Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

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    by: Kreative Labs
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    43 posts

    Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 9 Apr 10 12:01 am.

    I decided to make a Thread on ways to Advertising your Online Business.
    As most of us already know High Traffic is the most important keys to Online Success.
    This Thread is for anyone who knows a Cheap or Free Affective way of Advertising your Online Web or Ebay Store.

    If you know of a Good Place or Have some Good info on how to Advertise Economically or Free.

    Post here and Share With Everyone!.

    Tell us how Much Traffic & Sales your Advertising Strategy has Helped you.

    Kreaive Labs (Wholesale Printing/Advertising Signs)
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    by: richellemonfort
    SaleHoo Staff
    3746 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 9 Apr 10 1:23 am.

    Although, I'm not into selling and advertising these days (I mean personally), I have researched and read various ways that have been repeated suggested by writers/online experts for sellers to you when advertising to increase traffic to one's store (or listing). Below are 2010's top 10 trends for online advertising. (Please note that these are not listed as in an hierarchical order)

    Trend #1: Search Engine Optimization - You can try out our very own Traffic Travis and take your Market Research, SEO and PPC campaigns to a whole new level to down load for free please go to: link hidden

    Trend #2: Paid Search

    Trend #3: E-mail Marketing

    Trend #4: Social Network Marketing - Has always been a topic or a number of discussions, whether it will pay-off. For me personally, it's worth a try specially since this method is totally free all you have to do is open an account on Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and other similar sites, maintain the account and keep it updated. Be sure to answer any messages left by prospects as this will often reflect the type of service you provide as a seller.

    Trend #5: Blogging - Also a great way of drawing attention/traffic

    Trend #6: Web Presence

    Trend #7: Mobile Marketing - Growing trend, even big and established businesses are going Mobile these days!

    Trend #8: Podcasting and Online Radio

    Trend #9: Online Video - You can do this on your own, make your own video and you can post it on youtube. More than a handful of people go to youtube daily.

    Trend #10: Coupons, Discounts and Savings - This ia another great way of attracting new customers as well as old customers. Everybody is always in constant search for a freebie or a discount.

    To read more about these trends, please visit this link:
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    Another thing you can try is joining online forums - try to contribute in posts that you are familiar with. Just make sure to include your Store's name and URL in your signature area - that way the forum contributors can visit your store or know where to find you.

    Here are other articles that may help too:

    Facebook vs. Google - Which can better target your audience: the world's most popular social site or the search giant? link hidden

    Integrate Your Online Advertising - Why pay for clicks when you can actively network with your customers? link hidden

    Online Advertising Made Simple - Follow these essential tips for an online campaign that increases sales. link hidden

    Hope this will help guys! All the best to everyone...Cheers :)

    Richelle

    Customer Support
    SaleHoo Group Limited
    Sell more with your own professionally designed and search optimized e-commerce website. Check out SaleHoo Stores now!

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    by: Kreative Labs
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    43 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 9 Apr 10 6:37 am.

    Great info... Richelle-salehoo

    Salehoo members share your Advice/Opinions with everyone.

    Lets help each other out.

    Kreaive Labs (Wholesale Printing/Advertising Signs)
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    by: Kreative Labs
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    43 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 20 Apr 10 4:04 am.

    This thread should become a Sticky. So we can get all members to post there ways of Advertising and How it has Helped them, im Sure other Salehoo members would Appreciate something like this thread, to give them ideas on where to start Advertising... To Increase TRAFFIC & SALES.

    Take it into Consideration Salehoo Staff.

    It would be Great Info for all of us...

    Kreaive Labs (Wholesale Printing/Advertising Signs)
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    by: richellemonfort
    SaleHoo Staff
    3746 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 20 Apr 10 4:33 am.

    Hey dilimited :)

    This thread's now a sticky. Hopefully everyone will willingly share and contribute what they can to this thread.

    Cheers!

    Richelle

    Customer Support
    SaleHoo Group Limited
    Sell more with your own professionally designed and search optimized e-commerce website. Check out SaleHoo Stores now!

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    by: irene_salehoo
    SaleHoo Staff
    1951 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 20 Apr 10 4:34 am.

    Write a press release about anything going on in your business and submit it to free press release directories. It can guarantee a boost in web traffic to your site and can help increase your page ranking. =)

    Cheers!

    Irene

    Customer Support
    SaleHoo Group Limited
    Wholesale Directory by SaleHoo
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    Get your own professionally designed, search engine optimized website with a SaleHoo Store now!
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    by: richellemonfort
    SaleHoo Staff
    3746 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 21 Apr 10 11:56 am.

    You may also want to try posting ads on free online directories such as link hidden - you can create an ad for free which you can later on update to a paid one for more exposure. I suggest you try out the free ad first and see how it goes before signing up for a paid ad.

    Cheers!

    Richelle

    Customer Support
    SaleHoo Group Limited
    Sell more with your own professionally designed and search optimized e-commerce website. Check out SaleHoo Stores now!

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    by: Kreative Labs
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    43 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 1 May 10 11:50 pm.

    LISTING TIP:
    What i do.. is use ALL CAPS on my TITLE, it beats buying the BOLD feature and your listing will STAND OUT FROM THE REST without having to buy the bold feature.

    I know alot of people say listing items with all caps is bad, but hey it worked for me quite well.

    Kreaive Labs (Wholesale Printing/Advertising Signs)
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    by: SOS
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    17 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 5 May 10 12:09 am.

    $200.00 bucks in Bing/Microsoft Ad Center Clicks.

    Deleted.
    Can not post links?

    SOI

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    by: richellemonfort
    SaleHoo Staff
    3746 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 5 May 10 10:35 pm.

    $200.00 bucks in Bing/Microsoft Ad Center Clicks.

    Deleted.
    Can not post links?
    Hi SOS,

    Everyone is allowed to post links that are considered helpful but must not be either of the following:

    - Links to wholesale suppliers we haven't verified, where the person posting the link owns the company.

    - And spammy links that are irrelevant to the thread and/or forum

    Hope this helps :)

    Richelle

    Customer Support
    SaleHoo Group Limited
    Sell more with your own professionally designed and search optimized e-commerce website. Check out SaleHoo Stores now!

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    by: fudjj
    SaleHoo Staff
    2971 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 5 May 10 11:05 pm.

    Here is an idea from left field in regards to cheap advertising. Do you have a local community radio or television station in your area?

    You may well be pleasantly surprised at just how cost effective advertising on these types of avenues can be. Now they may well not have a massive volume of listeners/watchers, but the adverting rates are usually extremely attractive.

    I'll use my local community television station here in Brisbane as an example, but you can screen your own 30 minute show on Bris31 for 200 dollars. That's screening time, you have to of course produce it. Of course that's for your own show, now I don't actually have any advertising rates from them, but it follows that their advertising would be close to the same mark.

    You don't need to do any filming to produce an advert, it can be a slide presentation done in something like powerpoint, a voice backing sound track, and perhaps even a voice over, and you can be advertising on local TV, even easier for local radio.

    Yale a look, see what community media avenues are open to you in your area, then take a look at their shows and see if there is something that you feel would be a good fit to sponsor some advertising space on.

    Marc Ransom

    Community Manager
    SaleHoo.com

    About the Community Manager

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    by: SOS
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    17 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 7 May 10 12:57 am.

    $200.00 bucks in Bing/Microsoft Ad Center Clicks.

    Deleted.
    Can not post links?
    Hi SOS,

    Everyone is allowed to post links that are considered helpful but must not be either of the following:

    - Links to wholesale suppliers we haven't verified, where the person posting the link owns the company.

    - And spammy links that are irrelevant to the thread and/or forum

    Hope this helps :)
    I posted a link on a guy,who wrote a book and gave away free 200.00 in advertising.
    I do not own the website, nor am I affiliated with the website. I do not know the man who wrote the book, I bought 3 of his books and have yet to open them and read them, I just wanted the advertising coupon for bing.

    I advertise on bing via pay per click ads every single day, I purchased a book and received$200.00 in free pay per clicks from bing.

    Now what part about that is hard to understand?
    Maybe you guys should have asked what I was speaking of prior to you sending the CIA or the Mob Police after me.

    I sell Girdles and I am looking for a supplier to supply me with more girdles. That is why I came back to the site. I do not sell books, nor do I know anyone who has ever written a book!
    I am very offended at the way your staff trailed after me.
    You should apologize, because you were wrong…3-4 times.
    I came back to the site to find one thing, as I was searching, I read ISO post by others, and thus I posted info…period!
    ISO means In Search Of.
    I was accused for using that word as well.

    Good Day.

    SOI

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    by: grace-salehoo
    SaleHoo Master Member
    334 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 7 May 10 1:20 am.

    Hi SOS,

    I’m very sorry we’ve offended you by editing the links in your posts.
    Unfortunately we do get quite a few people joining the forum just to post links to their own websites/stuff they are promoting etc, and because we have to be so vigilant, at times our moderating may be a little over zealous!

    We have a number of staff and moderators working on the forum, and they were just following the rules we have set down. I’ve let them know that your intentions were honorable so this shouldn’t happen again :)

    Feel free to send me a private message if you have any questions.

    Cheers,
    Grace

    Grace

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    by: vcmex01
    New SaleHoo Member
    2 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 1 Jun 10 4:40 pm.

    I recently opened an ebay store and I am also lookig to generate traffic to my store. This is what I came up with. There are hundreds of local classified websites ads in many regions and most are free. For example, ebay's affiliate link hidden, link hidden or even ebay classifieds, are all good places to advertise. As these sites are local you can advertise in many different cities. Advertising is free... Let's get some visibility.

    Thanks.
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    by: erika-garnica
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    47 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 19 Jul 10 2:23 am.

    Submitting your website and/or eBay Store/Seller List to directories and vertical portals can be extremely helpful.

    In addition, writing articles relevant to your products and submitting them to article writing websites like ezinearticles.com is another great way to market your online business.

    Erika Garnica
    eBay User ID - Theauctionguru
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    by: richellemonfort
    SaleHoo Staff
    3746 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 20 Jul 10 12:24 am.

    Did you know you can promote your eBay store on Amazon? The latest blog by the eBaysellingcoach taught me this neat trick!

    All you have to do write reviews of products related to the products you are selling on eBay but make sure you mention your eBay store link in your Amazon profile :)

    For the step-by-step guide, please go to:

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    All the best!

    Richelle

    Customer Support
    SaleHoo Group Limited
    Sell more with your own professionally designed and search optimized e-commerce website. Check out SaleHoo Stores now!

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    by: fudjj
    SaleHoo Staff
    2971 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 21 Jul 10 5:13 am.

    Some really nice marketing tips from both Richelle and Erica there, well worth noting guys : )

    Marc Ransom

    Community Manager
    SaleHoo.com

    About the Community Manager

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    by: planes
    Forum Moderator
    843 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 30 Jul 10 3:16 am.

    Great info as usual.

    Here is another back door way to get free advertising.
    Join eCrater for free.
    Then list a bunch of your stuff on there.
    On their store help page they give various ways to list on Google and other advertising methods.
    Simply follow their step by step approach and get a lot of free advertising.
    On each item listing you can also list your website or even ebay site as a link.

    Another thing one can do is transfer all of their eBay listings onto eCrater then get ebay advertising and ecrater advertising.

    When you get a sale on ecrater you get an email telling you.
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    by: Raine123
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    37 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 1 Aug 10 11:50 pm.

    Sounds like a bunch of great ideas. I thought about linking my personal blog with my online store & useing eBay as advertising as well (perhaps using Bonanzle & Addoway in the mix for one or two items to hopefully cover even more revenues of traffic). At one point I thought about getting a car magnet w/ vistaprint (they have some pretty cheap stuff/good deals) but thought against using my vehicle in that manner. I have gone as far as to make a few coffee mugs, pens, etc. to give away or send as a thankyou special offer kinda deal. I found a place at one point that will put your info/website on pens and they are pretty cheap-Everyone uses a pen-I know they did in the military so just 'drop' a few here and there and see how it goes...those aren't free ideas but I think to a degree a little cheap. :) Maybe you can get other ideas from those ideas :) good luck!
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    by: lbbonner
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    44 posts

    Re: Cheap & Free EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

    Posted 1 Oct 10 5:08 pm.

    Hi guys i am sorry i have been out the loop for awhile but i have a question for you what are some other sites i can sell my products on besides ebay i got an email awhile ago but i dont remember exactly what it was so could you please help me thanks