Web Marketing Strategy Update

“Chat, flirt, socialize and have fun” is the tagline for the popular social dating site, Badoo. Founder of the site, Andrey Andreev, started Badoo in 2006 when it served only as a photo sharing site. Andrey was living in Spain at the time, and mainly because Spanish girls couldn’t be dated until the male had met her family, he thought it wouldn’t be a good idea to launch the site with a “meet new people” concept.

One year later in 2007 Andrey made an about turn on his initial judgment. He decided to test his views on Spanish women, and repositioned the Badoo as a place to meet new people, rather than just a photo sharing site. This decision came after Andrey observed that even though his site was not earning him revenue, the number of users had grown tremendously within the first year of its launch. The 2007 Google Zeitgeist recorded Badoo as one of the fastest growing search terms, second only to iPhone.
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While traditional outbound marketing continues to bombard prospects with print advertising, emails, telemarketing, trade shows and more in order to generate leads; inbound marketing concentrates on building longer and more intensive relationships with prospective customers, who are already searching your industry.

The aim of inbound marketing is to find highly targeted prospects and turn them into leads. The idea is to create compelling content which will draw the attention of the prospects who in turn visit the company website for further information about the product.

Inbound Marketing Strategies

How efficient inbound marketing is comes down largely to the quality and variability of your web content. Since the majority of prospects will look for information about your industry using search engines, effective SEO is crucial. Rather than spending a lot of money on paid search advertising, it’s wise to pay more attention to onsite and offsite optimisation techniques. An effective SEO strategy helps generate leads nationally and internationally as well as, crucially, in the local and immediate surrounding areas.
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DAM, or Digital Asset Management, is a relatively new concept, but it can be absolutely invaluable to all sorts of companies. Digital asset management is especially effective for companies with websites, those that launch large-scale marketing campaigns, and businesses that require a lot of multimedia ‘on tap’.

This multimedia could be images, music, web content, articles, or anything else. Each of these items is known as a digital asset, and becomes so as soon a company puts a value on it. For example, photographs of a company’s products for use on a website are valuable, so are known as digital assets.
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1. Publish A Free Ezine For Selling Products

You could publish a free ezine or newsletter to promote your own or affiliate products, MLMs, etc. This is the most common format, and to work well requires quality — preferably original — content related to your business and products so that it stands out from the crowd.

2. Publish Free Ezine For Selling Advertising Space

You could publish a free ezine or newsletter to sell advertising spots and exclusive mailings to other businesses. Similar in format to the previous example, except that instead of using the ezine as a vehicle for promoting your own products, you use it to generate ad revenue. This approach is often favored by those new online and / or without their own product, using mainly contributed articles for content and combining the promotion of affiliate programs with ad sales.
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