In times when no business can afford to heave a sigh of relief due to adding competition with each passing day, it has become important for every business to create a distinctive market presence.

Have you ever noticed why some online businesses fail while many others progress to the next level of business? The answer is quite simple. While the former category believes in attracting new customers without paying a heed to its existing customers, the latter category believes in satisfying existing as well as potential customers.

 A business that neglects or avoids its existing customers does not set a good precedent in the market. Existing customers find a place of solace on competitors’ websites. This means that qualified referrals that were coming from existing customers are also lost by the negligent business. Can you even imagine such a business to carry on for long? You guessed it right. Such a business cannot stand for long and its fate is decided even before it makes its next move.

It is, therefore, important for a business to realize that existing customers are not only source of business sales on their own but they also bring new customers for the business. In order to keep them and potential customers happy, a business can opt for email marketing. This is simply because e-mail marketing offers a unique ability to a business to keep its relationships strong even on a shoestring budget.

It is advisable for a business to reward its loyal customers by offering loyalty bonuses etc. Such business measures can encourage customers to sustain their loyalty even amidst times of crisis. This is evident from the fact that several studies recently revealed that a 5 percent increase in retention could result in profit increases of almost 20-100 percent. In addition to that, some businesses recently survived hard economic times just because of the fact that their loyal customers did not leave them when they needed them the most.

Is your business on the right path to satisfy its existing customers or is waiting for a miracle to happen?

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Apple Inc has been sued by a group of Chinese authors for 11.9 million Yuan ($1.9 million) in compensation for allegedly providing copyright-infringing books for download through its online store, according to Chinese financial magazine Caixin.

The group behind the lawsuit has been lobbying for months to get Apple remove copyright-infringing books from its App Store.

Under the mantle of the China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS), the group of nine authors sued Apple in Beijing’s No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court for copyright infringement of 37 works, Caixin reported. An Apple spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment and calls to the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court were not answered.

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Asian stock markets rose on Wednesday with investors emboldened by reports that France and Germany were moving closer toward resolving debt crisis of Europe through a massive expansion of the region’s bailout fund.

The dollar was lower against the euro and the yen, and oil prices hovered above $88 per barrel.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index rose 0.1 percent to 8,749.74 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was 1.3 percent higher at 18,302.83. South Korea’s Kospi was marginally lower at 1,837.74. Benchmarks in Singapore, Australia, India and Indonesia were higher. Those in Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand fell.

The Guardian newspaper reported that France and Germany have agreed to expand the rescue fund for nations using the euro common currency to euros 2 trillion ($2.74 trillion). The paper cited unnamed European diplomats and said European officials are expected to take up the expansion along with a package of other measures at a meeting this weekend.

“Following recent volatility, it is unlikely that we will see quite as big a rally locally as our U.S. peers today. Particularly at the retail end of the market, investors will probably wait to see successive gains before rushing back into the market,” Stan Shamu of IG Markets in Melbourne said in a research note.

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According to new data from IAB Ireland and PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PwC), the growth of internet advertising surpassed predictions last year and grew 13.5 per cent to hit €110 million.

IAB Ireland, the trade body for online advertising, revealed that all online advertising formats experienced growth.

From Irishtimes.com:

Suzanne McElligott, chief executive of IAB Ireland, described the growth as “fantastic” but she said there were “real reasons for it”.

These included an increase in the use of broadband, with 2.1 million connections according to the latest ComReg data, and people spending more time online; on average 19.1 hours per week last year according to research firm Red C.

Ms McElligott also cited Red C research that shows people spend an average of 2 hours 49 minutes watching television every day and 2 hours 44 minutes online.

The car industry became the biggest spender last year, accounting for 21 per cent of spend.

Recruitment and property, previously the largest spending category, was 17 per cent of the total.

The next three largest sectors were fast-moving consumer goods, telecommunications and financial services.

Display ads were particularly strong, increasing share from 26.6 per cent of the total in 2009 to 31 per cent last year, according to IAB.

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If you want to move your business to the next level by emphasizing upon email marketing, you will be surprised to know that email marketing is one of the most easiest yet rewarding of all marketing forms. This YouTube video helps you understand how benefits of email marketing can be attained in an easy manner for improving sales and profits.

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If you are looking to optimize the benefits of Twitter, one of the most popular social and business networking sites today, this article is just meant for you. Read on!

In the last few years, Twitter has gained substantially and the basic reason is that one can find almost anything on it just like on a search engine. The fact that a large majority of Twitter members hail from good backgrounds and celebrities means that there is no end to learning, entertainment, and improvement with Twitter at your side.

The fact that Twitter is an avenue for one and all means that people are more than free and get “encouraged” to raise a voice on issues of personal, business, or community interests. This also means that Twitter is one of the best and rewarding “logical” places for every one keen to share connections and information at the same time. For businesses, Twitter is a face to the otherwise intangible business entity. It not only helps in bringing qualified leads by widening readership but is also effective to promote the prospects of a business at no cost by improving profile and driving traffic for the business.

In order to optimize benefits from Twitter, one need to ensure that the content is interesting, unique, related, and compelling at the same time besides helping visitors to make informed decisions. In addition to that, use of images must be encouraged along with a catchy headline.

By following these small tips, you can easily optimize benefits from Twitter.

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In this highly competitive world, no business can afford to lag behind its peers. This is the main reason why more and more small and medium-sized businesses are moving towards the web. The web offers plenty of useful solutions for every business. Furthermore, these solutions are quite economical and effective to optimize and stimulate business solutions to a considerable extent.

In this regard, online presence can help a business to get traffic from the search engines, paid search advertisements, former visitors, newsletter advertising, banner ads, and affiliate programs to name a few. These benefits elude the offline businesses that are vulnerable of losing even their loyal existing customers to their online counterparts. Along with that, an effective web presence can also help a small business to think and act beyond the box & create a niche for itself in the competitive market.

Since small businesses do not need to have an expensive and complex website to stay close to the Internet goldmine, more and more small business entrepreneurs are making every possible effort to ensure that they have an effective online presence.

Recent trends have also revealed that many small businesses such as chiropractor, insurance agent, real estate agent, mortgage broker, maid service, florist, limousine service provider, and movers are amongst many who have adopted online marketing to give a new meaning to their market presence and prospects.

All in all, an online presence can keep a business secure from its competition besides offering new avenues and opportunities for ensuring consistent and profitable business solutions.

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Social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut, and Twitter have not only managed to attract more users but have also becoming marketing paradises for businesses that want more value for their spent money on marketing. This is simply because social networking is used and followed by almost 76 percent of world’s potential customer community and this is the reason why businesses are not shying when it comes to the idea of business promotion through these networking sites.

The fact that marketing via social networking sites is much cheaper yet more effective than finding better ways each day and left with no clues (offline marketing) suggests that online marketing, especially social networking, is one thing that cannot be left behind among the arsenal and quiver of a business striving to taste more of success.

If you have a close look at some of the most successful businesses in the last few years, especially the last two years, you can easily make out that these businesses have flourished mainly because of their distinctive and large social networking presence. Mind you, not all of these successful businesses were big businesses. Almost 59 percent of these businesses were small businesses that were previously struggling to find a way but now big businesses are trying to replicate their astonishing performances, thanks to the power of social networking.

If you want to put your business right there on the top, social networking sites are sites where you must be looking at.

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In the world of marketing, social marketing occupies a significant position. This is not only because this form of marketing is economical but also because it can easily evoke interests of potential customers without appearing to be sales-inducing in the first place.

The fact that social marketing sites like Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Propeller, MySpace, and Sphinn have managed to evoke greater interest than ever truly signifies the power of this kind of marketing. This is the reason why thousands and thousands of businesses have already displayed their advertisements on these sites and many more are more than ready to put their budgetary resources on social marketing.

Social marketing not only allows a business to enhance its visibility before online customers but is a great tool for creating and maintaining demand and awareness for its offered products and services. The fact that more and more of your existing customers are going online and millions of potential customers have already embraced social marketing there is no point in delaying or avoiding the benefits of social marketing to promote your business products and services.

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