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There are so many ways, means and way to do promotions on the Internet. You may have many advantages from a wide range of promotion. You have to use of online promotional tools. Even if free but if not effective, and produces, might mean that you have wasted time, effort and money to the cost of Internet access.

1. SEARCH ENGINE OR MACHINE

Registering your site to Search Engines is the promotion of the earliest ways that should be done. All Internet users utilize Search Engines to find what is on the internet. If you have not registered your site to Search Engines, register your site now. Search engines can bring in up to 60% of all visitor on your site if your site can rank the top 10 keywords of your site’s search results on popular search engine such as Yahoo.com or Google.com.

If your site only to Internet users in the country then your site should also have been registered to various sites of the popular search engine such as the National www.searchindonesia.com, www.indocenter.co.id, www.catcha.co.id, www.jagad . com and www.naver.co.id.

Currently there are tens of thousands of sites around the world search engine but you do not need to register your site to all Site Search Engine. Most important to register your site to the Site Search Engine The most users like www.XXXXX.com, www.lycos.com, www.excite.com, www.altavista.com, www.infoseek.com, www.lycos.com, www.excite.com, www.webcrawler.com and www.hotbot.com.

2. Viral Marketing

Viral marketing is a marketing concept that mimics the work of computer viruses that can work alone, spread quickly and automatically infect millions of computers around the world. That is why viral marketing is also a named with virus traffic. The difference if a computer virus is very harmful for the parties affected the viral marketing equally benefit both the people who distribute and also by people affected by this virus of traffic which will also be happy to spread it. Viral marketing or viral traffic is the concept of “win solution.”

The basic concept of Viral Marketing is allowing others to use your product for free, your products can be ebooks, articles, Computer software, game software, card, and then you are users of the product you are allowed or if you need to ask to give it to someone else and so on in sequence in order to multiply your marketing more quickly through the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is to include your ad in your free product that can be possessed or used other people who also would be happy to distribute it to other people.

With viral marketing promotions occur automatically even without the knowledge of you. Examples of viral marketing is the e-Books, web hosting, tell a friends scripts are, affiliate program or downline, computer software and games, and articles.

3. ADVERTISING NETWORK

Classified Ads Network is one way of promotion is very effective, powerful and intelligent. Sample Business Classifieds Network is Iklan.com in http://www.bisnisiklan.com To use this service you do have to pay Rp 50,000, – once and for all. There are so many free classified ads, but why that is not free. It’s like any investment in which a person willing to spend some money to get more money.

The fact there is so many free tools online promotion but why so few people succeed in internet marketing run. Apparently as a free promotional tool online usually are ineffective and inefficient. Meanwhile, an online promotional tool that paid very efektit clear, efficient and would produce 1000% more profit compared to similar online promotion tools for free.

4. E-MAIL MARKETING

Promoted by e-mail is one way of efficient promotion. Promotions via e-mail usually take advantage of facilities Maling list or Safelist. You can find a wide variety ranging from the member mailing list of tens of thousands of people at Yahoogroups, http://groups.XXXXX.com find mailing lists you mean by entering keywords in its search form.

Maling list or Safelist is a group of email addresses of people who join and agree to receive email from other members and send emails to other members. Each member mailing lists or Safelist have and need a product and services, or information so that they are potential prospects for your business.

Unlike SPAM, then Safelist members are people who allow the shipment of e-mail promotions, and even requiring that information. E-mail marketing direct marketing is a type of the most inexpensive, effective and efficient.

Use of the Internet turns out not only as a source of information, but also has many other benefits that may not have many people who know about it. On average, most people in Indonesia use the Internet just to find information and communicate by email or chat.

The Internet also has huge benefits as a business opportunity and business, as an example of you who have a book store to sell your books are on the internet, benefits could even get 2 even 10 times more than if you sell products offline because the product will you sell covers the whole world and can be done easily and quickly.

Marketing the product through the Internet also does not require a large capital even much smaller than if you build a store or building. Already many people are turning to sell their products via the Internet because they think the benefits will be far greater.

On the internet there are also many different types of investment opportunity that is promising. The average profit we earn by investing in a company through the internet is 25% – 40% every month with varying contract period. Investing through the Internet of course has a very big risk because any time a company where we can invest just went bankrupt.

By doing marketing or promotion through the internet, our products can be seen by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people each month who come from different cities and different countries.

Did you know that ice cream carts passing Walls around your house before you see the cart or the retailer. Then, you are also interested to buy it?

Or have you ever tried to remember the access number of a dial-up service by singing the jingle Instant Telkomnet you’ll ever hear on radio or TV ads?

These illustrate that music can be an element for communicating a brand in consumers’ minds. Music is an audible then we know as branding.

The use of music or sound as a means of business communication has actually done since the past. This, for example, sellers who peddle satay satenya by yelling “te, sateee” or handyman noodles tap tap the peddle wares to the sounds cauldrons are hit with a wood or the like so that the sound effect “tap tap tap” which then the sound is characteristic inherent in the mind of the consumer.

Branding Trends Embracing Music

Over time, the use of music as a means of branding has evolved into an effective strategy. Now, the use of music was not what it used to be that music is solely used as an advertising jingle or just to raise awareness of a particular brand. Therefore, its use is now more varied and integrated branding strategy.

Music in branding has now developed into one powerful asset for communicating a brand without having to look at the brand visually. That we can see examples of the current trend during the last two years.

This happens when a lot of famous brand that began to associate their brand with the music world as an effective branding strategy as well as differentiation antarsatu brand with other brands.

Some concrete examples are one of the McDonald’s campaign in the United States that launched the “Big Mac Meal Tracks”. This campaign means a service that allows customers to redeem the access code printed on the packaging sandwich McDonald’s for a song of their choice at Sony’s online music store. Even with Coca Cola which is always attached in the minds of consumers by launching a variety of his campaigns.

This course is supported by an interesting musical composition. It is also common at the famous brands in Indonesia, namely KFC with his musical campaign, namely “KFC Music Hit List” which embrace the solo singers and local bands as the driving campaign launched by the KFC.

Band or solo artist who is selected and displayed KFC indirectly to reinforce the positioning and target market of KFC, which is among the young. Then Astra Honda Motor with the campaign “One Heart” which strengthened the band Bob Marley and Agnetha Faltskog. The success of a communication strategy certainly did not escape from several aspects:

1. Positioning

A brand must put himself exactly in the market who want to reach. Proper positioning will make it easier for a brand to reach consumers. For example, cigarette True to its advertising which is squarely targeting the lower middle class consumers.

2. Branding Concepts

Communication strategies that really work requires a strong branding concept. Strong branding concept will be more severe impact in the eyes of consumers. That by itself would lead to differentiation that makes the brand stand out more.

Currently, T-shirts worn as one of the company’s media campaign which proved quite effective. The message can be communicated through those companies who use these promotional shirts. The messages to be conveyed can be represented in the form of text or graphics on the chest or promotional shirts using silk screening or embroidery. Even so for funds expended are not redundant to think about exactly what kind of shirt used as a promotional tool.

In general the form of promotional shirts are often used there are two types of T-shirts / t-shirts and polo shirts. T-shirts are often used for events that are not too formal, as well as comfortable to wear campaign t-shirts can also accommodate a wide range of designs according to the needs of the event. Uniforms for event participants or event organizers appropriate to use this type of promotional shirts. T-shirt promotion is also suitable for use at events held during the day and outside the building such as outbound or family gathering. Materials are lightweight and quick to absorb sweat like cotton can be selected according to the available budget. Cotton jersey combat can be selected for promotion

with better quality while for a more efficient material costs can be selected while cotton carded if you want an even cheaper to use hijet materials, often called a campaign T-shirt material. Often there is a request for promotional t-shirts

using more expensive materials such as dry-fit for exclusive outdoor activities such as golf tournament and others but need to be considered in addition to about the price and prestige of this type of shirt is actually more suitable for use in sub-tropical rather than in humid regions such as Indonesia. For the color can be customized to the needs but it should be considered for activities in the hot sun in white T-shirt promotion should be an advantage.

The functions of polo shirts have the same properties with T-shirts but because of the collar of the shirt this campaign looks more formal and suitable for indoor events. Because the impression that appear to be exclusive then often also used as polo shirts gifts as part of the company’s merchandise. Materials commonly used can be selected according to taste and funds owned. Materials such as cotton combat, carded cotton can also be used for other than material Lacoste polo shirt and Waffle. Because of the porous texture that tends to last two more materials using screen printing decoration instead of embroidery. For decorative cotton fitted using embroidery or embroidery process but also silk-screening process can be easily implemented.

For all promotional T-shirts that use basic colors like striking red, blue, green or orange at risk of easily fade so you should at first until the third washing clothes separated from others or to remind vendors to do the washing material before the process of sewing done.

One promotional strategy that is often used by entrepreneurs to introduce their products by following the exhibition. The exhibition is an event to introduce products and events to increase sales to attract customers as much – much.

The development of the exhibition event held by the government as well as various corporate event planning, giving a big advantage for small businesses. Most SMEs have difficulty in marketing their products, other than that business competition is also forcing them to promote their business to the market. With the exhibition, the SMEs can promote their products directly to the plunge saw a market opportunity for their products.

In addition, the exhibition also provides many benefits for your business, if you want to know the benefits of the exhibition for business development, among others, as follows:

1. As a means of introducing new products

The exhibition can be used as a platform to introduce new products, so the general public aware of new products that you create. You also can promote the products by distributing product samples, brochures or pamphlets, as well as business card company. So more people who know your product.

2. Introduce new products with innovation

In addition to new products, the exhibition can also be used as a means to introduce the old product is given a new innovation. So that the public at large aware of any product updates that you do, your old customers for sodium absorption ratio was bored with existing products. And new customers can feel a new innovation that has your product.

3. Strengthen company image

If your product has been successfully received by the market, through the exhibition you can strengthen the image or corporate image. Show the existence of your company by providing excellent service for consumers, to increase the empathy of society and inculcate the good image of your company in the eyes of consumers.

4. Knowing the competitor information

Exhibitions are usually followed by many businessmen, did not rule out business in the same field also follows the exhibition. Opportunity, you can use to find information about the company’s competitors, from the starting price set competitors, their products, equipment used, or simply knowing their business development.

5. Survey the market through exhibitions

Through the exhibition you can conduct market surveys, to see how much interest visitors of the exhibition of your products. From the sale during the exhibition, can be used as evaluation materials, and to determine the future business strategy.

6. Improving the quality of human resources and teamwork
By following the exhibition, you will also assess the quality of human resources and teamwork that you have. At least you can see the marketing capability to serve the visitor and see the ability of teamwork in improving product sales during the exhibition.

Current exhibitions are often held by a company event organizer, have advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of the exhibition is the SMEs helped to introduce their products, but there are also hurt because not all consumers visited the exhibition. Therefore you must be keen in choosing the activities offered by the exhibition. Before attending an exhibition, you must consider several things as follows:

* Find information about whom, when and where the organizers of the exhibition. Usually held the exhibition of large organizations, have the resources and better marketing strategies.
* Check in advance about the number of visitors of the exhibition. This can be seen from the number of visitors last exhibition held organization. Avoid the exhibition that the number of visits tends to be slightly. Also for consideration, you can also see testimonials from previous exhibitors.
* How many booths that are offered and how much it costs to offer. Before you decide to attend the exhibition, ask for assurance from the committee about the number of booths are allowed to join the exhibition.
* Ask for supporting the exhibition, do not agree an exhibition if you do not already know about the means of promotion that is given during the exhibition. Take also of the cost you spend to attend the exhibition by means of a given committee. If found to be balanced, it’s better not to take the exhibition.