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Let me start with the fact that a target market, or customer-focused, the organization first determines what its potential customers desire, and then built the product or service. To the best of our knowledge, marketing theory and practice is justified in the belief that customers use a product or service because they have a need, or because it provides a perceived benefit. As far as the issue is concerned, two key factors placing on the market are recruiting new customers (acquisition) and maintaining and expanding relationships with existing customers (base management). Actually, once a marketer has converted the prospective buyer, base management marketing takes over. So far as is known, the process of basic management of the evolution of marketing to build a relationship, maintain ties, strengthen the advantages that the buyer has sold in the first place, and improve the product / service continues to protect Business of the competition reached.

The fact is that for a marketing plan to succeed, the combination of four “P” must reflect the wishes and desires of shoppers or buyers on the target market. In fact, trying to convince a market segment to buy something they do not want is extremely expensive and rarely blossoming. It is vital to note that all are dependent marketing ideas on the commercialization of research, both formal and informal, to determine what consumers want and what they are willing to pay. As far as my personal experience can be taken into account, marketers hope that this process will give them a sustainable competitive advantage. Don’t you know that the marketing management is the practical application of this process. By the way, the offer is also an important addition to the theory of 4P.

According to the American Marketing Association (AMA), marketing is a function of organization and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and to manage customer relationships in the interest of the organization and its bondholders . To the best of our knowledge, the marketing method is informed by a large number of social sciences, especially psychology, sociology and economics. The other helpful point to add is that anthropology is also a small but increasingly influential. As a matter of fact, market research underpins these activities. So thanks to advertising, it is also linked to a large number of creative arts. Let me add that marketing is a large and highly interconnected with the object of extensive publications. It is obvious that it is also an area notorious for reinventing itself and its vocabulary to function at the time and culture.

It’s not a secret that Internet marketing is also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, or E-marketing, marketing products or services on the Internet. On the other hand, when applied to the subset Web-based investment advertising, Internet marketing is commonly known as Web advertising (also Web advertising) and Web marketing. There is also a need to mention that the Internet has brought many unique advantages in marketing, which reduced costs for the distribution of information and media to a worldwide audience. No doubt, the interactive marketing of the Internet, both in terms of instant response and get answers, is a unique quality of the medium. But, in a way, Internet marketing is often seen as having a wider scope, because it refers to digital media like the Internet, e-mail, wireless and media, but Internet marketing also includes the management of digital data and electronic customer management of the customer relationship.

You should also keep in mind that internet marketing includes creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including the design, development, advertising and sales. In addition, it should be also added that from a marketing Internet is not confined to lead the construction or promotion of a site, nor does it mean to place a banner ad on another site. So Internet marketing effective requires a comprehensive strategy together a company’s business model and sales targets with its web site function and appearance, focusing on its target market through a choice of type of advertising, media and design. As you could observer , Internet marketing also refers to the placement of media along different stages of the customer commitment through search engine marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and banner ads on certain Web sites, email marketing etc. and finally you should count four types of interactions with Web sites in addition to visits advertisements served as advertising networks, so the authors found the upside potential of the collection of 2500 pieces of data on average per user per month.

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Job Employee Blunders

Everyone wants to improve their business. No one that owns a business should ever be comfortable with their current position. You should always strive to be better, no matter how good you are doing at the time. However, improving does not always meet on the customer side of your business, but rather how you handle your employees. After all, just like a business is nothing without customers, it is nothing without good employees.

So what are the ways you can improve your business on the employee level? You may be making some blunders that are greatly jeopardizing your employees happiness and wellbeing and not even know it.

Using customer feedback to determine what is wrong with your company.-
This may be one of the worst mistake a business owner can make. Sure, you want to listen to your customers feedback, but you will want to take what they have to say with a grain of salt. Why? Because what the customer says is one sided, and does not accurately describe the situation. If this situation happens with an employee too many times, and the employee does not get the opportunity to present their side of the story as well, then the employee will begin to have issues, especially when it comes to dealing with a problematic customer. Your employee may find it easier to walk away rather then deal with the situation. By avoiding this situation, or at the very least, allowing your employee to defend themselves, you will avoid a potentially hazardous situation.

Another form of this blunder is by producing feedback or survey forms, and basing any type of merit reward on these. The main reason that this will not work accurately is because of 2 facts. First, the customer is more likely to fill out a survey if something was not right, rather then excellent customer service. Second, the best employee in the world may never receive a survey review, while a bad employee, who just happens to be in a good mood that day, receives a few. This is unfair to everyone involved.

Introducing set merit rewards- Merits should be just that, rewards. Not all good deeds are the same, so they should not receive the same reward. Imagine if you were the employee who saved 15 customers from stopping service, and you received the same reward as the person next you did, yet they only saved 3. Would that make you feel unappreciated?

On the other end of the spectrum, you could use caution when rewarding employees for recovering from a foul up. If a employee messes up, and then corrects the problem, they probably should not receive a reward for it. This makes it seem acceptable to mess up, provided that you can redeem yourself.

Giving your employee a set way to sale products or deal with customers- You may think that your way of selling your product or business to customers is the perfect way to sell, and that everyone should use your approach. While your way of selling may work for you, it may not work for all of your employees. Why? Because everyone has a different personalities, and your way of selling just simply may not work for them. If you allow your employees freedom to sell, as long as their way is not immoral or harmful to your business, will benefit your business greatly.

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April 3, 2009 | By Kenneth Koh |

Recently I’m getting more friends and relatives asking me how to start an online business. It’s not rocket science, but it’s not easy maths too.

Starting an online business is pretty much the same as starting a brick and mortar business, except that the cost is much lower and so is the risk.

When I say it’s pretty much the same as a brick and mortar business, I also mean that you need to be entrepreneurial, to be able to ‘smell’ the needs in a market and to have a vision. Are entrepreneurs born or breed? I don’t know. What I believe is, if you think you are, you are.

So, if you are entrepreneurial and want to learn how to start an online business, read on……

Step 1: Never reinvent the wheel

Believe me. Almost all the smart and innovative ideas you can think of are already done by someone else online, in one way or another. If you think you’ve a unique online business idea, it just means that you’ve not done enough research.

So, if you have any online business idea, the first thing you need to do is head over to Google and type in some keywords related to your business idea. Thoroughly check out all the top websites that provide similar product or service. This means you may have to try out their products/services and find out their pros and cons.

Next, you have to evaluate those pros and cons and come out with a BETTER idea.

Remember, the job of an entrepreneur is not to invent things. His job is to seek proven business ideas, improve on those ideas and get a piece of the pie out of the market, preferably a bigger piece.

Step 2: Think of the marketing system

Most newbie entrepreneurs have one problem. They spend too much time trying to perfect their products.

Having a good product is important. But what’s more important is the marketing system.

Without a good marketing system, no matter how good your product is, it’s going to be hard for your online business to grow.

Regardless of what you sell, your marketing system should answer 3 important questions:

- How can the system attract and capture a list of potential users and/or customers?
- How can you make the system viral, such that users will refer more users?
- How to convert prospects into customers?

For example, recently I developed a great online tool (I think) that can help me to manage all my stocks (I’m talking about the stock market). I believe if I roll this service out to the market, someone will be willing to pay for it. But before I even think of developing the tool for the multiple users, I first have to think of the 3 questions above.

Here’s my thinking process: Read the rest of this entry »