It's become about embarrassing now. As the high street gets hammered and vehicle firms are hibernating for months on end to avoid redundancies, one area of the economy is booming. Folk won't be buying houses or autos, but they do seem to be buying books, MP3 players and software. We are told that folk are holding on to their cash and purchasing just the essentials like food and inexpensive clothes and just putting enough fuel into their cars to get from A to Z and while the city centres can doubtless testify to that, online it's different.
Amazon has just posted a 9% increase in sales over the festive season - the season where it's allegedly been a bloodbath for purchases - and they put a lot of these new sales down to the arrival of their new book reader. So there we have it, when everyone should be tightening their belts and stop the purchasing of non-essentials, folks are basically now buying devices so they can read more books. Perhaps whilst in line for their welfare payouts?
If there's one thing to be had from this it's that it's not all doom and gloom. If there are 2 things to be learned from this it's that while some firms will inevitably suffer from this downturn, others will prosper and it's the difference that's's significant - how come some companies are prospering and are they the lucky ones?
Well, it appears the answers are everywhere because corporations that prosper have a couple of things in common, but the most interesting is their eagerness to embrace change and take on advanced technology where others haven't. In an economy like this, the best thing you can do is to take a look at what your competition is doing - if they're suffering then don't copy them, if they're prospering, copy and do things better. You want to analyse the market to explain and look to beat them at their own game.
it always astonishes me when people are still in the dark about marketing, especially on-line. There's no dark secret, it is just a matter of finding out what works and doing it more. If you find something that doesn't work, simply stop doing it. To get you started, here are a few tips :
1. Analyse your competition, write down what they are doing
2. Is it working? For each company write down whether or not they are failing or prospering ( in a flat market look for 'survivors' too )
3. Analyse your own promoting and adjust it to match and beat those that are thriving
4. Stop doing things that do not work ( the most vital bit )
that is's all there is to it. Obviously if it were that easy then we would not have a job, but really, stick to those four items and you will not go far inaccurate.
obviously I am writing this because I know plenty of the answers and one of them is obviously apparent - take your business on the web. This doesn't suggest you must have your product catalogue for everybody to see, some corporations don't sell things that can be sold in this manner, but it does mean you need to have some interaction between your online presence and your offline business. Sometimes simply a contact form will do, it is simply another avenue for sales.
many people will simply ignore the Internet and they do so at their peril. You should not if you would like to survive, instead you should look to embrace it and in this respect you should be attempting to find an SEO services company that may give you a honest appraisal of your website and help you to promote it in the best way possible. Do not expect them to be kind to you, a good company will be looking to help you by picking holes in your service - take their advice, put your pride behind you and expect to prosper.
Andy Calloway is the director of SEO Training at Calloway Green Ltd, a web design Birmingham and SEO consultancy in the West Midlands, UK. We provide a wide range of SEO services and search engine optimisation to businesses of all sizes.
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