For achieving top search positions, especially in the gaming logistics support market, its quality, not quantity of web portals that determine sales volume in any given year
Looking to the future, many gaming logistics support companies may opt to be based entirely online. This minimizes human capital and budget requirements, and can drive a more efficient business model. Deavers Inch CEO of a local gaming logistics support company, has already pledged to do this, with a major shift in the business planned in the next 6 months. “I forsee us going entirely online,” said Deavers Inch, “because people hardly come to our stores in person anymore. As a result, why should we keep these facilities open if we can do just as well online’” Equally important in the online sales arena is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is reselling your gaming logistics support product through individual webmasters and their websites, giving them typically 5 to 20 % for each successful sales. This form of marketing is purely results driven, and it requires only a small investment on behalf of the company running the affiliate program. “We rely on affiliate marketing to drive our gaming logistics support sales and lead acquisition, mostly because some webmasters in our field are better at marketing online than we are,” said Suiter Hachey, Marketing Chairman for Petrocelli Synan Partners LLC. Marketing online, however, is not as easy as it looks. Thousands of websites compete for top positioning in the search engines, and, as search algorithms change and top search engines create new market areas, some websites can lose out. One day, you might be number one for “buy gaming logistics support”, a week later, number 100. The difference between these positions is obvious: no one wades through 100 results for a gaming logistics support product unless the first 99 are extremely poor. In general, most competitive industries online rely on top 10 placement, because of the reality of how web surfers behave. Without a doubt, in the pre-internet marketing days, most gaming logistics support resellers only used the internet as a means to communicate via email with current customers. “Things in the industry really turned a corner when people began to acquire, not maintain customers online,” said Anna Sonterre, a noted internet marketer and web designer. “When acquisiton via online services got big, companies in the gaming logistics support sector finally woke up to the idea that the information super highway was here to stay - in a very big way.” “After starting an internet gaming logistics support sales division in 2003, we saw our sales increase three-fold,” said Letty Mazon, director of marketing and sales for Stieg Drane and Gudrun Barnfield Associates, “and this resulted in the creation of more jobs and employment opportunities in our company. Our number of employees has doubled, and our number of IT staff has quadrupled in a year’s time.” “When we added a website and shopping cart system, our numbers went through the roof,” cried Yazzi Roets, Sales Director for Dani Cafarelli Corp, a gaming logistics support manufacturing company, “this, teamed with high positioning in the major search engines really created a whole new market for us that was never expected.” It’s no secret that the internet is a driving force in the gaming logistics support sales market. Most consumers will research their purchases online before actually going to a store, so that they understand gaming logistics support product specs and use requirements before having to deal with a live salesperson. “I prefer to take my time and read about it all online first,” said Barnett Chrismer, a recent customer of the Budhram Sully Chain Outlets, “I’m not a high pressure sales type, and rather just go to the store and check out sas soon as possible.” Budhram Sully isn’t alone with these new ideas. Burgio Kinneman, who manages one person company, believes the internet marketing boom has created a huge market for small time business owners. “For the first few years of my career,” said Delley Corsello, “I was working 9 to 5 at a marketing firm, doing the typical corporate thing. Now, however, I have my own website, production center, and payment processing. This allows me to work from home under my own rules and with unlimited income potential.”