I have a friend , living in birmingham , uk , he has a site for People living in his city .. he launched it only in december and now he makes thousands of $$ monthly ( Companies in Birmingham advertise in his site ) ... he advertises in newspapers and flyers . I want to know if this type of website ( for a city) is easy to promote and also if there are risks in doing this type of site. i would like to get some suggestions . .. and also what type of site i must make to target people in a specific region. Thanks in advance ..
Some promotion suggestions : - advertize in local print media : Here in Belgium I get a lot of free local gazattes in my mailbox. The ones with the classifieds etc ... It is pretty cheap to advertize in those. The village I live also does a yearly calendar that gets sent out to every business ... I'd advertize on that too. - adverts on small local radio stations are probably not that expensive too. - if you target a specific region in adwords you could get some traffic for relatively cheap. - links on : tourism sites, local directories, etc .. That's all i can think of for the moment. PS : You could always *ask* your friend how he did it (and then share this with us offcourse)