The potential for online marketing is simply huge by any standards. On 31st March 2009 internetworldstats.com estimated that there were 1,596,270,108 internet users worldwide. That’s more than 1.5 billion people and growing. And with the world’s population at the same time estimated to be 6,710,029,070, it suggests that now, over 23% of all the people on the planet are using the internet. Clearly this percentage is growing too.
So however you cut it, the internet is the biggest potential marketplace there has ever been in the history of mankind. Add to that fact, the possibility of securely sending and receiving payments, instant downloads of electronic products, 24 hour services, the ability to put detailed information at your potential buyers’ fingertips and the simply awesome ability of online marketing to create vast social and business networks and it leads to one simple conclusion…
The Power of the Internet
If you already are, or want to be in business for yourself and you are serious about being a success, you should be using the power of the internet and online marketing. You don’t even necessarily need a website or blog (though of course, either would help). Yes, your business can grow without online marketing – of course it can, but used correctly the internet can make that growth much more dynamic.
Yes of course you could just have a website or blog to add value to your brand, or to give your customers something pretty to look at, but that would be like buying a brand new red Ferrari and putting it in a big display cabinet in your office for people to admire and marvel at! Think about it… the whole purpose of the Ferrari is the pleasure you get from actually driving it, and the whole purpose of online marketing is to leverage the growth of your business!
Brilliant at Selling Yourself
Don’t misunderstand me here… You may be brilliant at networking, public speaking, writing, PR, engaging people in conversation, advertising, generating leads through referrals and word-of-mouth. You may be an outstanding closer. You may be able to sell snow to the Eskimos and sand to the Arabs. You may be so popular that potential buyers are beating a path to your door and begging to spend their money with you, but if you’re not harnessing the full potential of online marketing you are missing out on the biggest single opportunity in history. Having an effective online marketing strategy is an opportunity to leverage what you are already brilliant at and make it even bigger and better.
A Proper Internet Strategy
Once your strategy is properly worked out and everything is set up correctly, the internet could provide your sales team with a virtually endless supply of highly targeted leads, almost effortlessly. Is that something you should be ignoring as a possibility? Just imagine the cost savings to your business from having a constant stream of high quality sales leads – not to mention the increase in profits.
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