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You need to have a great mindset and move fast when tasks are assigned. If you have an understanding of affiliate marketing and tracking using Voluum, Prosper 202, or CPV Labs, that’s a huge plus.

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Facebook in India: Can Mark Zuckerberg's plan really help the poor?

In defending the company’s Free Basics Internet service offered in India, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has called Internet access a basic human right. But critics say the plan is less about lifting the needy out of poverty, and more about Facebook’s marketing goals.

“Who could possibly be against this?” wrote Mr. Zuckerberg Monday in an op-ed published in the Times of India about the service which would offer limited access to online services to feature-phone users, for free. Zuckerberg says the platform will be open to all software developers, and the version of Facebook offered will include no advertisements. Internet access like that offered by the company, he argues, could lift some Indians out of poverty.

Free Basics provides information on health, travel, jobs, and local government. By offering a limited number of apps and transmitting as little data as possible, costs are minimized.

Zuckerberg made his appeal after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India asked Facebook’s partner, Reliance Communications, to stop providing the service until its legality could be determined.

In his op-ed Zuckerberg likened the importance of Internet access to that of public libraries and public education. But many remain skeptical of the company’s stated goals.

“This clearly is not a plan you want if you are focusing on the poorest of the poor, but it works for a target of assisting perhaps middle and urban-middle class,” says Michael Kugelman, Michael Kugelman Senior Associate for South and Southeast Asia Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in an interview. “It is really putting the cart before the horse. Providing Internet access presumes a certain level of funds, a certain demographic. Who is the target here? It’s not really the poor is it?”

Mahesh Murthy, a prominent Indian venture capitalist, has decried the program as “imperialism and the East India Company all over again,” carried out under the lie of “digital equality.”

Mr. Kugelman disagrees. “I hesitate to side with calling it ‘imperialism’ simply because I feel that Zuckerberg is a well-intentioned guy and he wants to expand even more the level of Internet penetration in India,” he says.

Zuckerberg wrote, “More than 35 operators have launched Free Basics and 15 million people have come online. And half the people who use Free Basics to go online for the first time pay to access the full Internet within 30 days.”

“You’re not lifting the poor up to a level of paying for Internet access in 30 days. That suggests a much more advanced demographic financially,” says Kugelman. “If the aim is to help lift people out of poverty then it’s kind of pie in the sky because a lot of things have to happen before a the poor and even working poor there, anyone really below the urban-middle class, can afford a device or even the time to spend using it.”

In addition to the practicality are concerns that the program violates the core tenets of net neutrality: that all Internet content and users should be treated equally. Others claim the program too closely mirrors Facebook’s marketing goals.

Critics took to Twitter to express their fears and frustrations.

First Amendment lawyer Marvin Ammori who has been a prominent voice in the network neutrality debate in the US and abroad says in an interview that he is reserving judgment, “I can see both sides here and there are some very valid concerns.”

“Generally it’s good when a company’s goals and interests dovetail with the public interest,” Mr. Ammori says. “The fears that Facebook is going to get new consumers locked into Facebook, that’s a problem to some extent because social networks rely on the number of people they have. The more people they have the harder it would be for a new local social network to defeat Facebook or become prominent in, say, India or somewhere else.”

Ammori adds. “Also, zero-ratings, are part of the problem, determining which applications get an advantage in the market instead of leaving it up to the consumer,” Ammori explains. So-called zero-rating plans count only some Internet services toward data-usage limits, giving some websites or networks an unfair advantage.

“There have been several countries around the world who have already determined that zero rating violates net neutrality,” he explains. “I will say that [Facebook] … seems like they’re trying to be as consumer-friendly as possible in their zero ratings.”

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Taking names: Facebook's newest ad unit could help retailers boost their email lists

Facebook’s product is important because email is the most cost-effective marketing channel that online retailers use.

Facebook Inc.’s latest advertising product could help retailers add names to their email marketing lists.

The social network today rolled out lead ads, a new ad format that eliminates the need for shoppers to fill out forms, such as an email marketing signup.

“These days people expect to be able to do everything from their phones,” Facebook states  in a blog post. “Mobile phones are where people communicate and discover the things they like, but historically, it’s been difficult for people on mobile to signal to businesses that they want to learn more about their products or services.” Lead ads aim to address that challenge by giving shoppers a way to sign up to receive information—like marketing emails and special offers—from retailers and other businesses in two clicks.

Here’s how the ad works: When a consumer clicks on a lead ad, a form that’s automatically populated with the contact information he has shared with Facebook, such as his name and email address, pops up. The consumer can then either edit that information or click a Submit button.

The information shared in a lead ad can then be integrated in real time within retailers’ customer relationship management systems, assuming that they work with one of the six vendors that Facebook is working with—Driftrock, Marketo, Maropost, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Sailthru and Salesforce. 27 retailers in the 2015 Top 500 Guide use one of those vendors’ systems, according to Internet Retailer’s Top500Guide.com. Merchants who use another system can manually set up a link between their CRM system and Facebook through a software conduit known as an application programming interface, or API, or they can download lead information manually into a comma-separated values, or CSV, file.

Shoe manufacturer and retailer Stuart Weitzman LLC used lead ads to find shoppers who wanted to receive its marketing emails, which feature updates and an “inside look into the world of Stuart Weitzman.” The ads yielded a 52% more efficient cost per lead across domestic and international markets, says Susan Duffy, chief marketing officer for the retailer, which is No. 473 in the Internet Retailer 2015 Top 500 Guide.

Email is a particularly appealing marketing channel for online retailers because it is easy on marketers’ budgets. For instance, Forrester Research Inc.’s “The State of Retailing Online 2015: Marketing and Merchandising,” which is based on a survey of 224 North American retailers, found that merchants email’s average cost per order is $6, making it the least expensive channel among the 32 channels it examined. For the sake of comparison, the average cost per order for retargeting ads is $10, $11 for affiliates and $28 for social media ads. 

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Internet Marketing Tips and Tools To Help Small Businesses Grow Now

Although there are many ways to market your business to help you grow quickly, nothing is more effective than internet marketing. The reason is that it allows you to automate many of your marketing processes by using online tools and scripts. Marketing materials like emails, articles, and even videos can be scheduled to post when you need them to so that you are free to do other things. Borderless ecommerce techniques allow you to connect with your customers worldwide.

Before marketing your business on the internet, it is important to have a plan and create the assets you need to market. Assets are online properties where your business may be found. According to Priya Shah at Business2Community, the first, and a must have asset, is your website. A website is the home for your business online and the foundation for your internet marketing plan. The URL, or the domain name, is the “street address” for your business online.

Once your website is in place, there are certain internet marketing strategies that are an important part of your internet marketing plan. These strategies include search engine optimization of your website, creating business pages, and using specific industry portals for your business. Google, Facebook, and Twitter allow you to create a social marketing strategy to distribute your content and connect with your audience.

Google allows you to use several different internet marketing strategies to market your business. They include indexing your site in the search engines, building a business page to showcase your business, and advertising to help you drive traffic to your business quickly.

Facebook provides many of the same internet marketing opportunities since it offers fan pages and ads, and it is the top social marketing website online. Twitter allows for microblogging, which are short messages approximately 140 characters long, that allow you to communicate with and connect to your audience. Twitter also offers paid advertising opportunities for those who want to drive traffic quickly.

Internet marketing tools help automate many of your internet marketing strategies and complete marketing tasks quickly. According to Greg Nunan at Tech.co, there are many free tools that are essential to internet marketing success. These include tools to create digital documents, find ideas for content, make presentations and infographics, and spy on your competitors. Tools like autoresponders, although not generally free, allow small businesses to automate their email marketing campaigns and save time with menial tasks like subscribes and unsubscribes.

What are your favorite free internet marketing tools? Which internet marketing techniques do you use to market your business?

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How digital marketing can help local banks attract – and keep – customers

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The days of most companies solely turning to print media and television ads to market their products and services are long gone. But some community banks have been slow to get the message and are missing out on instituting strong digital and social media strategies to draw and retain new customers.

“In general, banks have a case of marketing myopia. They are fixed into the rhythm and routine of what they’ve done in the years past,” said Jacques Hart, CEO of Miami-based Roar Media. “However, the media and social media landscape has been turned upside down and a ‘years-past mentality’ doesn’t cut it.”

Because of regulations in place to protect customer and bank information, a financial institution has to be very cautious with its marketing, and that can slow a bank’s social media strategy. That’s particularly true of smaller banks that often lack the resources needed for a full-blown digital marketing team.

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“Compliance is a thorn in traditional marketers’ sides, and it’s a big thorny bush for digital marketers,” Hart said. But today’s banking customers expect digital and social marketing, and by employing a smart digital strategy, banks can be both safe and maintain an active presence online, he added.

Banks are limited in how transparent they can be when it comes to social media, but a lackluster corporate Twitter account doesn’t mean that banks are behind the times when it comes to technology. In fact, on the backend security and support and customer-facing sides, banks are extremely innovative.

“They are geared, in general, on how a customer can bank now. At the ATM, online, mobile,” Hart said. “The flip side is that while banks have really innovated with their service availability, they haven’t with their digital and social marketing to drive customer engagement.”

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Need Help to Convince Your Team to Adopt Inbound Marketing?

If you are a business owner, sales or marketing professional you know the struggle of generating new sales when growing a company. We have all been in a place where we need to sign new clients to keep the business growing. This means delivering more leads into the sales funnel and convert them into long lasting customers.

Throughout your research on how to achieve growth you found Inbound Marketing. It seems to be a technique which is no longer guess work, but data driven. You share it with your team, hoping everyone understands how it helps get more traction. And then, a simple reply kills the drive: “We have always sold like this, it works, it is hard work but it works.”

So how do you convince them that it is not only about hard work, but efficient work? How do you bring the message that marketing and sales have changed and that you could achieve more using Inbound Marketing? As with every sales pitch (because this is a sales pitch to them) the best approach is to be prepared with hard facts, data and a simple plan everyone understands.

Build up context

Review your business goals and results

Write down the business goals your company needs to achieve, and use them to make your case. Your management or team work hard to achieve the traction the company needs and they will favor strategic, documented facts and solutions. Lead generation, client conversion and new sales channels are a priority for business growth.

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Use your sales targets and go back to calculate how sales is performing. The goal is to showcase the current situation and achieve agreement on it, not cast blame or point fingers.

You want to discuss about:

1. What tools do you use in your sales efforts? How about marketing efforts?


2. What are the business goals? Leads, customers, revenue?


3. How much does it cost you to acquire a customer?


4. What are your marketing and sales efforts currently focused on?


5. Divide your customers based on how they were acquired: cold calling, networking, online marketing.


6. How do you find top leads? What is the cost per lead?


7. What is the cost of qualifying a lead?


8. Do you reach your leads at the right time?


9. What is the lead-to-conversion rate?

You want to have numbers ready on: leads generated monthly, leads to customer conversion, time spent on generating new leads, cost of qualifying leads, lead nurturing costs, customer aquisition cost.

Transition to Inbound Numbers

Once you presented the current situation, transition to Inbound Marketing data. The numbers are by now widely available, and can provide a good reference against your current situation. Considering your sales targets and challenges, select the best statistics to make your case. A good way forward is to start with general data and move into specifics. Below a few important stats to consider.

Inbound works for B2B

B2B companies see the same return on investment as B2C companies when it comes to Inbound Marketing. In their annual report, Hubspot shows that the ROI is similar regardless of the type product or service you offer.

A quarter of all B2B Fortune 500 companies are already using marketing automation, along with 76% of the world’s largest SaaS companies, according to Pardot.

Content brings visibility

Creating targeted content supports generating visibility. Blogging is important as it can add up significant traffic advantages. Traffic growth is important especially if content addresses potential customers. According to Hubspot, an average company will see a 45% growth in traffic when increasing total blog articles from 11-20 to 21-50. Remember though that adding more visitors to the website is irrelevant if they are not close to your target market.

Blogs DO generate leads

We know that blogs can generate a high number of leads, but convincing your senior management or team will not be easy. Use Hubspot data that shows B2B companies that blog only 1-2x/month generate 70% more leads than those who don’t blog. Furthermore, companies that increase blogging from 3-5x/month to 6-8x/month almost double their leads.

Your company might already have a blog, but so far no sales results have been achieved by using it. The question you usually receive here is “We have a blog now, how many leads did we generate so far?” There are a few major points you need to consider when answering this question:

• Do we blog regularly? Blogging works if it is maintained frequently and refreshed with relevant topics that address the questions the sales team encounters in the sales process.


• Do we blog about what customers need? Publishing blogs that are not targeted to the Buyer Personas will probably increase traffic, but yield no results.


• Is our blog designed for conversion? Do we use Call-To-Actions? Do you offer content for each step of the Buyer Journey? The blog itself needs to be designed and structured for lead generation. Blog posts are mainly used to generate awareness, and without content for Consideration and Decision stage, the website will not convert visitors into leads.

B2B Decision makers research vendors online

The business world is shifting online, and instead of calling vendors for quotes, decision makers take time to research the possibilities and opportunities available on the market. B2B buyers are 57% through their buying research before first contacting the seller. (Source: Corporate Executive Board).

When looking for a partner or supplier, companies research solutions that could match their needs before connecting with potential suppliers. In large organizations this might be delegated to interns, or juniors, however the decision maker will reach your website if you answer the right questions online and help the researcher do his job thoroughly.

66% of buyers agreed that the winning vendor provided higher-quality content and 63% said the winning vendor’s content was more conducive to building a business case for the purchase. (DemandGen Reports’ 2014 B2B Buyer Behavior Survey)

Increasing lead generation is not only blogging. It requires your team to leverage your website structure as well as social media for improved results. Hubspot identified that companies see a 55% increase in leads from increasing landing pages from 10 to 15 and Demand Gen Report shows that 72% of B2B buyers said they used social media to research the purchase decision in 2014

Marketing Automation supports lead nurturing

Even if you have a healthy lead generation program, you most likely reach to the decision makers at times when it is not convenient for them. They might not be yet at the decision point of a purchase, or they may have just signed with the competition for the next year. Gleanster Research shows that even with a good marketing strategy 50% of leads are qualified but not yet ready to buy.

How do you turn these leads into assets? Lead nurturing is the best solution, and marketing automation is a perfect solution. A good automation strategy can reduce the stress of the marketing and sales team to nurture leads, while increasing efficiency. The Annuitas Group unveiled that businesses that use marketing automation to nurture prospects experience a 451% increase in qualified leads.

Case studies

Once you set the context and proved the numbers are there, reinforce it with a case study. You can use the Hubspot case study page and filter for companies similar to yours. Providing a success story from your industry helps your team live the situation rather then see if from outside. Make it easy to relate and they will be more likely to support it. You can check case studies also on InfusionSoft, Act-On or Marketo.

Bring tangible benefits on the table

You presented all about lead generation and sales, so focus on small wins to get your team onboard. Results will convince even the most skeptical in your audience, so now focus on how the team can benefit NOW from adopting a marketing platform and using an Inbound Strategy.

Clear data for management

Senior management likes data and results. An Digital Marketing strategy and a marketing tool like Hubspot gives management clear information about the progress and results.

Educated and qualified sales leads

Lost time with unqualified leads is the main reason your sales team is not effective. You can easily spend all your time engaging with new leads without converting clients. This can happen due to many reasons: they are not ready to buy, cannot afford your service, need a separate feature set, require a different service but do not know it yet, etc. Inbound Marketing helps you qualify leads through offering specific value propositions that appeal to those who are able to become customers.

Insights for Sales people

Tracking emails and website activity will return valuable insights on your visitor and lead base. Using a combination of Sidekick for email tracking and Hubspot’s page view notifications you can build up a history of your visitors and understand their needs. Hubspot themselves are very efficient using this approach as they use it to know when you browse Decision Stage content and immediately call you. That is the perfect moment to make a sale.

Present a game plan

Last, present a simple game plan. If you need to convince your team, show them how to reach there step by step. Set a clear and realistic goal, and map out a plan to achieve it with minimum effort and investment.

Build personas & Map the Buyer Journey. Make sure you know who you address. Use people involved in sales and marketing to build up the persona and journey.

Optimize the website and signup for a marketing platform. You may not want to change the website again, but it will save time and money in the long run if you use a marketing platform. A SEO audit will also be needed to focus your website on your desired keywords and improve organic growth.

Commit to regular blogging of minimum 1x per week. This is really the minimum you can do if you want to achieve results within a 3 to 6 months time frame.

Create content for Consideration and Decision stage. Make sure you have a small Expert brief for example, for the consideration stage, and a case study for the decision phase. This will help you qualify prospects and have a complete digital buyer journey.

Use 1-2 social networks to engage with your audience.

Implement a basic subscriber to lead, lead to qualified lead email conversion program. Use a monthly automated newsletter to deliver updates to your email lists and showcase your Consideration and Decision offers.

When you achieve your goals, you have specific numbers to your business that showcase results and ROI. This will be better than any case study or statistics you can find to make the case for implementing a full Inbound approach for YOUR organization.

Commitment is key

Last but not least, remember it takes 3 to 6 months to produce results depending on your target market so commitment and patience is key.

We will shortly release a presentation that you can use as a launch pad for your internal Inboud Marketing sales pitch. Subscribe to our newsletter and we will let you know when it is available.

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Ten affordable marketing tips to help promote your business

Believe it or not, you don’t have to break the bank to market your business. Of course, professional consultants and flashy TV ads cost money, but if you’re looking for free ways to get your brand known, there are many things you can do.

Chris Surridge from Whitefish Marketing offers ten suggestions to get the ball rolling.

1. Optimise your website

When formulating an online marketing strategy, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) should be at the front of your mind. It’s one of the least expensive yet most effective ways in the long run to improve your online presence and, if done correctly, will help you rank well for specific searches. Coupled with a strong content marketing strategy you can increase your inbound traffic dramatically. 

2. Don’t forget local SEO

With many web-based companies battling for clicks, views and clients, it’s essential to minimise the competition by making yourself relevant to people in your area. By claiming your Google Places for Business page and setting up a Google+ Local page, you’ll give yourself more chance of being seen by people who would benefit from your organisation. Many businesses charge into trying to dominate the nation, yet forget to focus on their immediate geographic audiences. These are “low hanging fruit” which should be picked off first. 

3. Start a blog 

There are many positive reasons to start a blog. Not only is it a free way to engage with customers and clients, but it’s the ideal platform to talk about upcoming products and ideas. Don’t be afraid to reach out to other bloggers and see if they will either accept a guest post or write something for your site as this is a great way to get your company known in reputable or relevant circles. Blogging also helps enhance your SEO, showing Google that your site provides fresh, unique content, on a regular basis.

4. Attend free events

Networking is an important part of business. You never know who you might meet at any given time so represent your company by attending as many free events as possible. Take your business cards with you, get chatting to like-minded people, and you could open up new opportunities. Whether you choose morning breakfast meetings, or after-hours drinks, pick one which works for you.

5. Brand yourself

If you’ve got a load of company t-shirts and jumpers sitting in a storeroom somewhere, pull them out and put them on. Parading your name and logo wherever possible is great for brand awareness as you’ll literally become walking, talking billboards. If you are thinking of branding your vehicle, look for automotive vinyl stickers as they are considerably cheaper than re-sprays.

6. Make the most of social media

For many people, social media is just a place to post photos and gossip with friends. In reality, it’s also a useful marketing platform for businesses, allowing all different kinds of companies to build up and online fan base and attract new customers. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram are just some of the sites out there, so it’s well worth developing your social networking strategy. Plan ahead each week and ensure you have a good social engagement agenda which is interesting and informative. Don’t just talk about yourself and your company all the time. Ensure you are offering something of value for others to read about. 

7. Become a public speaker

If you are passionate about what you do and want to inspire people as well as spread the word about your business, becoming a public speaker could be right up your street. Colleges, universities and schools are always on the lookout for positive individuals with something interesting to say, so do some research and see what you can come up with. Also, speak with your local Chamber of Commerce or look for specialist events related to your industry. 

8. Revamp your reception

People will form an opinion of your business as soon as they set foot in reception. So why not use this space to your advantage by ensuring it’s on brand in terms of colour scheme and charisma? Leave informative things for them to read, play short video clips that are relevant to your company, and ensure visitors are not twiddling their thumbs as they wait for an interview or client meeting. 

9. Public Relations

Consider all the events that your company is involved in. Whether it is giving something back to the community, a volunteering project, a run for charity, right through to product launches, new members of staff, or even awards and accolades achieved, all of these events are newsworthy and offer a great opportunity for PR. Speak with your local press news desks to and propose your story. Building up the relationship will be key over the months and years ahead, but it’s worth it. Likewise, ensure you utilise digital PR distribution as well for added exposure.

10. Add important information to your website

If your website is already up and running, check it has all the important information displayed clearly such as your telephone number, email address, business address, and social media links. You might be surprised as “ghosts in the machine” will sometimes throw up annoying bugs and glitches. If anything is missing it could cost you a customer, so it’s certainly worth carrying out a content review. Put yourself in the eyes of your customers and be vigilant with your checks.

Effective marketing is about getting a good return for your budget, and here at Whitefish Marketing, we believe that “Performance Comes First”. Until you are ready to adopt a professional digital agency to formulate your marketing activity, these ten tips will help your business succeed without costing the earth.

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Online Life Insurance Quotes Can Help Clients Find Burial Coverage!

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Although burial life insurance is a policy mostly designed for senior citizens, younger clients should not ignore it. Having life insurance is very important for the financial security of vulnerable family members.

It is now possible to compare free online life insurance plans on a single website: http://www.buriallifeinsuranceonline.info/. Comparing quotes is easy, convenient and can help many clients find affordable coverage.

Buriallifeinsuranceonline.info is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc.

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Online portals help realty players in boosting sales

In a first, Pune-based real estate player Kolte-Patil sold luxury villas worth Rs 10 crore online. Like apparels, electronic goods, vehicles its now e-commerce boom for real estate players. Online home sales is gaining momentum day-by-day.

Kolte-Patil, which recently concluded its home buying festival Nest Fest in Pune, sold close to 250 units online, worth Rs 150 core online.

“We have created history in real estate where over 250 apartments worth Rs 150 crore were sold online in 10 days. We received booking from 25 cities across 80 countries which shows that a typical real estate customer is moving from the conventional physical to online and the market is slowly but surely moving to the digital space,” says Sujay Kalele, CEO, Kolte-Patil Developers. What also came as surprise was the fact that high-end villas were also booked online.

Though, the share of online property business in the overall realty market in the country is still minuscule, it is growing fast. Experts expect it to grow to 15-20 per cent in the next couple of years. Online portals like Magicbricks.com, 99acres.com and makaan.com are increasingly becoming a tool for research on buying, selling and leasing residential or commercial properties in many parts of the country.

Tata Housing which pioneered the concept of online home buying in India and also partnered The Great Online Shopping Festival by Google in December 2013, sold over 50 units in the affordable and luxury segments. The price range for these properties was in the range of Rs 12 lakh to Rs 12 crore. Post that, Tata Value Homes formed an alliance with Snapdeal.com and also launched its own e-commerce platform tatavaluehomes.com – the first of its kind, to sell homes. Another much talked about tie-up was its exclusive partnership with Housing.com in 2014.

“The real estate industry has witnessed a sea change in the past few years basis changing consumer demographics. Adoption of the online platform by the modern day consumer has added a new channel of sales for the industry and led to a wider reach for consumers. We believe this is the right time for consumers to buy their dream home and would like to help consumers realize this dream,” said Brotin Banerjee, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Tata Housing Developing Company.

In December 2014, Tata Housing and Tata Value Homes, partnered again with GOSF to exclusive launch its properties in Bangalore (The Cascades) and Mumbai (New Boisar Project) and make its other properties available to customers across the country at exciting prices. The company received booking orders worth Rs 130 crore against 200 units in the three-day festival.

Rather Banerjee further added that the company will continue selling homes on its own portal as well tie up with other e-commerce companies in the future. “These various partnerships along with launch of our in house e-commerce portal have resulted in the sale of over 1,000 apartments translating in over a million sq.ft,” he added.

“Real Estate category on Snapdeal has seen a tremendous response from customers since its launch in August last year. The category has grown significant in the last six months and has exceeded all our expectations. Our aim for this category is to become the most trusted channel for customers to buy apartments online and in order to do so, we have tied up with renowned developers like Tata Value Homes, Godrej Properties and Kolte Patil among others. We work alongside our partners to design the great value offerings for our customers. We believe that with time, we will be able to significantly change how people buy their homes by bringing the best of the offerings on Snapdeal’s marketplace platform,” says Amit Maheshwari, vice president, fashion, Snapdeal.com

Another real estate player Gera Developers has witnessed its sales almost doubling in the past year through online which is now contributing to approximately 19 per cent of its overall sales.

“We have seen sales almost double in the past year through online which is now contributing to around 19 per cent of our overall sales. With 1/5th of sales dependent on online channel and especially with the minimum unit size starting at Rs 1 crore and going up to Rs 5.5 crore it has helped us in lowering the cost of overall client acquisition to quite an extent. Although, we haven’t done it yet, but in the next years marketing plan we are looking at apportioning 20 per cent of the online budget into tie ups with e-commerce sites and leveraging the popularity & reach of websites like Snap deal and Flipkart,” says Yogesh Dhoot, vice president – sales & marketing, Gera Developments.

Other than joining e-commerce portals, real estate players are also making use of digital marketing companies to help them create solutions that makes it easy for buyers to use the online platform while making purchase decision.

“With trusted brands it’s easier for customers to make the decision of even buying homes online. With developers uploading all relevant project-related information and site pictures to their websites, customers can have a complete digital sales experience. Choosing inventory has become a much more transparent process, says Vikram Kotnis, managing director, Amura Marketing Technologies. The company develops a customised technology platform to manage the marketing and sales for real estate players.

Kotnis added, “Investors, NRIs and people wanting to buy real estate in a different city prefer going online to book the apartment of their choice. Although rest of the buying process happens offline, it’s the convenience of booking a home from the comforts of their current residences that entices customers to prefer ecommerce in real estate.”

Online portals help realty players in boosting sales

Great Ways to Use Marketing Automation to Help You Start Your Own Business

When you start your own business there aren’t enough hours in the day to get it all done. Making your life a little easier by using the awesome marketing software we have available to us makes perfect sense. Read on for some innovative ideas that businesses have used to ramp up their marketing efforts and lets learn from what they have done to become the successes they are today…

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Our friends at Pardot marketing automation shared some great insights into how their customers have used their software to great effect:

Using Pardot’s intuitive, efficient, and consistent email functionality, Jet Reports successfully rolled out two new product launches. Web traffic increased by 107%, unique visitors to the site increased by 115%, and the average time spent on the website per visit increased by 35% in Jet Report’s first year using Pardot.

With Pardot, Demand Metric was able to launch online campaigns and begin qualifying leads so the sales team could better allocate their time. Using forms and special offers, Demand Metric began converting visitors to leads, reducing the average number of calls to make a sale from 328 to 70. Now, 1 in 3 demos results in a sale, as opposed to 1 in 12.

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Nurturing leads and building your network is crucial, but also time-consuming. By using marketing automation software, whether it is the full marketing suite, or one aspect of it such as email marketing, you can get the ball rolling and let the technology do the hard work for you. You can’t possibly be in all places at once so scheduling and multiple network marketing, all from one great platform is definitely the way to go.

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Users of Hatchbuck, the sales and marketing software platform, had this to say about using this tool:

“As a non-profit, our greatest problem was getting the word out. We had so many great ways to allow companies and the greater community to get involved and I felt like we were missing a huge opportunity because we didn’t have the right sales and marketing tools in place. Using Hatchbuck has been a lifesaver. It has really helped us to centralize everything into one place and enabled us to increase our awareness and stay out in front of people.”

Craig Jung, Executive Director of St Louis Green.

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Pinpointe email marketing software, shared one of their customer’s success stories with us:

“TROY Group had already started using an email marketing program, but wasn’t satisfied with the features, delivery rates or customer feedback. With the help of Pinpointe, TROY Group can now create, send and track their email campaigns and have a guaranteed delivery rate.”

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We would love to hear how you have used to marketing and email marketing software to start your own business, tell us your stories! You can also take a look at more great marketing apps on our GetApp marketplace and read about Marketing Automation Software to Rock your World on our GetApp blog for more fabulous alternatives.

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Great Ways to Use Marketing Automation to Help You Start Your Own Business