Do You Have A Marketing Plan For Your Site?
by: Florie Lyn Masarate
Without the proper plan, there is a great possibility that your site will be going down the drain instead of building a stable source of income for you.
Here are some useful process you can use for your site marketing plan.
Gather and analyze information. You will need information about your company, competitors, customers, and other industry players. This includes all you can find about how the Internet is currently being integrated in your industry with respect to products, promotions, pricing structures, and distribution channels.
From this information, you can complete industry and analyses as well as identify your target customers.
Develop your Web site objective. The objective addresses the "big picture". If your company’s main site-related challenge is figuring out how to use your Website to help build client business, for example, an objective for your Website marketing plan. To enhance online client service as well as build site awareness and interest with clients."
Create strategies. Strategies can support your objective. Your strategies define the general approaches you will take to meet your objective. For example, strategies to support the above objective could include improve; online communication, information, and education, build awareness of and interest in your company on the Internet and communicate the Web site’s existence and advantages to existing clients.
Choose tactics. Tactics are where the action takes place. These are the things you will do to bring your strategies to life. Tactics could include sharing experience and observations in your industry through participation in discussion boards, offering an email newsletter, and submitting your site to targeted search engines.
The Write-Up. Once you have your plan developed, there are numerous ways to do the write-up. If you are a company employee, there may be standards you must follow. If you are an entrepreneur, go with a style you find usable. For some ideas on what to include, read one of my previous articles, "What to Include in Your Marketing Plan Write-Up" at
After your initial plan is developed, you should care for it as a work in progress. Pull and adjust because it is needed in response to changing conditions. Many companies update their marketing plans annually when developing budgets for the coming year and reviewing the company’s business plan.
Whether you are a one-person shop or part of a good-sized company, having a Website marketing plan can help your business prosper on the Web. Make your strategy work. Put some quality time into your plan.
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About The Author:
Florie Lyn Masarate got the flair for reading and writing when she got her first subscription of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She had her first article published on that same newsletter in the third grade.
March 2006
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