Promoting Your Website

Promotion of your new online business is one of the things that we stress the most to our new store owners. When you start a website, letting people know that you exist should be your first priority. While we all are very busy these days, we recommend spending some of your free time on promoting your new website. We would like to see you and your new website succeed. If you aren't getting any sales then you probably won't continue paying us to host your website. We do not receive any percentage of your profits like many of our competitors do, they are all yours. Nothing would make us happier than for us to see your business explode and make a lot of money, but it will not happen overnight and does take some work and dedication. This is why we are going to recommend some excellent ways for you to promote your online business. The possibilities are endless, but here are some helpful tips to get you on the right path!

• Online Advertising - To help you get started, Webplus, Inc. is proud to offer our merchants $25 in Free Advertising through Bidvertiser. To learn about Bidvertiser, please visit the Bidvertiser website.
• Search Engine Submission - We have already placed your site in the major search engines. There are many other search engines out there, and almost all of them offer free search engine submission. Place your site in as many search engines as you can and if you would like, re-enter them monthly with new keywords or any new information that pertains to your online store.
• E-mail - If you don't have 100's of email contacts, surely someone you know does. Create a small article about your business, provide the website address to your site, what type of products you sell, how easy your store is to use, what payment methods you accept, your contact imformation, and so on. The possibilities are endless. Email is a quick and easy way to get people to visit your website.
• Chat Rooms/On-line Forums - There are many chat rooms on the internet that you could enter and discuss business and promotion with other online business owners. Create a friendship or partnership with someone who could help you promote your site. Start a thread on a freelance writing site that shows you are a knowledgeable business owner and look for feedback from customers or potential customers to improve your store.
• Business Cards - There are many companies out there that create business cards for relatively low prices. This is a great idea because you are in control of what the card says. Make up a slogan, put your website URL on it, email address, phone number, name, products, anything you do or don't want on there! These can be passed out, sent with cards/presents, set on your desk, traded with other business owners, whatever you choose!
• Flyers - Create a small flyer that contains your website URL, maybe a picture of your website, the specials you are running, how easy it is to use, etc. Then take these flyers and hang them up at shopping malls, laundry mats, any bulletin boards or places you can think of where eyes might land on them.
• Letters/Packages - When you send something in the mail, make use of it. No matter where it's going or who it's to, place your business name or website URL on the letterhead, the return address, or throw a business card or flyer in with what you sent. Even if it's to a bill collecting company, you never know who will be opening your mail and if they are a potential customer or not.
• Trade Magazines & Newspapers - Trade magazines and newspapers offer cheap classified advertising that you can take advantage of to promote your website. If not, try slipping a free plug into a letter to the editor or getting your flyer into the day your paper comes out with ads and coupons.
• Traffic - With the purchase of your site, we provide you 11,000 visitors free of charge over the span of 90 days, once your store is set-up and ready to go just let us know and we'll send these visitors. If this works well for you, we have plenty of other options for traffic that we can recommend.
• T-shirts/Car decal - Make up t-shirts or polo shirts that have your website URL on them. You can pass out t-shirts or wear a nice polo shirt with your business name on there so people see it and ask questions about it. Get a bumper sticker made to put on the bumper of your vehicle or have your website URL put on the side of your car.