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In This Issue:
Note from Bobette Kyle - Drilling down: goals, strategies, marketing programs; Superbowl marketing.
Web Site marketing Plan .com - Superbowl 2005 marketing and advertising lessons.
Different options for writing a marketing plan - Book, software, example plans, and more.
Web Promotion Articles .com - Differences between AdWords and Overture pay per click programs.
Jill Whalen Articles .com - Search Engine Marketing (SEO) overview.
The WebSiteMarketingPlan.com Network - Subject-specific business and marketing sites designed to help you find the right information for writing and implementing your plan.
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Hello Folks -

Often, people confuse marketing programs or strategies with end goals. You may hear someone mention his/her Website marketing goal, for example, as to "bring more traffic to the Website."  Ultimately, however, traffic isn't the Website-related goal. The goal is something like online sales or leads. In my head, an example of a goal (with drill down to specific marketing strategies and programs) looks something like this:

  • Website Goal: Increase online sales by Y%.
  • Strategy: Improve number of targeted visitors to the site.
  • Programs (Tactics):
      (1) Improve organic / natural search engine rankings for specific keywords.
      (2) Launch a pay per click search engine campaign.

For those of you with similar goals and strategies, today's guest articles explain how to implement the two supporting programs I mentioned in the example. "High Rankings' SEO Process" by Jill Whalen gives step-by-step instructions for optimizing your Website for organic search results. In "Overture vs. Google AdWords," Ed Kohler explains the differences between Overture's pay per click program and Google's AdWords.

For a more general marketing discussion, with some examples, you can read "Superbowl 2005 Advertising and Marketing Lessons." If you missed my previous Superbowl articles about marketing and the Superbowl commercials, you can have a look through the links below.

Enjoy!

Bobette Kyle

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Superbowl Advertising and Marketing Lessons
"Superbowl 2005 Advertising and Marketing Lessons"
http://www.websitemarketingplan.com/Arts/SuperBowl3.htm

Advertisers, performers, announcers and coaches involved in the 2005 Superbowl demonstrated several marketing and management lessons during the course of the game.

"Superbowl Ad and Marketing Techniques"
http://www.websitemarketingplan.com/marketing_management/SuperBowl2.htm 

Superbowl ads - a perennial entertainment source - are also a great source of advertising and marketing lessons. Some example 2004 ads (and earlier) demonstrate.

"Superbowl Advertising and Marketing Lessons"
http://www.websitemarketingplan.com/SuperBowl.htm

The Superbowl commercials, advertisers, and teams - as well as the NFL itself - provided useful marketing lessons in Superbowl XXXVI. The article explains 13 marketing lessons learned from the game.
 

Marketing Plan Articles .com - Different approaches to marketing plans.

Http://www.MarketingPlanArticles.com  includes a variety of articles explaining different ways you can complete a marketing plan.

Other resources you may want to research:

Marketing Plan Software
http://www.paloalto.com/common/products/mpdesc.cfm?affiliate=wsmp

Sample Marketing Plans
http://www.websitemarketingplan.com/Free/SamplePlan.htm

Marketing Plan Tools (Book, Workbook, Templates, etc.)
http://www.howmuchforspider.com/

A Web Marketing Plan Outline (Article)
http://www.websitemarketingplan.com/marketing_management/5Steps.htm
 

Web Promotion Articles .com - Search engine, email, advertising, and newsletter promotion strategies.
"Overture vs. Google AdWords"
http://www.webpromotionarticles.com/payperclick.htm

Ed Kohler explains the differences between two pay per click advertising programs, Google AdWords and Overture. He discusses ad syndication, matching, competitive bidding, landing pages, and more.
 

Jill Whalen Articles .com - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Articles, Interviews, and Resources from Jill Whalen.
"High Rankings' SEO Process"
http://www.websitemarketingplan.com/Whalen/SEOProcess.htm

One of the most difficult marketing strategies for many online marketers is ranking well in organic search engine listings. Here, Jill explains how to improve search engine rankings through keyword research and search engine optimization.

Search Engine Optimization FAQ

Many of the same SEO questions arise again and again. Jill answers three: Is Web content really important?, Is Google penalizing my site?, and Where should I place key words and phrases?
 

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