If you had $1000

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by TheWebJunkie, Mar 27, 2005.

  1. #1
    If you had $1000 how would you market my website?

    www.sigtraders.com

    Looking forward to some good replys :D
     
    TheWebJunkie, Mar 27, 2005 IP
  2. Design Agent

    Design Agent Peon

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    Teach a couple of friends how to find links and give them minimum wage ;) £5 - 100 hours of link building.

    Do the rest yourself
    Or you could buy some signatures, proof is in the pudding after all..
    What kind of return money do 'sig traders' make - ballparks will do.
     
    Design Agent, Mar 27, 2005 IP
  3. Fishing Forum

    Fishing Forum Active Member

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    From the beach :p
     
    Fishing Forum, Mar 27, 2005 IP
  4. Will.Spencer

    Will.Spencer NetBuilder

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    Spend $50 to get the wife to take the kids to a movie. That will give you three hours of quiet time to submit your site to web directories, build reciprocal links, and write articles to submit for links.

    Repeat as necessary. :)
     
    Will.Spencer, Mar 27, 2005 IP
  5. Umbertide

    Umbertide Peon

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    OK, you have a new idea so not many people will be searching for it, yet.

    Taking on board all comments posted about building content, getting links, defining keywords (all valid stuff), your cheapest marketing resource right now are your members.

    You could use all or part of your $1000 in incenting your existing site owners to introduce more site owners. Ipod, vouchers, perhaps hard cold cash. Or how about a commission on sales made (you'll need some kind of affiliate/commission system). I work in travel and this is starting to work right now. Perhaps this is what the £1000 could be spent on?

    also there are brighter people here in the SEO arena but I reckon you could do some work on your page optimisation, unless the phrase 'Link Popularity' is something a lot of people are search for - you know better than me.

    hope that helps.
     
    Umbertide, Mar 27, 2005 IP
  6. honey

    honey Prominent Member

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    I like the wife idea. I will try it on my husband.
     
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  7. Christopher

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    Use it to build your own identity seperate from sigtrader.com
     
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    At least now i know that you are a lady. Still calling you 'honey' makes me a bit uncomfortable :p
     
    Liminal, Mar 27, 2005 IP
  9. Blogmaster

    Blogmaster Blood Type Dating Affiliate Manager

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    True dat! Calling a dude honey would be worse though ;)
     
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  10. Ajeet

    Ajeet Well-Known Member

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    Same wife everytime I repeat this? :p Ok, ok, no offence!
     
    Ajeet, Mar 28, 2005 IP
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    You need to diversify, right now you are mainly covering webmaster and related markets.

    Find 10 other fairly popular forums covering anything from Music, Sports, Politics, etc. Post a couple of times maybe 10-20 in each, with your site in the sig obviously. After about two weeks make an offer, I will pay you $XX if you put this site in your sig. If they say yes ... tell them to signup through the site and per them through there. This could actually help you find other possible loop holes in the system that can be exploited or which are biased towards the buyer or the seller. If you are paying say $20 accross ten forums that $200 a month and your money will last for 5 months which aint bad.

    Ohhh .. and think of something catchy to put in the sig's you are paying for ... Get $20 a month for your forum signature

    Now that I have given you a decent idea .. I will gladly take $20 for posting in a car forum .. pm me if you are interested and we can iron out the details over at sig traders :cool:
     
    payoutwindow, Mar 28, 2005 IP
  12. callmeshoe

    callmeshoe Peon

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    try ebay. you can sell anything there. that's low cost of advertising for your site.
     
    callmeshoe, Apr 1, 2005 IP
  13. Solicitors Mortgages

    Solicitors Mortgages Well-Known Member

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    #13
    $1000 to promote a site...thats a good question.

    I think it would be wise to keep the money...and feel like you are paying yourself whilst submitting to directories for hours on end, and joining forums.

    $1000 is not a lot of money for promoting something so specific... perhaps you could buy a 100 cheap links on various sites you feel might benefit you.

    did you get into dmoz yet?... $1000 might get you a long way...
    (not that the words grease and palm come to mind) :)

    and of course if you havent already...open a blog all about your site :cool:
     
    Solicitors Mortgages, Apr 2, 2005 IP
  14. yfs1

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    Looks like all the sound DP advice didn't save them :cool:
     
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    You would probably need to buy a lot of links from different domains and server IPs. Your $1000 will last for 3-6 months. During that time, your website will gain rankings and you will be able to get your $1000 back if not more. Than if you get more, you can follow the same procedure, but excess of money spend on hiring short-term link exchange specialists and SEO promotion companies.
     
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  17. CTABUK

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    The whole concept of getting your sig noted is something I have been saying and doing for years. But, most of us already know that, so who is your target audience, if it is existing forum members then some might call it intrusive marketting, but definetly not spamming as from what I can see, many could benefit. So please tell me, who is the targeted audience?
     
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  18. yfs1

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    Hes not going to answer....That site went bust and was only a copy of another site (the non plural) anyway.
     
    yfs1, May 25, 2005 IP
  19. CTABUK

    CTABUK Guest

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    Thanks for that, I really could not decide if it was forum spamming or not, so as it was only my second post here (site tutor invited me over) I decided to play safe :D But thanks, very kind of you
     
    CTABUK, May 25, 2005 IP
  20. yfs1

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    Welcome! Make sure you introduce yourself ;)
     
    yfs1, May 25, 2005 IP