Here is a thread I posted on a small business forum which got a good reception. Many of us can't afford to pay large amounts of €€ $$ ££ like our competition - there's nothing wrong with that, but how can you market your website without it costing you and still be competitive. Magazine promotion - write to an editor of an internet magazine, be brief, don't spam them or waffle. These guys and girls get hundreds of emails every day so it's also a good idea to include an eyecatching subject title. Press releases - submit a press release to the likes of www.prweb.com and www.pressbox.co.uk, both sites give you the option of getting your news article on Google and Yahoo News. Word of mouth - you won't believe how many clients I have signed up by simply talking to the taxi driver after a night on the beer, or someone at a bus stop. Article submission - write interesting content full articles and submit them to the large number of article submission sites out there, i.e. www.articledepot.co.uk etc. Yell.com - you can submit a free listing which includes your telephone number and address. I've had some business from these in the past - personally the paid option is a no go. Newsletters - 20% of my clientbase first subscribes to my newsletter, and then sign up when they read the first issue. It's a good opportunity to show people you know what you are talking about and gives people confidence - it can also be used to give you an additional income if you accept advertising. Forums - again another good way to bring in potential clients, I was a moderator of a large (well the largest) travel forum until I ran out of time to do the job properly, but during the period of participating in the forum, I gained around 5 new clients. For the experienced amongst you will already be aware of these marketing suggestions. Feel free to add.. and hopefully we can build up a list of useful ideas to market your website effectively for free. Darren
I use giveaway sites.. they attract some massive traffic! I have built my list mostly using giveaways Juan Pablo Cangas
Have you got any examples of that kind of sites also dbullet? I want some advertising, i have paid for some, not for some to. But i dont seem to get the attention i want either way, of course my unique visitors have changed from 131 Unique/month to 300+/month but that is not the thing i am out after, i want people to post on my forums and be interested instead of paying them for it. Because if you pay someone to post in your forum the person wont be that interested contiuing when you cant pay him anymore, and that will only be a backstab in the end, of course you got good posts on another great way, i myself do paid postings, but i try to engage myself into the posting, if not interested in the topic of the forum i will try not taking on that kind or try to learn something from that forum instead. If you got any advertising tips for me, please feel free to pm me with some info! Would realy appriciate it!
I like the idea of press releases. But surely, it takes more work than doing the usual article writing, right? It should be the news type style of writing.
Good tips dude, you can make some free give away Pdf e-books and submit to free ebook sites, then it will go viral on autopilot. hope you will find this tip useful. Jawad
Thanks Darren, for sharing some great ideas this info will come in very useful to me as I'm about to launch a not for profit .co.uk community website with very little in the way of funds. Mike