In this business tv show, expert Stefan Tornquist, Research Director of Marketing Sherpa, reveals three things that a website must have if you want it to draw traffic, get that traffic to stick on the site, and make sales:
“Well I think the advice that would apply to anyone, whether you’re selling to huge companies or to consumers is to really simplify your website. I think a lot of us come into the online world from a traditional background we want things to be beautiful, we want things to be exciting especially if we have a compelling brand that we sort of, shown through the website but the more research we do the more, well at least I’m convinced that complicity and ease of use are really, they’re not just the important thing online, they are the only thing and the more we do, the more we see that simple websites with clean text people can instantly access and where the message and the action and the product is very easy to find, very easy to buy those are the sights that do very well so that’s the first piece of advice.
The second would be, clearly search has dramatically changed the way that all of use the web and marketers need to be highly conscious of that, we need to design our websites from the ground up to be friendly to the search engines because there’s nothing that pays better than a high natural search ranking. I’m sure all of you no but of course every website, every search website has a paid component and a natural component and that natural component is built by spiders crawling the web that look for content that is relevant so your site needs to be relevant in that topic area, whatever it is you sell, you need to have content on that site that is linked to it and the most important factor in raising your search ranking isn’t mega tags and it isn’t how you can describe yourself its how the rest of your site reflects your success in being relevant.
So the way that Google does that for instance, the primary way is by checking to see if other sites that they consider relevant in your topic area link to you because everyone of those links is an endorsement by a valued resource so if you sell shoes and bloggers who right about shoes link to your website your ranking is going to go up and that’s absolutely vital, whether you’re a new brand and or one that’s been around forever.
Finally and this is really unsexy is to not forget about email. I think all of us in our own lives may have a sense that you know my inbox is flooded with irrelevant material, is this still a compelling part of marketing, it absolutely is.
Only house email, email to people given, voluntarily given you their emails, it’s the only really good way online of creating a two way communication. Most companies do email very badly even those see high return for what they invest. The companies that do it right, it’s by far in a way the most successful tactic in terms of return on investment.”
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Google Boys. Andrew Hazen, President of Prime Visibility speaks with Google Boys regarding Search Engine Optimization and Marketing. 
In early 2008 I spoke at the Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar for my friends Buck Rizvi and Brock Felt. The attendees paid thousands to be there but I’m sharing my 3 hour presentation from the seminar with you for free. I outlined the social networking and web 2.0 strategies that I personally use to drive tons of traffic to build my list and make more sales. I covered dozens of topics including, but not limited to, internet marketing, creating a sales funnel, search engine optimization (seo), myspace, youtube, squidoo, email marketing, wordpress, rss feeds, openx ad server, affiliate marketing, blogs, getting more traffic to your sites, social profile pages, social networking, social media, and more!
The scoop on an Executive Education Course in Interactive Marketing being taught March 2-3 2009. Contact sharon@sierratecweb.com
In early 2008 I spoke at the Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar for my friends Buck Rizvi and Brock Felt. The attendees paid thousands to be there but I’m sharing my 3 hour presentation from the seminar with you for free. I outlined the social networking and web 2.0 strategies that I personally use to drive tons of traffic to build my list and make more sales. I covered dozens of topics including, but not limited to, internet marketing, creating a sales funnel, search engine optimization (seo), myspace, youtube, squidoo, email marketing, wordpress, rss feeds, openx ad server, affiliate marketing, blogs, getting more traffic to your sites, social profile pages, social networking, social media, and more!
Patients seeking healthcare online have two completely different ways in which they can find relevant information – “searching with intent” through online search engines (such as Google) or “discovering” content through social media sites (such as blogs, forums, Facebook and Twitter). In this video, Chris Boyer – Online Marketing Specialist, Patrick Singson – Senior SEO Analyst, and Richard Haussmann – Local SEO Analyst discuss these two different ways consumers find health information on the internet, discuss the pros and cons of each, and address the reasons why hospital and physicians need to market with both SEO and SMO.
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Chris Boyer, online marketing specialist, and Patrick Singson, Sr. SEO Analyst, discuss the common objection most hospitals have with embracing online marketing/social media strategies: not having the time, money or resources to be effective. In this 9 minute conversation, we discuss the ways online marketing does save a hospital marketing team resources, and introduce the bare minimum ways for healthcare organizations to begin effectively marketing online.
In early 2008 I spoke at the Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar for my friends Buck Rizvi and Brock Felt. The attendees paid thousands to be there but I’m sharing my 3 hour presentation from the seminar with you for free. I outlined the social networking and web 2.0 strategies that I personally use to drive tons of traffic to build my list and make more sales. I covered dozens of topics including, but not limited to, internet marketing, creating a sales funnel, search engine optimization (seo), myspace, youtube, squidoo, email marketing, wordpress, rss feeds, openx ad server, affiliate marketing, blogs, getting more traffic to your sites, social profile pages, social networking, social media, and more!
In this video, Chris Boyer, Online Marketing Specialist, explains the typical path patients make when researching their healthcare online, including researching their symptom, disease or condition; researching their physician or specialist; researching their hospital; and researching their recovery. Understanding this decision path helps hospitals and physician practices better align their online marketing strategies. How far up the decision path do you want to be? Chris Boyer is the author of the blog www.hospitalonlinemarketing.com