How to Engage Your Online Visitors and Interact With Your Internet Customers
How to Engage Your Online Visitors and Interact With Your Internet Customers
How does that apply to your small business? It means you better “get” or understand your customers and connect with them as much as possible. If you produce T-Shirts you might allow your online visitors to design their own shirts. If you sell something a bit more complex you might just allow the visitors to customize a certain component within your product. You can also solicit customer opinions with online surveys and feedback. You can allow users to post questions on your site within a bulletin board. You can also invite customers to select your next product or next city you might enter. Online voting is always a fun way to engage your visitors.
It is also about quality over quantity these days since you can reach niche audiences online with the right targeting. If everyone is spending more time on the Internet, it appears behavior has changed. I would rather have 100 hardcore users spend an hour on my site compared to 1000 users spend 1 minute on my site. That is why we have developed out of the box interactive games that engage users and increase time spent on your website. I would also rather have 100 hardcore users tell their friends about my brand or write a blog that mentions my brand.
In today’s world, users also interact with your brand on 3rd party websites, directories, and social networks. Many users are not clicking from your MySpace or YouTube page over to your regular website and that is just fine. But they might book later after being exposed to your brand on these 3rd party websites. How can you really claim to know impressions or bookings for anything online unless you add up all your impressions and bookings from your iTunes page, your MyYahoo headlines, and the thousands of other directories that list your brand. There are 50 MySpaces and 50 YouTubes, so this activity might take a while to tally up. That is why we offer a new service called Social Media Monitoring and another called Social Media Marketing.
But the real measurement is how are you interacting with your online visitors. The amount of time spent on your website by each user is just as important as the number of visitors or users you get each month.
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The Internet has come full circle and now connects us all. So it is time to lose some control and invite your customers to participate in the sales process rather than simply selling to them as you have for the past 20 years. Now on the Internet it is more about online engagement and interaction with your brand. What I mean is simply that you must have something interesting to entertain your visitors and meet their needs. You need to also include them in your website or Internet marketing plans. So it is the 1960s again in a way as everyone is all one big family.
How does that apply to your small business? It means you better “get” or understand your customers and connect with them as much as possible. If you produce T-Shirts you might allow your online visitors to design their own shirts. If you sell something a bit more complex you might just allow the visitors to customize a certain component within your product. You can also solicit customer opinions with online surveys and feedback. You can allow users to post questions on your site within a bulletin board. You can also invite customers to select your next product or next city you might enter. Online voting is always a fun way to engage your visitors.
It is also about quality over quantity these days since you can reach niche audiences online with the right targeting. If everyone is spending more time on the Internet, it appears behavior has changed. I would rather have 100 hardcore users spend an hour on my site compared to 1000 users spend 1 minute on my site. That is why we have developed out of the box interactive games that engage users and increase time spent on your website. I would also rather have 100 hardcore users tell their friends about my brand or write a blog that mentions my brand.
In today’s world, users also interact with your brand on 3rd party websites, directories, and social networks. Many users are not clicking from your MySpace or YouTube page over to your regular website and that is just fine. But they might book later after being exposed to your brand on these 3rd party websites. How can you really claim to know impressions or bookings for anything online unless you add up all your impressions and bookings from your iTunes page, your MyYahoo headlines, and the thousands of other directories that list your brand. There are 50 MySpaces and 50 YouTubes, so this activity might take a while to tally up. That is why we offer a new service called Social Media Monitoring and another called Social Media Marketing.
But the real measurement is how are you interacting with your online visitors. The amount of time spent on your website by each user is just as important as the number of visitors or users you get each month.
How to Engage Your Online Visitors and Interact With Your Internet Customers - To learn more about this author, visit Ryan Bifulco's Website.
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