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Missing Any Markets Lately? (Or How to Quickly and Easily Increase the Size of Your Market.)
Copyright 2004, Chris Marlow
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Missing any markets lately? That's a good question to ask
yourself if you've never given much thought to the disabled.
I'm sorry to admit that I really hadn't, until a client gave me
directions to include a TTY telephone number (for the hearing
disabled) in a B2B print ad.
It's worth considering that the Internet is a liberating tool
for many disabled, and that the disabled could be a significant
market for your goods and services. According to a spokesman for
the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative,
these people make up some 8 to 10 percent of the Web-surfing
population. That's a big market to ignore!
In some camps, most notably the non-profit sector, Web page
designers are beginning to design for easier access and
navigation by the disabled. They're taking into account vision
problems, and motor skills problems. And they're making their
software compatible for the text readers and Braille translators
used by the blind.
Another market that may be somewhat invisible to American
e-marketers is not a group per se, but an entire country:
Canada.
In the Letters to the Editor section of Business 2.0, a Canadian
IT professional complained that he is forever responding to U.S.
ads that push him to their Web sites. Yet when he goes there and
attempts to register, the site requires his "state" and "zip
code." Not good - especially when you consider that per capita,
Canada has a history of having more people online than the
United States!
So whatever your product or service, think for a moment whether
you're pulling in the disabled, or pushing them away. And a few
tweaks to your Web site might just increase leads and sales from
our fine neighbors to the North.
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Article Marketing Tips:
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- Stand out from the crowds. Educate your prospects and they will turn to you for more knowledge. When they turn to you for more, they will visit your website. It is up to your website copy to sell your products, NOT your article. Provide great information and at your website, address how the prospect will benefit from what you are offering. Using these things in conjuction will help your cash register to ring.
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