Learning from Looking to Gain Marketing Success

June 27th, 2010

Thinking about what works for Many

Take a look at any kind of promotion that seems to work like many of the people who believe only making headlines from swipe files works because they have worked before.The most interesting promotional methods are not a bunch of predefined facts but a blend of interesting insights to the product and selling online is no different to what sold to people in magazines and flyers for many years before the internet.

Facts alone will not sell

Just writing down that something is great is not enough when selling a product there is an Artistic way of making that promotional statement stand out. I have been taking some extra care now with my other blog before I choose to publish because of many reasons one of them was although my ideas were good at the time I wrote them I did not invest enough time into making those ideas convert better or making the posts a little more interesting.

Editing Older Content that could have potential to sell

Most of my posts were just rants but I can still edit and try make those posts into content that converts better by editing the material. When we start a new website we think that we have to feed our readers with fresh content because we are being told by many A-listers that it's the best way to promote our blogs.But this makes us panic publish and not planned publishing of our posts giving us little time to reasearch and learn form other Bloggers and Marketers.

Putting more Time into Content Creation

If we are not doing any social networking and spending time commenting on blogs and posting in forums we are never going to make it big in the blogosphere. But is this just a lie that we are being told to keep us one more step behind in our online ventures.Today I was reading an Article @costafong where he spoke about how often you should update your blog a very interesting read and his statement was backed up by none other that Matt Cutts in some video footage. If we were to invest even a fraction of the time we spend on our computers devoted to content creation and not content promotion we would have something worth promoting and would we not have 100's or 1000's of extra subscribers and visitors to our blogs and be more interesting to follow on Twitter than someone just posting a link everyday to their latest blog post.