May 17, 2009
Custom Closets Tampa, Florida Uses Internet to Increase Customer Database, Revenue
A company that sells custom closets Tampa, Florida could increase their customer database and their revenue by having an Internet presence to complement their real-world brick-and-mortar location.
By having an Internet presence, a real-world store could reach more targeted customers because today more consumers are turning to the Internet to search for what they need or want over all other media combined. The local phone book is obsolete because it only offers a person a telephone number in which they need to call for more information; newspapers and magazines only offer slightly more information than the telephone book. Television commercials and radio advertising spots are usually big-budget productions which regular businesses and small businesses cannot afford. This leaves the Internet as a way of marketing their business.
One way the Internet can help a Tampa closet organizer company is through search engine optimization or SEO. Search engine optimization is the act of placing keyword rich articles on a closet organizer company’s website in order to attract the three major search engines - Yahoo!, Google and MSN. These three major search engines send out their “feelers” so that they might locate the keywords and keyword phrases within the articles among the websites and then rank them according to a special formula. The major search engines are the only ones who know what this special formula is; however it does have to do with the amount of keywords on a website. Keywords and keyword phrases are the words potential customers use in the search boxes on the search engines in order to find what they need or want.
By placing the word Tampa in front of closet organizer in the search box on the search engine, a consumer is looking for a geographically located business and therefore local search optimization would bring back only those closet organizer stores in the Tampa area. Instead of having to wade through pages and pages of thousands and thousands of businesses looking for one in a particular area, simply place the location along with the keywords in the search box, for example ‘rentals Tampa’, and all the companies that offer different types of rentals in the Tampa, Florida area will pop up on the search engine webpages.
Another simple marketing method would be to place a blog on a closet organizers website so that the company could introduce new products as they come out in addition to allowing former satisfied customers recall their experience through blogging. This way, new and existing customers could read about their experiences to help them make an informed decision about using this particular company.