Marketing

Marketing ...

DesignByJudith believes that if you are prepared for your website's "Opening Day", you'll be equipped for your website's future. Here are some marketing tips:

Send an announcement to colleagues and friends, announcing the new website address.
Have your website printed on your business cards.
Update all your advertising materials with your site's address.

Attracting Business on the Web

There are a few different ways to attract your market, all with their own appropriate time and place so you will need to strategize and develop a marketing plan.

It can take a few months to begin getting reciprocal links from other related sites, so make this your priority when you present your website. You'll need to communicate with other sites to get reciprocal links, you want to focus on your time on email discussion lists, newsgroups, Bulletin Board/Classified ads, mailing lists and commercial online services to get immediate notice.

These are "instant" marketing tools that will generate business inquiries in a matter of days. the marketing tool, will bring you a lot of contacts who want to joint venture with your product (or your company). While we are talking about joint ventures, you should always be thinking about who you could contact to do joint ventures with. But you have to have a proven winning sales strategy before you do this or you are wasting your time. Be patient. it will not happen overnight but when it does, it happens very, very fast!

You will that as time goes on, other sites in your industry will put links to yours without you even knowing. As you grow, you will get email from people wanting to exchange links with you and others who might want to distribute your products in mass quantities. You will be surprised who contacts you once you are well known, but realize that this takes time and nothing but time. You will soon find out that when your online business starts to take off, you may not be able to keep up with the pace. That's why you must plan from the beginning.