Friday, April 24, 2009

Marketing At The Speed Of Thought

Yes! That's it exactly. I just got out of bed I was not even quite awake yet but all I could think about is what those of us who market online really want to hear about. Then it hit me so I grabbed  my pen and started scribbling.

Marketing at the speed of thought! Eureka! That's it exactly the advent of the internet give us the power to get our ideas across at the speed of thought which is by the way faster than the speed of light.

Take Twitter for instance those of us who hang out there tweeting all day long as ideas come to us know exactly what I'm talking about. Some of us are updating ideas faster than they can take root in our minds. Then like magic it is being read by thousands all across the net. In that very moment we have harnessed the true viral nature of the internet.

Then there are Social Networks which allow us to share ideas with people in all corners of the globe. We can use Forums to post Ads of our choice and have access to many eager willing eyes which are ready and happy to read them.

Traffic Exchanges also allow us to share our marketing ideas and products with a multitude of viewers even as we click send to have our Ads rotating in that exchange.

Even bigger than any of these mentioned above is the power of the Search Engine. This is now a well oiled machine on the internet used by everyone who is trying to market some product or idea. We all know that Google has revolutionized the concept of Search Engines. We can use Google to search for just about anything. Our biggest challenge being to get our Ads to the top of the SE.

Added to all this are other means of advertising on the internet such as blogging, ad-copy, e-mails, ezine articles and the endless list continues.

I like the idea that we can market at the speed of thought. This thought encouraged me to write my own blog. I know I am a bit of a novice at it but with time we all can master anything we set our minds to.









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