Your 2 main challenges:
- Driving visitors to your alphaite
- Building trust so your visitors will connect with your company
Publishing a company newsletter accomplishes both.
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Transcript:
Today we’re going to talk about why you have to publish a company newsletter on your alphaite. There are two really great reasons to do this.
One, you have to draw visitors into your alphaite, and doing that is a web marketing challenge. Number two, once visitors get to your alphaite you have to create trust and that trust happens over time so that visitors will reach out and eventually connect with you. And publishing your news and publishing your articles on your alphaite and sending them out via email is the way to solve both of those challenges.
Now, let me tell you a little story. Last Monday we published at 11 o’clock at night our latest company newsletter. It had to do with a new green, carbon neutral server that we just put online for our clients and at 1:47 A.M. Google picked up the news.
The next day I woke up and found an email in my box from the communication department at Rackspace, which is the company where we host this server. A Google alert had alerted them that I had published my news and they wanted to do an interview.
So I responded back, “Sure, hey that’d be great”. And on Wednesday we had a phone interview. That phone interview is going to translate into a case study which is going to go on their alphaite, offering my company free publicity. Now you can’t beat that. And that doesn’t happen everyday but this is what’s happening online today, and you have to take advantage of it.
I have been publishing a company newsletter on the alphaite and pushed out via email for ten years now. And I have to tell you that it has been responsible for a steady stream of new clients. It just works.
Let’s review. If you provide good information on your news alphaite you will build trust over time. Publish what’s happening with your products and services, publish what’s happening with your company and give good, helpful information.
You can create a tips article. If you are in the carpet cleaning business talk about stain removal, talk about chemicals, talk about green products. All these things offer limitless conversation with your customers.
Number two, Google loves news. It just loves news on your alphaite. What happens is, as you write the text that goes on your alphaite Google will crawl it. And the more you write the more often Google will come back to your alphaite and read through your text.
Your text will naturally be filled with keywords that people will type in to find your site. And what will happen is, say if you were a carpet cleaning company and you were publishing news, is if someone was looking for carpet cleaning in a certain geographic area, like Boston. And maybe they were looking for something about green, toxic free cleaning products and you had written an article about that, they might actually land right on your news page. They will bypass your home page all together and after searching on Google land on your news page.
Then you have a chance of them crawling through the rest of your site to see, hey, these guys know what they’re doing. They’re writing articles on all sorts of carpet cleaning topics, and you might have yourself a new customer.
So here’s what I want you to do. I want you to talk to your webmaster about adding a regular news feed to your site. Start by publishing once a month which I know you can do, and make sure that that newsletter also gets emailed out to your list. Now you have an email list, right?
Well, that’s it for now but I promise I’ll talk about building an email list another time.