I am building an online marketplace similiar to flippa.com and sitebroker.com where people can place ads on my website for free. The only problem I know I will have is, how do I get people to come to my website and actually use it? I am not excepting to make a lot of money off of this, and I need a reason for people to come to my marketplace instead of, say flippa. One good reason is my website is free to use. The bad thing is if nobody uses it, advertising wont help, because people will still see that others are not using it as well. I do not have much money to go into advertising. I was thinking about writing some articles though and submitting them, but not sure where. If I could get some good feedback that would be great, because this is the first website I ever build where I actually needed some better marketing ideas.
The best way would be placing some your old bought websites or domains in sale. Now allowing some more people from your group or community whom you trust and those who trusts you, tell them to do the same thing. People will start coming only after seeing the traffic on your website.
Yes that is the hardest part thought (getting people to trust). I will need to plan a way to get some people. I don't have any domains or websites I'm willing to sell yet.
it is the typical chicken and egg problem for any new business... you have to find a low cost advertising.. you need to find as many websites for sale as you can and stock them up on your website... Why not post a link in your signature line like mine?
I plan on doing all the free methods such as this. I'm not done with the website yet. I just wanted to figure out how I will advertise it once it is finished within this week.
Check my signature on 10 free ways to drive traffic including video, seo, social media, blog commenting and more.
Once you have your site completed, do what you did here! Join about 10 IM forums and post ads, if the forums have this service. This is probably the quickest way to get some traffic to your site. Then use the other 9 free traffic methods outlined by "mdvonline"! Just use Google to find the Internet Marketing forums!
Hey Len, thanks for suggestion my report, I appreciate it. Can you name 9 other IM forums besides WF that have decent traffic on it? Cheers, Mukul
Mdvonline, I did read your report earlier this morning before making this post. I liked it, but most of the techniques I already knew. DP gets a lot of traffic. I'm not really a member of any other communitys and I would hate signing up just to announce my website (I do feel bad about spamming for the sake of advertising). The reason I asked is, like almost ANY community based website, it is hard to start generating traffic that will actually come and then stay (and in my case, sell).
Thanks, I agree SPAM not good, giving value is good I am part of a couple, but looking for more. I have been online for 6 years, just worked on my own and not into Internet Marketing community til the last year. I know you mentioned no money and I got some, not a lot of expereince in this, but Facebook advertising suppose to be really good to build brand awareness. Cheers, Mukul
yup, post your site link to your sig, not just here anywhere where you have an account and you can always try free classified ads you can use twitter...be creative