Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 14 Views: 1,405 Market research - find out who your customers are and where they are on the internet.
After that research your competition and find out where they are getting traffic from. Try to duplicate some... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,092 Could be bots or people that will wait and post later... either to build up age recognition for future spamming efforts.... or legitimate people who just want to be members everywhere and will post... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 15 Views: 7,398 Forum posts on the big sites with sig will help you out lots.
Create articles on frequent questions in your industry and market teasers from them everywhere with link back to the full article.
... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 3 Views: 956 THere's numerous other methods of segmentation....maybe break it down by perceived positioning:
• By product difference
• Product attributes or benefits
• Product-users
• Product usage... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 7 Views: 813 All depends on your target market, keywords and industry.
Good benchmark would be to check the CPC at Adwords. Then research the competition and see what they're charging.
If you're in a... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 1 Views: 297 By the time a book goes to print it's outdated. Stuff on the internet is general at best.
PPC results vary dramatically and involve different methods depending on numerous factors such as:... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 2 Views: 371 Google has very in depth research and knows which ads work best on what pages... some images, some text.
All depends on the niche of your topic and the pool of advertisers.
I would rather... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 4 Views: 744 Have a look into Pay Per Click (PPC) programs... sometimes more effective than affiliate networks.
If you really want to get into the business it requires a little creativity. Why not set up your... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,259 You forgot one main online research tool which is essential to SEO and internet marketing - keyword research
Keywords are how search engines identify the content on the page and show results. ... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 9 Views: 2,029 Submit to social bookmarking sites - Delicious and other related sites (search and you'll find lots). Mostly good for viral marketing... not too good for local business
Exchange Links Find local... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 20 Hours Ago |
| Replies: 4 Views: 826 First, your domain looks a little spammy and hard to understand. Would you purchase from a domain that looks like that?
Second, your design looks like it could use a little more professionalism.... |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1 Day Ago |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,530 Cuban is full of it and $1m is not going to cover the losses that the biggest G clients would have if they were not indexed from G. Amazon and Ebay probably make $1m/couple days off Google results.... |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1 Day Ago |
| Replies: 22 Views: 2,520 Also helps to register for Google webmaster tools.
Submit sitemap and set crawl rate. |
Forum: Web Hosting Deals 1 Day Ago |
| Replies: 0 Views: 109 Have been with Dreamhost for the past 5 years and love their one click installs and other great features...Have a look!
www.Dreamhost.com - $20 off yearly registration with promo code: ... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 31 Views: 11,413 Craigslist can be a very powerful marketing tool if used correctly... same as any other large forum or classified site. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 614 PRweb is the best but it costs $$$
Free PR... has to be done yourself. There's tons of tricks |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 22 Views: 1,302 Wordpress wins hands down... largest support community, huge addon capabilites, very easy to setup and run, and tons of free templates for the beginners. |
Forum: eCommerce Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,957 Things to keep in mind when selling online:
• Who is the customer?
• What do they typically buy and how do they hear about it?
• How do they like to buy this type of product or service?
• How... |
Forum: eCommerce Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 13,761 Rule #1 online:
Don't pay to make money....especially survey sites or ebooks! |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 8,452 try selling your own box ads to advertisers directly. There's some great plugins and you can make much more money. Advertise your ad spaces and if you have enough traffic then the advertisers will... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 21 Views: 2,631 For me and my customers Digg traffic is worth nothing, and overall they are tech savy enough to not click on ads.... just be wasting money.
Might be ok for fun social site marketing gimmicks... |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization Oct 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 31 Views: 1,617 Links don't bring in traffic or SEO if they are from directories or crap sites that nobody visits.
It's all about the quality of the links and knowing where to find them. What other websites does... |
Forum: eCommerce Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 6,295 Build a website that focusses on fulfilling customers needs, do not focus on money first.
Invest in quality designs and marketing to build up your audience.
Research keywords, affiliate... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 25 Views: 5,420 SEO is a long term marketing strategy that takes lots of time and energy to do properly (for competitive keyword niches). Problem is if you don't know anything about SEO or the systems involved then... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 3,725 It has nothing to do with Baidu having better local search results.
Google was late into the market and didn't promote well enough with their market entry strategy. G just thought their... |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 6,469 Research google trends or keyword topics that your customers find value in. Spend the time researching and writing an article that is very professional and interesting... distribute it to all the... |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization Sep 28th, 2009 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 2,472 It is possible depending on your niche and project management skills. I know of single persons that run 1000 sites at the same time...
For highly competitive niches you might want to focus on... |
Forum: Post your Resume Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 850 New View Media can help you out!
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Forum: Web Development Job Offers Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,109 New View Media can help you out!
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Forum: Web Development Job Offers Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,046 New View Media can help you out! Would prefer working on a project base. Could you please send over the details and we'll see if something can be worked out....
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Forum: Internet Marketing Job Offers Sep 24th, 2009 |
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Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 3,331 The average from what I've read is under 100kb.
Depends on your customer profile. If they are in modern cities then a little larger. If they are on dialup then maybe smaller if possible.
... |
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,118 I would break up the images into sections/subpages if possible to decrease the amount of images.
Most webmasters suggest total page size to be around 100kb. Not many people will wait for 100... |
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,047 Most hosts have a section where you can redirect a domain to somewhere else.
Otherwise look up your htaccess file and do a permanent 301 redirect |
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 28,766 Jquery has some great tools for building photo galleries.
Also check out smashingmagazine as they had some great tutorials a few weeks back |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 5,546 Research the market, industry, competitors, etc and find high PR, relevant links that provide value to potential customers.
There is no formula but look into the number of outgoing links on the... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,005 Trial and error... but from experience if the video adds value to customers then put in the keywords and traffic starts coming in.
Value = Creative and fulfills customers needs
Work on creating... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 3,425 OpenX is a great automated ad management system and it's free. Takes some time to set up and probably only worth it if you have a portfolio of sites. |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 10,302 Yes I don't like Adsense much either but there's not much out there for competition. Although there's some great performing affiliate niches out there.
For me conversions depends on the industry... |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization Sep 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 6,469 Links don't bring in traffic if they are from directories or crap sites that nobody visits.
It's all about the quality of the links and knowing where to find them.
Do some research into your... |