I agree there is a huge problem with designers charging too little for design services and that isn`t the market I am after either. I too have found yellow pages to not work. I thank you for your insight into this topic. It will help me think about my marketing strategies. I`d love to get more insight from you. I`ll check out your blog and books.

Have a great day all!



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BLOG - www.graphicdesigngreenville.com

It might be worth using Craigslist for the SEO value, other than that, I probably wouldn`t use it. Another option is to use http://www.blogburst.com. It is a syndication site that makes your content available to media webpublishers for re-posting...can be good exposure and traffic driver.

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I have found that article marketing and press releases to work very well for my business.
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Nice original post.  Thanks for the tips.  I would add that before you do anything you need to answer in detail 3 important market research questions:

1.  Who is your Target Customer?  

• What are their demographics:  income level, gender, age?  
• Do they have a specific location?  Just a city, or the world?
  
• What do they want? How will their lives be better or different if they buy what your have to sell in this market?
• What are their key problems?
• What do they currently buy that is specific to your market?
• What can you exclude about them?  What do you know that doesn`t apply to them?

2.  Where do they go online? (related to your market)

• Do they have online communities?  Are there discussion forums?
• What blogs do they regularly read?  Find out what`s working successfully, make yours better.  Create a master list of all the great blogs in your niche.
• What articles interest them?
• What videos do they watch? (specific to your market)
• What email newsletters to they read?  Why?  What type of info is being sent to them?

3.  Who is your competition?

• Who are the major players in your market? (the top 10 most successful players)
• What do they sell and how?
• Who is buying AdWord ads?
• Who has the top rankings?
• Who links to your competition?  (and why?)
  

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Great list Aurora!


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When you are promoting your site with Craigs list exactly how do you do it.Do you have to create multiple ads for different cities?


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Craigslist doesn`t allow you to post more than 3 ads a day.


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I advertise in the local market only. I guess you could advertise in other cities too though.


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Some business directories like Jigsaw.com, Businesspages.com will help you to promote your website.