Set up your own website. You can either set up your own website or you can pay someone to set it up for you. You can usually have a nice website designed by yourself for as little as $5.00 per month plus yearly registration of your domain name, the website address. Most importantly, your website needs to have easily navigated layouts, be filled with useful and interesting information and be free of junk or unhelpful things. Avoid using anything that will discourage a customer from lingering; this is one time when some upfront paid advice from a web designer can be well worth it and will pay itself back in no time.
- Besides just information about your business and your sales basket, what else can you offer? Think of adding articles, individual stories about staff and company events, how-to information using your products or services, lessons learned anecdotes, freebies such as downloadable craft tutorials or a free eBook, etc. Be generous and your customers will be impressed, checking back regularly for more.
- Submit your website name to many website directories. You can search the Internet for free website directories and you will find quite a few links to places where you can advertise.
- Use 'sidebar ads'. These display ads while people are playing games. Consider also expanding into ads on apps for smartphones and electronic tablets.
- Use Google ads on the side of your Google bar. If you type in something, then it will come up on the right side of your search results as small ads.
- Be considerate about placement of ads on your website and be careful about the types of ads you're willing to have shown on your website. Do you really want your competitor's ads showing up?
- Use YouTube to promote your business. Perhaps one of the most popular and creative way to show more information about your business is to use videos. Some examples of how to do this include:
- Upload a video of your company, and put on as many links as you can from all sorts of topics so as many people as possible see it.
- Videotape launches and other public events promoted by your business so that clients who couldn't make these events are still able to catch up on what happened.
- Video how-to information related to your business, so that when someone is looking how to solve a problem your business has knowledge of, they find your video answer and learn more about you. Self-help videos on common, basic problems can be a great way to show your business's sharing side and to garner interest from potential new customers.
- Create an ongoing storyline showing customers using and enjoying your products or services. This may require a little more work but stories rope people in and they're far more likely to remember your business if there's a regular mini soap opera to tune into!
- Participate in forums and blogs. This is one way to help promote your product or services, showing yourself as an expert and as someone who genuinely wants to help resolve people's problems. Often you can do this for free. However, this option has one huge caveat––be sure to post in forums that are website promotion friendly if you intend on using your URL or emblazoning the post with your business details. Not all blog sites or forums allow promotion blog or forum posts and breaching this could see your business blocked and even badmouthed. In some cases you may have to pay a fee to advertise on their sites but usually you do not. In many cases, simply stating that you're the founder/owner/director/community manager, etc. of a certain site can be sufficient to alert people to the good your company is doing online. Let them do the rest of the adding up and finding of you––consumers are intelligent.
- Make use of user pages on sites that allow this. It can be a great way to promote your business, especially if you contribute information to the website that in turn leads readers back to your user page for more details.
- Use email marketing. You can create lists of customers, or potential customers that you can keep in touch with on a regular basis. However, be aware that many recipients regard this as spamming and may complain. Always seek to get the agreement of customers to be emailed first, and always take into account spamming laws, which detail that you're not allowed to send people information they do not want. It makes good business sense to only send information to people who want to hear about your products or services and not to those who do not. These e-mailings can all be sent out in bulk, as if you were sending them through postal mail.
- Spend a lot of time making emailed information worth the recipient's time. Prepare a newsletter filled with useful information about living life in general, or with humorous anecdotes, etc.; don't just email updates about your business and marketing pitches. Be subtle.
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