Introduction to Building Authority and Awareness for Online Businesses

Business Authority and Awareness Introduction

• A business can experience issues without having a good reputation with its consumers. Online businesses are under attack by various sources, such as finding new consumers to positioning in the market place. The question is this, “How can I establish a solid authoritative presence without breaking moral and legal laws?.” Authority means to set the standard for quality, which in turn means that your business has to produce content that is linkable to other sources to give it credibility. By actively using experts and solid content for marketing, you can establish authority and through awareness you can gain business.

A Small Brief

• Producing tons of content

• URL link building

• SEO stuffing and black hat tactics

• False product reviews and

testimonies

• Overhyped PR content

• Link exchange with website owners

• More

Old Fashion Authority Method

• Not recognized in industry

• Lower sales volumes and Unreliable marketing

• Not trusted by consumers or experts

• Hard to gain sales and retain consumers

• Content not shared and information is unverifiable

Business without Authority

• Leader in its Industry with thought provoking content

• Reliable sources and content for marketing and sales

• Trusted by consumers in its market

• Easier to gain sales, retain consumers and achieve goals

• Quality and consumer focused first by setting proper examples in everything they create

Authority based Business

Business Authority with and without

• How would you achieve authority for a start up company with no background experience or connections? You will need to consider using expert sources for your content to help establish authority and relationships online. The new methods to invoke a response from your audience still includes some of old ways. The new ones include using transparency for the URL’s, quotes from expert sources and people and a genuine affiliate bond between two companies. Affiliation is a big buzz word around the internet with the promises of tiny cash payouts. A true affiliate will help you make connections to new consumers in exchange for the same, consider it a mutual partnership. Videos that offer detailed information with actionable links can help establish your authority and trust with consumers. A well researched case study and a highly polished report (not necessarily free) can also help establish trust.

New Methods to Achieve Authority

Business Awareness generates consumer interest, however a business has to focus on its core story

Business Awareness

• How did the internet survive this long? People generated awareness for it, by word of mouth and other means. How did the first online businesses generate awareness for their business and products? In most cases, the businesses blogged, published tons of bad content to snag first page rankings and exchanged URL’s in hopes to make sales. As search engines became “aware” of the fraud and nasty habits, Google stepped up and made some changes on how pages were going to be ranked. Google still does this and it can be very frustrating to keep in step. As marketers became smarter, they took to content development and created higher quality and build relationships with other businesses to achieve their goals.

In the Old West: Awareness Techniques

Awareness will attract new consumers

for any online business

Solid content that educates the

consumer should be the top priority

before anything else

Awareness can open up new niches

and topics for your business to cover

in their marketing

Regain interest from past customers

with effective targeting

Awareness for Businesses

• Back before the Search Engine wars and the assault on unethical awareness techniques. Many online companies used blogging and exchanged links with others to help foster a relationship. This also meant a lot of keyword stuffing, especially with ones that didn’t have anything to do with their business. This worked for quite awhile, until there were penalties that came with stuffing and black hat link building. Time progressed onward and some companies moved into other areas such as articles and used article directories to get attention. This is ok, but the problem is the same content on every directory can lead to problems for the business. Other tactics can along to improve the business awareness need and desire for consumer.

How Old School Awareness Worked

• No consumer reach beyond traditional methods

• No sales or drop in sales and reduction in interest

• Harder to build brand and win trust from consumer

• Affiliate program not a reality

• Survival rate tends to drop by 50%

Business without Awareness

• New found Consumers

• Sharable designs and flexibility in marketing agenda

• Constant room for improving consumer education

• Affiliate building potential

• Expandable Hierarchy to keep loyal consumers

Awareness based business

A Business with Awareness and Without

There are many different ways to rise awareness and to create authority that will help your business grow beyond the noise. It starts with a clear strategy and objectives. There are many different types of content that is flexible for your needs. Marketing is not easy, but there are two options, one is outsource your needs or handle it in house. If you enjoyed this PowerPoint, visit www.tier1writing.net to learn more about Mike and his team. We work with businesses and bring them the hottest content available.

Final Thoughts