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06-26-2009, 10:56 AM #1Aspiring Evangelist
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Need places to advertise
I am looking for cheap places to advertise my hosting site
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06-26-2009, 11:29 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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The cheapest and most effective way would be to start off advertising locally. You can also try listing your hosting company in hosting directories, several company's provide this service such as hostpromoter.com, submit2please.com etc.
Good luck!
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06-26-2009, 12:52 PM #3Support Facility
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Google Ads words is a cheap way to promote your website. Do the keyword search research, so you know how your visitors look for your product and services.
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06-26-2009, 01:12 PM #4Newbie
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What market are you targeting? You need to "go where your customers are."
For example, if you are targeting small business, think about chamber of commerce newsletters.
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06-26-2009, 01:47 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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My experience of PPC (ie Adwords) has been that the hosting related keywords are all so over saturated with people bidding on them that the price is only slightly below break-even point.
Our most effective marketing strategy has been to place well-targetted ads in magazines (be sure to check your target demographics first). Also a standard link-building and content writing promotion strategy will work just as well for hosting as it will for any other business.
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06-26-2009, 03:37 PM #6WHT Addict
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06-26-2009, 04:05 PM #7WHT Addict
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Advertising on web hosting directories and portals along with some webmaster theme websites would be some good places to start off with advertising.
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06-26-2009, 04:07 PM #8Aspiring Evangelist
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06-27-2009, 02:40 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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My most cost effective form of advertisement has been getting fliers printed for free, and then heading to a Wal Mart and handing them out for a couple of hours.
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06-27-2009, 06:58 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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I think that the places to advertise should be chosen once you define the target audience. So I would suggest you to write a marketing plan and to think how to better compete others.
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06-27-2009, 07:41 AM #11Temporarily Suspended
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The most cost effecting marketing will be link building and brand awarness through content writting.
Another good approach will be to advertise your company profile in various free hosting directories.
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07-01-2009, 02:53 AM #12Newbie
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Seek out popular non commercial sites, offer free hosting if they stick up a banner?
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07-03-2009, 01:47 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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In India, its very easy to advertise locally.
We had fliers and handbills all over the city and response was pretty solid.
We have placed our ads in directories, local TV channels and it gives us a good return.
Get yourself listed on some helplines as well and that will help as well.
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07-03-2009, 01:49 AM #14Web Hosting Master
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07-03-2009, 09:59 AM #15Registered User
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Well I would suggest, contacting High Traffic Forum owners to place a Banner or Text Link in their Header and you pay them a good amount.
You can use the WHMCS In-Built Link Tracker Utility to trace Clicks & Conversions if you want to advertise your host.
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