WHAT
IS ATTRACTION MARKETING?
Attraction
marketing may be the buzz word that is out there commonly heard by most
Internet marketers. Yet, what does this mean? As an Internet marketer, you do
need to know what this type of marketing is as it will likely be one of the
most important, profitable tools you have in low cost online marketing that is
highly effective.
First,
understand what it is and then learn how to implement it within your own
business. Most business owners can find success using this method to help them
to develop their online business. It works in any sector, industry or niche.
When applied effectively, it is a low cost, long term success tool no marketer
should go without.
WHAT
IS IT?
The
short definition of what attraction marketing is may seem too simple. It is
simply a term that means that the Internet marketer uses the Internet to help
attract people to the business they are in.
To
take this to another level, attraction marketing can be defined as bringing
people to you rather than going after them. The best way to see this is to take
a look at the opposite method, the way that most print or non online advertising
is done.
In
traditional advertising, countless dollars are spent to find the consumer most
likely to invest in the product or service. Billboards are placed along
freeways for radio stations, for example, since people listen to the radio most
often in the car. Advertisements go to the most likely consumer rather than the
consumer coming to the product directly for a need.
In
attraction marketing, the consumer comes to you and your product or service
because they have heard that it is something that can benefit them, in some
way. Ultimately, this allows for the business to do well since the
advertisements are being presented in a pleasant manner. Internet marketing is
not often about catchy slogans and flashy ads. Rather, it is a method of
bringing people in to information, products and services because they are
already interested. Mastering this can help a business to grow quickly.
THE QUESTION IS: DOES IT WORK?
Does
attraction marketing work? The short answer to this question is yes, but there
are plenty of fantastic examples of how it works. One good one is to consider
the election of Mr. Obama. Regardless of whether you are from the U.S. or not,
and no matter what side of the ticket you were rooting for, one thing has to be
said. Mr. Obama's ability to use Internet marketing, including attraction
marketing methods, helped him win this election, according to many
professionals.
Obama
used the various tools in Internet marketing to help him to win his election
because he and his campaign moreover knew the importance and success it could
bring. The world goes to the web to learn what it needs to, in today's culture.
More so, the Internet provides an easy, affordable way to reach millions of
people every single day. No other medium offers this.
The
question is, how did Obama use attraction marketing to win the Presidential Election
of the United States? Using attraction
marketing tools, websites, and even things like GoogleAds helped him to make it
happen.
In
fact, Twitter.com was used by Mr. Obama as one of the many methods of
attraction marketing he used. By gaining a huge following and communicating
through them in short clips, he could converse with everyday people, put his
message out and do it all without spending a penny for it.
Another
example of this is Facebook. Everyone on the web knows that Facebook.com is a
heaven for younger generation individuals who like to find each other and chat.
The trend has grown. In fact, businesses, politicians, and even employers are
using it as a tool to connect with others. Mr. Obama's Facebook page was yet
another form of attraction marketing that helped him to get his message out.
As
you can see, there are excellent ways that attraction marketing works. For most
of the general public, you aren't trying to win the presidential election.
Nevertheless, this tool can still be used to help virtually anyone to gain
success in getting traffic to their website.
APPLYING
ATTRACTION MARKETING METHODS TO YOUR BUSINESS
Any
Internet marketer can apply the lessons learned to their own Internet business.
There are three main parts to developing a successful attraction marketing
campaign, but the good news is that none of them are difficult, costly or
overly time consuming.
Here,
we'll explore these three parts and find out how you can put them to use no
matter what type of Internet marketing business you have.
In
short, they are as follows:
1. Consumers find you, your products or services
on the web
2. Consumers allow you to contact them.
3.
You provide consumers with information they can use and benefit from, through
email, and keep your business in front of them all the time.
To
better understand how to do this, keep reading.
PART
1: CONSUMERS FIND YOU
The
first step in the process is to get people to find you online. Remember, with
attraction marketing, they are coming to you. You are not going out searching
for them and advertising directly. So, how do you get more people to find you
online?
WEBSITE
DESIGN FIRST
There
are several ways to accomplish this. First, the ultimate first step is to have
a useful website and/or blog where you can talk with, work with and interact
with your visitors. You will need to ensure it is information based rather than
a sales gimmick. Online, sales gimmicks, long sized sales letters are less
likely to work than other methods of marketing, especially in attraction
marketing. Make sure your website tells
visitors that you are providing a service to them, information to them and not
a sales ad to convince them to buy.
ARTICLE
DIRECTORIES
Next,
you will need to get your information out there. For example, develop excellent
articles and detailed outlines related to your business or product and then get
it out into the mainstream. You can post them on various article directories.
The
benefit of doing this is two-fold. Due to the extreme popularity of many of
these websites, Google ranks articles quickly there and many get first page
Google results if they are optimized properly. This means that when someone
looking for information on a product or service you are offering searches for
it in Google, chances are good your article will pop up as a result.
Another
benefit is that quality article directories work for what their intended
purpose is. That purpose is to allow webmasters to pick up these articles with
your resource box on them and use them on their websites or in their blogs.
Their readers instantly get to read what you are talking about and they can
click on the link and take it back to your website where they can buy what you
are offering.
Yet
another extension of this is the ability to get that golden back link to your
website. This alone helps to boost your website's ranking in Google's search
engines, and in other search engines.
The more back links pointing into your website, the more people will
find you and the better Google ranks your website. And, all you have done is
write an article.
SOCIAL
NETWORKING WEBSITES
From
this point, there are many other ways to build that successful attraction
marketing. One of the most attractive,
enjoyable ways to get your business out there is, in fact, to talk about it!
Social networking is what it sounds like. It is a method of communicating with
others about anything you want to, really.
Most
social networking websites where not started to help businesses to grow, but
most of them are able to be used this way. Going back to our example, Mr. Obama
used many of them to get to his people.
This
is what you are looking for, too. You are looking for a way to give people information.
Once they have that information, they can then come to you to get what they
need. This works in any type of Internet niche, too.
Social
networking sites include any of the following:
- Digg.com Find useful articles and blog postings and Digg them. The more Digg's received, the more people will read the article and therefore come to the website.
- StumbleUpon.com Network with others while also getting more traffic to your website as people Stumble upon it through the company's tools.
- Facebook.com Great for meeting, socializing and talking about yourself, your business or anything else. Connect with thousands of people here.
- MySpacedot. Share all sorts of information, connect with others, networking with others with comparative businesses and by all means, subtly link to your website.
- YouTube.com Great for informational videos and socializing. Who doesn't want to watch a few YouTube videos every now and then? Use them to help market your business indirectly.
- Twitter. Type in short messages (only sometimes containing a link) to let others know what you are doing throughout the day. Network and build up the number of Tweets you are following. Addictive, but highly beneficial once you've built a successful following on Twitter.
There
are many, many more websites that can be used like this. The key is to really
use those where you think the best results can be found, but also where you
find yourself enjoying it.
To
find more of these social networking websites, visit this Wikipedia pages wikipedia
There
is no way that you can go to all of these websites, but the key is not to
invest all of your time in them, either. You should find one, two, or three to
really dive into and to work with.
THE
NECESSITY OF BUILDING A NETWORK
While
it is essential for individuals to build a network of people to get traffic to
their website, it is often something that is failed out. For example, let's say
you join Facebook, put up a few pictures, find your email contacts and
then don't do much else. No one is going to find you that can help you to build
your business.
You
need to network and build a sizable following or allow others to find you on
any of these websites by providing concise yet useful information. For example,
you create a login at Digg.com, a social networking website that works quite
indirectly for getting visitors to websites. You start to submit articles to
Digg.com allowing for others to find them through the company's normal means.
You wait. You don't see too much traffic there. Oh, well you move on.
This
is where the mistake happens. The fact is, you have to get out there and really
make your presence known. Here are some tips to make this possible.
·
Use your
profile! This is one of the key tools
you have to get people back to your website. Be sure to use keywords you would
associate with your business in your profile, but make it informal. There is no
room for sales here.
·
Socialize
with others Find others at the website that share something in common with you
and build a network with them. For example, you may be promoting a baby product
and you are a mother. When you join the website, promote yourself as a mother
first, connecting with other mothers at the website.
·
Build a
network from your friend's networks Let's say you use your email contacts and
locate them on your favourite social sites. That's great. Don't stop there.
Befriend not just these individuals but also their friends, too. Keep going,
building a network for yourself the whole time.
There
are many ways to build a network using social medium. The key is to keep
working at it and enjoying the process. Over time, people come to your website
to find out what you have to offer. This gets them interested and they buy from
you. The process works like this many times over and at the end of the day, you
have drawn people to you without talking too much about your business.
PART
2: GETTING PERMISSION TO COMMUNICATE
The
next step in the process of using attraction marketing to your advantage is to
get people to let you talk to them. With the advent of laws regarding spam and
other inappropriate means of communication, it has become very important for
any Internet marketer to be sure they stay on the good side of the law.
As
an Internet marketer, you need to have the permission of a consumer, client or
website visitors to send them any form of communication other than direct
communication such as through a blog comment.
Why
you should do this, you may be asking. As part of the process of developing a
successful Internet marketing business, you need to get your product or service
in front of the client. As you will see in Part 3, this is the key to your
success in selling.
There
are many ways that this can be done. The bottom line is that it has to be
done. You want those that find you on
the web to come to your website and a lead capture page, for example. This way,
you are able to get their permission to send them more information.
There
are many lead capture tools available to help you to accomplish this including
The Renegade and Marketing Merge, for example. You can also create your own,
and not something that is difficult to do on your own, even if you are not a
techie.
What
happens is simple:
- Individuals find your information on the web
- They follow it to your website's lead capture page.
- They sign up when they arrive there.
- You have a lead to sell to, market to or otherwise use.
Now,
you can advertise to them.
PART
3: PROVIDE INFORMATIONAL EMAILS TO THE CUSTOMER
Now
that you have gone through all of this work, you still do not have a profit in
hand. Why not?
This
is where the final part of the three part process of using attraction marketing
comes in. Now, you will take the information and resources that you have worked
so hard to develop and make them into something that's going to turn a profit
for you.
Keep
in mind that while this process may seem like it is long and has a lot of work
to it, you are going to automate much of it and secondly, you are going to do
all three things at one time. This way, you are likely to start making money
from attraction marketing right from the beginning of starting the process.
INFORMATIONAL,
NOT SPAM
One
of the keys to building a successful attraction marketing plan is not to be
overly sales like. Everything and anything that you do should be done based on
subtle sales information. You are providing information to the client. You are
not hard selling what you have to offer to them. This is why it is called
attraction marketing. The consumer is attracted to you because you are giving
them valuable information and tools to use.
Don't
fail on that point: informational is key, not sales ads.
DEVELOP
A PLAN
As
part of the process of using the permissions given to you by those who have
visited your website, you will need a plan. The plan is quite specific. You
need to send emails to those who are on your list that allow them to gain
something and learn something. You need to have a plan in place so that you can
be professional while still getting people to your website at the same time.
In
this form of attraction marketing, you are attracting people to your website by
first telling them something important. They think, Hey, this is great. This is
just what I need. They then head over to your website from the link posted in
the email. They can then make a purchase from you or do what you wish for them
to do.
To
make sure this happens, you need to ensure that your emails are well received
and that they have the best information they can offer to the reader. This way,
they are most likely to visit your website.
CONSTRUCTING
EMAILS
The
first step in the process is to develop a newsletter or other email
communication with them. It does not matter what you call it. Rather, it
matters what is in it. Here are some examples of quality content to provide to
your readers.
- Provide Informational Articles Your clients want to read something helpful to them. They want to read something that teaches them something. For example, let's say you are selling an informational product on acne. In your email message to your readers, you write about the causes of acne. This provides them with some type of information.
- Make your subject line effective A common problem that many people have when using any form of email marketing is that they just do not get their readers to open up the email. How can you do well if the reader is not even reading what you have to offer? Use your subject line as a tool. In the above example, the subject line could be, "what causes acne and what you can do about it now."
- Make your email personal If you have ever opened up an email and read it knowing that they were just selling something, chances are good the information with was a simple made up, canned response. That's boring and actually worthless. Use the reader's names. Be sure to write to them, not to academics. Be personal, yet professional at the same time.
- Don't overdo it with graphics Another problem with email marketing like this is that people go overboard with graphics. You have seconds to impress your reader and get them to actually read the email you have sent. If you have so many graphics within it that it takes forever to load, they will close the email and move on long before actually seeing what you were going to talk about.
- Tell them what to do Perhaps the most important aspect of any email used like this is that it has to provide your readers with a way of reacting to what you have sent. Tell them what to do or what they can do to learn more. Give them the link to follow that takes them to the answers to their questions. For example, in the above example, after detailing all of the causes of acne, follow up with a link that takes the individual to your acne cure website. The link may read, "Finally, there is help for any of these acne causes."
Attraction
marketing is only as successful as you make it. Therefore, if you invest a
little time in it, especially in writing these emails, chances are good you
will get very little from it. Take your
time to produce a quality, highly effective email that is sent to your readers.
HAT
TO SEND IN EMAILS
Still
unsure of what you can do with your emails? Here are a few more ideas to work
with:
·
Share
information on the topic you have a passion about, hopefully related to your
website.
·
Share a good
book, informational product or other item that in some way relates to your
business indirectly.
·
Share live
event information. Perhaps you are doing an educational seminar or a web cast
and want to invite your readers to come to your website to attend.
· Perhaps you
are running a sale and you wish to provide your readers with information
regarding it.
· Perhaps you
are providing some recorded trainings and want to share the details with your
list.
That's
all it takes to get the email going. An
effective campaign does get people back to your website. In fact, attraction marketing can work in
many ways to gain you resources including higher sales potential. Take the time
to put attraction marketing in place and you will see traffic to your website
come in from a variety of sources. You are likely to see your sales go up as
long as you have provided your readers with the helpful tools and resources
they need to make wise decisions.
If
you are not sure if it can work for you, consider traditional sales mechanisms.
You could pay a heavily trafficked website for an ad in the thousands of
dollars range and hope to get enough readers back to your website. Or, you can
invest your time, not your money, in getting quality traffic that is already
interested in you!
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