Besides the cost of calling consumers, who can manage the anger and frustration of potential clients who loathe telemarketing calls and choose not to support your company even if they had been considering it before that point? Email newsletters and the like are much less threatening than phone calls to those who are in your marketing directory. With the click of a mouse, your company can appeal to the masses, opening the door wide to consumers for desired and valued product information. What’s the big deal if they don’t purchase immediately? When the time is right for them to buy, they won’t forget the impact you made on them.
Strong client relationships are the goal. The dictionary defines “encourage” as “to give confidence, support or persuasive input to influence healthy growth”. With your consumer encouragement tool in working order, early-phase potential buyers won’t slip through the cracks.
Potential clients will weigh up your company’s benefits and travel at their own speed through the buying cycle. You have the difficult job of keeping applicable marketing information heading their way without overwhelming them with interaction. WSI Internet Strategy Consultants can help you find the balance with your specific group of consumers. Contact us today for more instruction on simplifying web marketing.
| A recent survey reveals only 38% of small businesses already have a company website. And 32% of these respondents are planning to spend more time and more money on building a company website in 2010. – Source eMarketer Dec 2009 | |
| In 2010 US Advertisers are expected to continue the shift from TV to online video. Leading to a tipping point for online video ads, American advertisers in 2010 will spend $0.13 per hour of internet video viewing for each $0.12 they spend per hour of TV viewing. -Source eMarketer, Dec 2009 | |
| Marketers are continuing to make social networks a priority for 2010. In fact, by 2011worldwide spending for online social network advertising will likely reach $2.9 billion, up from $2.2 billion in 2009. – Source eMarketer, Dec 2009 | |
| Paid services on social network sites are on the rise. US paid social networking site revenues are forecasted to surpass $1.4 billion in 2013, doubling $627 million in 2009. – source eMarketer Nov 2009 | |
| American companies will set a larger budget for online social media marketing in the coming years. US online social network ad spending will reach more than $1.39 billion by 2011, an increase from 7.7% expected for 2010. – Source eMarketer Dec 2009 |