Monday, March 26, 2012

You'll Never Die of Exposure in Victoria

In fact you may disappear if you don't expose yourself.

I'm talking internet exposure...internet marketing...getting your website "out to the masses".

After all, you can spend a ton of money creating a great website. All the latest gadgets, Flash coding, CSS, e-commerce shopping cart, m-commerce enabled. You name it.

But all that money spent on a really great website doesn't matter.
 
Unless your prospects and customers have a way to find you when they search the internet, your business is dying a slow, painful death.

Sorry to say it, but it's true.

Talk to your kids. I know I do regularly.

Everything I do regarding internet marketing is filtered through my two "twenty something" daughters.

Because my kids spell the future for Victoria small business. And the future is now.
 
 
Do you think kids use the yellow pages?

The local newspaper? 

Even t.v. has become alien, as many shows are streamed online. 

Radio? You're kidding, when iTunes is the rage of the day. 

Land line telephone? That means talking to people, so no thanks. After all, phones are for texting, not talking.

The tried & true methods of marketing aren't working any more. Those static ads where you talk AT people, when you should be talking WITH them.


YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, reddit, Google searches...these are the sources of information for this generation.


That's what my kids are looking at when I see their noses stuck in their smartphones & laptops for 18 hours a day.


And please DON"T assume it's just the kids
.

I checked Facebook Insights today for my other business. Analysis shows that 54.2% of people that "like" Simon Says Roses are 45 and older!


The future is now.


It's time to get started with your Victoria internet marketing program.


As always, give me a call Frank Simon The Website Detective at 250-478-2524 for your free one hour consultation.