By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 30, 2006 in Marketing Strategy, Increase Conversion Rate, General, SEO | 0 Comments
What am I talking about?
Hopefully you know that tracking the conversion rate of your website is a good idea, but what about your sales operators who pick up the phone and actually speak to a live person?
I am amazed how this aspect is overlooked by business owners. I mean, you sit there and work on […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 29, 2006 in Marketing Tools, Google, General, PPC (Pay Per Click) | 0 Comments
Google offers a pretty OK software to help you create Pay Per Click campaigns. Here is the download link … http://services.google.com/adwordseditor/
Since this software is still in BETA, you will most definitely find bugs and things malfunctioning, yet this is a great tool if you need to update your campaigns and ads.
For example .. I […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 29, 2006 in Marketing Strategy, Customer Service, General, Traditional Marketing, Online Marketing | 1 Comment
You heard this before. “Build a community within your business” “Look at what Build-a-Bear-Company did” “Look at the Harley Davidson and their community” “Community equals loyal customers.”
I couldn’t agree more, but what are some ways of building a community in the online world as well as the offline world?
Community = bringing people together. Few ways […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 28, 2006 in Link Building, Google, Marketing Strategy, General, Online Marketing, SEO | 2 Comments
Many people think that having keywords in your website’s URL address can be beneficial to Google rankings. It is “somewhat” true but not in a direct way. Here is what I mean.
Google does not look at your URL and tell it’s self … “wow, they got the URL, so let’s rank them high”. So you […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 27, 2006 in Google, General, SEO | 0 Comments
Popular discussion in the circle of webmasters and marketers is the duplicate content penalty from Google. It all started when SEOs wanted to fool google with repetitive, keyword rich content to rank higher on the Google search engine.
Whether duplicate content penalty exists or not there are a few things to consider.
Google does not want to […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 26, 2006 in Book Reviews, General | 0 Comments
Great title Seth. The real name of the book would be “All Marketers Are Storytellers”, but it would be a bit boring.
I found this book to be unique in it’s content. There was that main idea that consumers buy the story, not the product and this theory applies to many products and services. Just look […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 23, 2006 in Business Wisdom, Marketing Strategy, Customer Service, General, Traditional Marketing | 0 Comments
Listen, educate and then sell. Sounds so simple but why can’t sales people follow this path?
I speak to many sales people on a daily basis. Sometimes I need a special software to handle our tasks and sometimes I need services to help out. It’s unfortunate that 9 out of 10 times the sales person will […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 22, 2006 in Link Building, Affiliate Marketing, General, SEO | 2 Comments
Many companies started their affiliate programs mainly for the reason to get relevant clean links to help in their SEO (search engine optimization) efforts. Did it work for them? For some I am sure it did, but when you try to catch two rabbits at the same time, you might just loose both of them.
Here is what […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 20, 2006 in Increase Conversion Rate, General, Online Marketing | 0 Comments
There are hundreds of different reports we can create. We can see who, what, when and how someone navigates the site, but our web analytics won’t tell us WHY. As marketers and “web analytics gurus” we need to figure it out by ourselves using the reports we create.
I consulted a company that created about 40 […]
By Igor Mordkovich on Jun 19, 2006 in Business Wisdom, General | 2 Comments
Most business owners consider themselves to be an entrepreneur material, OR better yet, “Born Entrepreneur” and that’s great, but sometimes this can get in a way of their business when they think they can do it all.
I am talking about business owners in the stage of a start up trying to save costs by doing things […]