Giving away a GPS unit. Need ideas.

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by kadesmith, Jul 16, 2008.

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    I am giving away a GPS unit on my web site Backcountry Secrets. I am looking for more ways to possible get the word out. So far I have:

    1. Posted on outdoor related forums.
    2. Placed ads all over on my website about the give away.
    3. Written an article and submitted it to an outdoors article site (outsidehub.com)
    4. Created a group on facebook and let the group know about it.

    What else should I be doing. The contest runs until October 31, 2008.
     
    kadesmith, Jul 16, 2008 IP
  2. webairchris

    webairchris Peon

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    I would definitely also look into creating a myspace account to go along with the facebook. The social networking sites allow you to get the word out to a large amount of people with out it considered to be "spam"

    Reaching out to a large number of people through the social networks will definitely get you some additional traffic to your site. Stay on the boards also I feel like this is a great way to get the info out to a large amount of people
     
    webairchris, Jul 16, 2008 IP
  3. ~kev~

    ~kev~ Well-Known Member

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    What kind of traffic are you looking for? Are you just wanting to get the word out about your site?

    On one of my forums, I have over 5,300 total members, over 600 members visiting every 24 hours, around 1,858 members visiting every 30 days and the site gets 1.3 - 1.4 million page views a month.

    Then I have 2 wordpress blogs

    A hunting forum (vbulletin)

    And well over 2,000 youtube subscribers.

    If you need a little advertising, maybe we could work something out?

    One of my suggestion is for you to contact site owners, (such as myself) and see if they would include information about your contest in a newsletter. Or at least post some information about your contest in their forums or websites.

    But someone like me, I could send a out a news letter, post in the forums, post in the blogs, and maybe even do a video about your site and post it on my youtube channel. The video would have your site address, description of the prize and a link to your site in the video description. Since I already have well over 2,000 subscribers you would not have to worry about building an audience, making the video or anything else.

    Just by doing this you could reach several thousand people in just a few days. And the audience is targeted because my sites deal with hiking, camping, hunting and wilderness survival - the exact people that would use a GPS.
     
    ~kev~, Jul 16, 2008 IP