We need opinions on how to spend 500/month budget on site promotion. Thank you!

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by dinosaur, Jul 21, 2007.

  1. #1
    We currently have a $500/month budget for http://mmotp.com

    It's a MMORPG auction site similar to EBAY driven to be a MMORPG community. Its visitors count increased aggressively during the last week without any promotional budget, which is why we decided to set the budget at $500 to give it a boost.

    what's been done:
    - submit to 500 free directories
    - 20 emails/day targeting classified sites

    What's to be done:

    - spend the budget to maximize the effect
    - bring exposure among MMORPG players
    - more users
    - more populated forum.

    The suggestion could be about anything: what to do, widgets, reconstruction of site sections, offer of service. Anything is appreciated.

    Thank you.
     
    dinosaur, Jul 21, 2007 IP
  2. bobzor

    bobzor Peon

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    Is it possible for you to get a new site layout? cause the one you have now isn't the best.
     
    bobzor, Jul 21, 2007 IP
  3. dinosaur

    dinosaur Peon

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    Thank you. Of course. Please keep in mind that we have not yet spend a dime on professional help. Which is why we'd like to catch up right now.
     
    dinosaur, Jul 21, 2007 IP
  4. tradeya

    tradeya Notable Member

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    -check and buy signatures from MMORPG forums. that sure will get your target visitors.
    -more directoried submission
    -more back links from high trafiic gaming site
    -banner exchange or ad spaces
    -keep some for PPC campaign like Adwords

    anything else anyone?
     
    tradeya, Jul 22, 2007 IP
  5. Passelive

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    I would say PPC and hire someone to do
    forum posts with a sig file back to your site.
     
    Passelive, Jul 22, 2007 IP