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ONLINE MONTANA PROMOTION OF YOUR WEB SITE

What are you selling Is it the sort of thing people buy on the Internet Target the potential buyers Get a good domain name Display your logo and image Offer excellent service to your contacts

Then do the simple things first:
Your Website is only part of your advertising. Don't give up on other forms of advertising. Let each advertising channel support the others. For a start, do all these things:

email form, of course, on every page response form which is relevant and easy to use product feedback form on your homepage make sure your website is search-engine friendly submit to 10 major search engines tell your staff, customers, prospects, and friends, print your Internet address on your letterhead, business cards, advertisements, press releases, inform your trade associations, issue a press release, mention it in personal contact,
These are the most important promotion activities

check what your competitors are doing submit to all the relevant Internet directories join relevant Shopping Malls, something new on the homepage every week run a message board or discussion group organize links from other sites get an endorsement from these other sites banners on other relevant/appropriate websites product reviews in other websites

offer a small gift in exchange for the feedback update and support offers to customers who have bought periodic mailing of news to a subscription list Recruit Affiliates to sell your product on commission Provide 'Tell a friend' or ' Email this page to a friend' scripts Run a competition or event subscribe to an appropriate List Server and send them announcements Write an article for wide-circulation newsletters Set up a database of contacts with date of next action Email all contacts on a regular basis, but with a way for people to opt out celebrity conference, only open to signed-up contributors Kiosk terminals in your buildings, accessing only your own website radio advertising (targeted, economic, and effective) classified adverts in suitable journals newspaper adverts TV adverts (for the big websites)