For all of you marketing managers or business owners out there, the time has come to do your part in helping to preserve the environment and an excellent first step is utilizing the internet. As opposed to costly and environmentally unfriendly print advertisements, internet promotion involves no printing, inks, manual distribution (increases carbon emissions due to driving), shipping, etc. Best of all, internet marketing is timeless and lasts far beyond any print ad or television commercial.

If you’re an Internet marketer, or someone looking to promote their business, I highly suggest getting the Alexa Sparky add-on for Firefox. In the past I have always hated copy and pasting a website URL into Alexa.com to lookup a site’s rankings and I’m very fortunate to have come across this program.

Marketing to the high-end, luxury crowd is difficult and, to be quite honest, typically very unconventional. The old, cheap, environmentally unfriendly flyers and ineffective email campaigns you’re used to need to be tossed out the window — simply said. Focus on thoughtful, unique, and sometimes more costly forms of marketing and networking, which will ultimately pay off in the long run. Buy a client or potential client a gift basket, offer a free sample of your product or service, invite a prospect to lunch or dinner, etc.

Have you been spending too much on pay-per-click ads, costly print ads, or online campaigns that produce little to no results and seem to be targeted towards the moon? Well, forums may be your blessing in disguise. Why forums? Well, forums allow you to contact your target market with 90-100% accuracy, which is extremely hard to do with most forms of advertising. Additionally, forums are relatively inexpensive to sponsor in comparison to print, television, and pay-per-click campaigns.