connect on the search engines by bidding on the search tags in the sponsored areas within the search engine results page. Two of the most significant search engine marketing corners for these search marketing promotions are Google AdWords or Yahoo! Search Marketing.

It is marked as “sponsored results” when it is the output when of a search engine marketing or search engine advertising campaign using Google or Yahoo!. Optimization helps managing your search engine advertising/marketing program and doing it professionally not only considering the website traffic but also the following factors:

· The number of impression of your ads

· The geographical location of your ads which fits your prospect clients

· Conversions through this type of advertising alone

· The total cost of your search marketing campaign

· The cost per conversion for your advertising program

It is much better as this is aided with our professional search marketing management where cost per conversion is dropped and increased it by more than 200% within the same budget per year.

Search Engine Marketing is the best method to test and measure the competitiveness of your market within the industry and also guides you in answering some serious marketing queries.

Contact us now to find out how we can help your website produce real money!

Connecting With Your Audience

The success of online is all about connection as this is the nature of Optimize. This gets more factual now as you see the rising popularity of social media marketing sites and the power of videos spreading like wildfire within the social communities.

Believing it or not, you can check your inbox. Have you wonder when was the last time you saw an online videos? How about on your mobile phone? Or saw some segments over the net for your awaited television show? Even late night news is already loaded in videos for the week.

Goodbye Email, hello to Social Media Marketing

The new generations are making use of the power of the web as informational tools and utilizing it as well for entertainment. Forwarding amusing emails have evolved to sending social bookmarks, blogs, sound, audio and video to friends of same interest which is now considered one of the multimedia experience.

Considering this viral trend to your business marketing leads to wider range of spreading your message that you could have imagined and let your customer be the evident advocate.

A Tasty Example

Cadbury U.K. used You Tube to disseminate its glass and a half productions offline promotion. During the first week, it gets 500,000 hits. This is the evidence to the power of video and social media marketing.

Considering this viral trend to your business marketing leads to wider range of spreading your message that you could have imagined and let your customer be the evident advocate.

Market your website with a Blog and our expertise

Blogging originally known as “web-blogs” is one way to make fresh, relevant content on your website in a simpler efficient way. Once completed the setup of your blog, you have the assurance of getting huge benefits from it. To realize it, one must ensure that the blog is promoted and made visible to your target. Thus, reaching the goal which it is designed for in the first place is achieved.

Like any other online marketing stuff, blogs should be submitted to blog search websites. Is this the only way that user can browse your blog online? This is not the only step. Optimize provides a complete blog marketing services with content strategy, contents advisory, and content writing to help promoting your blog.

The marketing team will discuss to your blog marketing goals in case you have not made yet. Help you in creating a blog marketing goal and turn your blog marketing into an effective one that meets your marketing goals.

Hurry! Talk to us now and see how your Blog Marketing helps improved your website’s ranking on search engines and generates vivid sales through your own website.

Determine the Marketing Strategy for New Small Business Ideas

December 28, 2008 by Matt Turner

Need Small Business Marketing Services? Website Development and Promotion, PPC, SEO, Content Distribution, Social Media , Video Services, Graphic Design – Our Small Business Marketing Pacakages are comprehensive. Contact Matt – kurbpromo@gmail.com

Small businesses need marketing – I just told you my 10 best internet marketing strategies for 2009.

But some strategies work better for some businesses than others.

At the moment, as you may know if you’ve been reading (yeah right! haha) I’ve launched a whole lot of new businesses online, and I’ve been talking recently about breaking down the steps to get your online business or small business website ready to start marketing your services.

I talked about this recently, using successful small business marketing strategies to make websites effective and viable as soon as possible.

So I’ve been doing a lot of copywriting, a lot of which has been posted up on this blog, covering different aspects of the online services I offer, as I peel them off my main online marketing platform into individual niche services such as PPC and SEO services.

Not to mention the recent power post on my top 10 internet marketing strategies for small business in 2009 where website development was number #1 because you can have all the marketing clout in the world but if your website sucks then you may aswell forget it.

It’s got to look professional, provide convincing copy and generally convey a compelling experience.

But now I am generating the basic content I need I must admit that as soon as the content is up and the designers have developed a concept for the visual theme, so that the sites are at least established . . . which business will I start marketing first?

Which will become the most profitable quickly with the least effort?

Let me just cross analyse and compare.

Idea #1: Is a service I have cheap access to which I am aiming to market locally alongside

Idea#2: Is a high demand, high value product but in a niche im inexperienced in

Idea #3: Is of course my own specialized services in SEO and PPC

Idea #4: Is a low value product in a highly competitive industry but has proven results if you’re committed if you put capital into it, but again im inexperinced in this niche

Idea #5: Is a cheaper value proposition for blog promotion. This service is much lower intensity then any of the other digital coaching services we offer, but expands to a much wider audience.
If you read my top 10 you’ll know I rated adwords as the top marketing strategy after basically just having a decent website to start with.

This is the point where I take my list and comparing this to my list of ideas and determining how successful each of these strategies will be.

1: Website Development
2: Google Adwords PPC
3: Blog Promotion
4: Online Video Marketing
5: SEO
6: Email Marketing
7: Article Marketing
8: Social Media Marketing
9: Viral Marketing
10: Community Building
What kind of sites would ppc adwords work for?

Adwords would work for Idea #1. But not #2 or #3, because the market is too competitive, or rather, I’m not at a level where I can be competitive in it. Again the market for #5 is somewhat undefined, however, bloggers are more sophisticated generally then to engage an online brand that is so freash and hasn’t been developed.

So adwords could work for #1 and #4, but both may require more than I’m used to spending because I haven’t tweaked the sites to adjust for the kind of business I’m doing. It’s as I say, I’m moving into this quickly and I still don’t KNOW that the site will convert, it’s likely to be more expensive then my flagship sites which I’ve been optimising for so long.

I need to be aware of how much I can spend to get a sale. With #4 I have to spend to get sales, but it’s all in the ratios.

With a lot of these other strategies, blogging, video, and more social / interactive stuff, it just takes so much time I wouldn’t use it unless I was building a contribution to my core activity.

But if adwords won’t work, what will? We must leverage SEO, blogging and article marketing to get the soonest possible results. How will this work?

Well we know you’d do your keyword research, and then we have to write up to 10 pages, 3-5000 words all up anyway to provide decent base content for our niche site. The most likely way you would do that is with a blog, and you’d follow up that with some SEO link building.

My suggestion is that when you’re preparing all that base content for your site you actually make a real effort with up to 3 of the articles/blog posts so that you can leverage them immediately for article marketing.

You can always contact us if you need freelance copywriting and/or article marketing so you can continue to create articles and content for promotional purposes, but the main sales copy, the important copy that your visitors will read when they decide whether to pursue a purchase, should be written by someone who knows your business well, even if that’s you – though we can edit up your landing and sales copy for oomph as long as we have enough of an idea from you about exactly what it is that makes your proposition so special.
But which of my new business ideas will SEO and content marketing strategies work for?

With #2, it’s my only choice, mainly because the demand is so high I will get search interest and this is best to capitalize on by developing search friendly strategies and hoping for the best from that. With #3 I’m slightly more flexible, but it’s still a good low risk / low commitment strategy.

With #4 I have no hope with SEO because the item is something that employs a hook, it’s not something they’d be looking for otherwise. With #5 it’s a bit of a mystery, but because I’m competing as a low value technology service there will be competition and there may be scrutiny.

With #1 it’s a high value proposition and it’s a competitive market in general so even locally I will be competing against much more established players.

But what about branding, social media, web 2.0 stuff, is it useless?

Not at all, it’s just now that we’re projecting beyond 3 months from now, then we can think about what social media strategies could work.

Immediately, I already have my established sites from which to launch my new online marketing niches services – design, blog promotion, ppc and seo. I believe a lot of my business for these services will come from traffic through my established sites and blogs, which is really more a product of the web property I’ve already built – my blogs, SEO authority, but social networks and the kurb brand also.

Determining factor: I can’t commit to ALL these ideas How much work is involved?

#3 the PPC and SEO consultancy gigs are at one end of the scale because although high value, and the end of the day it’s me who has to do the work. With #1 and #5 I can happily rely on my staff, as long as the task is managed and checked off with me. With #2, where I’m dependent on search, there will be a lot of effort involved in content creation, but the difference is I’m building as asset rather than selling my labour so the work I’m doing is not only building my assets value but also increasing the amount of revenue it’s bringing in.

But this is where #4 shines. A marketing system more than anything else, I just have to optimise and make adjustments where appropriate, it’s not likely to take me any more than an hour a week once I’ve spent a few hours on it – not unless I want to, of course!

THE FINAL ANALYSIS: EXPENSES + TIME COST vs. RETURNS

Also asset value, how valuable the asset will become through development.

Idea #1
Estimatedl Monthly Earnings (6 month projection): $1000
Monthly PPC / Marketing / Labour Expenses: $350
Time cost: medium
Asset Value: High

Idea #2
Potential Monthly Earnings (6 month projection): $1200
Monthly PPC Adwords + Marketing Expenses: $100
Time cost: High
Asset Value: Highest

Idea #3
Potential Monthly Earnings (6 month projection): $1500
Marketing Expenses: $100
Time cost: Highest
Asset Value: Low

Idea #4
Potential Monthly Earnings (6 month projection): $1200
Monthly PPC : $600
Time cost: Lowest
Asset Value: Lowest

Idea #5
Potential Monthly Earnings (6 month projection): $1200
Monthly PPC / Marketing / Labour Expenses: $500
Time cost: low
Asset Value: Medium

I’m sorry I’m going to have to break this down further in another post – coming up soon!

Need Small Business Marketing Services? Website Development and Promotion, PPC, SEO, Content Distribution, Social Media , Video Services, Graphic Design – Our Small Business Marketing Pacakages are comprehensive and start at $950 for 3 months. Contact Matt – kurbpromo@gmail.com

Top 10 Small Business Internet Marketing Strategies for 2009

December 27, 2008 by Matt Turner

KURB SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING TOP INTERNET MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR 2009:

1: Website Development
2: Google Adwords / PPC
3: Blog Promotion
4: Online Video Marketing
5: SEO
6: Email Management / Marketing
7: Article Marketing
8: Social Media Marketing
9: Viral Marketing
10: Community Building

Check small business marketing strategies here or email: kurbpromo@gmail.com

1: WEB DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT: Most small businesses websites don’t succeed because it doesn’t provide a compelling experience for consumers who visit their site. You can’t afford to see your website as a static platform. It must develop at least every month. Continued commitment to developing website design and content that more effectively express your brand as well as help your customers to get the information they need to buy from you means they are confident to make purchases, and sales happen. If your website

2: PPC MANAGEMENT / ADWORDS: Pay per click advertising on Google and other content networks is the fastest and most powerfully qualified option for advertising spending in 2009. With as little as $20 p/week you can begin highly measured and precisely targeted campaigns with us on Google Adwords. Adwords is great for any service business or business offering high value products and is even more effective when targeting genders, age groups and cities/regions. Even amateurs can return positive ROI advertsing on Google through Adwords but experience in using the PPC can lead to radically enhanced results.

3: BLOG PROMOTION: Blogging is still a top strategy for small business marketing as long as it doesn’t interfere with normal operations. A well maintained blog developed over months has so many advantages in reinforcing your whole online marketing effort from SEO, customer service, website development, the work put in to build a lively and dynamic blog will never be wasted. We provide blog set up, blog design, blog promotion and can even create content and run your blog for you.

4: ONLINE VIDEO: Online video is yet to flex it’s muscles as the new power in online marketing. Buyers seek engagement, trust and authority with products, service providers and brands. They seek stories that give commodities and their brands value and credibility and video is the most powerful way to engage people and quickly create trust, authority as well as impact. Businesses using videos will have a much greater opportunity to appeal to visitors, and more importantly online video is only going to get bigger and continue to steal more influence from traditional TV.

5: SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION AND MARKETING: Search engine marketing is still the most powerful marketing technique accessible to entrepreneurs on small budgets, but precisely for this reason that SEO finds itself at #5 on this list. SEO is competitive. SEO is a challenge for new websites. Ranking highly in Google for your favoured keyword search terms is better than any advertising and would give you unmatched access to your market. But the results of SEO work can vary. A Successful SEO campaign takes research, it requires a lot of tedious tasks, and that of course costs. I will underline how powerfully effective our SEO can be but you must have the patience and commitment for it if you are in a competitive niche.

6: EMAIL MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING: Maintaining relationsips with a client database through email marketing is still one of the most powerful ways to generate dependable recurring revenue. We provide professional email management solutions for all our clients, but those who are interested in email marketing should know you will have to build your contacts first through other online marketing efforts, most often a blog, and then maintain your mail out, which is going to need content. Once you can graduate to greater levels of automated email marketing, you can implement powerful systems to create wealth with minimum maintenance.

7: SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: Anyone who tells you they are a social media expert had better be ready to back that up with proof. Social Media is not a strategy for ROI. The aim of social media is to build meaningful relationships with engaged social media users who have the power to build a powerful, authoritative and authentic word of mouth. Just like blogs, building a strong social media presence has many benefits for small businesses, but must remain practical in terms of the bottom line.

8: Article Marketing: Article Marketing leverages written content for exposure that can be syndicated far and wide to provide exposure to click through traffic as well as considerable SEO benefits. Article syndication as well as freelance article creation is offered as part of our general online marketing strategies. If you don’t have time to build your web presence, it’s better we create monthly content for you then having no new content at all.

9:Viral Marketing: More powerful than spreading ideas is building an idea that spreads itself. Whether a video or other media, the essntial concept is the power of an idea to proliferate by way of online sharing. The success of a Viral Marketing campaign is never assured and taking risks to put forward powerful branding messages or leverage powerful value propositions that engage so deeply that it spreads online or through word of mouth is a longshot but always has the potential to be outrageously successful with a bit of character and flair.

10: Community building: Again building a community around your brand makes long term commitment and personal contribution unavoidable. You can’t just create community based loyalty to a brand overnight. Certainly, strategies to nurture your community and provide functionality by way of a forum or other platforms to encourage different kinds of interaction and user driven content creation around your brand can be provided easily and inexpensively, but early on there will need to be a dedicated effort to inject activity into the community space. This can be more time consuming and long range than many small businesses are prepared for.
1: Website Development
2: Google Adwords / PPC
3: Blog Promotion
4: Online Video Marketing
5: SEO
6: Email Management / Marketing
7: Article Marketing
8: Social Media Marketing
9: Viral Marketing
10: Community Building
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Phone me Matt on: +64 (0)27 6848250

SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING PACKAGE
$NZ1200 / $US700 – 3 Months Duration includes:

Website/Graphic Design and Development
Blog Set Up and Development
PPC / Google Adwords Management
Search Engine Optimisation and Marketing
Ongoing consultation

SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING CAMPAIGN
$NZ1950 / $US1100 – 3 Months Duration also includes:

Social Media Management
Online Video Marketing Services
Email Management
Article Marketing + Content Creation
Community Management

Inclusions are indicative and can be negotiated.

Small Business Marketing Services and Prices

December 26, 2008 by Matt Turner

If you’re interested in affordable small buiness or home business marketing strategies our total and comprehensive online marketing services packages begin at $950 for 3 months.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN GROWING YOUR SMALL BUSINESS, FREELANCE OR HOME BUSINESS?

SOCIAL MEDIA. BLOGGING. SOCIAL NETWORKING. ONLINE BRANDING. INTERACTIVE MARKETING

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION. PAY PER CLICK ADVERTISING. EMAIL MARKETING

ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT HOW NEW SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB 2.0 COULD HELP GROW YOUR BUSINESS?

Our service covers all your online needs for marketing small businesses and new ideas. Let’s talk about it.

Email me Matt: kurbpromo@gmail.com
+64 (0)27 6848250

New Zealand Small Business Blog

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We business alongside you to evolve:

A diary and/or website that engages possibleness customers

Mixer media profiles that delegate your variety and play visitors to your website

Look engine strategies to channelize voluminous amounts of targeted traffic to your sites, This also includes cashed hunting and pay per click business safari management.

Using email lists to produce juicy consumer relationships

Strategies to learn much mutual, ingratiatory and functional proportionality for users on your website and increase income

Using online recording and frequency to raise you and aid your customers

Antiquity a territory around your website and name that sustains itself

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“Rudimentary” packet: 3 Months $950
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Further website plan and usage: $350

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Your fee covers the expenditure of all structure feat costs – journal installing, hosting and domains; telecommunicate leaning direction; Use of social media, maintenance and automated venture management,

as advantageously as rhythmic consultations. We also express out automatic tasks on a symbol of platforms, and broadcast out standard current Investigate Engine Improvement process. We assist in structure online business campaigns but ad outlay staleness be budgeted for on top of our fees – we urge at smallest $20 p/week.

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AFTERNOONS ON +64 27 684 8250

Hi, this is Matt from Kurb Promotions in Metropolis, New Sjaelland and I’ve been growing my elflike business working with artists, talent and entertainment industry businesses around the class for 18 months using a combining of technology and get in net publicity to mark and displace new audiences, and I’ve seen new ways of online publicity that are rattling dynamic the gamey.

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Web plan, usage, upkeep and endorsement: For those businesses who do not make a website we give a increase and completely cheap extent of options for implementing and regularly updating your website and deed it untaped.

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Internet Marketing Tips and Promotions for Small Business: RSS

December 21, 2008 by Matt Turner

There is something feat quite a move in Net overland. RSS has caused sites to see an gain in interchange by 50-100%, and profits dual.

This application could be so big that the playing champaign between the littler chamber band and the big companies leave transmute really indicator. The engineering is quite new, the fill who are using it are reaping the rewards of unhindered, non-competing web computer admittance. The BBC and Character! seem to see what it is as they hold feeds on their situation.

You faculty probably request the emotional chromatic buttons on the sinistral of the block. RSS is one of the buttons and it is this that is deed quite a move in Internet elevation.

Archetypal up, I did not pair what RSS was, so in ignorance I didn’t reach to stay out the “What is RSS” connectedness. I copulate that any group fuck what it is, and most of them are real dull duty Online users, but what roughly the pause of Web country, the number of users who do not jazz what RSS is?

RSS (we shall song it Really Mortal Syndication, it has opposite traducement, but we shall joystick with this for comfortableness), is a real gradual way to get any category of content, nigh your site, to your readers…easily, and without email. An unheard of concept, but real subversive.

There are huge possiblities regarding Truly Human Syndication for any place, and that is why I make written this article. I poverty you to realise the possibilities roughly this technology- how unstable it could easily be, and to work your tract get a wider audience. I perceive that this new field is too big an Online slave for your situation not to make it. So meet measure this article is accomplishment to utilize your situation a Immense propulsion in the appropriate message!

So what can this Really Oblong Syndication supply your position and your marketing counseling?

It is a new way to get entropy (or programes, MP3s etc) to your readers.

You can supply affiliate course within a book have to excrete you any interchange.

You can strain a large, immensurable opportunity by syndication. A website retributory needs to touch your RSS to their situation and you know a such author wider chance. How virtually if remaining websites play causa = loads of escaped targeted reciprocation to your position.

You can reference non-subscribing news-letter users

It is totally uncommitted

RSS doesn’t get obstructed by email filters

A user is alerted automatically to when your position is updated, or if you hold a rivalry or few operation of endorsement deed etc.

Adding a take to your situation also seems to turn the attender senior of Yahoo and MSN, whether this is affine to you promoting their MY Yahoo and MY MSN, or RSS sites are predominantly

With all these plus points RSS is turn out to be really angelical. And all those reasons are why you shouldn’t be odd out in the heatless. It is a new discipline that hasn’t been real old by the “big boys” at the time, hence your contention is way behind.

I hold open a enthusiastic unbound direct that tells you upright behind the blood in no patois, the bedrock of how to set up your own RSS cater, My MSN, and My Yahoo then click here to indicate the explicit, withdraw pass (you can also download autonomous tools and see how to industry your own RSS).

Solid fortune!

Social Media and Web 2.0 Marketing Tools

December 16, 2008 by Matt Turner

the key to engaging with social media and web 2.0 consumers is to hit whatever incentive to share their thoughts, opinions and experiences on a business Web site.
One attractiveness is to attain sure consumers take on the online accord to network among themselves on topics of their own choosing. That way the site isn’t all most the company, it’s also most them. For instance, a toy company that created a accord of hundreds of mothers to solicit their opinions and ideas on toys also enables them to write their own blogs on the site, a feature that whatever ingest to handle family issues.

Other companies provide more-direct incentives: cash rewards or products, whatever of which are available only to members of the online community. Still others offer consumers peer acceptance by awarding points each instance they post comments, answer questions or advance to a wiki entry. Such acceptance not only encourages participation, but also has the benefit of allowing both the consort and the another members of the accord to identify experts on different topics.
Many companies told us that a moderator plays a critical role in keeping conversations going, highlighting information that’s essential to a discussion and maintaining order. That’s essential because consumers are likely to drift absent if conversations peter discover or if they see that their voices are lost in a chaotic flood of comments. The moderator crapper also see to it that consumer input is seen and responded to by the right grouping within the company.
Getting Sociable

* A New Approach: Social Media Marketing these life is more most building a two-way relationship with consumers. Web 2.0 tools are a coercive way to do that.
* The Pioneers: A growing number of companies are learning how to collaborate with consumers online on creation development, assist enhancement and promotion.
* The Lessons: From these early efforts, a ordered of marketing principles hit emerged. Among them: get consumers involved in all aspects of marketing, center to and tie the online conversation most your products outside your site, and give the consumers you work with plenty of leeway to impart their opinions.

And, of course, it’s essential to attain a site as easy to ingest as possible. For instance, there should be clear, simple instructions for consumers to ordered up a blog or advance to a wiki.

Listen to — and tie — the conversation outside your site.

Consumers tend to trust one another’s opinions more than a company’s marketing pitch. And there is no shortage of opinions online.

The managers we interviewed accept that this type of content is here to meet and are aware of its potential impact — positive or negative — on consumers’ buying decisions. So they monitor relevant online conversations among consumers and, when appropriate, look for opportunities to inject themselves into a conversation or initiate a potential collaboration.

For example, a online music marketing manager of a directive consumer-electronics consort monitors blogs immediately after a new-product launch in visit to see \”how customers are actually reacting to the product.\” Other managers keep an eye on sites like Digg.com and Del.icio.us that track the most favourite topics on the Web, to see if there’s any buzz around their newborn products, and whether they should be adjusting, say, features or prices.

In one case, a dvd copying service found a favourite blogger who had spoken highly of the company’s brand. Just preceding to launching a newborn product, the consort sent the blogger a free sample, inviting him to review it with no strings attached. The end result: The blogger wrote a approbatory review and generated a flood of comments. So the consort got nearly free publicity and feedback.

Resist the temptation to sell, sell, sell.

Many small business marketing has been trained to hit consumers with business — to sell, sell, delude anytime and anywhere consumers crapper be found. In an online community, it pays to baulk that temptation.

When consumers are invited to participate in online communities, they expect online marketing to center and to consider their ideas. They don’t want to see like they’re simply a captive audience for advertising, and if they do they’re likely to abandon the community.

The head of consumer research for a directive consumer-electronics organization created an online accord of nearly 50,000 consumers to handle product-development and marketing issues. One of the key principles of the community, she says, was “not to do anything most music marketing, because we weren’t most selling; we were most conversing.”

In short order, accord members not only identified what it was they were hunting for in the company’s products, but also suggested innovations to satisfy those needs. The consort apace developed prototypes based on those suggestions, and got an enthusiastic response: Community members asked when they would be able to buy the products and if they would get the first opportunity to buy them. They didn’t hit to be sold on anything.

Don’t control, permit it go.

In an online community, every consort needs to find an effective balance between trying to steer the conversation most its products and allowing the conversation to flow freely. In general, though, the managers we interviewed believe that companies are better soured giving consumers the opportunity to say whatever is on their minds, positive or negative. Moderators crapper keep things running smoothly and coherently, but they shouldn’t always keep the conversation on a predetermined track. The more that consumers speech freely, the more a consort crapper see most how it can improve its products and its online marketing.

One marketing chief recalled the first instance she permit an online accord created for a computer interact with very little curb or moderation, resulting in an animated discussion most the look of the company’s product. The client, with great concern, asked. \”Who told them [the consumers] they could do this, that they could go this far?\” Of course, when this impact resulted in totally newborn packaging that helped boost sales, the computer was ecstatic.

As another chief of a consort that creates online communities for clients told us: \”You hit to permit the members drive. When accord members see controlled, told how to respond and how to act, the accord shuts down.\”

Embrace experimentation.

One Web 2.0 marketing strategy does not fit all, and sometimes the prizewinning way to find discover what’s prizewinning for a given consort is to try whatever things discover and see what happens.

Blogs, wikis and online communities are among the tools that companies are most commonly using for marketing, but there are another ways to accomplish consumers. Some of the companies we talked with hit gotten their feet wet in the online realistic world Second Life, where millions of users interact with each another through avatars. Companies crapper delude their goods and services and sponsor events in Second Life just as they do in the real world; one sponsored a contest for the prizewinning avatar.

Others are considering newborn ways to ingest more-familiar tools. For instance, whatever companies hit long used instant messaging on their Web sites to allow shoppers to chat with customer-service representatives. One chief we spoke with said he would like to experiment with allowing consumers to chat with each another as they class on his company’s site.

Luxury Apartments and Accommodation, Taupo, New Zealand

November 30, 2008 by Matt Turner

110 is an outstanding lakefront apartment, with panoramic views of Lake Taupo and the volcanic plateau beyond.

This modern, luxurious apartment comprises a super-king (share-twin) suite with walk-in wardrobe and full en suite; separate queen and twin bedrooms; a second bathroom; gourmet kitchen and alfresco dining.

The décor features contemporary New Zealand art and connections for high speed internet, fax and phone. A haven for all seasons, other features include front and back sun decks, central and under floor heating, a laundry, 3 car parks and shared swimming pool and gym facilities.

Short or long-term guests are always welcome.

A home for the Taupo holiday experience or a special event – perhaps Taupo apartment accommodation, maybe a luxury apartment in Taupo? There are many choices for Accommodation when you choose to holiday in Taupo, but if you’re looking for something special, there’s a great little luxury apartment for you to check out at 110 lake terrace, Taupo. 110 Lake Terrace offers luxury self contained apartment accommodation with views looking out over Lake Taupo, New Zealand (NZ), and the volcanic plateau beyond.

This luxury apartments’ array of design features create a modern ‘global’ combination of comfort, style and apartment accommodation luxury. With timeless elegance, the interior style demonstrates an exceptional panache and flair, you’ll feel at home in the lap of luxury at the 110 Lake Terrace apartment.

110 Lake Terrace offers luxury self-contained apartment accommodation on the water’s edge at a level of sophistication that is virtually unmatched in Taupo.

While in Taupo there are many Holiday attractions to experience as well as Taupo’s free attractions for holidaying visitors. Find out more facts about Taupo.

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Okay that’s it I’m outta here.

July 10, 2008 by Matt Turner

Okay so the journal didn’t work.

The big vent didn’t help either. Not sure blogging is the best platform for the traditional vent.

But I still want to start a business blog. So I will.

I’m off to http://smallbusinesspromotion.info

Seeya there!!! Bye now!

not Venting and not bootstrapping

June 27, 2008 by Matt Turner

Mmmm. Venting probably not the best idea because it associates negative vibes with my blog.

oh . . . not for you! For me. I had a nice thing going there!

But anyway.

The thing I like about bootstrapping is saving money. Now I’ve actually spent money trying to get a new project off the ground . . . mmm well I kinda realise what it’s like for my clients paying to bring in someone to sort it out for you and being anxious about the results.

But back to bootstrapping, I wish I could just do everything my self, thats how I’ve always managed. My problem is as an entrepreneur it’s all very well to wail and gnash that things aren’t good enough but that’s the way it is when you don’t have massive funds and massive support networks of personel with a range of skills.

You cant do everything yourself.