I have a site, and I would like to know what do you consider it is the least amount I should spend promoting it and where should I spend it? thx
What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
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Re: What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
#2$0.00
Techcrunch, Twitter, YouTube, Digg, Facebook, news.yc, etc. are all extremely effective places to create buzz for no cost.
Re: What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
#3I know of a couple places you can get listed for free and get decent traffic for early startups.
The Museum of Modern Betas always good for a couple hundred visitors. http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/
Killer Startups is an ass ugly site but can send some traffic. http://www.killerstartups.com/
Simple Spark has not sent me a ton of traffic but they have a nice looking site and will hopefully gain more of an audience. http://simplespark.com
I'm also looking for more ways to get the word out so the more advice the better.
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#4Agree with Kyro. Try to go as far as you can without any marketing budget. It takes a lot more effort, working on getting discovered by users, but I don't think it's any less effective than paid marketing, and possibly even more effective in the initial stages.
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#5With social media its hard to get above the noise level. To start out, you should have a company blog.
Also look for advertising coupons for Yahoo, MSN and Google. You need good analytics so you can tell what keywords/ads do the best. Only target search ads, avoid the spammy content networks when starting out.
Once you have some traffic coming in, look at what users are doing, tune your website to try to increase conversions.
Spend more money as you bring it in. What type of site? How does it generate money?
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#6I find low traffic sites on adbrite.com and use there CPM option to advertise on them. A website might have 500 visitors a day and cost .05 cents per CPM. So I can spend a few dollars (a month) and get full time advertising on a number of websites. For higher traffic sites use the fixed rate pricing if it is available.
Re: What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
#7With social media its hard to get above the noise level. To start out, you should have a company blog. Also look for advertising coupons for Yahoo, MSN and Google. You need good analytics so you can tell what keywords/ads do the best. Only target search ads, avoid the spammy content networks when starting out. Once you have some traffic coming in, look at what users are doing, tune your website to try to increase con…
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Re: What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
#8I find low traffic sites on adbrite.com and use there CPM option to advertise on them. A website might have 500 visitors a day and cost .05 cents per CPM. So I can spend a few dollars (a month) and get full time advertising on a number of websites. For higher traffic sites use the fixed rate pricing if it is available.
Another idea
Step 1: Write an article between 300 and 500 words on your products target market, then suggest your product as the solution
Step 2: Submit your article to article submission sites such as articlebiz.com, crixi.com, electrictext.com, contentdesk.com
Step 3: Rework your article into a press release and then submit. PrLeap.com or PrWeb.com (about $120)
Step 4: Rework your article into a video. You can read your article over a slide presentation. Submit this to Youtube and other video sharing sites
Step 5. Turn your article into a podcast (audio only) and submit it to iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials
Step 6: Create a blog intro with your video code in it.
Step 7: Create a Squidoo Lens
Step 8: Social bookmark everything you have just done at propelier.com, digg.com, del.icio.us, stumbleupon.com, twitter.com, reddit.com, tagza.com, fark.com, newsvine.com, furl.net, swik.net, connotea.org, sphinn.com, blinklist.com, faves.com, mister-wong.com, spurl.net, netvouz.com, diigo.com, backflip.com, rawsugar.com, bibsonomy.org, folkd.com, linkagogo.com, indianpad.com, plugim.com, myjeeves.ask.com, jumptags.com, mixx.com, wirefan.com, danogo.com, ka-boom-it.com.
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Re: What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
#9I find low traffic sites on adbrite.com and use there CPM option to advertise on them. A website might have 500 visitors a day and cost .05 cents per CPM. So I can spend a few dollars (a month) and get full time advertising on a number of websites. For higher traffic sites use the fixed rate pricing if it is available.
Another idea Step 1: Write an article between 300 and 500 words on your products target market, then suggest your product as the solution Step 2: Submit your article to article submission sites such as articlebiz.com, crixi.com, electrictext.com, contentdesk.com Step 3: Rework your article into a press release and then submit. PrLeap.com or PrWeb.com (about $120) Step 4: Rework your article into a video. You can read…
Have you done this? What were the results?
Re: What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
#10".. What is the minimun budget to promote a site? ..."
How much does it take to make a demo, blog about it? Show don't tell. Tell some friends & let them loose on a demo. Getting users is the objective, then some feedback. Create your (scalable) feedback loop: email, blog comments.