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  • How To Find Commercial Intent Keywords

    I’ve been getting questions about keyword research, how to find “buying” keywords. I’ll give you the answer in two parts. First up are two popular keyword tools. The Wordtracker Labs Question Tool and the Google Keyword Research Tool.

    For example, if your market is in the weight loss niche, just type in the root word ‘weight’ and look at the results.

    The Wordtracker tool shows the questions that people are asking. Every one of these questions would make an excellent blog post, or article.

    Put the question as the title of your page, or post, for maximum SEO benefit. Then proceed to answer the question in your content.

    The Google tool is sorted by relevance when you open it. That’s a key point to remember.

    Most people look at the numbers and sort by competition or searches. That’s the wrong way to go about it… at first.

    The right way to find the content that should be on your page, is to not click on anything. The moment you search for your root word ‘weight’ the Google tool sorts by relevance.

    The competition, number of searches, trends, etc, are all irrelevant at this moment. What matters are the keywords in the order they appear.

    So if you scan your eyes down the keyword column, those are the keywords – according to Google’s LSI engine – that should appear in your pages and posts.

    As for what to sell, go to Amazon.com. Type in your keywords, then click on the drop down menu where it says, Choose a Department to enable sorting. Choose to sort by best selling.

    The resulting list from Amazon, features the hottest selling products in America right now. You’d be wise to feature similar products on your sales pages.

    As for the second half of the question, about the “buyer” keywords, there used to be a tool by MSN to look up commercial intent. It’s constantly being hammered by bots, so it’s rarely available.

    If you can’t get the MSN tool to work, you can use the Google tool as a “commercial barometer” of sorts. Once you enter your root term, look for the Columns button and select Show All columns. The results will refresh with new data.

    Look at the estimated CPC or cost per click. That will show you the “commercial” keywords most likely to convert for the advertiser. The logic being, that most people won’t throw their ad budgets into non converting phrases.

    To get true commercial intent though, we have to go back to the old school method. That means a combo of common sense, linguistics and server logs.

    Here are some hot keywords with great commercial intent. They are very likely to lead to a sale.

    Hot Keywords; refill, removal, service, solutions, retailers, store, sale, buy, where to, get, purchase, fix, rent, parts, repair, relief, cure, stop, replacement, reservation, reserve, book (as in booking a flight, or room).

    Here are some warm keywords that are commercial in nature, but the intent isn’t quite as clear. They are more research based and informational in nature. They may, or may not lead to a sale.

    Warm Keywords; help, tips, advice, information, news, recipes, articles, newest, improve, training, courses, prevent, create, prepare, instructions, learn, info, start, how to, compare, reviews, shop.

    A few words you may want to avoid, because they’re competing on price alone are; discount, cheap, specials, prices. And a few words if you’re selling to businesses might be; bulk, wholesale, volume, suppliers.

    As a general rule of thumb, but not always, long tail keywords that are very specific, are usually commercial in nature. The head of the search, which uses short generic phrases, are used for information gathering and research.

    For example, the head phrase ‘cell phone‘ could be about anything. It could be about networks, tethering, GPS, accessories, makes, models, model numbers, comparisons, general info, history, GSM, technology, etc.

    Even the phrase ‘buy cell phone‘ although commercial in nature and intent, leaves the search engine scratching it’s noggin wondering… Ok, what make and model number? New or used? What carrier? Retail or wholesale? Local or national?

    To convert into a sale, the search needs to be more specific. Most likely it will be a long tail phrase. The research will be over. And the prospect will be in a buying mood.

    For example, if someone is searching for the phrase ‘buy nokia n95 replacement battery‘ there’s little doubt as to the commercial nature, or their intent. You might even want to use that exact phrase as your page title. :-)

    The same holds true for other accessories and parts. Words like; charger, adapter, handsfree, handsfree kit, leather case, antenna, passive repeater, power supply, wall adapter, etc.

    If you combine a make and model number, along with an accessory, you’re pretty much assured that the searcher knows what they want. Then, if you add in a couple of hot ‘commercial intent’ keywords, and combine them with that make and model, you’re pretty much assured of making the sale.

  • What makes a great Digital Marketer?

    A good digital marketer is one who knows the basics of 12 modules of digital marketing —

    • Search Engine Optimization (SEO),
    • Search Engine Marketing (SEM),
    • Social Media Marketing,
    • Affiliate Marketing,
    • Google AdSense,
    • Web Analytics,
    • Online Reputation Management,
    • Copywriting,
    • Design,
    • Email Marketing,
    • SEO and
    • Pay Per Click.

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  • InstaMate 2.0 Review

    Instamate-Instagram-Marketing-Software-Solution-ReviewWelcome to my InstaMate Review, an Instagram Marketing software created by Luke Maguire.

    Instagramis an important channel to distribute your content.

    I promise you, that this will be the most detailed and in-depth review of Instamate which you’ll find online. No fillers, no fluff.

    My goal is to give you all the information you need to know to make your very own buying decision which will be based on real facts and not on some marketing hype which you usually get or see. (more…)

  • Top 10 social media sites that will help your business in a big way

    Many businesses just shy away from making their presence felt online. The reasons can be myriad, but new-age businesses need to be nimble and agile to capture new customers. With the help of social networking sites, any business can promote their services and products with ease and greater return on investments. Digital marketing revolution has begun and we all are in the digital ship sailing through the information tsunami.

    Take any social networking site today, the plethora of content that we see is phenomenal. In this age of digital revolution, businesses need to be present everywhere – sort of omnipresence. But it is truly not possible to be present everywhere. All you need to do is pick and choose the social media sites that will make you a hit over time.

    Look at these statistics – Facebook has over 1.2 daily active users all across the world, Twitter has over 313 million active users and LinkedIn over 450 million users. Come to think of it – if you making your present felt only on Facebook, for example, you will be promoting your product or service to the 1.2 billion people – which is almost the size of India’s population.

    Let’s look at the top 10 social networking sites that you ought to be present.

    1. Facebook
    2. Youtube
    3. Twitter
    4. LinkedIn
    5. Pinterest
    6. Google Plus+
    7. Tumblr
    8. Instagram
    9. Reddit
    10. VK

    And here are some big numbers that will probably convince you.

     

    If you are not tapping at least 6 out of 10, then your business is at peril.

  • The Value of Paid Advertising

    The Value of Paid Advertising

    It was the peak time when we noticed the increase in number of project proposals our company was receiving.  We analysed all our tasks performed that lead us to such success. 60% of our project proposals were from various Paid Media solutions. By then we started using Google Adwords, Facebook Ads and local directories. Campaign analysis has proved us that it is worth investing for the Paid Media. Paid media is one such medium, that may help us reach to larger volume of audience. I noted my observation this time. Unlike the organic campaign, it eased us to analyse every  prospect’s behaviour, every campaign activity. The best part is that we were able to execute multiple split tests.

    So, here is the glimpse of how Paid Marketing actually benefit our team!

    Be it Pay per click for Ad Words or the Facebook ads, declination in Facebook, the new Instagram algorithm, real-time nature of Twitter have engaged brands to invest in the paid media, to amplify content to right audience, who actually are seeking right information at right time.

    When it comes to the organic-unpaid marketing, it retains its value and result only when it reaches to the audience in its reach. Just reaching the minimal of 2 to 3% of the followers, has showed the minimal impact. It doesn’t create the brand’s effectiveness.

    By utilising high scale of targeting accuracy and analytical calibre, every social  media platform has built features that deliver against their business objectives. Paid marketing activities add the supporting value to the authorised media content to drive campaign results for enhanced reach.

    Benefits of Paid Media Activity:

    • Optimised: The advertiser can set the target audience within specific segments, complete adjustments over the ad format, messaging strategy and also set frequency capping for his messages being delivered.
    • Scale: Paid marketing enables marketers to reach higher number of users who will re-visit site or serve the purpose of campaign.
    • High-level targeting: Retaining the engaged customers when luring the new fans for the business. Maintain the business consistency, High targeting capabilities to attain accurate audience to re-utilise their customer data to create lookalike audiences. For the product based-companies, third party data companies enable advertisers  target users in segment of  offline- buyers.
    • Bidding:Customised bid types to augment towards the variety of campaign objectives.
    • Optimisation: The optimisation of the paid media helps to gain a specific goal along with the reach , either to the social engagement or conversion.
    • Tracking: The pixel tracking capabilities is unique for every type of marketing, be it unpaid or paid marketing. The best thing about tracking is that, two or more tracking pixels can be embedded to single paid marketing campaign.
    • Analytics : After every marketing campaign, analytics not only help our paid marketing campaign tracking, but also deliver the efficiency to choose the best performing Paid Marketing to set up our strategy.

    So though it is important to implement and nurture the site with organic search, it is equally important  to opt in for the Paid Media Marketing options. Paid marketing options like Google Adwords, PPC are the ones to be utilised with the focus factor to gain more visibility online. Adhering to avoid the black-hat Paid marketing techniques is an added advantage.

    PAID MARKETING IS COST EFFECTIVE!

    Yes, until you invest in your business in a smart way, you will not be convinced with my words!
    So, how do you invest in a cost effective manner? Here are the few highlighting points that can step in now and see the change!

    • Always make  note of every detail you append within the campaigns.
    • Nourish the lists you build.
    • Automate to build, align and engage your email lists.
    • Automate your audience engagement workflow.
    • Adapt using the Google Adwords to its fullest, i.e integrating the offline email lists and workflows with online lists built.

    Hope you enjoyed understanding my experience overview with Paid Marketing!  Learn more about Paid Marketing and its elements here.

  • Leveraging the resources of your business

    Limited resources is what the startups have at sprouting stage. So, there is a particular stage that team consists only of Founders. Belittle, they do not tend to opt paid promotions. If the start up is all about the product, it’s necessary for the modern age start-ups to go ahead and also produce quality content about the product along with the ways to market it.

    When it comes to services, the start ups need to have the fundamental group of audience who would take up their services. The alternative is to provide its target customers with some unique services, which no other might provide.
    It is equally important to have diverse segment of people handling and managing complete business the main elements as Planning, Operations, Technology and marketing.
    So, it is the need of the hour to analyse how much does each of the element contribute towards the business success?

    United we stand, Divided we fall

    So, how does this apply to the start ups?
    When each of the element is executed, start up is making progress in the integrated aspects.

    PLANNING

    It is very much important for a start up to plan, prepare a strategy, analyse the strategy and also execute the plan. Planning is something which we do for a  short term and long term basis. Every segment of the start up needs to give their inputs for the planning in the initial stages.
    Brainstorming the ideas during pre- planning would help to collect all the ideas.
    Scheduling the ideas and collected plans during Planning phase helps the start ups to grow in the right direction.
    When the plan is ready, it is important to first analyse before expelling it to the entire team.

    OPERATIONS

    Operations play vital role. These help the planning be sorted and are purposefully intended to manage the plan of action. These operations also need to adopt various techniques as testing which type of execution helps the best in its operations. Operations  needs to inculcate the marketing strategies too!

    TECHNOLOGY

    Technology team is spread-over the entire start up. These are supposed to come up with new ways of how the operations, promotions and marketing are carried off. Technology is to cater its orientation to the best use of new featured tools about how better and cost effective ways can be incorporated for the improving the execution pace.

    MARKETING

    Here is where the team represents the start up. Marketing team needs to receive support from the Planning, Operations and Technology team to serve their purpose better.  and then Boom! Branding starts off!

    The key of success to pace up your propeller Planning by diversifying the time allotted for each of the above segment to enhance the execution. Every team with its respective execution is what is going to update the start up with successful step ups.

    Hope you enjoyed our article, if so, do comment below your inputs.

  • Video Wave Pro Review & Product Tour

    video waveVideo marketing is hot and there are even statistics that say, that within the next 1-2 years, more than 60% of traffic will come from videos. So if you’re not doing any kind of video marketing yourself, then you really should think about that.

    Video Wave claims to be the one tool which lets you easily create stunning videos and get them ranked on YouTube as well as Google within a short time and with just a few clicks! But can they really deliver on their claim or is it just another big hyped up marketing slang they use to get your money? Keep on reading to get all the facts and find out the truth. (more…)

  • Increasing GDP Through Gender Parity

    When it comes to arguments in support of workplace gender equality, proponents typically describe the issues in terms of fundamental fairness. However, there is another approach currently afoot that is centered more around economic common sense.

    The McKinsey Global Institute has released a report suggesting that the GDP of the United States could grow by an additional $2.1 trillion in just 20 years’ time if individual states made efforts to boost the female rate of workforce participation, raise their number of work hours and encourage them to enter employment sectors with greater productivity. The earning potential of American women has long been hampered by their traditional performance of nearly twice the amount of unpaid care taking than men, such as child rearing, housekeeping and more.

    The assessment from McKinsey argues that states need to be emulating the progress on such issues that has been achieved by states including New York, Texas and North Carolina if the nation’s true potential is to be fully tapped.

    Addressing the gulf in these areas could grow U.S. GDP by at least 5% in all states, with half of the country likely able to grow by no less than 10%, states the report. Of course, to achieve these goals, the country’s leadership must take steps to pump approximately $475 billion into the economy for the creation of over 6 million jobs and to pay for the child care services necessary to allow for the GDP-boosting workforce participation of women.

    When analyzed in comparison with other nations, the United States is characterized by relatively low to moderate levels of overall gender disparity in terms of actual workforce presence, the number of women in professional roles and their degree of educational attainment. However, the United States ranks much higher on the inequality scale for things such as the number of women in leadership roles, the amount of unpaid care taking they do and their degree of political representation. The rates of teen pregnancy, single parenthood and other factors have also contributed to these disparities, the study reveals.

    The primary author of the McKinsey study emphasizes that it will remain impossible to harness the $2 trillion potential, provided these societal gulfs are not directly addressed.

    Issues of gender inequality have taken center stage in the current presidential race. Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton has argued that the economic well-being of American families depends on eliminating pay disparities based on gender, as have key members of the Obama administration.

  • Trade Show Displays

    Many people know what trade show displays are when they see them, but they could not tell you much about them. There are a rather large variety of make and models for trade show displays. It all just depends on the type of display that you are looking for or the area that you will be advertising. There are several things to consider when purchasing trade show displays such as size, weight, cost, and mobility. Below is a list of some of the most popular forms of trade show displays.

    Banner-up

    The banner up is probably one of the most common trade show displays. It is unit with an average size of 3’ x 7’ that displays generally a vinyl banner. The nice thing about the banner-up display is that the poles easily pull out of the back of the display and the banner conveniently rolls up into the unit. The poles and unit can fit easily into a carrying bag that makes the transportation of the unit rather simple.

    Adding A Photo Activation

    If you’ve got the budget, you’ve always got the chance to hire a third party to build you a custom photo booth activation. Doing things this way can help take some of the work off your hands and give your trade show visitors something they’ll remember. If you haven’t got the time or ability to do something yourself, hiring an expert to handle everything is a great choice.

    8’ POP-Up Display

    trade show displaysThe 8’ pop-up display is more common for people that will not be supplied cubicles or specialized areas for their company. The display often can come with lights, and the carrying unit can convert into a podium. This is an excellent unit for someone that may have a large variety of information that they need to cover, will need to change information often, or would like to have a transportable back-drop for when they give their presentations.

    Xpand Pop-up Displays

    This are extremely cost effective displays that are extremely easy to setup. They come in a variety of sizes, but the setup consists of basically unfolding the display and giving it a little shake. The units a rather in expensive because they are made out board versus vinyl, so this is a great display option for a company that may need a large quantity of displays.

    Trade show displays are a great way to extend the visibility of your company so that individuals attending a trade show can easily find your company. It is also a great way to be able to provide a decent amount of information that people can see as they are approaching. There are quite a large variety of displays, so it should be easy to find a display that fits your trade show needs rather easily. Just keep in mind that you have a limited amount of space available to you so do not order a display that will not fit in your area.

  • What is an advertisement plan (and its contents)?

    Question by windleox: What is an advertisement plan (and its contents)?

    I am asked to become an advertisement plan expert for my marketing class. That is I have to know what an advertisement plan is and what contents are in the plan.

    I wouldn’t mind looking for reference in my school library, but I have no idea what keywords I should look for.

    Any helps would be appreciated. Thank you.

    Best answer:

    Answer by ALASKA F

    First you have to identify your market clientele Men/women/animals????
    Then their demographics where they are what they do.
    Target the group .Age, sex, preference, single married,……….
    How do you reach them?
    Sunbathers tow a banner on the beach……
    Pilots at airport or flying magi zens……
    scuba divers dive shops or magi zines…..
    you get the picture
    about 15% of your gross income should go back in to advertisement.
    Be very careful where you spend you advertising dollar,
    Possibly have a article written about your service in the trade publication for trade of the product, this only cost a small amount compared to the return,
    Do some thing out-landesh to get attention, climb a tall building with your web site written on your back. hide out behind new paper reporters with your web site in the background.
    Think if you were the one who wanted the product, where would you go to find it.
    good luck there are a lot of people out there.

    Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!