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Hello, I have a business set up and I don`t know how to reach my potential customers.

The site is, onestopdeals.com, and  its based upon the idea that struggling small businesses, e-commerce at first, would put up special deals on my site. These deals would only be attainable through my site. The stores would pay using a PPC method . There is also a ranking system, where customers who are purchasing from the site vote on the best deals and those appear on the front page.

So back to my question, how can I reach my clients? I`ve thought about Google ad`s, but I`m a little hesitant. Any opinions/suggestions are really appreciated (in relation to the site as well) Thanks for the help.

• I would say you start publishing articles on your website and elsewhere and get aggressive on the `Article Marketing" front. If you kept up a daily schedule to write articles and post them, you will huge hits on your site very soon ( provided you have that kind of content).If you can`t write
  

• Like Craig Says, Focus on the SEO aspects and keep it long term. Short term SEO is no SEO at all.
  
• PPC can be expensive -- see if you really need it.
  
• Understand that if you don`t to put money, you`ll have to put in time.

• I would say you start publishing articles on your website and elsewhere and get aggressive on the `Article Marketing" front. If you kept up a daily schedule to write articles and post them, you will huge hits on your site very soon ( provided you have that kind of content).If you can`t write
  

• Like Craig Says, Focus on the SEO aspects and keep it long term. Short term SEO is no SEO at all.
  
• Forums, Blog comments and other such online marketing activities do help.
  
• PPC can be expensive -- see if you really need it.
  
• Understand that if you don`t to put money, you`ll have to put in time.

You can do a survey using Survey Monkey.

The first step is to line up the businesses to work with.  Since it doesn't cost them anything if the site doesn't work, this shouldn't be insurmountable and the best way may be to look at more established sites and directories.