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AGENDA

Internet Marketing Bootcamp Agenda

  • The day typically begins at 8:00am with a continental breakfast and the session begins at approximately 8:30am.
  • There are mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks both days as well as a networking lunch each day.
  • Each day of training usually wraps up at 5:00 pm.
DAY ONE

Bootcamp Binder Review/Agenda Review
   
Common E-Business Myths and Realities
 
  • Web developer? Marketing? IT? The real deal on who is responsible for what
  • The top 10 Internet marketing myths revealed and the realities provided

  • Web Site Design/Development Methodology
     
  • The 10 step process to design and develop your Web site right the first time
  • The important questions you need to ask before you choose your web developer
  • The framework to work effectively with your Web developer
  • The critical areas of expertise required to build a dynamite Web presence

  • Web Site Objectives Discussion
     
  • Why defining objectives is critical to getting the right web site
  • Six objectives you should always have for your web site

  • Target Markets Discussion
     
  • How to make sure all your target markets are included
  • How to identify appropriate web site elements for each target market
  • What is “WOW” factor?

  • How to do your Competitive Analysis
     
  • Why your online competitor and your offline competitor are not the same
  • How to find your online competitors
  • How to reverse-engineer your competitor’s site
  • The 5 step process to do your competitive analysis

  • Developing Your Web Site Storyboard
     
  • Learn the importance of storyboarding your Web site
  • Learn how to develop your site storyboard
  • What critical reviews are needed and why

  • Coffee Break
       
    Designing your site to be Search Engine Friendly
     
  • Learn how Search Engines really work
  • Discover the Secrets of Search Engine Success
  • Learn the proven Methodology to make your site Search Engine friendly (Check the term tourism internet marketing in Yahoo and Google to see how many of the top 10 positions are Susan Sweeney or her book Internet Marketing for Your Tourism Business!)
  • The key elements in the Search Engine ranking criteria
  • How to reverse-engineer your competition to see how they got the Search Engine placement they did
  • How to determine your most important keywords
  • Learn about meta tags – why they are important, which ones are important, and how to develop them (in plain English)
  • Learn about Headers, Alt & Title tags and their importance with Search Engine ranking
  • The importance of Link popularity and Link relevancy and specific link strategies to maximize your Search Engine ranking
  • Tips to ensure the Search Engines crawl 100% of your site
    Can’t be found? Seven reasons why you might not be included in Search Engine results
  • Design your pages to dominate ranking
  • The one critical element that most people (even the pros) miss when optimizing their site for Search Engines
  • How to choose the Keywords that are best for attracting YOUR target market
  • Learn what questions to ask Search Engine Placement firms that promise top Search Engine ranking before you consider big dollars

  • Submitting to Search Engines and Directories
     
  • Learn all about pay-per-click search engine and how you can pay your way to the top without losing your shirt
  • How the Pay-To-Play systems work
  • The latest Pay-To-Play strategies
    Learn the 4-step methodology to maximize your Pay-To-Play results
    How to Pay-To-Play with a limited budget
  • Learn all about paid placement enhanced listing and expedited reviews
  • Learn how to optimize your ad copy to get more click-thrus
  • Learn all about recent changes with major impact in Search Engine placement and cost to participate

  • Lunch
       
    Web Site Repeat Traffic Generators
     
  • What are repeat traffic generators and how to identify the types of repeat traffic generators that will work best with your target market
  • Identify the many types of repeat traffic generators and how to leverage, leverage, leverage them for the maximum marketing value
  • What is channel conflict and why it is critical to make sure you don’t have it
  • The value of “Calls to Action
  • The 4 essentials for every repeat traffic generator
  • Partnering to maximize the benefits of your repeat traffic generators
  • 3 no-brainer cross promotion opportunities
  • Opportunities to provide member benefits, repeat traffic, significant link popularity and link relevancy with one technique
  • Tips to leverage your exposure and traffic by branding or syndication
  • How to monitor and measure the results of your repeat traffic generators
  • The 6 greatest missed opportunities with repeat traffic generators

  • Permission Marketing
     
  • Why permission marketing is a critically important element in Internet marketing
  • What is permission marketing and how permission marketing works
  • The 10 critical elements to successful permission marketing
  • How to incorporate permission marketing effectively throughout your web site
  • How to incorporate permission marketing through other sites that have your target market as their visitors
  • How to incorporate permission marketing offline
  • What’s happening these days with opt-in, opt-out and double opt-in
  • Get the latest on the anti-spam laws in plain English
  • 20-40% of legitimate emails are being filtered out - 16 Tips on how to stay under the spam radars with your permission based marketing
  • The 5 greatest missed opportunities with permission marketing

  • Viral Marketing
     
  • What is viral marketing and how to use it effectively throughout your web site
  • Why viral marketing is a strategic element in Internet marketing
  • How viral marketing works – tips, tools and resources available online to make it easy for you
  • How you can incorporate viral marketing through your outbound Internet marketing activities
  • The 5 greatest missed opportunities with viral marketing

    Blogs
  • What are blogs and what is the application in your operation
  • What technology is used to implement a blog on my site
  • How often do these need to be updated
  • What content works best

    RSS Feeds
  • What are RSS feeds and what is their application in your operation
  • What technology do I need to implement RSS feeds
  • What technology do subscribers need to access my information
  • The 5 benefits of RSS feeds 
  • Podcasting
  • What is podcasting
  • How to use podcasting as an effective marketing tool

    Mobile Marketing
  • What is mobile marketing
  • What are the leading operations doing with mobile marketing
  • What is this 3G stuff all about? How soon will it be prevalent? What do I have to do to be ready?


  • Future Trends
     
  • Future technologies you need to be aware of today – they will impact your business tomorrow
  • Mobile commerce and its applications your business
  • Future trends in online marketing
  • Interactive e-mail
  • Coalition loyalty programs
  • Webmercials

  • Virtual Tours/Rich Media
     
  • The latest in meeting planning kits on CD
  • Virtual tour technologies

  • Wrap-Up/Q&A
     


    DAY TWO

    Developing Your Internet Marketing Strategy

     
  • How to select the appropriate Internet Marketing techniques to include in your strategy
  • Learn a 6 step methodology to develop an effective Internet Marketing Strategy
  • How to measure your success
  • How to organize your Internet Marketing activities to ensure everything gets done
  • Tips on what to outsource and what to do in-house

  • E-mail, signature files, Autoresponders
     
  • The life cycle of an e-mail
  • 10 essential tips on creating effective e-mail messages
  • What is a signature file and how do I use it to my best advantage
  • 5 tips on leveraging your “tag line”
  • Why you should stay away from BCC
  • How to advertise when advertising isn’t allowed
  • How to synchronize your marketing message through signature files
  • What are Autoresponders and sequential autoresponders? How do they work? What do they cost? How do I use them for greatest impact?

  • Private Mail List Marketing
     
  • The 23 most important features you should know about before selecting your mail list software
  • How to build your massive permission based list via the “Big 10
  • How to write messages that will be read
  • How to learn more about your recipients interests and build their profile
  • How to nurture your customer list
  • What a Call-to-Action (CTA) is, why you need it, what type of CTAs work best and where you should put it on your website and email promotion
  • How often should you communicate with your list
  • When TO send and when NOT TO send communication to your list
  • How to manage, cleanse and promote your list
  • 3 critical things you need to be doing with your private mail list
  • CRM and its importance with our mail list
  • 7 testing strategies to improve your response rates
  • 6 rates or ratios you need to measure to improve your response rates
  • Learn all about the new anti-spam legislation (in plain English)
  • How to check if your emails will actually reach your prospects before you send it
  • Learn how spam filters work
  • 16 tips to stay underneath the spam radar
  • What impact are the spam filters having on my mail list marketing
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    Public Mail List Marketing
     
  • What are Publicly Accessible Mail Lists and how to find appropriate publicly accessible mail lists for your marketing effort
  • The 4 critical elements to Public Mail List marketing
  • Mail list netiquette
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    Direct Mail List Marketing
     
  • What are Direct e-mail lists?
  • How do direct e-mail list companies work?
  • What does this cost?
  • Tips on converting Direct e-mail list subscribers to your private mail list subscribers

  • Coffee Break
       
    Newsgroup Marketing
     
  • What are newsgroups, discussion group and forums
  • How you find appropriate groups and forums for your business
  • 5 ways to use groups for your benefit
  • What is lurking and why is it important
  • 2 ways to advertise when advertising isn’t allowed
  • The 3 biggest mistakes you can make participating in groups
  • Newsgroup netiquette

  • Link Strategies
     
  • What do the terms link popularity and link relevancy mean
  • Which search engines use link popularity and link relevancy in their search engine ranking criteria
  • Two 7-step strategies provided to you step-by-step to significantly increase the number of relevant links to your site
  • 6 tips to increase the number of links to your site from your site content
  • Strategies to impact your link relevancy score
  • How to enable linking to your site anytime of the day or night effortlessly

  • Meta-Index Listings
     
  • What are Meta-Indexes, and why they are important
  • 5 benefits of Meta-Index listings
  • How to find appropriate meta-indexes
  • 4 things to consider when evaluating fee-based meta-indexes

  • Online Advertising
     
  • What is keyword banner advertising? Geo-targeted banner advertising?
  • Where to spend a limited advertising budget. What Not to waste money on
  • Discover the 4 advantages online advertising has over offline advertising
  • 5 tips to create a banner ad that will generate great results
  • How to determine whether you should use an online advertising agency
  • The good, the bad and the ugly about banner advertising pricing

  • Award Programs
     
  • What are the benefits of having an “award winning” site
  • How to find online awards
  • 6 steps to hosting your own awards program and the 5 major benefits to hosting it
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    Media Relations
     
  • How to develop your online media strategy
  • The 8 elements of successful digital press or news releases
  • How and when to distribute your release
  • 12 tips from journalists on how to get their attention
  • Why a Media Center is an important element of your site
  • How to develop your online Media Center
  • The 12 elements every Media Center should include

  • E-zines/Online Publications
     
  • What are e-zines?
  • Which is better e-mail based e-zines or web based e-zines?
  • How to find the e-zines that appeal to your target market
  • The 6 advantages to e-zine participation
  • 5 ways to participate in e-zines
  • 4 tips on making the most of your e-zine participation
  • 7 guidelines for e-zine advertising
  • How to start your own e-zine
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    Lunch

       
    Web Rings
     
  • What are Web Rings and how do they work?
  • How do I participate and what will it cost?
  • 6 benefits for Web Rings users and 3 major benefits for Web Ring participants


  • Partnering
     
  • 3 key criteria when evaluating strategic partners
  • 6 great Partnering Opportunities presented in a step-by-step format for

  • Revenue Generation/Member Benefits
     
  • 17 Revenue generation or additional member benefit opportunities 

  • Affiliate Programs
     
  • What is Affiliate Marketing? What are Affiliate Programs and How do they work?
  • What decisions do I need to make?
  • Where do I find affiliates?
  • What are the 3 major benefits to having an affiliate program?
  • How can I participate in other affiliate programs to generate revenue?


  • Coffee Break
       
    Web Traffic Analysis
     
  • What is web traffic analysis software and how do I access and use it?
  • What kind of information can I access from these reports?
  • Which web traffic reports are most important


  • Web Metrics
     
  • How can I measure my online success?
  • What web metrics or measurements are important?
  • I will walk you step-by-step through the following calculations:
  •     · Conversion Ratio
    · CPV – Cost per visitor
    · CPS – Cost per sale
    · NPPS – Net profit per sale
    · ROI – Return on Investment

    Offline Promotion
     
  • How to effectively use offline promotion promote your Web Site

  • Wrap Up/Q&A/Graduation from Bootcamp  
     

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