Hi there, I recently started my own online business selling shoes. The website is done and now is the hard part of getting some traffic to come. Could anyone please help me and suggest best ways to get the word out/advertise Thanks for the help!
Twitter Forums (Can go onto mine at a small fee) Directorys (mostly free ometimes a good source of traffic) Msn.. Facebook groups Word of mouth The is millions of ways.. have a look around the marketting section of digital point.. Hope i helped
Make sure you have submitted your site to the major search engines and applied search engine optimisation techniques.
build an online store website use forums become a member of popular social networks create squeeze pages create a squidoo lens build a hub page use social bookmarking services
twitter ist a good choise. first thing to do, create a affiliate programm and then promote it via twitter and webmaster forums. If people think they will make money if you sell a shoe they will promote your site
You could try using Digg and Twitter and write a few articales with links back to your site they work well.
Actually its very easy to get decent traffic. What you can do is buy some google adwords,blog commenting,link exchanging,email your site url to your friend and ask them to spread it.
I cosign what Laverack says. I use FAcebook, Twitter, Caribtweet, signature links on forums, word of mouth, Blogcatalog. The possibilities are endless.
getting targeted traffic is important. But it depends on your budget you may need to outsource some of the stuffs to a more capable person. What areas you are selling your shoes by the way? where do you deliver?　just local or worldwide?
You can start with Twitter and Facebook first. Then you can sign up to different forums and participate from time to time. You can the do social bookmarking at least once a week. Repeat the process.
Write articles by targeting the keyword "online shoe sales" or like that and try to get search engine traffic. You need to do seo along with article writing. Getting links from similar niches, leaving a sig. link in forums, submitting to article directories and link directories apart from adwords campaign will bring instant results...