Forums, message boards, bulletin boards – they all mean the same thing, but forum promotion can seem like a huge outlay of time and effort. How do you know which forums are worth marketing to – and how can you tell if these forums will allow you to promote your site at all?
Today’s post details how to find profitable forums and use them to generate a steady stream of traffic and long-term exposure.
Personally, I love forums – sometimes a little too much. For years I held one of the highest forum posts at SitePoint as their Design Team Leader and currently have over 1,000 posts at the leading internet marketing message board, the Warrior Forum.
How do you make forums work to your promotional advantage (without making it seem like spam?) These seven tips should put you well on your way to racking up hundreds of relevant, solid posts that help build your credibility and authority on any topic.
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Tags: forum marketing, forum promotion, online marketing forum
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If you run a business website and sell products or services online, you may not be getting the amount of orders you’d hoped to have by now. No matter what you sell, remember that your visitors can’t physically touch or examine it the way they can in a retail store – which is why you’ve got to have plenty of this:
Pre-Sales Information
You may think you already have enough – after all, you’ve probably got product specs, a handful of photos from different angles, and a basic description. That’s enough, right?
Not always… and here’s why.
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Tags: e-commerce, faq, pre sales, presales, sales
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Let’s face it, you’ve been spending a lot of time getting your website professionally designed and getting all the programming in place to prepare for a flawless launch. You might think it’s time to sit back and relax, but the work has just started!
The next step is getting exposure. But how do you market your website effectively when you’ve already spent money on the design and development? You know you have a great product or service to sell – and once people know about it, things will really take off.
Until then, here are 10 free or low-cost ways to promote your website easily and inexpensively.
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Tags: website marketing budget, website promotion budget
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