best way to market and promote

[philv]

whats the best ways to promote a site like digg.com furl.net delicious and stumble upon? or will the site and content take care of itself...i got an idea going right now for a site like this and when its done i want to make sure i got the best options to spread the word...

thanks guys


sites like digg and furl spread real quick, i dont doubt mine will take long, just want to make sure im ready before i launch

[rob2009]

Any one that has ever touched marketing (whether internet or regular) they will tell you that word of mouth is key.

When I started my first official website (hobojoegames.com - it was a simple free arcade site), I did the normal SEO, forum posting, a few adwords dollars here and there, but I also bought shirts from cafepress and gave them out to my friends. The shirts had funny sayings on them that attracted attention, and on the back I put "HoboJoeGames.com".

After about 1 month of just marketing to my school, I had on average 500 uniques/day, and 58% of them were from my school's ip address. So out of a population of about 3000, I had 58% of hits. And out of the rest of the world, just 42%...

When people see things physical, they remember it.

So how can you take this visual marketing world wide? Sell some merchandise with your logo, find someone in a different region to wear some shirts, etc.

Now this type of marketing does not work for every site, of course. Can you imagine a major investing firm have tshirts with kids running wearing them for marketing? (no.) So choose the right style to fix your site.

To sum it up, make sure people see it and hear it, not just find it on a search engine.

[DrMoney]

Not Rawls, you still got this site?

[DrMoney]

I would do the same, except add press releases, Word of mouth it up, advertise locally a bit. do some Blogvertising, or go to any kind of Forum and just post a Review site Please, or something.

Use your imagination.

[philv]

yeah i was planning on doin t shirts flyers cards etc....also putting logos on my car etc since i travel alot...but how did sites like digg and furl get so big...also...i was thinking about sponsoring events geared to my target market

[philv]

how about prweb for promotion?

they seem interesting

i was thinking about using sex to sell the site....or even get some hotties on myspace with alot of views

[syia]

philv.. what are your site for anyway?

[akula]

how about prweb for promotion?

they seem interesting

i was thinking about using sex to sell the site....or even get some hotties on myspace with alot of views

try to put a break on these original ideas

original ideas are expensive

you don't have neither the time nor the resources to make mistakes in trying out "new stuff"

at least a million times I've explained over and over again how to launch web services

you haven't done the surveys, therefore you don't have a beta email list, therefore you don't know your prospect expectations, and therefore you don't know how or where to market your product

if you don't know these things, you will fund your self an expensive fishing expedition

I take it you assume your self to be smart, proactive and fiscally responsible, so I don't understand why you refuse to listen

read the case studies for delicious: Joshua did exactly what I'm telling you

[philv]

akula

thanks


but the way i look at it is this, its not that i feel i am smart, i feel that i know how to create ideas, my problem is doing it...that is why i toss around so many ideas, im more worried about making sure when its built to spread the word, its getting built because i see all these sites are doin the same thing, and to me its boring as hell..ok let me bookmark a site...great, but it looks like loserviller to me...i wish to do what they do and add something else to it...
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they all apread so fast and so easisly why? because people have nothing better to do than sit on their ass all day and put shit together. all those sites will work, just like social networking, people like to be in control and feel like they are doing something.

but thats my two cents, i listen to what you say as well as others, i just feel that if you have a gut feeling about something go after it...isnt that how most businesses start anyway, they just do it? the guy from virgin mobile said screw it, lets do it...so ima say screw everything and just do it...if it works yay if it dont nay, its just money...ill save it again in 2 months no biggie

the reward is much better than the risk, but the original topic was how to market and promote a site like digg, not wether i should do it or not

thanks guys

[philv]

syia, my site will be like digg.com or del.icio.us

what im trying to figure out is how much marketing do i have to do really or will my site take care of itself with the way of the net nowadays...i know i gotta do blog postings, forum postings myspace etc...i will do physicall as well...but i wanna find out the most effective way to market an idea like digg or del.icio.us

thanks

[rejoice]

look at blinklist... they have done amazing things

[philv]

yeah not a bad idea, thanks rejoice

[rejoice]

no worries mate... i help where i can

[philv]

any other ideas to promote/market a site like digg/furl/stumble upon

thanks

[Bored]

A good way to think of marketing ideas, is to imagine yourself as the marketing target. If you see a bumper sticker with a website name, there is a 98% chance you will forget it almost immediately. Therefore, the bumper sticker idea should be thrown out. Use this mind set in deciding what could work or not.