Promotional Marketing And Advertising

Creating Maximum Exposure
By: James A. Warholic

Promoting a multimillion dollar a year company in a local or global community involves taking into consideration a number of different aspects from both the traditional and non-traditional forms of media publicity exposure.

Brand First And Foremost

Given the fact that brand exposure and brand recognition are critical to the success of a business it is one of the most important aspects of promoting a company. Much has been developed by strategic marketing firms that really have a great understanding of promoting a client's brand in the local or global community through radio, television, news articles, publications, newspaper advertising, etc. etc. However, many of these large and very successful marketing companies that represent their clients' branded images through customer service or public relations strategies, lack an understanding of the Internet.

Many strategic marketing firms take a somewhat of a glib Web attitude toward developing a good brand reach and recognition through the clients' websites. This can be seen even in some promotional marketing firms in the way they promote their own websites.

No One Can Be An Expert at Everything

International Promotional Marketing And Advertising firms today have come out of a pre Search Engine mold. That is to say, they know some of the best promotional marketing practices and have solid advertising backgrounds to promote their clients, but have not developed that into an effective Internet marketing and Online advertising area, or search engine expertise. The sales, marketing, and advertising mold is based on what worked in television, radio, and newspaper advertising.

Advertising on the television was done with the premise of gaining the attention of the viewer. Radio advertising had similar ideas of making sure the message would get remembered through music jingles, key sayings, or other creative forms of sound attention remembering ads. Newspaper advertising is done with repetition in mind. Selecting the right ad size, what it says, and the placement and page selection for effective communication and persuasion are just a few of the items to consider. See Fishing For Customers

Internet Marketing, Online Advertising, Email Marketing

The Internet marketing, online advertising, and email marketing are not your traditional forms of media exposure. They do not follow the exact same keys to success that are established by sales and marketing superstars. Each of these three Internet related categories, (Internet marketing, Online advertising, and Email marketing) are unique in the approach toward successfully implementing them into an effective promotional strategy.

Considerations of the ever changing technology, from search engine algorithms, new visual and auditory website schemes for effective communication, and the habits and pulse of the target audience are important when developing a successful Internet strategy for promoting your company online. Not understanding any one of these areas can severely limit your online exposure.

The Search Engine Example

Take for example a company creating a Flash Intro to their website. The sales and marketing people thought a nice looking moving advertisement would look wonderful to a prospect. However, they did not consider that a potential prospect might never find them online because the Flash Intro caused a blockage from the Search Engine Robot's world. To top that off, the name of the company is being copied by others online and their competitors' websites are showing up in the search results instead of their own.

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Global Sales And Marketing

In today's market place simply having a website Online is not enough to achieve higher Internet sales volume.

In order to achieve more Online sales requires a commitment of time and finances, toward a complete Internet marketing system involving sales and marketing personnel, website designers, IT departments, content managers, and upper management. Upper management from the President on down, needs to have an understanding of the customer base and how to properly target the website to that customer base. It will take collaboration from every single level of support. Presidents, CEOs and other corporate executives will need to have a more thorough understanding of the Internet and the technology available to promote their company online.

Companies will have to become educated on the understanding of how Search Engines function, ethical business practices in SEO, Search Engine Optimization, and a much more thorough understanding of why certain websites will need to be more visually graphic and others will need to be more text informative from a search marketing perspective.

Brand Image and Brand Awareness Will also Continue to Play a large Internet Factor on Website Development

Ethics and Internet ethics will be an important key to businesses online. The brand perception of the public about a company's ethical or nonethical business practices will be of greater importance as time goes on. Just take a look at the latest hidden keyword business practices that BMW was doing on their website along with thousands of other websites that got removed from the Google Search index back in 2004 when an unethical SEO company performed massive redirects for their clients' websites and created doorway pages filled with spam. All of these factors can significantly hurt a company's sales. Read this story.

As Web technology changes and improves, the website personnel will have to adapt strategically to new challenges and stay fresh from a B2B or B2C standpoint to create the largest marketing and advertising impact. How well companies do this will reflect in their online sales and the bottom-line.

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