Integrated Marketing
1. Always put your URL
on letterhead, business cards and in e-mail signatures--wherever potential
visitors are likely to see it.
2. If your employees wear uniforms, put your URL on them so every one
of your customers sees a walking advertisement of your Web site.
3. Include your URL on all promotional items you give away--coffee
mugs, T-shirts, keychains and so on. A daily reminder is a good way to get
people to visit your site.
4. Be sure to include your Web address in all press releases you send
out to members of the media. By having it at their fingertips, they may be more
likely to include it in articles they write about your company.
5. Don't forget to put your Web address in your Yellow Pages ad.
That's one place people see it every day.
6. Do you own any company vehicles? Be sure to put your URL on the
side of any car or truck that's out there delivering your products.
7. In addition to listing your toll-free number, put your Web address
on the bottom of every page of your catalog so customers have easy access to
your online store.
Online Promotions
8. Hone your search engine submission process so you can get the best
exposure possible.
9. If you're still itching for more exposure, you can explore search
engine marketing, wherein you pay to have a text ad appear when visitors search
for certain keywords.
10. Launch a sweepstakes that offers anyone who registers on your
site or subscribes to e-newsletters within a certain time frame the chance to
win a free gift.
11. Send out a weekly e-mail newsletter to registered site members
that offers tips and news related to your company or industry with links back
to your site.
12. Offer free content to other sites. It's a win-win situation: The
other site gets free articles to beef up their offerings and you get a link
back to your site and the cache of being an expert.
13. Send a well-planned, customer-focused e-mail promotion to a
targeted list of potential visitors and offer a credit toward the purchase of
anything from your site. Spend time on your e-mail's look and content: You want
to offer value to customers and not have it appear to be spam.
14. Create your own link exchange by asking sites complementary to
yours (but that don't compete) to put your link on their pages and you'll do
likewise.
15. Hook up with Web affiliates--hundreds of sites that all link
their traffic to yours--and get visitors from sites with related content.
16. Get active in online discussion groups and chats and always
include your URL in your signature. (Don't do any hard selling, though. Most
groups frown on such behavior and will think you're spamming the group.)
17. Any time someone orders a product from your site, include a
catalog with their order to get them coming back for more.
18. Inspire your visitors to spread the word for you with viral
marketing techniques, from the aforementioned newsgroup participation to
including an "e-mail this link" on every page of your site.
19. Not sure what your customers want? Try creating an online survey
to get their crucial opinions on how well your site is selling to them.
20. When creating your own ads, make sure you understand who you're
targeting, the goal of your campaign, and how to creatively use the ad confines
to get viewers to click on your ad, not away from it.
21. Use other selling venues like online classified advertising or
online auction sites to increase exposure to your site and products.
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