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As an owner of a business you are always looking for different innovative ways to better your business. You want to have as many people as possible that want your product or service. One of the advantages of today is that you can use the internet to as a marketing tool. There are hundreds of companies out there that are constantly using online marketing as a tool to help their business. Here are four ways that your website can become aware of by the consumers.
First and foremost is to create a website that is valuable to the people. Make sure it is simple and informative. Get right to the point on how your business can be valuable to them. It is said that as a website you have about 5 to 8 seconds to capture the attention of a person. Otherwise he/she will lose interest and click on to the next one. Therefore another thing you want to make sure to do is to have keywords and also to have your website in good ranking on search engines. Appearing higher up on search engines such as Google will help your business get better recognition.
Another way to reach out to new audiences it to become a blogger. Blogging shows the more personal and less formal side of the business. It gives people an insight to a world which they would not normally know about. Blogging keeps peoples' interests because it allows for a conversational style of writing where the audience can have an input on also.
Podcasting can also be another type of technology that can be taken advantage on the internet. You don't need much to get started. All you really need is a microphone, digital recorder, and editing software. People take in more if the information is given through voice as opposed to words on paper or screen. It conveys emotion and personality into the situation.
Last but not least you can take advantage of the worldwide known website, YouTube. You can post instructive videos into whatever subject your business is in. Make sure that it is going to grab the attention of the consumer. For example if you are in the pottery business you might want to throw a video up of how to throw pots onto a pottery wheel.
