Perhaps you need to get more creative. Produce something unique and exciting and you will get get noticed. You'll get more traffic, more ad clicks, more subscribers or more money; it works for all types of online businesses. Differentraite yourself from your competitors and see how your business will improve. The way you market, the way your website is designed, the types of products you offer, the way your content is conveyed are all elements that you can alter to add more creativity to. Produce something creative and unique, advertise it to the correct channels and you will get traffic. Examples include: Press Releases (free and paid) Social Bookmaring sites Write articles and submit them Create a viral movie and and place on youtube Use traffic exchanes like Trafficswarm Email websites in your niche which allow you to submit new stories Submit to general and niche directories Remember this If your website has something really viral to it, use as many of the above methods as possible! You never know who will come across your site. It could be the owner of a large web organisation if they find your website interesting you never know who they tell or what they will do 3 Tips to be more creative NOTETAKING Yeah yeah, I know this seems unexciting and you may think its not worth it...but it is, so do it! You need to write down all your ideas on a notepad and then sleep on it for a few days and reacess them. If you are like me, you may forget your ideas the next day, so do yourself a favour and write them down! BRAINSTORM/MINDMAPS A useful tool to think of new ideas is a mindmap. Basically think of a key word and write it in the middle of a page. Then write down the first 5 thing that come to mind when thinking of that word. Then do the same for those 5 words you just thought of. You can come up with many ideas this way and you'll be surprised in how many great niches you come up with that have been barely tapped into! OBSERVE OTHERS Copying is copying but observing is smart! I'll keep this one nice and short but basically observe other popular websites and see how you can implement their ideas into your business, but add a unique twist! This is an easy way to come up with completely original ideas too. Take the site ratemybody dot com, you could copy the rating aspect of the site but apply it to something thay hasnt been done before, for example ratemysneeze, or ratemyknittingskills or whatever. Not saying those ideas are good but see how easy it is to come up with something original. Try and be more creative from now on and watch your business grow like it's never grown before!
Nice tips you have here - very informative. Creativity is not always necessary for success, but you must get your site out there to get noticed and start driving traffic.
Viral movie - what a nice suggestion! (I've always thought about viral games, viral articles, viral ebooks... ignored movies). Now just have to figure out what could it be...
Article marketing is my prime form of advertising and for good reason. Very nice and helpful tips, thanks for posting. I agree that you gotta be creative in a way that stands out. But you don't want to be 'unique' like everybody else
Writing done your ideas is so important. Almost everyone sees things they want to use themselves or come up with unique ideas. However, if you don't write it down you are likely to forget more than half of your great ideas. I've starting writing my ideas down for this very reason. You never know when inspiration might hit but you need a record of it if you want to use it later. If you don't, most likely you will have forgotten crucial elements.