Inbound Marketing With Google Adwords
- By Jeffrey Hartman
- Published 10/16/2011
- Marketing
- Unrated
Developing sales leads in today’s market requires a retooling of your sales strategy to more efficiently customize your advertising campaigns. The internet has become a remarkable technology where your business can attract potential clients and customers in cost reducing ways never before available. Daily, people are firing up their computer engines and cranking words into search engines in hopes of finding products and services that match their needs. Google Adwords has become a front runner in this internet marketplace.
While your company has spent important resources developing and strategizing outbound advertising techniques, Google Adwords offers a new inbound marketing strategy designed to bring you and consumers practical and traceable results.
The costs of an outbound marketing strategy can be staggering. You pay for ad space in several publications in hopes of reaching the eyes of your market. Use of radio and television are expensive. And, while these outbound sources often tailor to specific audiences, you can easily get the feeling of a fisherman paying the costs of a giant net to yield an unproductive, uncertain, and uninterested pool of fish. Furthermore, hiring and training personnel to generate leads by telephone or other face-to-face campaigns usually means costly man hours, uneven results, and potential brand tarnishing in a difficult to control environment. Plus, if done incorrectly, will double their cost in a do-over.
Without a doubt, a business owner understands that the most likely sale comes from a customer that opens the door themselves. Could you imagine a door-to-door car salesperson? Not only is this an ineffective and expensive sales approach, but like an attentive consumer, you wouldn’t want to buy a car that’s been driven around a thousand blocks.
Fortunately, using Google Adwords removes the impractical parts of this approach while retaining the idea that on some block, at a certain door, a customer is looking for you. By comparison, when using Google Adwords your company’s business or service will appear along search pages when people search for keywords that are in relation with what your business provides.
Further, Google Adwords is able to place your business advertisement within popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs where customer interests are tailored to your area of commerce. In a real sense, your business will be able to utilize an advertising campaign that develops a present personality and in-common relationship with your scope of clientele.
Since internet consumers behave like traditional consumers, it is important that the quality of service and product that you sell be present in the articles written about your industry. Google Adwords has found this to be extraordinarily important to an inbound marketing strategy. In this way, you will develop a familiar voice on the web, establish your expertise, and further enhance the focus of internet searches to your business.
When a marketing campaign has been conducted, analyzing the effectiveness is often difficult due to an inability to continually track and categorize daily activity. Google Adwords, however, is able to use the power of technology to provide your business with real-time, traceable results. Google Adwords can provide you with the who, what, and where in a precise manner when other strategies only offer generalizations and probabilities. Having this useful information allows your business to adapt and market in the most cost effective and revenue producing method.
While your company has spent important resources developing and strategizing outbound advertising techniques, Google Adwords offers a new inbound marketing strategy designed to bring you and consumers practical and traceable results.
The costs of an outbound marketing strategy can be staggering. You pay for ad space in several publications in hopes of reaching the eyes of your market. Use of radio and television are expensive. And, while these outbound sources often tailor to specific audiences, you can easily get the feeling of a fisherman paying the costs of a giant net to yield an unproductive, uncertain, and uninterested pool of fish. Furthermore, hiring and training personnel to generate leads by telephone or other face-to-face campaigns usually means costly man hours, uneven results, and potential brand tarnishing in a difficult to control environment. Plus, if done incorrectly, will double their cost in a do-over.
Without a doubt, a business owner understands that the most likely sale comes from a customer that opens the door themselves. Could you imagine a door-to-door car salesperson? Not only is this an ineffective and expensive sales approach, but like an attentive consumer, you wouldn’t want to buy a car that’s been driven around a thousand blocks.
Fortunately, using Google Adwords removes the impractical parts of this approach while retaining the idea that on some block, at a certain door, a customer is looking for you. By comparison, when using Google Adwords your company’s business or service will appear along search pages when people search for keywords that are in relation with what your business provides.
Further, Google Adwords is able to place your business advertisement within popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs where customer interests are tailored to your area of commerce. In a real sense, your business will be able to utilize an advertising campaign that develops a present personality and in-common relationship with your scope of clientele.
Since internet consumers behave like traditional consumers, it is important that the quality of service and product that you sell be present in the articles written about your industry. Google Adwords has found this to be extraordinarily important to an inbound marketing strategy. In this way, you will develop a familiar voice on the web, establish your expertise, and further enhance the focus of internet searches to your business.
When a marketing campaign has been conducted, analyzing the effectiveness is often difficult due to an inability to continually track and categorize daily activity. Google Adwords, however, is able to use the power of technology to provide your business with real-time, traceable results. Google Adwords can provide you with the who, what, and where in a precise manner when other strategies only offer generalizations and probabilities. Having this useful information allows your business to adapt and market in the most cost effective and revenue producing method.
Jeffrey Hartman
Jeffrey Hartman has been CEO of BlueWater Marketing Group for over 12 years, and has over 20 years of marketing experience. We are an IT Advisory Member with NJAMHA. Our focus is on web development, marketing, and helping organizations stay healthy and grow. http://www.bluewatermarketinggroup.com
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