The art of giving information away without the expectation of anything in return, has a quality to it that causes people to gravitate towards you and your business. It's known as information marketing and has been kept secret in the offline world for many years and only just surfaced the last 5 or so years online.
So what does this process do for you? Well, it allows you to "give" something of immense value, to someone (a prospect) who desperately needs that information.
Please, don't go and plagiarize articles exactly, but rather take the idea, put your own flavour, ideas, personality and experience to it, that will then be 100% unique, and I guarantee you that you'll never, ever, be without ideas for information marketing this way.
If you can share about yourself with your prospective clients and at the same time display your credibility and trustworthiness (through social proof e.g. testimonials) then you'll created a comfort zone for them during this "information giving" process...
Lets know look more deeply into the concept of information marketing and how you can use it in your local area to help a great amount of prospects buy from you "without" even selling to them.
Magazines and television documentary shows on new products emerging on the market and the reviews they do with industry experts see's us driving to the stores that are recommended at the end of the article or program in the hoardes to "buy" with very little interaction with the salespeople required.
Some of the best examples of online marketing that I'd like for you as a business person to adopt would be: - How-to's - Checklists - Directories - Statistics - Measuring tools - Industry-specific reviews - Calendars - Addresses - Phone numbers - Web links - Conversion tables - Keyboard shortcuts - Glossaries - Calculations - Formulas - Q&A's -
Wikepidia.com - Blogs - Step-by-step reports -
YouTube.com -
Facebook.com -
Squidoo.com - Reviews - Article Marketing - White papers - Online
Website-Buildit.com
By using the above ideas, resources and websites you will come across so much information and ideas to "give" to your clients, they're going to recognize you as the industry expert very quickly if you just keep producing and sharing yourself and who you are and what you're about on a deeper level, you're going to be discovered and related to.
The whole time you're creating these information peices you're going to be gently positioning yourself as the knowledgeable guide who "connects" with your target audience. This is so powerful and authentic, that you're going to find people saying to you that they feel like they really know you already, because they could have been following your for months and studying your information (espescially if you're online and doing this, that is so very "POWERFUL")!
You need to be very aware that online information marketing is filled with "copies" of articles and what's known as "PLR" which stands for "Private Label Rights".
I've personally found that by using ghost writers and PLR products won't fulfil your authentic image as greatly as implementing your own expertise and knowledge inside your head and putting that into a knowledgeable format. And unless you have a very, very good writer (who will probably cost you a lot) who understands how you think and your own unique writing style, it's best you create this information yourself.
Should you find yourself stumped for ideas, try searching Google and Yahoo Answers for solutions, an excellent ways to do this is by typing in "Ideas" only.
I hope that at least some of the above ideas have helped you to decide to "begin" using information of some sort, to build trust, authenticity and credibility into your business even more than there is now.
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Adam Price is a full time internet marketer and the founder of Nett Knowledge, a company that helps business owners find and plug the profit gaps in their website strategy. His websites are
www.NettKnowledgeBlog.com &
www.Magic-Minisites.com
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