Now that the first quarter of the year is over, it’s good to go back to your Internet marketing strategies checklist for 2010 and see which ones are working and which ones are not. This way you’ll not spending your marketing budget on Internet marketing strategies that did not bring home the bacon. For a quick redress of your checklist, here are some strategies that you can add or replace the defunct entries with.

1. Make a presence on social media

Social media or networking sites’ popularity such as Facebook and Twitter will continue to rise in 2010. It’s foolhardy for an Internet marketer not to make his or her presence on these Web 2.0 sites. So get started on these social media: sign-up, observe, learn, experiment, and implement. In fact, social media is fast becoming a customer relationship management tool; the potential to defunct your current expensive CRM tool is there.

2. Create YouTube videos

You can write (rather encode) all informative articles till your fingers turn blue or paint a thousand words photographing your product or taking screenshots, but a short YouTube video still evokes the best response from your customers. The best part is that creating a short YouTube video doesn’t have to be expensive. So start creating a video concept about your product or service and post it on YouTube soon.

3. Continue E-mail marketing

If you’re about to defunct E-mail marketing on your Internet marketing strategies checklist, don’t! E-mail marketing still remains a highly personal, informative, and persuasive Internet marketing strategy in 2010 and in the coming years for sure. If yours is not making money, then overhaul your E-mail marketing technique: don’t shout at your customers by using glaring, ALL-CAPS fonts with endless exclamation points like “FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!,” for example.

4. Prepare for the mobile boom

With the success of smart phones like iPhone, Blackberry, and Google Android, you have to prepare your site to go mobile. There are already scores of people actively using their phones to browse the Web; you’d be left behind if your site doesn’t support mobile browsing. So start creating a mobile-compatible version of your website especially if you start to see mobile visitors from your Google Analytics.

5. Prepare for Bing!

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is actively rising to compete with the more established search engines on the Web. With its partnership with Yahoo, be prepared for the big surprise brewing in these company giants’ labs and sign up for a Bing webmaster account. Educate yourself about Bing’s ranking criteria so that when the big announcement comes, you’re already on their camp too. Preparation is key!

If you don’t have these Internet marketing strategies on your checklist yet, it’s never too late to start on them. If you need to invest time and money to learn about these Internet marketing strategies, then don’t be afraid to do so. These strategies will remain profitable in the years to come so you can be certain your money is well spent.

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