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  • Marketing online has changed, a more logical analysis approach is necessary.

    Most online marketers who are at the top of the spectrum and leading the way for new trends have in fact an IT background.  A recent survey suggested that over 80% of online marketing experts come from information technology and were not from a communications background.

    That 80% means that there is a shift from people working within IT over to marketing online.  It makes sense because understanding the technology designing a website you know what works with the traffic.  IT professionals also understand the mechanics behind the web and know what is possible and how to do it efficiently.  The internet is all about efficiency and doing something better is what it is build upon.

    Why are web developers switching to SEO and leaving the development world.  Most are able to balance both, technology and communications.  They are the bridge between the two worlds bringing together what they understand and making it possible online.

    If you are  a webmaster and don’t understand SEO then chances are your sites won’t be optimized and create a lot of extra work for the SEO and hence yourself as you have to update the site.  When a tree fall in the forest and there is no one around to hear it did it make a noise, when a website looks great but no one visits it, is it a good site?

    The lesson is to learn both, understand web design methodologies, the technology behind the web and traffic navigation principals.  Then learn the communication part to connect with the users of your site and how to convert visitors.

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  • Technology is the corner stone for what happens online, in order to understand future trends you need to understand what the technology that is driving those trends is capable of.

    Online marketing is not the same as traditional media marketing where you place a message somewhere where your key demographic will see it and hope for the best.  Online you have more control and are able to target who is what and how much of your ad they see.  The control is complete and must be approached from a technical point of view.  You also have the ability to better track your stats, no more throwing it out there and hoping it will stick.  Real data is hundreds of times more valuable than opinions.

    Understand what is out there, what trends and ideas are coming.  Stay ahead of the crowd and work towards providing a better more focused service.

    Gather your data and analyze it inside and out.  This will give you key performance indicators that will help once again better target who sees your ad and how they follow your conversion funnel.

    The geography is changing and to stay on top of this ever changing field you must have the ability to adapt and think outside the box.

    Understanding of web design and the coding behind it helps to foresee what is possible.  Once you have build navigation tables for your website you will start to better understand how people travel through your site.  Make sure you are delivering the site navigation in a logical pattern, this will help traffic flow within your site.

    The goal is to keep traffic within your network until it converts, the conversion is an integral part of marketing the final goal is the conversion.

    Without that conversion the traffic and graphics and anything else fails.

    This is why working together with technology and communications is so important to be successful at online marketing.

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