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Fantastic Marketing Technique with Pictures
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on December 2, 2009
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – You hear this a lot. Now-a-days this is more true than ever. Pictures this:
What if you sell widgets and you are on the verge of launching a new product, but nobody knows about it, how it looks, dimensions, color, etc?
What if I go to Google and search for this new product so I know how it looks like and see if I want to buy it or not. What if there are thousands upon thousands of potential customers who all want to know exactly the same thing I am after, as described above?
Enter – the power of the image.
The Best Kept Secret in Self Promotion
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on December 1, 2009
Besides creating off line promotional materials or online (like Squidoo lenses), wikis are great but not very talked about means to extend your online presence. With this article, I hope to bring to the forefront a superb, and often free tool, you can take advantage of and promote your company, products or services you might have.
So what’s a wiki anyway?
The wiki inventor, Ward Cunningham said:
The Wiki concept has become a study in what’s now called ‘Social Software’. With a Wiki I write the seed of an idea and I come back in a week to see how the idea has grown.” www.wikiwikiweb.com
Wikis are web pages that allow people to collect and edit their knowledge about a particular subject – all in one place. All this material put together resulted in an online encyclopedia database founded on its contributor’s additions.
How to Gain Online Recognition by Writing about Your Customers
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on November 16, 2009
You can gain tons of business recognition along with web traffic if you get in the habit of collecting Case Studies, Testimonials and Press Releases from some of your happier clients. In order to have fresh and news-worthy material, you’ll need to collect pertinent information from your clients (stories, testimonials, impressions, stories, etc,). Use your creativity and talent to transform them into tangible and interesting marketing materials.
There are several steps when designing and creating materials for creating good Case Studies and Press Releases. Simply follow them closely and you’ll have awesome promotional material for your web site as well as other marketing materials you plan on displaying on your marketing panoply (i.e. brochures, newsletters, etc.).
Gain Online Recognition
FREE Killer Tips for Offline Marketing
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on November 5, 2009
- Business cards
Have business cards with you at all times. Drop several cards on every bookstore, coffee shop, restaurant or anywhere you can find a cork board that allows businesses to advertise. - Promotional Items
Use caffepress.com or any online store to create t-shirts, mugs, calendars, etc. made with your company’s logo and URL on it. You can also offer these promotional items as prizes in a contest on your blog or company website. They buyers will advertise for you wherever they go. - Wear your URL
This goes hand in hand with the item above; create for yourself and friends custom t-shirts or hats with your company URL on them. People will want to know more and that’s all you want, right?
Wear Your URL
- Yard or Garage Sale
Sell items you no longer want and make sure to put up a sign with the words “Sponsored by (URL of your company” - Post Flyers
Create a poster about your website and post in appropriate places; the more exposure to traffic the better your chances to gain more visitors to your site.
Creative Ways to Use Your Business Cards
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on October 13, 2009
Creative Ways to Use Your Business Card
You know how important is to carry your business cards with you at all times, but are you using them in a creative way? A way that can boost your brand and recognition?
Don’t just hand them out hoping the client will remember you. They won’t – especially if the competition is fierce and the possible client is shopping around. Make them remember you after the meeting is over. Make them take that business card out and explore it. Put a smile on their face, if possible. Then you become memorable.
Here’s how you can do this:
Don’t Read This Article If You Don’t Care About Your Website
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on October 12, 2009
Promote Yourself with Squidoo
Sure you are on Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace and Twitter but have you heard of Squidoo? Well – you should because Google loves Squidoo so you should come to love it too.
Squidoo is a very popular publishing platform and community designed for you to create text about your particular niche in the market. The text published on Squidoo are called “lenses”.
Basically, Squidoo lenses are pages that resemble more like advertising flyers which concentrate everything you know about a particular topic of interest. Squidoo snaps it all into focus – thus the name “lens”. Think of it like the “Red Bull” of the internet.
How to Promote your Web Site in 2 Minutes Flat
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on October 7, 2009
Social Bookmarking Your Website
The answer – Social Bookmarking. Why is Social Bookmarking so powerful and different from other web promotion tactics?
Social Bookmarking websites are sites that organize and store “bookmark links” (links which take one to a specific website). Millions of web surfers visit these Social Bookmarking sites to search for information saves and organizes it. Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website.
Social bookmarking is a growing phenomenon at the speed of a flying bullet. Social Bookmarking is no rocket science and can be performed by anyone; you can easily bookmark your page to 25-50 Social Bookmarking sites.
7 Powerful Laws of Self-Marketing
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Self Promotion on September 25, 2009
7 Laws of Self Marketing
Advertise Yourself
You need to follow these laws if you want to promote yourself. They are not only powerful but necessary if your ultimate goal is achieving success in either your business or personal growth.
It’s much about branding but also projecting an image that will attract other people to seek your advice and take advantage of your personal know-how.
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