Advice please

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by alexcarterx, Nov 21, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hello. I am a recent member of the forum. I have been looking at ways to earn some extra money from the internet for over a year, but not been very successful. I recently found out about this forum, so decided to join.
    I recently set up 2 websites, but haven't a clue how to promote them.
    One is an internet dating site. I have tried banner exchanges. But no idea what else I can do. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Would even be interested in some sort of JV or revenue sharing type of agreement with someone taking on marketing responsibilities for the site.
    The other site is something I thought about quite a lot. It is a matrix site (MLM). I know there are a lot of these around and most do not work long-term, but I reckoned if I offered a worthwhile product or service that people would want, and where they would come back as repeat customers as well, it should work. So, my programme is a tipping service on sports arbitrage (surebets) bets (similar in concept to some of the subscription services providing surebets tips, but with an MLM element, where a portion of the purchase fee for the tips bought are distributed among members). I tried some advertising (ptcs) but have not received the interest I hoped for. I am now considering offering the programme on this forum for a free review by some of the members here. Does anyone have any thoughts and recommendations on how I can achieve best results marketing this service. I really believe that it is something which can make both myself and my prospective members a lot of money in the long run. But I just don't know how to promote it. Again any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks
    Alexcarterx
     
    alexcarterx, Nov 21, 2010 IP
  2. Daryl Lim

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    You need to know how to drive traffic.

    There are many ways to do that :

    Article marketing, PPC, Video marketing, etc.
     
    Daryl Lim, Nov 21, 2010 IP
  3. mushget

    mushget Active Member

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    get quality content,quality links will be helpful.
     
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    Joint venture with a more experienced marketer would do the trick
     
    reachonemedia, Nov 21, 2010 IP
  5. Wasim Ismail

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    hi
    When promoting a website, its no different to promoting any other business offline, you need to work out a marketing campaign, whom your going to target, whose your potential buyers...etc

    Some of the ways to market your website:
    Social Networking Site: Social media is big, and you can use social networking sites to build your presence online, and drive traffic to your website
    SEO: Hiring an SEO consultant who will work on your site to ensure that your site received targeted traffic by users searching for your keywords online
    PPC: Setting up a Pay Per Click Campaign such as Google Adwords, can get you to the top of search engines quickly, normally within hours, and start pushing traffic to your website.

    Also consider offline marketing to promote your site:
    - leaflets
    - business cards
    - word of mouth
     
    Wasim Ismail, Nov 21, 2010 IP
  6. elbeer

    elbeer Active Member

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    Facebook ads are good if you are careful. You can target your market and be carefull with your budget it will get swallowed in a matter of seconds.
     
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    well i will advice social media advertising , you can use facebook and twitter . and others like digg , stumble upon etc. social media advertising is really affected method.
     
    hostveb, Nov 21, 2010 IP
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    It's necessary to promote your site at the beginning of your business. Promotion can make more people know your site and brings you more traffic which is useful for SEO. There are many methods can be used for promotion, for example, backlinks, articles marketing, commenting in some social forums and blogs or even advertisement. The start may cost you more time to promote your site, but it's worth while.
     
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    I think daryl is right! two thumbs up daryl... Anyways, if you're looking for getting minisite designs... try google-ing minsiteshark :)
     
    annielyn, Nov 22, 2010 IP
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    Wow. There are so many ways to promote your sites. First did you do SEO on your site before you purchased your domain? That is pretty important. After SEO you can do article marketing, social network marketing, email marketing, video marketing, forum marketing and so much more.
     
    quista, Nov 22, 2010 IP