Posted by B Day on November 18, 2000, at 20:52:21
In reply to Re: Amcrassador--E business idea, posted by S Howard on November 18, 2000, at 19:58:35
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> I tell you it's a great idea, but how would you advertise?
>Gracie,
Site registrations with search engines, Yahoo, "of the day" sites, award sites, review sites, magazine sites, shopping directories, mental health directories, link exchanges, banner exchanges and anywhere else folks will give us a link just so we will go away.
There are sometimes ways to use high-traffic sites like that to get web traffic to your own site. For example, perhaps sell some stuff on eBay and provide links to the Sigh Co. site through the eBay auctions we run.
A mailing list where people could subscribe/unsubscribe to would also come in handy for traffic building. They are a piece of cake to set up. No spam mail though. We wouldn't wanna do that. The list can be used to announce products, specials, news, services, happenings, etc.
There are lots of other things we could do as well to get visitors and then keep them coming back to hang out. Lumping games, Lumping polls and voting, Interactive Lumping Stories updated news from the world of Lumping, a Lumping FAQ, Lumping quizes, and on and on.
We could publish a Lumping calender for 2001 featuring select citizens of Lumptonia doin' what they do best: Lumping in their native habitats. Fill it full of lore about the wonders of Lumping, Lumping tips, Lumping recipes, Lumping history.
Work a deal with one of the online/TV shopping networks to push some of our stuff. In time we might even get on cable with our own Lumping Channel!
We could start with a web cam site provide someone around here would like to be an internet star. They could be seen by millions selling lump baskets online from the couch in their blanky.
Imagine sort of a Lumping version of Martha, sharing Lumping tips with visitors, whippin' up fine Lumping dishes. Shoot, people might even pay to see that.
In other words, do basically anything short of the obscene (and perhaps a little of it too) to get noticed, build traffic and make the shit out of money.
Of course there is one small snag...doing all of this would require ACTUAL rather than imagined effort by the participants in Sigh Co.
BTW, I think your list would be great to market with!
B (He who is NOT a Crass Masher!)
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