Increase The Effectiveness Of Your Online Business In 2014

By Isa Musa


The online market place continues to thrive, and has become a major battlefield for many businesses. Many businesses and entrepreneurs' today capitalize on the internet and online platform to create awareness and drive sales for products and services offered. The situation creates a lot of bloating, giving audiences many options to choose from. Nevertheless, the firm or entrepreneur who adopts the latest and most efficient marketing ideas gets to win most of the audiences.



If you are a business owner, you may have heard of the Pareto principle, also known as the "eighty/twenty rule". The Pareto principle suggests that eighty percent of results comes from just twenty percent of your efforts - in an online marketplace, that translates as 80 percent of your sales comes from 20 percent of your loyal customers. One of the best ways to keep in touch with these loyal customers, thereby increasing your opportunities to sell to them, is to build an email list.

1. Mobile marketing: The online platform for businesses has taken a new trend, which has been catapulted by the heavy use of smartphones today. Many people use their phones to access the internet, shopping marketplaces, and in search for information too. This has seen a sudden twist in online marketing, as entrepreneurs' have to device new mobile marketing techniques to reach out to these people. Advertising through mobile apps and creating websites that are compatible with hand held devices is the latest trend this year.

Whatever the product or service you are offering, there is a very good chance that there are dozens of companies which are providing something that is the same or similar. To keep customers choosing your business over the alternatives, you need to guarantee users a better experience.

Look at metrics to see what is providing the best user engagement. This could be stats for how long a visitor remains on a webpage, or it could be the interest a video generates. In modern business social media is important too, so pay close attention to how potential customers are interacting with your company through these means. Constant monitoring is the key to identifying areas of strength and weakness in an online business.




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