Has anybody here used a really crazy and unique method to market a site and if so did it work or was it not worth the effort and risk Thanks
Give away $100 bucks to the user who can bring the most referrals. Referrals through forum registrations and only count if they have say 10 posts and 2 threads started. Period: two months.
id say depending on the site it could be verging on crazy as if you only have a tiny budget then giving away $100 is pretty big thing
You said risky... risky= crazy alot of the time. If you think you have a great site idea and want to drop 100 for it, just starting, for this marketing, it may pay off it may not.
This is off topic but do you reckon a business could get going and popular just by having affiliates to start with and no other advertising
Yea, I think this is how a lot of small sites should start out. Become affiliates with sites in your same niche. The traffic may be slow, but the users will be very targetted, and if your site is better than your affiliates the members will switch.
i did something similar, I had a PS2 give away some time back. I had people join my mailing list and they had to be subscribed when the give away took place. in the mean time I had a list of people that were interested in the PS2. I made the money for the PS2 from advertising to the list before I gave the PS2 away. I don't know if id call it crazy, but definately risky. Aaron
Maybe streak through a public area with the website url on a banner or your body. Record the whole thing and upload to some video sites and do an article on it that might get dugg explaining the marketing plan and whether it was effective. It could be assome!
it would probablys get you some media attention if you could get a big group of people to do it. lol each with a letter on there body in big and holding hands so it spells out your domain name
I'm about to do something crazy this summer. I will probably get quite a bit of criticism for using such methods but i will definitely get picked up by the local media. I'm just doing the legal research at the moment. Trying not to get too sued