Use MyBlogLog To Increase Your Online Shop Traffic

23rd July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

MyBlogLog BlogshopFor those who do not know about MyBlogLog, this might help you to get some traffic to your online shop or site. You can sign up an account at MyBlogLog to enjoy this service.

If you have a Yahoo email account, you can sign in MyBlogLog with your Yahoo ID. It’s great little tool for visualizing your online shop’s visitors. You can see it in action at the bottom of this page, labeled under “Recent Spree-ers” which link to our SpreeCrunch MyBlogLog Profile.

Basically, it visually allows everyone to see the recent shop visitors that have a MyBlogLog account in your widget when new visitors are stopping by. Read More…

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Identifiy Your Niche And Needs

21st July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

What Your Niche?Identifying your customer is also important as defining your products and your marketing strategy. If you do not have a concrete marketing plan, then prepare to fail. A product is only as good as it’s marketing strategy.

The classic iPod Vs Creative Zen Mp3 players war serves as a good example. Before the iPod, Creative was one of the pioneer companies that made Mp3 players.

The difference between the iPod and Creative Zen wasn’t that great - both Mp3 players had their advantages and flaws. With neither clearly a “better” product of the two, it boiled down to marketing. The rest as they say is history.

As we have it, Apple’s iPod emerged the winner with the lion’s share of the Mp3 player market. Creative’s Zen crumpled under the weight of Apple’s well oiled and creative marketing. Read More…

Simple But Powerful Ways To Market

18th July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

Effective MarketingThere are many different ways to market you products or website but we are really interested in only concentrating on the more effective ones. So here are some ways of marketing that can benefit your business.

Networking

It is one of the cheapest and mostly commonly used approach by people who own a small business. Owners tend to print as many name cards as possible and take the wrong approach in handling them out. To the people you are handling out your name cards too, you are as emotionless as the name card that you have printed. Instead, make friends and get to know the people around you. Having made a couple of friends in the same industry is definitely more productive and effective than handling your name cards out like brochures in a shopping complex. Read More…

Connecting Through Blogging

17th July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

Blogging PlatformMillions around the world has jumped onto the bandwagon of blogging since it’s inception during the late 90s. Since then, blogging has evolved into an effective source of social media. But few people realize the potential and power of blogging, like the Malaysian elections a few months ago - political blogs were credited with swaying potential voters to the opposition. In a a country where media is closely watched and censored, blogging provides readers a different alternative and perspective. As more and more people migrated to the internet, traditional media lost its stranglehold on being the sole source of information.

Blogging was clear to anyone, anyone who is hoping to use the internet as a faster and cheap way to reach out to a targeted audience. It is an effective way to read out to influence large numbers of people instantaneously. Businesses like Lenovo recognized the need for blogs and created Thinkpad blogs to listen to their customers’ feedback. So far, it has been very positive. Read More…

5 Expectional Ways of Gaining Valuable Internet Traffic

16th July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

Internet TrafficEvery online store thrives on the need of traffic - it is the heart and soul of an internet marketing strategy. Having a site that is beautiful isn’t enough, the real world logic of beauty turning heads doesn’t apply here. In the cyberworld, an ugly site can easily generate more revenue and traffic just with a clever internet marketing plan, than one which is aesthetically beautiful but simply lacks the latter.

It’s a very hands on business which involves some hard work. You literally go out and beat the bushes to bring people in. A successful internet marketing plan is one which succeeds in driving traffic to their site and services. Read More…

4 Basic Marketing Strategies For Your Online Shop

15th July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

Internet Marketing Different websites utilize a different combination of marketing strategies to reach out to a wide audience. You must choose which specific action you will undertake and which tactic you will execute. All these are a matter of preference and resources available to you. What is important is that you must keep in mind your goal and achieve the results. Here’s a look on one of the few different ways to maximize internet marketing.

Area of interest - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for keywords. Optimize search engines traffic from search engines like Google and Yahoo!. Companies usually engage an agency to perform search engine optimization and marketing. It usually consists of full time staff person to continuously optimize pages of a corporate or a selling site. But with tools available easily on the internet nowadays, it is easy to do a SEO for your site. We will talk about SEO on a more in depth level soon. Read More…

Identifying Your Customers Needs

14th July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

Identifying Customer NeedsSuccessful internet marketing is built around a partnership with the customer. The promise of internet marketing is that it makes life more convenient for your customers. They expect, they demand and you will fulfill.

Online customers are as diverse as the general buying public. There used to be a time when typical web surfers were mostly male youth and tech savvy professions.Those days were long gone. Web users today consists of a wide demographics consisting of grandparents to the schooling teenager.

A successful blogshop has to appeal to the unique user, your targeted audience who will want and revisit you for more.  Read More…

The Different Faces of SpreeCrunch

14th July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

Different Faces of SpreeCrunchTo most, we are merely another blogshop directory. If you delve further in, we are alot more than just another blogshop directory.

Let us bring you on a walk and introduce you to us. In SpreeCrunch, we encourage potential and current blogshop owners to submit their profile to us and gain an identity foothold here. You don’t stand a chance of losing anything maybe only the preliminary hassle of form filling.

Every merchant should know that submitting to blogshop directories is the easiest and cheapest way of internet marketing. Yes, you should submit to most blogshop directories in a bid to get more traffic, but do you know that these blogshop directories hardly make an effort to market their sites?

There are no new features they work on; the traffic is constant but stagnant. SpreeCrunch will make an effort to constantly improve ourselves. The benefits of submitting to SpreeCrunch are evident – more traffic, more popularity and ultimately, increased probability of sales. Read More…

Journey with SpreeCrunch

6th July, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Posts by The SpreeCrunch Team

Journey with SpreeCrunchWelcome to SpreeCrunch!

We are sure that most of you know that there are many sites allow you to set up a shops and get it up running within 5 minutes. They entice you with the prospect of being your own boss and the prospect of making lots of money within the confines of your own home. While we agree that owning an online business is exciting and easy to manage, but it isn’t always profitable. Setting up is easy but the process of running and making it a successful venture is not.

To us, having a aesthetically beautiful online store front means nothing if you do not have what it takes to market and run it. Financially speaking, it’s almost free to set up a blog and to sell merchandise. In the near future, you will be able to get merchandise from SpreeCrunch too! There is no shortcut to riches, but there is an easier way to it. Work smart, not hard. Read More…