Website Marketing – Making Your Website Work For You

by David Curtis on 09/28/2011

THE FCC – TRUTH IN ADVERTISING – FULL DISCLOSURE – TELLING THE TRUTH

Customer Testimonials: The FCC demands truth in advertising, full disclosures and yada yada. But people who are professional marketers (those guys who actually graduate from college with degrees in this stuff as well as the marketing gurus everyone loves to quote) – and I do know some of them personally and I do call them friends and they do trust me – will say “Use customer testimonials. Make them up if you don’t have any”. And they’re serious. “Make them up if you don’t have any, it doesn’t matter”. What DOES matter to them is that they get you to buy into what they’re selling so they can meet their annual goals of making $100,000 or $200,000 (actual stated and obtained goals) selling marketing to businesses.

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS – yes, some sites testimonials ARE legit but can you tell which are and which aren’t?
That said – I’m not trying to give away the greatest marketing gimmick in the world for free “Just create dozens of fake customer testimonials and quadruple your online sales”… no, not at all. What I’m SAYING is that most other sites out there getting you to sign up for their marketing, telling you how cheap and easy it is, giving you testimonial after testimonial (some are “legit” – in other words some are their closest friends and family who will gladly answer the phone supplied as a referral and rave about the marketing services in question). The TRUTH is what I’m giving you – you may not like it, you may prefer to be deceived and lose money just so you can sit back and remain inside of your comfort zone, but the TRUTH is what you’re going to get. Leave now if you don’t want it.

MOST BUSINESSES TODAY WANT MORE CONTROL – DO IT YOURSELF SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and DO IT YOURSELF WEB MARKETING

I’ve given clients excellent information and instruction and even supplied some of the more astute ones with books, access to my own online services accounts so they can do their own keyword research, and designed their sites so they can update them themselves (add new products, new pages and sections, write and send their own email newsletters and so forth.

Customer testimonials on how EASY it is to market yourself:

“This shit is a full time job”

“I need to hire a fucking person to do this shit”

“Holy crap, the work!”

(NOTE: it is advised to clean up testimonials and correct spelling/grammar mistakes, etc. to increase effectiveness. I’m giving it to you raw the way client’s really communicate with me).

IF YOU HAVE NO FEAR OF SUCCESS – If you can take direction and understand there’s a whole new way of dealing with marketing on the web then you can move up and compete in the next higher level of competition and the one above that.
And those are just a very few – all the same – from people who actually took the time and made the effort to learn how web marketing actually works. So now we get to the “guaranteed results for only $600″ or some other such nonsensical claim. That said just buying a racing car (or a high powered SEO / Marketing site setup) doesn’t turn you into a racing car driver or turn your site into a marketing juggernaut without someone controlling it. You CAN be taught to take control – and YOU WILL COMPETE AT LEVELS YOU DIDN’T THINK YOU COULD REACH driving the family car or the standard site. You will pay more but you will make much more and move up to a new level of success. If you’re ready for success, if you’re not afraid of success, if you know how to take instruction and aren’t the type who knows everything there is to know in a day – then here it is – Quick and Easy Q: What do I charge?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.

Do not throw your money away on the internet by NOT having search engine optimization performed on your web site. A web site is not an investment unless your site gets found by total strangers using the search engines every single day by people who don’t know you, your business, or your web site exists before they sit down at a computer to search for your type of products, services or information offered. Business is all about maximizing percentages and making less money from your web site’s potential is like not spending on a big enough sign in a really crowded area to bring in the business.

I do search engine optimization. I get Your Web Site Found. Call 917-460-8312. Videography, photography, web design, Social Media/ SEO and eMail Marketing and campaign management services.