Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Having a plan

Having a plan is the first thing you need to be ready to attack your internet goals. I have come across many clients that have no idea where to begin with growing their presence on the web.

Here are some suggestions on where to begin with your plan:

  • First you need to know what your web presence looks like. 
    • Determine if you show up anywhere on the web
    • Do you have a blog
    • Do you connect with any social media
    • How many websites do you have
    • When you do a search can you find your company
  • You need to sit down and come up with a list of things you do good at.
  • Find out what has worked well in the past
  • Now you need to decide where you want to be and what efforts you will put in to make it happen.
  • Write down what your goals that you want to accomplish on the web.
    • This could be as simple as getting to the Google 1st page.
    •  Do you want to at least just show up in your local business listings.
    • How about placing ads
  • What are your products or services you want to spotlight through that campaign
  • What key words relate to your products or services 
    • Are these keywords in the list of words that people search for currently?
    • You may need to do enough research to find out what it is people are looking for that is relative to your business, products and services.
    • Do you have content on your website matching what it is you want to project?
    • Does your HTML Code reflect the same story?
  • Here are a few more questions you can ask yourself:
    • Do you have a way to track your results?
    • Do you have a process to track leads coming in from your web activity?
    • What is your conversion rate? 
    • How much money do you want to spend?
    • How long are you willing to wait to get the results you want?
  • Now that you have thought about all of those things, do you have the ability to go any further?
  • If not where do you turn? You will need to do some research to find someone or a service that can help you meet your goals.