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		<title>3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Custom Digital Marketing Sales Funnel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having your digital marketing sales funnel in full operation online is one of the best ways to sell your digital information products or physical products online. The barrier that is mentioned by many online business owners is how difficult it is to build a marketing funnel. What really frustrates them is how long it can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having your digital marketing sales funnel in full operation online is one of the best ways to sell your digital information products or physical products online.</p>
<p>The barrier that is mentioned by many online business owners is how difficult it is to build a marketing funnel. What really frustrates them is how long it can take to build a digital marketing sales funnel by themselves without any knowledge of graphic and web design.</p>
<p>One of the ways I&#8217;m able to create custom online marketing funnels as fast as I do is because of the shortcuts I&#8217;ve developed as a designer that allow me to rapidly build custom digital marketing sales funnels.</p>
<p>There are many reason why you need an online marketing funnel for your business and in this article I will speak about 3 of the biggest reasons and how this can affect your business positively.</p>
<p>3 Reasons You Need a Digital Marketing Sales Funnel</p>
<p>Without thinking about any barriers I&#8217;ve come up with just 3 reasons why online business owners who are serious need a custom marketing funnel for their business in today&#8217;s ever developing online business world.</p>
<p>Leadership branding &#8211; Leadership branding isn&#8217;t about you telling the world how great you are or how amazing your business is. Leadership branding is what your prospects say about you when you are not around. When you hear prospects talking about you or when they start contacting you voluntarily showing their appreciation this is when you know you are becoming a leader in your niche. Your marketing funnel and products will encourage word of mouth advertising for you.</p>
<p>Automating your business &#8211; Your time is a limited resource and when your sales funnel is live on the web you can now focus on creating content to drive traffic using inbound marketing strategies or paid media advertising. This web traffic which is rich with prospects and potential customers will enter you lead capture page and they will have the opportunity to purchase your products without the need for you to be present.</p>
<p>Transparency- One of the biggest benefits of having your marketing funnel online is that potential customers and prospects get to see you. Most sales funnels today incorporate video and using this strategy allows the relationship between you and your prospect to develop extremely quickly. During the first 60 seconds they have probably made up their mind if they will buy from you or not.</p>
<p>Bonus marketing funnel benefits &#8211; As a marketing strategist and designer my best advice is never be disheartened if your marketing funnel does not work as you expected. The first sales funnel you have is version 0.1 of your online business.</p>
<p>There is a very good chance that you will change elements of your funnel as your business progresses which you can call version 0.2. Your business will have many versions and releases as it will be continuously developing as your own knowledge expands.</p>
<p>Learn just one traffic strategy and continuously implement it every day which is directing traffic back to your marketing funnel. Over time this compounding effect will start to generate more prospects for your business and will allow you to start generating more cash flow in your business by utilizing your digital marketing sales funnel to its full extent.</p>
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		<title>Brand Awareness: Building Your Business Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The key to making a brand name popular lies within the actual name itself. In particular, the easier such a name is to remember, the more likely it is to be widely promoted by people. Whilst a few years ago, such awareness relied largely on word of mouth alone, we now live in a world [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The key to making a brand name popular lies within the actual name itself. In particular, the easier such a name is to remember, the more likely it is to be widely promoted by people.</p>
<p>Whilst a few years ago, such awareness relied largely on word of mouth alone, we now live in a world of instant connectivity, where websites such as Twitter allow information to be shared within a fraction of second, across almost the entire planet.</p>
<p>This means that, now more than ever, it is vital for brand names to be unique, but also catchy at the same time.</p>
<p>Once you have your brand name ready, it is time to start the tricky task of promoting it. One of the most important things to remember is that promotion of any kind needs to be a continuous effort rather than a one time venture.</p>
<p>Some of the best ways for promoting your brand are as follows:</p>
<p>    * Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter.<br />
    * Forums which allow commercial advertising, these can be hard to find but well worth the effort.<br />
    * Traditional offline advertising methods such as newspapers, classifieds and most importantly word-of-mouth.</p>
<p>Social networking sites are one of the newest, and probably also one of the easiest, ways to promote your brand to all corners of the world.</p>
<p>One of the best ways to do this is to get a paid ad slot on Twitter, which will enable your brand name to become one of the top trends, and therefore spread throughout the Twitter network in a matter of hours, if not minutes, depending on how catchy your brand name is.</p>
<p>Facebook also offers a similar scheme, which also gives you the opportunity to advertise to a wide range of people, or a narrow range should you wish to target a specific audience for your campaign.</p>
<p>Another option for promoting your website is, as mentioned above, forums which have advertising sections, some of which are paid whilst others are free and in the form of forum postings. This is because the advertising options vary from forum to forum.</p>
<p>Whilst online methods are extremely important, it is vital to remember that tried and tested offline methods are also a great asset when promoting your brand, as the concept of word of mouth can often be lost and forgotten in today&#8217;s digital world.</p>
<p>However, word of mouth as a marketing method will only work if your brand name expresses accurately what it is that your business has to offer consumers..</p>
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