{"id":25558,"date":"2016-12-29T01:03:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/?p=25558"},"modified":"2023-03-14T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:11:55","slug":"reap-what-you-sow-online-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andysowards.com\/blog\/2016\/reap-what-you-sow-online-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"You Always Reap What You Sow With Online Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you start a business online, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lie that some smart spark will always tell you. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry about marketing and promotion. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re running an online company, marketing is free! Oh, is it really? When then, you might ask, why is the online marketing industry now worth billions.? Oh dear, so many silly people buying marketing that they apparently don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need. The answer of course is simple. Online marketing isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t free. What they should actually say is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible to market your business for free online because it is. You just won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see results anywhere near the level that people who use professional services and products do. We can look at each form of online marketing systematically to figure out why this is the case.<\/p>\n

Surely Using Social Media Is Free?<\/h3>\n

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Of course it is, you feel free to set up as many accounts and profiles as you like online. You can have one on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many, many more. However, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no guarantee that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to get interest from customers or receive many follows and likes. To get attention online, you need to organize a full assault on users. They need to be hit with reminders that you exist every time they use social media. The problem here is time. Do you have time to add new content every day all day with multiple pieces each hour? Are you ready to promote it, produce it and basically sell it so that people share it increasing your ranking? If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not then, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to struggle. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why you need to hire a social media expert to handle your accounts. Most big businesses have more than one person working on their social media.<\/p>\n

SEO Is Simple Though?<\/h3>\n

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The basic form of SEO is quite simple. You add links, keywords that connect with your topic and theoretically customers will find your site. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably the basic understanding that most business owners have of what SEO is and how it works. But is that the full story? No, because even social media is now a part of SEO as well as whether the content you product is trending. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the fact that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very easy to slip into using what are SEO tactics that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t embraced or accepted by Google. If you do this you will damage your search ranking and SEO companies know this. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why they no longer use them and instead focus on more subtle methods of boosting the ranking. Again, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why you should invest in their services.<\/p>\n

Ah, But Content IS Clear And Clever<\/h3>\n

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It will be if you have someone that knows how to write and produce content which appeals to customers. For every piece of content that goes viral, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shared by a single person. This is why you need a pro working on your campaign. If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have their help then your content will probably just be ignored completely.<\/p>\n

We hope you see now how you get what you pay for with online marketing. Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth making a larger investment<\/a> to get a greater return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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