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Pod Cast Marketing - Is it Effective?
by JD Theis
In the marketing world, each day presents new challenges and new
opportunities. In order for you to find success, you must remain
on the cutting edge to be sure that your customers are kept
constantly abreast of your products and services. A normal day
usually starts with a search for answers. More often than not
the question is how can I grow my business? How can I gain a
larger market share? The answer is pretty simple and everyone in
this competitive economy knows for a fact that innovation is
crucial for building a customer base that will last.
Podcasting may be the solution to this problem, but there a few
questions you should consider. Is podcasting an answer to my
marketing needs? Will podcasting be difficult to implement on my
website? Let's take a look at these issues and see if podcasting
is the marketing tool for you.
Traditional marketing tools such as radio and television have
proven time and again that they are extremely effective in
advertising your products and services. Once you have identified
your target audience, it's as simple as choosing the best
station to meet your needs. These mediums have a large reach and
usually produce great results. The drawback with this approach
is the cost and advertising during prime time can be quite
expensive. Television and radio still remain the best ways to
market your services, but with the advent of mobile computing
devices like palm pilots and I-pods, marketing strategies have
been rearranged. These web enabled devices are truly
revolutionary and they just may be the answer to your marketing
needs.
The most amazing part of this innovation is that anyone can do
it! Simply stated, podcasting is nothing more than providing
audio or video content from your website directly to your
customers. Now that the hand held devices have taken off
constraining restrictions, pod casts can be viewed on these
devices and "podcasting" has become a hot buzz word in marketing
industry. .
Pod casting uses an XML based technology called RSS. An RSS file
is the most used type of file used for pod casts and consists of
date, time, titles, and other information relevant to the pod
cast content. The way this works is very simple. Your pod cast
content is placed directly on the website, and when users login
to receive the RSS feed, your content is moved directly onto the
Ipod or other devices automatically. By reaching a larger
audience, you can reap the benefits of this innovative and
economical communication solution.
There are lots of websites, which currently allow you to pod
cast. This doesn't cost a lot of money and the sheer volume of
visibility you can gain is relatively high. Pod casting is
quickly turning into a viable marketing solution and is an
effective way to reach you targeted audience.
JD Theis is the author of this article on Podcast Marketing.
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