JumpStart Marketing

Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are probably not news to you. These social networking websites have taken the Internet by storm and people now spend roughly 23% of their Internet time on them. But is your business taking advantage of the oodles of potential customers that frequent these sites?

Yet many businesses are still MIA, or have a whole 12 Twitter followers (10 of those being relatives or people who owed you a favor).
We've seen new technology like this with vast marketing potential before. Rewind 16 years to when businesses depended on newspapers and phone book advertisements, only to see the rise of the Internet. Today, some businesses still do not have a web presence or suffer under clunky websites. Social networking is the next opportunity for you to catch up or fall further behind. In the future, activity on social networks will keep increasing, meaning more people spending more time on a select few social networks. Businesses that are positioned to tap into the powerful pool of potential customers will flourish, while others risk being shut out or down. This article is not intended to scare you. We're not even trying to just promote our business. What we are doing is providing some heads up advice. Here are some key points to get started:

·Determine if you have a functioning website that doesn't look like it's partying like it's 1999. Can your site accept customer payments or do you need a shopping cart? Where do you show up on search engines like Google and Bing?

·Create a social media campaign to establish a presence on major social network websites. Register fan and business pages and hone your message.

·Start sending out punchy messages, offer special online deals, and collect, collect, collect fans and followers. You have to keep these messages up, be consistent, offer advice, and interact with followers. Otherwise you're just sending out the same three business promos over and over, which is boring.

One more time, you can try this yourself or a marketing business like ours can dramatically accelerate your efforts and save you time. The main point is no matter what you decide, do this! Social networks will open up new avenues to increase business and help you stay relevant, at least until that next big technology change washes over us.

As the holiday season kicks into high gear is your business effectively using the Internet to bring you more dollars? We're an Internet marketing company located right here in the great Pacific Northwest.

JumpStart Marketing creates professional videos about your business and then promotes them to your "Target Market." Video views = potential customers this holiday season and the next frontier for ranking high on search engines is VIDEO.

We offer custom campaigns that are tailored to your business and your online goals. http://jumpstartmarketingonline.com/