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The Online Marketing Cash Funnel

What is the online marketing cash funnel you ask?  Simple: low-cost online marketing solutions that help your company meet and exceed its business objectives.

Though the Internet has been around for a long time, many companies are still struggling with how to take advantage of online marketing to improve their business.  For this reason, we decided to expose the elephant in the room and put together a survey to see how you could use online marketing to begin funneling success to your business.

When we recently surveyed 97 small businesses in and around New York, the overall question was simple: Is your website meeting your business objectives?  To answer, we asked these 97 businesses 9 important questions to discover whether the elephant was being ignored or whether it was being leveraged for success.

The results laid it out in plain English: Companies with Internet Marketing Strategies in place more often report that their website is meeting their business objectives.

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A Little Strategy Goes a Long Way

Of companies that reported that their website was meeting business objectives, 53% update their website weekly, and 72% update their site at least monthly.  Whether or not SEO is part of their marketing strategy, frequent updates help keep search engines hungry and coming back for more.  Even more importantly, updates keep the site fresh and relevant, showing a visitor that behind this site is a company that is constantly innovating and improving.

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The Number One Email Inhibitor

How many unread emails do you have in your in-box and what was your reason for ignoring them? Has your mother been emailing about how you don’t call enough? Are you ignoring online bills? Are you being solicited by men who need you to wire them $100,000 because they have been unjustly exiled from their home country?

Many recipients either unsubscribe or simply stop reading emails from online marketers. Year-after-year, in-box clutter has been the number one reason people resist emails, but this year, things have been turned on their head. A 2008 study from Marketingsherpa’s email summit in Miami has determined that in-box clutter is not the biggest problem – the problem is relevance.

Email Inhibitor

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Welcome To An Award-Winning Viral Campaign!

There have been many famous primates in entertainment over the years: Mighty Joe Young, King Kong, and George W. Bush. Curious George also enjoyed a number of years in the limelight and made a recent 2006 appearance  starring in his very own film… but all of these primates have been outshone. Welcome to the age of the Careerbuilder monkey.

In 2006, Careerbuilder created an award-winning viral email campaign called Monk-e-Mail by using its popular “monkey” TV creative and adapting it for online use. By using compelling creative and spending zero media dollars , Careerbuilder was able to craft an incredibly successful viral email campaign. To this day, Careerbuilder’s viral campaign is still running strong and has been sent from user-to-user and parodied countless times. Your business can learn from Careerbuilder when putting together its own viral campaign.

Careerbuilder’s Viral Monk-e-Mail Campaign Background

The Monk-e-Mail Creative:
Careerbuilder’s viral campaign creative featured a landing page to attract customers using its established “Working With Monkeys” creative. The page directed you to create a custom accessorized monkey (wigs included!), record a message, and send it to your friends, family, or coworkers for their amusement.

Career Builder's Monk-E-Mail Site

Career Builder's Monk-e-Mail Site

The Monk-e-Mail Media:
With a media budget of $0  dollars, the only way to hear about Monk-e-Mail was to receive an email from a friend, hear about it via word-of-mouth, find it through Careerbuilder’s website, or read about it in the press.

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The Best and Worst Online B2C Practices to Boost ROI in 2009

Many online marketing companies want to know the numbers: what are the B2C (business to consumer) online marketing BEST practices to generate the greatest possible ROI?

Well look no further as we have numbers for your digestion.

Business to Consumer Marketing Best Practices

Business to Consumer Marketing Best Practices

According to a year-end survey by marketingsherpa, B2C marketers responded that house email, SEO and paid search earned the highest ROI in the 4th Quarter of 2008. B2C marketers plan on increasing their budgets in these 3 areas of best practice.

The worst ROI happens to be the little blue blip at the bottom of the chart. Pop-ups and pop-unders are known as display advertising to the marketing world and confounded nuisances to the rest of the world. Surprisingly, only 30% to 40% of B2C online marketers ranked pop-ups and pop-unders as a best practice for ROI.

This chart should serve as a beacon for online marketers currently planning and revising 2009 budgets. Just follow the blue, brown, orange, pink, green and purple. It’s that simple.

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