Internet Monetisation hierarchy, email and platforms
Endorsements, Hi Tech News, Marketing, News, SME World January 27th, 2012I recently watched the Twylah video referred to in Jim Connolly’s Marketing Blog here:
http://jimsmarketingblog.com/2011/05/30/get-everybody-talking-about-you-with-this-1-simple-idea/
( See also the video at the end of this blog for more about Twylah )
and aside from what Jim had said and the fact that I agreed with him that Twylah had a great story there were a couple of things that resonated with me:
Internet Monetisation
I noted that Eric Kim, the co-founder of Twylah had been involved in Internet Monetisation ( that’s like ” Show me the money ” in amongst all this Internet stuff ! ) for around 11 years and that he had founded Twylah because there was no obvious monetisation strategy emerging for Twitter. I also noted that he carried around in his head an ” Internet Monetisation Hierarchy ” ( I was going to call it a Pyramid but Pyramids have such bad press in recent years ! ) which went something like – an email address has the highest monetary value ( he actually put a value on a 1000 email addresses being emailed as ranging between $5 and $100 ) and then said that email has a higher value than e.g. a Facebook ” like ” which in turn has a higher value than a Twitter ” follow “.
He said that ” email is STILL the number one mechanism for communicating. People check their email first ( typically ) before checking social media “. A point which I will come back to.
I am sure that Eric has a whole load more ” valuations ” in his head and they range from the obvious like ” the number of visitors to your website ” and ” the number of transactions through your website and the value of those transactions ” to the less obvious like ” the number of favourites and retweets on Twitter “. Everything has a ( micro ? ) value.
Recently I have been using HubSpot’s ( Internet ) Marketing Grader to see how well some companies Internet Marketing ” System ” is working. Since HubSpot is basically trying to see how easily you get found on the Internet, how well you convert visitors into ” leads ” ( which might mean getting their email address and permission to email ) and how well the being found and converting process works it is broadly speaking helping to measure the ” value ” of your Internet Marketing system.
It looks at your website, your blogs and your social networks and how one element provides support to the other elements.
Included within the HubSpot Marketing Grade is your Klout Score ( arguably, a valuation of your Internet presence ) and offers you incentives based on your Klout score e.g. a £50 credit to AirBnB .
Twylah is another piece of the Internet Marketing ecosystem jigsaw – automatically converting your Tweets to what looks something like a blog page ( Mine is here ) and also analysing the effectiveness of your Tweets in achieving micro-value via follows, favourites, retweets etc etc.
2 of HubSpot’s favourite elements are ( or can be ) included within a Twylah page – an email sign up and/or another ” Call to Action ” ( e.g. Click here and buy and download Lady GaGa’s latest single ).
The Importance of email
As Eric says ( and many people agree with him ) email is still very important.
This blog
Email Marketing is down but not out !
is spot-on. There are challenges with email marketing but it is probably the highest value item that you can attain and therefore it is your OBJECTIVE to get it !!
Platforms
I am constantly reminded of the value of ” platform websites ” . This blog is on WordPress which is becoming hugely powerful. ( It has an Alexa ranking of 18th in the world ). N.B. HubSpot’s Alexa ranking is 691 and Twylah’s 14,504.
Ecademy.com ( Alexa 9,377 ) was one of the first sites where I noticed the effect of ” Platform Power ” some 10 years ago.
Content posted on these websites becomes very visible to search engines like Google and ranks highly. ( I highly recommend WordPress and HubSpot based websites !! ) Over time Twylah will also become very powerful ( it’s Alexa ranking grew 35% over the last 3 months ).
So, in summary keep in mind platforms and the Monetisation Hierarchy and keep trying to get those email addresses and use them !!
Another great video about Twylah below
January 29th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
HubSpot’s Twylah Page
http://www.twylah.com/hubspot
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March 7th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
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