Six Sigma is a principle of quality improvement business management strategy originally developed by Motorola Inc. and popularly implemented by the manufacturing industry e.g. in the electronics and automobile sectors . It provides a standard method of defining analyzing a problem and then coming up with improvement plans all the way down to monitoring and assessing the results. As you ll soon see it can also be applied to SEO….
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Have you ever come across the saying “analysis – paralysis?” This is a superb phrase that ideally describes the processes and difficulties faced by a large number of entrepreneurs in this day and age. Just about anyone can easily end up spending most of their time thinking to themselves “what if”, and going over – repeatedly, the very reasoning behind their endeavours, or they can press on ahead. You can ask yourself whether your marketing campaign will yield real results, or you can go for it and see what happens. Most of the time, the aspiring entrepreneur falls short and will turn away from his or her targets due specifically to this kind of analysis.
If you are establishing an online business, you know that you need to use the power of Internet marketing to help you become established, to make people aware of your existence and to draw them to your sales funnel. One of the best ways to do this is to use the power of article marketing. In spite of the fact that this has been proven time and again to be one of the most powerful ways of marketing your online business – and a crucial factor in website development as well, many people still second and third guess its effectiveness.
It is quite common for newcomers to the arena to be exposed to the power of article marketing and to fully understand and comprehend its concept, yet the character sitting on their shoulder whispers some words of doubt. It is not good enough to accept that article marketing has been around for a considerable period of time and has stood the test of that time, but rather the question arises once again whether it is “for you.”
Understand that time does not stand still and neither do your competitors. One of the most important traits that you can possess as an entrepreneur is the efficient use of time. Time management dictates that once you have decided upon a course of action, you put it in place and continue to move forward toward the goal. Over analysis just wastes time. Once you’ve decided, after due diligence and research that you have a course of action, you must be willing to act on this.
There are a lot of people out there who see article marketing as a process which just takes too much time. The actual fact is that this is one of the wonderful aspects of this particular approach. The creation of educational and informative content and the distribution to others can scarcely be a better way of informing people about your authority, expertise and ability to meet their needs. By the time prospects arrive at your website, they may be partly qualified as they will have read through the information that you are putting out and have decided that they need to move towards the next step.
As article marketing is by definition a process that takes time, it is common for people to start such a campaign and then to stop it. If you are creating good content and distributing it accordingly, the odds are that your article marketing campaign will work, but it will take your confidence and ability to continue with the process until you see results.
Many entrepreneurs do not feel confident enough to create the content themselves and this is where a ghostwriter can come in very handy indeed. Consider hiring a virtual assistant to help you create the content according to your requirements, and to help you distribute it to the best authority sites on the Internet. A dedicated approach here and a commitment to success will undoubtedly bring real results.
Michelle Dale is The Managing Director of Virtual Miss Friday, an Experienced Executive Virtual Assistant who collaborates with businesses and individuals with the sole aim of accomplishing their professional goals. Want to learn more about these comprehensive online business building success strategies? Contact VMF Today at=> http://www.virtualmissfriday.com
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Over Analysis Will Kill your Business
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Over Analysis Will Kill your Business
Everyday I receive marketing reports loaded with statistics and numbers that have the appearance of relevance but in fact merely mask the true meaning of what’s important: human emotions, not rational reasoning, are the subconscious basis for most decisions.
Reliance on rational quantitative analysis leads people to ask the wrong questions, implement the wrong solutions, and produce disappointing results.
Your website presentation is how you tap into your audience’s subconscious desires. If the feature-benefit approach hasn’t yielded the results you want, perhaps it’s time to try something different, and that starts with asking the right questions.
Website Presentations Are Evolving
The way material is presented on websites is evolving; delivering your core marketing message in an effective way requires the use of multiple presentation options, each aimed at an audience sector that prefers that particular information delivery method.
Some people prefer text as a way to get their information, however the vast majority of Web users find reading on a computer screen tedious, due to the resulting eyestrain. Some people prefer audio, which is easier to digest, but in a multitasking environment where attention wonders, engagement can be problematic. Then there is video which has the potential to make the most impact if it is done right, but which often is implemented in the most monotonous mind-numbing manner.
Doing it right involves understanding more than the technical issues involved in production; doing it right involves understanding how to maximize the psychological impact of content, performance, emotion, and perception.
A tool is only useful if you understand how to use it effectively. In that regard we have developed a series of questions that help businesses form the basis of generating an effective Web marketing presentation.
Questions That Need Answering
Who Are You, Really?
One of the hardest things website businesses have to do is gain people’s trust and confidence. Unlike face-to-face sales, websites are remote and often devoid of any engaging properties.
Your website needs to present a personality to which your audience can relate. What we are talking about here is the business’s personality not yours – it’s your brand image that’s important – Betty Crocker, the Geico Cavemen, and World’s Most Interesting Man from ‘Dos Equis’ beer, don’t exist, but they represent the brand personality.
1. Describe the identity, character, and personality of your business?
2. Is that personality presented in a manner that effectively captures the Web-audience’s imagination, and sticks in their memory?
3. Does your website presentation take a strong position or point-of-view?
What Do You Really Do?
Telling people what your company does, seems like a pretty fundamental question that every business owner and executive should be able to rattle off without hesitation
Answers to this question often fall into four categories: the one-word answer from those who think everything is a trade secret; a rambling technical explanation of everything ever done or intended; a series of clever sounding platitudes that sound impressive, mean nothing, and are instantly forgettable; or merely a presentation of products and services without reference to how they serve the audience’s interest.
4. What’s your business model?
5. What is your core, marketing message?
6. Does your marketing message resolve a conflict, solve a problem, tap into some hardwired desire, or profound influencing experience?
7. Does your marketing presentation present a surrogate personality to which your audience can vicariously relate?
8. Does your marketing message offer the hope of improving the business or personal lives of your audience?
Why Should Anyone Care?
A cell phone allows you to make phone calls, text message, and take pictures; lipstick colors your lips; and perfume makes you smell good – so what? What’s the real reason people buy what you sell; what’s the underlying need your offering fulfills? Cell phones provide a sense of connection and even safety; lipstick makes a woman feel confident in her appearance; and perfume triggers the pheromones that lead to attraction.
9. What’s your psychological and emotional attraction?
10. What makes you special, unique, or different from others in your business?
11. What element engages your audience and keeps them on your website long enough to hear your marketing presentation?
12. What element prompts viewers to tell colleagues and friends about your website/business?
Why Should Anyone Remember You?
Every company wants to make money, that’s not a goal it’s an imperative. But making money is a function of the decisions you make, and your ability to present what you do in the most engaging, compelling, persuasive, and above all memorable manner. After all, if no one remembers who you are and what you do, your business isn’t going to get very far.
13. Does your website tell a story?
14. Does your website delivery a bold, unexpected, entertaining, or emotionally charged experience?
15. Is your website psychologically and emotionally memorable? Does it tap into the hardwired desires and audience life-experiences that form attitudes and behavior?
Implementing Your Content
The preceding are only questions; what counts is how you implement the answers, and turn them into effective presentation. Try to take some risks, and think outside your common frame of reference.
The answer to how to deliver persuasive marketing is found in discovering and presenting the emotional and psychological motivation. Success in business is about solving people problems; try to use that perspective when answering these questions, keeping in mind that most decisions are made on an emotional level and not on a rational one.
Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia, a website design firm that specializes in Web-audio and Web-video. Visit http://www.mrpwebmedia.com/ads,
http://www.sonicpersonality.com, and http://www.136words.com. Contact at info@mrpwebmedia.com or telephone (905) 764-1246.
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Web-Marketing Analysis Questionnaire
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