Internet Marketing: 3 Quick and Easy Tactics
You want to get in front of your target audience online. You want to drive more traffic to your website. You want to generate more leads through your website. And you want to do all of this cost effectively.
To that end, try the following three quick & easy Internet marketing tactics to give your online results a boost.
And a great benefit of each of these tactics is that they are completely free. So, you have absolutely nothing to lose, and everything to gain!
QUICK & EASY INTERNET MARKETING TACTICS
Answer Sites
Participate in Answer sites, which are online environments where people pose questions to the crowd, and anyone can provide an answer for others to openly view. Search for questions that relate to your products, services and solutions, or simply your area of expertise. Search for the types of questions that you believe your target audience would be asking.
Then, demonstrate your expertise and value by posting relevant answers. Where appropriate, and where you are truly adding value, you can add a relevant link to your website, blog, whitepaper or other online content. Popular Answer sites include:
Squidoo
Squidoo.com is a website that empowers you to create a new web page on any topic, all without charge. This gives you the opportunity to prove your expertise on as many topics as you would like to cover — whether 5 or 500. The site is very popular, with more than 4 million monthly unique visitors. The page configuration template is extremely easy to use, and provides you with various options for content generation.
For example, if you are a PR consultant, you can setup pages on PR 101, PR 2.0 essentials, green PR, public speaking tips, advice on how to get on TV or radio, interviewing tips, etc. The options available to you are endless.
And although it should not be your main objective with Squidoo, the pages include Google AdSense advertisements, and so you can either earn a bit of extra money or donate the extra money to charity.
Craig’s List
CraigsList.org is one of the most popular destinations on the web, with more than 45 million monthly unique visitors. In fact, it’s the 8th most popular English-language website in the world in terms of Page Views. The site offers classifieds and forums for more than 550 cities in over 50 countries, mostly free of charge.
If your business is locally-based, Craig’s List may be a great way for you to complement your existing Internet marketing tactics. To get more mileage out of the site, it pays to develop multiple, unique templates and to do some simple HTML coding so that your ads stand out from the rest. Due to the rudimentary setup of the site, it’s really not hard at all to create classified ads that look much better than competing ads.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Ah, I have a LinkedIn account but never knew about Answers. Thanks!
March 12th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
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March 13th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Thanks, Timothy. Let me know if I can answer any questions you may have regarding Answer sites. This can be a highly targeted method for getting in front of your target audience.
-Tom
March 13th, 2009 at 7:22 am
If you’re a service based business then your knowledge is your number one marketing tool. If you know your industry inside out then you’ll probably find that you’ll soon become the person that people seek out to answer their questions - that must be a nice position to be in
March 13th, 2009 at 9:32 am
online marketing which means the marketing of products or services over the Internet. Which makes perfect for today’s emerging era of information technology.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Thank you sooooo much for these REALLY great tips. I am going to use every one of them.
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March 13th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Thanks, Carolina!! I hope that these tactics work well for your business. Let me know if you have any questions at any time.
(And look for more Internet marketing tactics next week!)
-Tom
March 14th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
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March 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I never knew about linkedin answer either, thanks!
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March 22nd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Hi Tom,
I’m late to the ecommerce business, but am trying to develop a website for my exotic birds and tropical fish. I was not aware of the Answer Sites. I’m so glad I found your very informative articles. I will definitely visit each of the Answer Sites. I’ll also check out Squidoo.com and do some more research on Craig’s List. I did list some items for sale on Craigs List and will check out the forums that are available.
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March 24th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Phyllis - great to hear that you are expanding your marketing reach. Yes, you may find the Answer Sites useful. They are a unique opportunity to address a prospective customer’s issues one-on-one, but in a way that enables thousands of others to observe your expertise as well. Of all of the Answer sites, Yahoo! Answers is the most popular in terms of monthly unique visitors.
Let me know if you have any questions at any time.
-Tom
April 20th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hi Tom,
Thank you for the information. I have already registered with Linked In but never got around to using it. Likewise with Squidoo as I was relatively new to Internet marketing.
However, I have received many best answer responses from Yahoo Answers. I have looked at Craigslist’s travel forum and didnt quite know how to put my topic through. There were plenty of foul mouthed members and I felt cheesed off by some of the remarks.
Any advice most welcome. Thank you
Merle
April 21st, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Merlyn, glad to hear that you have had success with Yahoo! Answers.
In evaluating potential websites in which to engage, trust your gut. If you feel that Craig’s List is not appropriate, then check out travel-related sites and forums like the Lonely Planet forums at:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/
Hope that this is helpful.
-Tom
April 28th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
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July 24th, 2009 at 6:39 am
LinkedIn and Craigslist are good website, they have huge targeted traffic everyday. Thanks for sharing “3 Quick and Easy Tactics”….
November 4th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Very Recently, there has been a good deal of litigation by the
FTC against bloggers and website promoters
for not publishing their advertising revenue, or existing
connections with advertising agencies.
What are your thoughts about how this could impact
the blogging community?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I have used Yahoo answers and LinkedIn for a while, they can be good sources of traffic. I don’t like Wikki’s personally and i am not sure why.
I never use Craigs list because its too general in my view and can be dangerous to use especially to your reputation.
Thanks for the insight.
Kevin
November 6th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Какие положительные результаты
May 5th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
i have 20 squidoo pages which are mostly related to health and medicine. i enjoy making squidoo pages and sharing information “”-
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