5 Critical Things You Should Know About Online Marketing

When you're setting up an online marketing system you'll need to know how to make it most effective.  These are five things you should always keep in mind in all your online marketing activities:

1. Know where your target market hangs out and make sure you engage with them there.  For instance social stuff and small businesses are more likely to be found on Facebook whilst bigger organisations are found on Linked In.  
2. Find out what your market wants and be generous with sharing your knowledge; the more you give the more you get.
3. If you're not posting nobody knows you're there, so get a regular daily system going and use a combination of knowledge sharing and interaction.
4. Know what you want to achieve and ensure that your activities are all focused on that goal.
5. Have a means of measuring your progress so you know what's working and what's not.

Setting up an online marketing system takes time, but once it's going you'll find it's very rewarding in bringing you potential customers and people who will recommend you to others.