Working Women’s NetworkEffective Online Marketing
June 17, 2009
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Effective Online MarketingOverview
About me About you
Effective Online Marketing How to plan, design and build
a great website (or improve
the one you have) How to optimise your web
presence for results
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The Big PictureDid I say big?
Over 1 billion internet users globally 80% of Australians 1,000,000 Australian business users 60% of businesses buy online Times are changing It just keeps growing...
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The Big PictureHuge opportunities
Your website mission• Leads• Online sales • Offline sales• Customer service• High Google rankings• Reputation / trust• Distribute information• And more...
The real question...
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Where do I start?In the middle?
Web 2.0, .NET, design, colour, domain names?
Or... at the beginning. Sales? Leads? Your mission. Discipline Simplicity Strategy
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Case StudiesWhat is the website mission?
Search google.comyahoo.com
Content www.afl.com.auwww.bom.gov.au
Right? infinitedancestudios.com.au
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Building your siteAn overview
Don’t reinvent the wheel Feature list
• cms, ecommerce, email marketing blog, gallery, directory, search contact forms, faq, secure areas etc
Discipline Your website mission statement
Success! A Website that gets your site visitors doing what you want them to do.
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Building your siteBefore you start
1. Good builder / bad builder2. Price does not add up3. Variations4. Maintenance5. A quick renovation
Your part in this: 1. Budget 2. Time3. Skills4. Getting the word out
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Building your siteThe flavours:
1. D.I.Y. $0 - $2,000 + hosting: Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Joomla, PHP, .NET, ColdFusion
2. Template design/technology $0 - $500 + hosting: smartyhost.com.au, godaddy.com, blogger.com, wordpress.com
3. Custom design and shared technology $500 - $10,000 + hosting: thewebshowroom.com.au, eknowhow.com
4. Totally custom$3,000 - $100,000+: red5.com.au, exa.com.au, wiliam.com.au
Where do you want to spend your money? Horses for courses
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Building your siteThe Questions...
1. Last ten sites2. 5 happy customers3. Longevity4. Google results?5. Company size? Structure?6. Who owns my website?7. Ongoing costs? Changes?
Remember your website mission.
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Website EssentialsThe Big Five
Functionality The Pitch Design Content Marketing
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Website EssentialsFunctionality
• Agree this upfront• Wireframes / sitemap• It’s all about the users• The more it does the more it costs• You are not the first person doing this
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Website EssentialsThe Pitch
• Lead generation forms• Contact details• Calls to action• Whitepapers / downloads• Newsletters• Video• Testimonials / case studies• Don’t be shy!
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Website EssentialsDesign
• Keep it simple• How many colours, fonts, sizes?• Professional images• Whitespace• Structure• Hierarchy• Know your limitations
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Website EssentialsContent
• Content is King• You (probably) need a CMS • How to write:
i. Short and simpleii. Personality / emotional responseiii. Writing includes SEOiv. Linksv. Benefits not featuresvi. Errors vii. Can you make it shorter?viii. Can someone else do it better?
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Website EssentialsWebsite Marketing Handbookwww.websitemarketing2009.com.au
- Engaging site visitors- Optimisation- Getting listed - Pay-per-click (PPC)- Email marketing- Making your site ‘sticky’- Plain old marketing- Industry specific marketing- Google Analytics- Website evolution
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Website EssentialsMarketing
• You fail if no-one visits
• Organic Search- What is organic search?- SEO- Site structure is crucial
• Pay Per Click (PPC)- What is PPC/SEM?
• Analytics
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Is it that time already?The Big Idea...
Questions More information
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