One viral technique is to create a freeware program and distribute it free. In that freeware you should scatter links to your site. This will create a lot of visitors, provided the software is good quality. The fame of your company will spread like wildfire. Provided the software is good, you will get a lot of hits to your site. Word of mouth publicity about your company and your software will spread all over the Net.
Another strategy is to create ?Tell it to a friend ". This simple script can be installed in less than an hour and this facility allows visitors to your site to recommend your site to their friends. Their friends will definitely visit your site as human beings tend to believe their friends.
Another trick is to install greeting cards on your site. All people want to send e-cards to their relatives & friends in order to do so they will visit your site. Each card contains a link to your site which will produce an appreciable amount of traffic. This is one of the most powerful of all viral techniques.
Another technique is to incorporate a free search engine submission program on the site and advertise that your site has a free submission program. Many site owners will visit your site for free submission. You can advertise the free submission program in your sag file and in your ozone ads. It will look like this
another trick is to hold a contest and advertise that your site is holding a contest. This will bring tremendous traffic on your site as people tend to be drawn to intellectual contests which test their skill. This is an opportunity for people to pass away their time, test their IQ and MQ & also get some gifts.
Distributing ball-pens with the name of your dotcom imprinted on them helps in spreading the word. You can offer it as a gift to your customers or to people who come to enquire in your shop.
Distributing T-shirts with the name of your dotcom printed on them is another marketing trick. You can kill two birds with one stone. You have given freebies to your potential customers and you have spread the word about your dotcom!
All your offline promotion material should have your burl address imprinted on it along with your email address. Business cards should be distributed freely to whomsoever you come into contact. Make it a point to distribute at least 3 business cards in a day. Marketing is the life-blood of business!
In your articles, you can promote not only your products but also your friend's products. For example, my friend AK Selvraraj has written a book which I promote in my articles on Philosophy. The theme of Self Actualization is highlighted and an excellent book for achieving that objective is referred.
In your articles, you can recommend your friend's products, the products of the affiliate programs you have signed up & you can give links to your friend's sites (and ask them for a reciprocal link). You can sign up for many affiliate programs and then promote these products through your writing!
After writing articles, submitting them is another Herculean task. My method of Article Submission is as follows.
After writing my first article on AstroNumerology, I went to Google.com & typed Numerology Submit Article.
The Search showed 1600. I went to each of the links and submitted my article.
Most of the intellectual websites have a Submit Article Webpage wherein they say "Share your Expertise and Profile your business". You will not be paid monetarily but you will get Free Advertising in return as the bio shows who you are. So this is the practical way to do it. Go the Search Engines, type Subject Article and submit your article to the links that appear as Searches.
Group Lists
Group Lists are considered as a goldmine of marketing. There are so many groups listed. What you do is to go to these sites and type in the name of your subject. I typed Yoga in and got 458 lists. I subscribed to all. I post my messages to them once a week. I got 40 lists on Astrology from I subscribed to them. I post regularly and the people on the list see my posts. My posts contain my URL address & my email address. People on the list see the post and visit my site or contact me via email. On the first day I received an order for 40 e-books. Next day also. Many subscribed to my Ozone, the Z Files. Traffic increased considerably because of this method. Hope you will do the same.
On the Net, success depends on Marketing. Benjamin Franklin talked about improving our 13 skills which will lead to millions, the greatest of which is adcopywriting. Marketing skill is another. Promote, promote
One of the most powerful marketing tools that you develop for yourself is your business card. You give it to prospective clients, customers, and contacts, and it serves the same purpose with each group of people - it gives them your contact information at their fingertips. A business card can also be easily inserted into a folder, mailed with your company literature, or attached to a brochure. In short, the effectiveness of a business card is seemingly endless, and you should not leave home without it!
If you plan to put ads in your local newspapers, then you can even use your business card in the business card ad pages of the newspaper. But regardless of how you put your business cards to work, they won't function as good advertisements unless they are competently designed, easy to understand and effective in helping your potential clients to remember what you offer and why they should buy from you.
With only 1/2 inches in width and 2 inches in depth, a business card cannot contain everything that you might want to communicate about yourself. But if you use your creativity you will be able to get the essentials across. There are several things you need to be aware of before you start to design your card.
Always make use of a logo for your card. If possible get an expert designer to produce your business card's logo. If you are giving a service or selling products which can be depicted with an emblem, then the logo you create should stand for that service or product in one way or the other. You should take care that it can be scalable for applying it on business cards, brochures, letterhead etc.
Developing a single line slogan and adding it in your business card is one way by which you can be in people's mind. If what you sell is not straight away obvious from your trade name, generate a single line catchphrase that will aid people memorize what you advertise. Incorporate this phrase or slogan on the card.
Would-be clients may have to use your email address and will certainly want your URL. They should both be on your card if at all possible. Use readable typefaces that are reasonably large. Be sure the text color and the background don't clash or cancel one another out visually. For instance, it's hard to read light yellow printing on a white card.
It is important that you create a business card that will visibly communicate what you carry out and in which way to reach you. If the people who read your business card cannot read the essential contact information then you will most certainly lose in the end. Flyer printing is very effective if you have a small business. Also custom printing your business card will help you in getting more business.
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