12 Predictions: 2012 Hot Marketing Trends

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If you want to know how to market your website, business, brand, and products on 2012 you need to follow the current hot marketing trends that are turning into a regular part of doing business online or offline. More than just marketing predictions I gonna based the trends on factual statistics, market research, and case studies made by top research firms.

Is Forum Marketing Part Of Your Strategy [Poll Results]

A recent market research poll conducted by Addme.com shows that many web entrepreneurs don't use or think of web forums as a great marketing tool. What they don't know is that online discussion groups or forums are great websites that have the potential to help you:

What Is Killing Your Article Marketing Success And How To Fix It [Poll Results]

A new market research poll showcase what's killing your article writing efforts and together your content marketing success. The study was done by Squidoo, where 1213 people respond to the question "what is stopping your from writing articles?"

Canada Is The New Online Marketing & eCommerceTrend Plus Hot Selling Products [Statistics]

New online market statistics show that China and the U.S. aren't the only trendy markets on the web. Canada have been growing their online activities and spending since 2005. By evaluating the way the country have been growing into an steady ecommerce power house experts predict that it will reach $30.9 billion by 2015.

Here is the statistics chart that shows the prediction after a detail market research study done by

February 15th 50 Hot Products To Sell On The Internet

What to sell on the Internet this February 15th, 2011? That's actually a daily question for most online marketers and merchants, because finding what's hot on a daily basics can be very exhausting, specially if you don't know to do online market research or you don't have the right marketing tools for such study. And even if you have the tools you need to know exactly how to use them and read the reports so you understand your market and easily spot trends and hot products on demand that can be use to set up new revenue streams for you and your business.

Before I show you the tools I use and the list of popular selling items, let me give you some tips on how to monetize this list.

8 Crucial Factors In A Successful PPC Campaign [Market Research]

Pay-per-click advertising.

What do you think is the most crucial factor in a PPC (pay-per-click) campaign? This is the exact question made to a large list of search engine marketing followers, and the results where just like I predicted. Well, not all the results but I least I knew exactly which PPC element would be on the number one spot.

There are many different elements when it comes to setting up a successful pey-per-click advertising campaign. But, almost every search marketing expert will agree with me when I said that

9 Ways To Better Banners Ads Click Through Rates & Online Marketing Results

Ad Click-Through Rates

New Internet market statistics show that the poor hard working online banners ads are still the number one thing marketing tactics consumer hate, avoid, and ignore the most. In fact, consumers said that they ignored display ads 43% more than any other type of advertising like newspaper, radio, etc.... This, must be one of the reasons display advertising click-through rate when so low back in 2008 (only 0.015%), at least that number is up on 2010 giving us a little hope(0.09% click-through rate).

Here are the statistics obtain by AdweekMidia and Harris Poll as cited on Adweek blog in November 2010 that showed what ad type consumers ignored and disregard the most on 2010:

The Truth About Facebook 'Like' Click-Through Rates

Before optimizing your Facebook presence you need to know the truth behind the viral marketing power of FB recommendation tool, which if is use right it can have your audience blasting your content across their profiles for their peers to see.

Almost everyone by now have seen the "Like" blue buttons - the one with the little thumbs-up graphic in Facebook that lets the social network member tell the other member that they liked something they posted on their wall. The system is very simple, when someone click on that thumbs up button, automatically they also reveal the content they just "liked" to all their peers (family and friends) in their FB sphere, this is how a lot of web content goes viral in today days.


The Open Graph Ecosystem.

When FB introduced its Open Graph ecosystem earlier this year, it made it possible for any website - from corporate websites to e-commerce sites - to add the "Like" button next to any content of its choosing.
Want your shoppers to "Like" one of your products?  No problem: Facebook now provides a simple-to-add piece of Java script for you to add to your site's HTML and done! Congratulations you're now part of the "Like-o-sphere".

Now to successfully optimize your fan pages you need to know, who clicks on "Like" buttons and what benefits can the addition of the little thumbs to your site produce? FB recently publish some statistic reports that have most of the answers you need.


THE STATISTICS.

First, people who regularly "Like" are some of the most connected and active people among the 500 million or so users of FB.  These folks, it seems, are the key influencers among their group of followers.

Facebook research reports go a little deeper:

• The average "liker" has 2.4x the amount of friends than that of a typical Facebook user.

• They are also more interested in exploring content they discover on Facebook.

• They click on 5.3x more links to external sites than the typical Facebook user.

Statistic resource: Yield Marketing Software for SEO.


These interactive and engaged power users are the Web's curators: they're in a never venture of content exploration, finding, revealing and sharing, usually with their opinion and critique feedback they pass it alone into their social streams.

- They are the web recommendation power users.

- They give fast warnings notices about news and market changes.

- They transform the way people think.

- And they transform decision-making - from buying to public votes to the success of charitable contributions.

- Another aspect you should know is that these influencers are also younger! Usually between 25 and 45 years old.

What all this analytic information means to you? Well, it means that if you want to become part of the 'Like-o-sphere' you need to optimize your Facebook fan pages and information in a way that will entice those power users to click on the 'Like' button and share your content with the world.

So, analyze your results and think of ways to increase your click-through rates on future content.

To your social media success,

Luis E Galarza,
Internet & Social Marketing Specialist.

Remember to build leads from social networks. Learn list building at:
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Social Media Poll: How Much Time Small Businesses Spent On It

Social Media Marketing Research

Poll results show that social media media still one the top method use by current online business owners and entrepreneurs, but also shows that is one of the most misunderstood mediums, and for that reason many small companies still avoiding it.

Here is the poll answers, where AmericaExpress ask small business owners "How much time per the spent on social media on 2010?":

1. 15% said that they haven't spent any time on it.

2. 38% said they spent 1 hour a day socializing and promoting their brand on networks.

3. 31% said they spent around 2 hours a day.

4. 15% said they spent more than 2 hours per day using web 2.0 community tools.


Social media is not the best game in town, but is a very powerful tool to create brand awareness and build pre-sell customer relationship. So, if you looking to build a long term business you should use it in your marketing mix. just find the right approach and network for your Internet venture.

Yours truly,

Luis E Galarza,
Internet Marketing Specialist.

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Why Surveys Are Great Internet Marketing Research Tools

Surveys Are Great Marketing Tools

Let me ask you something: Have you ever taken a survey? Like most people I am sure you have.

Most surveys are designed to give you as a consumer better service and preserve brand loyalty, through the enhancements of products and services.

Think about that for a minute, wouldn't it make sense that you do the same for your business? Imagine surveying your audience (customers and prospects) to find out exactly what they need and want. Think about how much loyalty you would get from them if you were to offer them what they need or want. Not to mention the better your bank account would look.

Without a doubt, I have to say that surveys are one best Internet marketing tools that can help you create that loyalty and satisfaction, customers need to become long term fans.

You could run multiple questionnaires and without the high cost of offline survey research campaigns by using online tools and even easy to use free online poll services or scripts that can be add to almost any website or blog.

So, don't let a small budget drive you away from such a great market research tools, and go to Google, Bing, Yahoo or any search engine you prefer and do a quick search for "free survey tools" and "free poll scripts or services".


Here a few top sites to get you started:

1. HyperGurl.com (http://www.hypergurl.com ): Offer scripts, code generators, apps, widgets, and more.

2. Hot Scripts (http://www.hotscripts.com ): This site have a huge catalog of shareware, codes, and. HTML tools.

3. SurveyConsole.com (http://www.surveyconsole.com ): Sign up for a free account and access over 400 survey templates.

TIP: You can send a list of questions to your email list members and ask for a response by email or on a webpage (if you need help building your list of qualify leads visit: http://ListBuildingBullet.site50.net ).

Also use daily, weekly or monthly polls on your site or blog to gather market intelligence from your visitors.

Now, go check those sites and think of ways to implement this very helpful questionnaires into your Internet marketing plan.

To your research success,

Luis E Galarza,
Online Marketing Specialist.

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Good News 2010 Holiday Sales Are Up

After such a great Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday marketing performance, you and every retailer or e-tailer need feel more confidence that you will have a great 2010 holidays revenue, if you haven't already.

Black Friday marketing events alone brought in a $45 billion in total sales, online and offline. You need to be ready to claim a piece of the billions that consumers and businesses will spend on Christmas and New Years events.

Here is how the U.S. Holiday shopping compares with previous years so far (2000-2010. Amounts are in billions):

- 2000 - $352.2.

- 2001 - $364.1.

- 2002 - $368.8.

- 2003 - $386.3.

- 2004 - $409.1.

- 2005 - $431.5.

- 2006 - $444.7.

- 2007 - $452.8.

- 2008 - $435.2.

- 2009 - $437.

- 2010 - $447.1.

Source: National Retail Federation & U.S. Department of Commerce.


The last amount is an estimate that is actually in the right path to be met.

Don't forget to plan some marketing and promotion campaigns for pre-holiday sales. Remember that most people will spend on presents before Christmas. Is your chance to increase your income and get a great 2011 start!

Yours truly,

Luis E Galarza.
Internet Business & Marketing Specialist.

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156 Hot Profitable Niches

By Luis Galarza - Niche Marketing.

Here A Huge List Of On Demand Niche Markets That You Can Profit From Online!...

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Finding a profitable market build a online business on can be a little frustrating when you don't know where to start, because you need to master keyword research to find out what people are spending on. And, no shouldn't start here, what you should do first is make a list of all your:

• Skills.
• Special abilities.
• Hobbies.
• Interests.
• Job you've done.
• Thinks you want to learn more of.
• Etc.

Then you can here and try to match your abilities with any of the markets below. Remember one way to ensure the success of your business and marketing efforts is to stick with what you love!.


How to Research Target Markets.

Before continue, here is a video that will explain the process of researching a market.



I hope you enjoy the video and got some useful insights about how to hand pick niche to target.


The Profit List!

No more blah, blah... Here is your list of money making niches!.

1. Accounting.
2. Acne.
3. Adsense.
4. Advertising.
5. Aerobics.
6. Affiliate.
7. Alternative.
8. Articles.
9. Attraction.
10. Auctions.
11. Audio Streaming.
12. Auto Care.
13. Auto Parts.
14. Auto Responder.
15. Aviation.
16. Babies Toddler.
17. Baby.
18. Bankruptcy.
19. Bathroom.
20. Beauty.
21. Bedroom.
22. Blogging.
23. Body Building.
24. Book Marketing.
25. Book Review.
26. Branding.
27. Breast Cancer.
28. Broadband Internet.
29. Business.
30. Business Loan.
31. Business Plan.
32. Cancer.
33. Car Buying.
34. Career.
35. Car Insurance.
36. Car Loan.
37. Car Maintenance.
38. Cars.
39. Casino.
40. Cell Phone.
41. Chat.
42. Christmas.
43. Claims.
44. Coaching.
45. Coffee.
46. College University.
47. Computer Tips.
48. Cooking.
49. Cooking Tips.
50. Copywriting.
51. Cosmetics.
52. Craft.
53. Creative Writing.
54. Credit / Bank.
55. Credit Cards.
56. Credit Repair.
57. Currency Trading.
58. Data Recovery.
59. Dating.
60. Debt Relief.
61. Diabetics.
62. Diet.
63. Digital Camera.
64. Diving.
65. Divorce.
66. Domain.
67. Driving Tips.
68. Ebay.
69. Ebook.
70. Ebook Publishing.
71. Ebook Marketing.
72. Ecommerce.
73. Email Marketing.
74. EMarketing.
75. Essay.
76. Ezine.
77. Fashion.
78. Finance.
79. Fishing.
80. Fitness.
81. Flu.
82. Furniture.
83. Gambling.
84. Golf.
85. Google.
86. GPS.
87. Hair.
88. Hair Loss.
89. HDTV.
90. Health Insurance.
91. Heart Disease.
92. Hobbies.
93. Holiday.
94. Home Business.
95. Home Improvement.
96. Home Organization.
97. Interior Design.
98. Internet Tips.
99. Investment.
100. Jewelry.
101. Kitchen.
102. Ladies Accessories.
103. Lawyer.
104. LCD / Plasma TV.
105. Legal.
106. Life Insurance.
107. Lingerie.
108. Love.
109. Mailing List.
110. Make Money.
111. Market Research.
112. Marketing.
113. Mortgage.
114. MP3.
115. Music.
116. Network Marketing.
117. Online Shopping.
118. Paid Survey.
119. PC Games.
120. Perfume.
121. Personal Injury.
122. Pay Per Click.
123. Pregnancy.
124. Publishing.
125. Real Estate.
126. Recipe.
127. Recreation.
128. Relationship.
129. Resume.
130. Romance.
131. RSS.
132. Sales Letter.
133. Self Employment.
134. SEO.
135. Shoes.
136. Small Business.
137. Smoking.
138. Software.
139. Spam.
140. Sports.
141. Spyware.
142. Stress.
143. Trading.
144. Travel.
145. Vacation Rental.
146. Video Conferencing.
147. Video Streaming.
148. Virus.
149. VOIP.
150. Web Design.
151. Web Development.
152. Web Hosting.
153. Website Traffic.
154. Wedding.
155. Weight Loss.
156. Wine.
157. Women.

I hope this list of 155 hot niche ideas can help you jump start your online venture, please drop me a question on the comments or leave your question at 978.425.1422.

Recommended Resources.

- E-Business Star-up Handbook.
- The Shoemoney System.

- Blog Mastermind.

- Step-By-Step Guide To Selling Online.


Research Tools.

- Micro Niche Finder.
- Keyword Elite 2.0.

QUICK PROFIT TIP: You can use this list to profit from Adsense, eBay or other online auction site, CPA campaigns, Affiliate promotions, resell products on your own online store, information marketing or ebooks, etc. Using your own blog, or content site will be an excellent way to start if you like to write, just keep it highly relevant to your audience needs and wants.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.
Proud member of the Internet Entrepreneurs Club.

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Facebook Have The Best Page Views In The World Of Social Networking Sites

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing For Beginners.

Having the best page views on the web is just one more reason why Facebook matter for your business!...

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There are many reasons why any online or offline business owner should apply Facebook marketing as part of there campaign for exposure, branding, authority, and more revenues.

As you already know Facebook is the number one site in the world passing even the monster Google. But, now market research studies show that not only if the most visited site in the world, it's also the social network with the most page views...

You will notice in the graph below that even the second most visited social network site is millions of views behind the big FB!

Oh, oh... I think we are going straight to some Internet marketing lessons we can learn from FB! When trying to develop a new business venture you need to apply some of this elements to make it jump right out of the crowd and get gain massive amount of targeted exposure:

1. Apply M.I.S.S. to your biz. This mean "make it simple stupid", easy to use and understand.
2. Make it interactive. What ever you sales process is make it fun to do.
3. Make sure is useful. Your product, service, or site needs to become a most have to solve a problem.
4. Add lots of value. Even if what you offer is free, needs to represent a big dollar amount in the mind of your audience.

Here is the graph that was first post on The Chris Voss Show Blog... Let me know what you think:

Are you ready to get on the wagon if you didn't jump on yet, if you already did you have a step ahead your low adapting competitors, and that is a great thing. Just make sure your do ethical web marketing and avoid any bad behaviors.

For more in detail training, check the Internet Entrepreneurs Club where you can ask and get the right answer to all your online marketing concerns!

Recommended Resources.

- The FB Formula: A Social Marketing Guide.
- The Step-By-Step Guide To Selling Online.
- FB For Affiliate Marketing.

Recommended Books.

- Facebook Marketing For Dummies.

- The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success.

What now? Is all about learning how to use each part of Facebook in your favor, ask yourself what you want to gain from your marketing, plan a promotion campaign to bring traffic or build a bigger community, then test, then tweak your promotion to increase conversions, and then test and repeat.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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Mobile Marketing Is Up - Market Research

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing to Make Money Online.

Mobile Marketing Is Ready... Are You Ready For It? Market Research Shows That You Should!

No long ago JupiterResearch a marketing research firm provide online and offline marketers a mobile marketing forecast for the U.S. only, this paper said that the future of mobile advertising is bright, because shows that messaging marketing campaigns, display ads, and contextual ads will grow more than 100% in next 5 years. As you can see this mean that mobile advertising will double or more in the next couple years, what this mean? Well, my dear online marketers, this mean that you need to start thinking on becoming a mobile marketer, by developing your presence in the wireless world of millions of active cellphones users. Also, this tells you that the different advertising tests are working, but is always good to try your own test and track everything you do, so you can do the right changes that will increase your responses.

The right numbers offer by JupiterResearch about the ad spending was that this market will grow from $1.4 Billion last year to $2.9 Billion in 2011... Big numbers are already part of this new industry and you can take part of the mcommerce (Mobile Commerce) action by creating content sites, or social networks, or applications for wireless phones and sell advertising space or promote your own products, or add Google Adsense for mobile sites which is already available for content publishers.

If you didn't know wireless phones have there on domain name which is ".Mobi".


Mobile Marketing or Advertising Really Works?

Well, for this I have to refer to a different market research paper from Harris Interactive which address the consumers opinion concern about mobile advertising. The research discover that about 26% of wireless phone users are willing to view ads on the cellphones, but only if they get any type of free application in return for their attention.

So, if you plan to build a mobile advertising empire you can start by creating useful cellphone applications and show sponsor ads on them. You can increase your distribution by adding a sense of viral marketing into your mobile campaigns for faster and cheaper promotion.


Recommended Resources.

- Search Engine Marketing Lab.
- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.


In Conclusion: Remember that being first in a growing trend and being innovative can increase your chances of success, the same is on Mobile Marketing, so learn from this market research and go for it.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant Massachusetts.

About Author: Luis Galarza is a respectable Internet Marketing and Small Business Consultant in the area of Leominster and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Also, he had teach 100's of entrepreneurs how to make money online and offline without their own product.

A proud member of
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