Naked Web Marketing Part 2
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The web shares
This should be a major consideration for web marketing, but instead it is ignored. A web marketer will suggest that we use Facebook, Twitter or Linked-in, among other social media because they all share. And that means that we forget about sharing through our own web site and we end up giving our best content away. And for what?
The time focus for Facebook is short. Even shorter for Twitter. Our best content should be shared from our own site first because it makes our web site stronger. Then we can feed bits to social media to attract attention. Attention from social media sites is very short lived and has to be constantly reiterated, but on our own site the same information builds and contracts, and then builds and joins even more.
If that does not hit you between the eyes then you are not getting the significance of sharing. It is not just social media that can use this powerful aspect of web marketing and we would be wise not to put control of our most attractive content in the hands of social media. They can use or misuse it all however they please.
Web marketers do not seem to get it
Web designers and web marketers are pretty much sold on letting trendy social media control your web marketing. They can make money by running your social media campaign, which may be quite alright if they also helped you share directly from your own web site.
Sharing is important for long term growth and it can be accomplished over time. Do not rush or panic. The truth is that all your, so-called, competitors are not sharing and are not growing. Time is something you have a lot of, but there's no time like the present for getting started. And you are probably wondering just what your business has to share with its market.
A brief list of the more important web attributes:
• No time or space limitations on web marketing
• The Internet swallowed all other media and makes them adapt to the web
• The web is a virtual reality – having many more nodes plugged in
• You do not find your market – they find you
No time or space:
As soon as you start talking about your market's biggest problem – You know, the one you solve – then you have all the time and space you could ever want. Your market likes that, it attracts them and it interests them. Keep going, talk about other problems they have so as to include an ever wider market.
Swallowed all other media:
The web is not like any other media. It can be your telephone, but it works differently. It can be your newspaper, but it works differently. It can even advertise and use push marketing, but most of the benefits come from using pull marketing. In fact, pull marketing is second nature to the web and has a much greater reach than trying to push.
The web is a virtual reality:
A virtual reality is no less real than a physical (material) reality, it's just that a virtual reality has many more social, business and institutional connections all plugged in and ready to connect.
Your market finds you:
Your web market is anonymous. It is your web site that has to have attractive content in order to stand out from other sites. Web designers like to think their awesome designs attract but search engines do not pay attention to graphics. Web marketers like to think their advertising contracts but web users (you and me included) try to ignore ads.
The largest attraction for our market is when we share information about solving their problem. They did not come to our web site to see pretty web designs or to see and read our ads – they came thinking we could help them.
Attracting your market
Helping your market by sharing your information does not mean giving away the recipe to your secret sauce. Your competitors may want the secret but your market could care less. They are not going to mix up a batch of your secret sauce, instead they are going to want you to implement your secrets and pay you for doing that.
You will have many ways your secret sauce can be used and your web site can list them and hold them all. All of the problems your secret sauce has solved can be written up and go on the web. As you share all the problems and solutions you can remember you will be building a destination web site while other business owners are chasing after a market they can not see or touch.
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