how to promote an online web shop with little or no budget?

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How to promote an online web shop with little or no budget?

“The web supercharges it; allows anyone to publish and to distribute words, images, videos, pictures, and software globally and instantly and virtually for free”.

“a quarter of the planet is now using the web”

The BD online shop has managed to have increased growth as their key products have received high seach engine rankings in Swedish ”The site is in English / swedish”

Background

Main source is Bindee Trading

Bindee Trading has been owned & run by 1 woman since it began 6 years.

In the past Bindee Trading has mainly focused and relied on selling their products through physical market stands & festivals.

Bindee Trading & Bindee Designs shop are run from home

Bindee Designs online shop has been promoted by face to face marketing only for the past 4 years , 2006

“It has been more than 2 centuries since we last witnessed anything of the same scale and speed”.

It took radio 38 years to reach a market audience of…

50 millions

It took TV 13 years to reach a market audience

It took the Internet 4 years to reach same amount of audience

Direct Marketing Business Cards

Internet Social Media

Optimize theWeb Site potential

Marketing plan and strategy for Bindee Trading.

Facebook

Twitter

Business Plan

Yasmin M. Bindi

Bindi Designs

Bindi Designs

Partnership

Bindee Tradings direct marketing on the festivals is now in its sixth year.

Direct Marketing

Sales at the makets at first

Internet

Bindee Tradings online shop www.bindidesigs.eu is now in its fouth year.

Business Cards

Traditional marketing

Social Media

How to reach such a broad target group?

Facebook

Twitter

Social Media

In addition, many companies have started to collaborate with each other; currently Facebook and Twitter currently dominate in bringing their customers a more efficient way of interacting online.

Have a business plan

Starting to get to know the business and get a clear business:

Goals / Purpose

Focusing mainly on how to take advantage of the potential online marketing

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how effective can be the use of social media in sales using it the right way.

Aim

The aim of this case study/ marketing plan is to examine how the internet can be used as a tool for marketing.; specially Social Media and use it as a free marketing tool.

At the end of this thesis one of my main goals is learn the skills such as: how to increase sales and customer traffic on the net and marketing strategy for companies on the internet.

Bindi Designs

Keep the marketing budget at its minimum.

Vision

Develop Bindi Designs further as an online brand and expand into the Scandinavia and European market, provide a wider range of products and eventually move into designing their own products.

AimsBring more traffic to the site.

The mission is:

Increase the rate of the web traffic & most importantly ‘registered/ paying customers’ on Bindee Trading’s online shop by developing a strong online social profile.

Elaborating an online marketing plan and acquire technical support for further development of the web shop.

Develop business partnership with ParoMedia and Bindee Trading, building a ‘new’ online shop.

Aims

Bindi Designs past strategies

•Direct Marketing

Social Media

Facebook

Twitter

The most important tools nowadays

Oppen a Social Media account on Facebook

Creating a web platform Social Media profile. Go to...

“http://www.facebook.com/

pages/Bindi-Designs”

Interact

Curiosity

1 Strategy

Bindi Design has sales records that directly show an increase in sales following the new marketing strategies. So this is part of the statistic and facts that I have and will be using as part of my case study.

According to my main source

I issue; a trend marketers audience analysis which was based on a Social Media Marketing Industry report on an impact study with 1,356 marketing professionals’ participants by Michael Stelzner.

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/social-media-marketing-industry-report-2010/

Here is a breakdown by social media channel

First stage Second stage

Build a Social Profile

Make a business analysis

Partnership

Pariomedia main keyIt is better to increase cooperation with relevant business partnerships in the industry and apply the knowledge to improve their communication on the web shop and marketing themselves better.

Thrid stage Last strategies

Blogg

New website layout

New targeting group

Last Strategies

Improve website

New website layout

BloggLast Strategies

They are there, how to get them?

Thailändska Fiskarbyxor

Companies such as Google have grown by providing essential tools to help make sense of the mass of content on the web

Newsletters

New targeting group

Communicate directly with residents in the region where their cooperation is necessary to increase sales via word of mouth plus marketing directly via market.

CuriosityEngage public

WebsiteMessagesDiscussion

WomInteractBlogs SloganSurvey

Free cardSocial MediaPromotions

Gathering informationWebsite

Reinforcing campaignIncentives to participateBe part of Bindi Desings

Fan pageSponsors

Keep campaign ALIVERewards to those who

continue interactingBUZZ

Following new directionsShowing consequences

ad

Draw conclusions

FACEBOOK TWITTER

Special OffersOrderingWord of Mouth MarketingConversation MarketingCustomer ServiceFocus GroupsDirect SalesBusiness develop

It creates a more professional site to your business

Tips for using Twitter and Facebook for Business

As conclusions these social networks /tools contribute to a successful social online marketing campaign without any budget.

Using Bindee Trading I will show that in exchange for a few hours a week (5 to 10 hours) working on your social media profile you can very quickly build a broad exposure, improve your traffic and building new partnerships.

I have been working to promote that company since x-mas last year and since there I have managed to do a significant achievement.

Conclusions

Results

An increase in their search engine rankingsGreater exposure for their businessCreate new partnershipsGenerate qualified leadsReduce overall marketing expensesIncrease website trafficA new layout for Bindi Designs online shop

Sources

Gather a lot of information from the owner.Intervies with the owner

I’v been collaborating with Bindee trading and have been given detailed information about bindee tradings accounts, product records and about the business in general.

Gathered Statistisk from one.com the main provider and BD online shop records ”ebutiken”

I gain a lot of inspiation and some sources frrom the BBC documentary ”The Virtual Revolution”

A recently released report, 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report

It´s just a Simple & Unexpected way to makeConcrete & Credible

Emotional Stories… Senses

THANKS

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