I need ideas to promote my online business?

Question

I started an online children's resale company called Spoogles.com. I have already advertised on Perezhilton.com, google, yahoo, msn, various message boards, and stumbleupon.com...as well as handing out hundreds of promotional flyers. My company has been online for about two months with very little success. I know that I have a good idea...everything in the store is $3 and is backed by a 100% money back guarantee, however i just can't seem to get it off the ground. Will someone PLEASE take a look at my website and give me some honest answers (no need to be a jerk, but constructive critisism is welcome)...and PLEASE give me some more ideas on how to promote.

Answer 1

You really do have a fantastic idea, but I think you need to narrow down your audience a bit. Who are you catering to with your $3 clothes service? It's certainly not the suburban teenagers and partying 20 year olds that dominate Perez Hilton, now is it?

I think what you need to do is keep handing out promotional flyers, but do it in an area where you know that people aren't as financially well-off and could really use a website like yours.

It usually takes a lot more than 2 months for an online business to really take off. Keep advertising as much as possible and think about who you're advertising to. You've got to have your main audience in mind whenever you start making more advertisements.

Answer 2

If you are looking to advertise your small business, Lookcube is a great choice.

Lookcube is a free local classifieds website. Ads on Lookcube stay for 30 days and automatically renew, which is a real timesaver for small business owners. Craigslist ads expire after 7 days, so reposting can become a real chore.

http://lookcube.com

Answer 3

Here are some ideas:

1) Answer questions on Yahoo Answers about clothes and put your link as the source if they wanna get related items

2) you can't attract the Stumble Upon community with a STORE! Make some articles which will spread viral, like Funny Boys Pants or 10 Best Girls...whatever. That usually works. You'll get a lot of backlinks.

3) Do article marketing and keyword research. There's a great Google Trends tool from wordtracker, you may wanna visit this site about keyword research and download the free videos inside: http://www.thirtydayschallenge2008.com

4) What about video marketing?

There's a difference between MARKETING and ADVERTISING especially on the internet. Don't just advertise, market!

Answer 4

These are my time-proven methods to ADVERTISE my website for FREE

1)Viral Pictures

Viral is closely connected with something that may spread easily.So i suggest you to create a viral picture which is closely connected with your products and spread it.

Everyone likes funny pictures and they don't mind sharing it with others.It's viral.So, If you're selling a health product, then you may create a funny picture about it and put your website's name on it.

Next, just forward it to as many contacts as possible using e-mails. Whether it's a 12 years old kid or 21 years old adult.They would just love and share it with others. Can you see how easy it is?

2)Viral Videos

Videos are the most famous entertainment on the Internet.People would just love it dues to it's effectivenes in spreading the message. So i suggest you to create viral videos about your product and again put your link in it.

If you got 3 minutes video, then make sure your website's link is visible throughout the whole 3 minutes.If you don't have the necessary tools to create a video, then you can simply collect 5-10 viral pictures and then convert it into video using Windows Movie Maker.

Then just upload it to You Tube or Google Videos. Now using bluetooth everyone is exchanging videos from their mobiles or computers. If your video is viral enough to attract others, it will easily spread to others.

Suggested Links:

http://youtube.com/

http://video.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&...

http://video.yahoo.com/

3)Yahoo Answers

I probably won't be answering your question if i don't know the answer. And i won't suggest you any websites link if i think that it's not going to help you.

So simply answer any questions that you're knowledgeable(your niche market) at and put a link to your websites as extra source for others.

If your answer is good and solved the questions, people would also expect for more tips and suggestion from you.If you suggested any website links, there are high chances for anyone to visit it.

4)Forum Marketing

Forum Marketing works just like Yahoo Answers. They would be a lot of tips and questions exchanged in any forums.

So start getting active and contribute to any forum members and they will appreciate your expertise and start visiting your websites for more up-to-date tips.

Suggested Links:

http://warriorforum.com/

http://www.ablakeforum.com/

5)Newsgroup Marketing

Promote your expertise and links in newsgroups by contributing your tips to other members.

Suggested Links:

http://groups.yahoo.com/

http://groups.google.com.my/grphp?hl=en&...

6)Article Marketing

Write articles within your niche and submit it to article directories

Suggested Links:

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://goarticles.com

7)Social Networking

Use social networking sites to promote your products and links. As you know social networking sites are self promotoable. If you got a nice profile with beautiful pictures in it, i bet you'll get a lot of visits from other members.

Suggested Links:

http://friendster.com

http://facebook.com

http://myspace.com

These are my easy to apply and time proven ways to get traffic for my websites.

Other Web Traffic Generating Tips:

1)Free Press Release

2)PPC Ads(It'll cost you money)

3)Joint Ventures

4)Newspaper(It'll cost you money)

5)Sms(It'll cost you money)

6)Word Of Mouth

7)Pamplets/Flyers(It'll cost you money)

8)Business Cards(It'll cost you money)

Answer 5

The Top articles of email marketing tips

The top most articles of email marketing tips and tricks here. Last couple of years I collect these email marketing related articles. Here is the link-http://softmarketingnews.blogspot.com/20...

Answer 6

You need to do article marketingand social bookmarking. Start a blog and write about children's clothes, etc.

Submit articles to the search engines and get some bookmarks at the major social bookmark sites.

See the source:

Answer 7

There are two glaring flaws found on your opening webpage:

1)  The <title> lacks a business locale, i.e., city, state, country.  Remember that customers are concerned by how much they have to pay in shipping costs and when you are way across the nation, they are not likely to patronize your website;

2)  The <description> is missing as a consequence, when you look at the Google search entry, it states "ecommerce provided by Google."  What does that really mean or relate to your actual goods.  Instead, complete the <description> metatag with up to 65 characters, and spaced entries consisting of simple complete sentences describing your goods; not merely a repeat of your <keywords> entries.

Once you correct your SEO metatags, you will attract a greater specialized audience.

Good luck!