Cash Building Strategies Series: Marketing Your Online Business, Part C

Miscellaneous Marketing Techniques

Here are some other techniques to utilize in your marketing campaigns:

Affiliate Programs- Start your affiliate programs for your products. Let other people earn some money by marketing your products for you. More traffic will find their way to your site through someone else’s efforts.
Learn how to start your own successful affiliate program and create a web page on your site for others to sign up to be your affiliates. This is something that you can announce in your newsletters and update messages.
Adwords- Search engines offer this feature to Business owners to purchase advertising space on the search results pages. Every time someone clicks on that ad, you will be charged a certain amount of money to the search engine.
Because you’re paying for the clicks, you will want to provide the most desirable ad possible to increase your return of investment. Poor ads can cost you money, because not everyone who clicks through these ads will want to buy. Keep track of these ads and pull them or revamp them when necessary to avoid losing too much money for your business.
Word of Mouth campaign- This is the easiest marketing technique there is. A simple word of mouth campaign will get people to pass on the information to your business to other people and so on.
This works great for local customers and clients to hear about your business and pass it on to others that may be looking for the same products or information. This is also an inexpensive way to accomplish marketing for your business.
Use Press Releases- This option can be used if you’re just opening your doors or if you’re offering a discount or special sale. Press Releases are submitted to sites that publish them for internet users who are looking for specific information.
They are written as if they’re a news story and they showcase your “news” with eye catching and attention grabbing headlines and information. Your sale, discount or business startup would get plenty of exposure to potential consumers and clients.
A well written press release to announce what you are offering may just be what you need to drive a huge amount of traffic to your business website. Consider having one done on a period basis to help keep your business’ name fresh on people’s minds.
Place an ad in local papers- There’s no rule that says you only have to market on the internet. Why not try marketing locally, by placing ads in local papers. Those advertisements are seen by most everyone that lives within that area and receives that paper.
Sometimes, businesses gain their first sales transactions from local customers, so don’t leave out your local area when planning your marketing campaign.
Podcasting- Podcasting is audio content that people use to provide information that people listen to instead of read. It gives them a different medium to learn about a topic their interested in. People love the option of the podcast to listen to while they do something else and not have to be glued to their computer screen.
Your business gains credibility and trust amongst the listeners. Those listeners can become customers, so your website will be linked to the audio program.

Marketing On The Fun Side

People love to have fun, so why not provide it with your marketing techniques. Here are a few ways you can give it to them:

Run a contest- People will come from all over when a contest is announced. Run one on your blog or site to drive more traffic. You will have to market the contest pretty heavily to get people to hear about it, but once they know they will come running.
   Make your contest fun that almost anyone can participate in. Offer a worthwhile prize to the winner of the contest. If you don’t people won’t come running the next time you run a contest or anything for your business.
A contest could be quizzes to take, an internet safari to participate in or just a raffle to draw names in.

Have Promotional products with your business logo- Websites like Cafe press will make products like T-shirts, pens, mugs and even hats with your logo on them. Some of these could be given away as gifts or you could have internet visitors purchase them through a link on your site.
   These promotional items could be displayed so that anyone who comes in contact with that item will see your logo and be curious about whose business is on them. They can then search out your site to find out what exactly you offer.

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Ending Thoughts

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