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.
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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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