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12 steps to better marketing
Twelve steps to better marketing
How to exploit the marketing potential of the Internet

Read the following introductory paragraph of an article written by Dennis Jarrett adapted from the Guardian on May 30, 2002 and then think about the questions that follow:

Twelve steps to better marketing

The internet is a powerful marketing tool if you know how best to exploit it. Dennis Jarrett offers some guidelines to getting your business known.

The internet means that no one knows whether you're a small company or a multinational. Oh really? Check out the quality of their websites and you'll soon notice the amateurs. But there is good news: the internet does enable a small company to do the kind of marketing that the big companies find difficult or impossible. Here are a dozen top tips for low- or no-cost marketing tactics that any business can use:

Before you continue reading, think about these questions:

What kind of marketing have you done in the past?
How many low- or no-cost marketing tactics that can you think of? Write a list of them.

Now practise some vocabulary that you'll see in the rest of the article.

Read the rest of the article.

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