Ninja of the Whispers

JinaCollins11 · Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:38 am Making the most of a limited advertising budget

Since a good web marketing campaign dictates the success or failure of a website to a large extent, the number of companies offering web marketing services has shot up in the past few years. Only problem with them is that their services are quite expensive and not every website owner can afford to hire them. Therefore the smaller businesses and individual website owners need to study and utilize every Web Marketing Resource to find the ones that fit their budget.

Small companies can use marketing tools like affiliate marketing, e-mail marketing, blog marketing, article writing and social networking to sell their products and services. Affiliate marketing consists of an affiliate getting rewarded for directing traffic from his website to the merchant’s. This is economical for small businesses since the commission is paid only after results begin to come in and the amount is decided by the merchant. E-mail marketing starts with collecting as many e-mail ids as possible and then sending newsletters to them with promotional and special offers. This is considered to be the most cost-effective marketing method.

Blog marketing entails posting blogs about your area of expertise. You can do so at your own site or at some other site that allows free blogging. Put in your website’s URL somewhere and you will soon be getting several hits a day. Article writing is a time consuming but surefire way of pulling in the traffic. You need to write and submit informative articles to various ezines. Details about you and your website will come in a resource box at the end which will lead visitors to your site. Another inexpensive web marketing resource that is gaining popularity with every passing day is using social networks. Since social networks like Facebook and MySpace offer free profile building space many website owners are using them to build their company’s brand and a network of potential clients. YouTube is full of advertising videos of various companies because you can upload videos for free and they will reach a global audience.

hookey22 · Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:44 am

Cool, Ill check it out.