By Matt Mccarten
Are you struggling for ways to market your website?…don’t worry, everybody is! Everybody needs more traffic, more customers and more sales. I’m going to outline a few methods with I have found to be very effective in the past. All these methods are aimed at the small business and wont break the bank
Twitter
This will take some time. Set up a twitter account and link in with your website. Add some followers, take time to listen to what they are saying and respond back. DO NOT under any circumstances start talking about your site or product. You need to build up you reputation and trust, once you have done this you can slowly start to introduce marketing messages to your tweets, maybe even a 10% discount for all your local twitter followers?
A competition
Everybody loves a competition. Set up a simple competition to win one of your products. Even better tie your completion in with a social networking site, for example people have to make a short video about your product and upload to youtube. Register your site with the various competition websites to gain further traffic. You will have to give away a product, but the word of mouth advertising you will receive should well cover your costs
Giveaways
Add a simple newsletter feature to your site, everybody who signs up (for a limited period) will receive a promotional pen / tshirt etc. You can then use their details for a newsletter system Continue Reading
