promotion/marketing guru/help needed

Posts : 17 Join date : 2009-05-21

Hello

Are there any promotion or marketing gurus here? If so can they offer any advice?

I have done the following at present (not in any order)

a) submitted my store to google + lots of other smaller search engines
b) submitted my designs to google base (i did this around lunch time today)
c) created and published a squidoo lens
d) joined various squidoo link lists
e) joined forums and have asked and answered questions
f) joined zazzle fan clubs and have thanked persons who were kind about my art and also joined my fan club
g) twitter, quite cool but only have a small amount of followers
h) facebook, ok this I have tried but my friends will never buy anything (they admire the art though)

The problem is I need conversions and am not sure what else to do

any advice?

cheers

Subject: Re: promotion/marketing guru/help needed Tue May 26, 2009 12:46 am

I have achieved the best results in driving traffic to my shop(s) with a blog.

I have a freebie site (Incredimail stationary) that has been up a few years and has good traffic. I stopped sending a newsletter a couple of moths ago and made a wordpress blog combining news about new IM letters with shop news. I have made pages for all my shops and the sections.

You wouldn´t believe the people that look for IM stats, find the blog - and get sidetracked to my shops! best idea I ever had. Very Happy

Here´s the blog: http://artisticdesign.wordpress.com/

I have some traffic from three Squidoo lenses - again ones that do not at first sight advertise the shop:

http://www.squidoo.com/designing_tshirts
http://www.squidoo.com/seo_for_dummies
http://www.squidoo.com/artistic-fantasy

And last but not least I have a domain where I advertise all my shops - the best results from there are from referrals over the wishads.

http://www.tshirt-total.com

All of these could do a lot better if I didn´t spend so much time on designing and more on marketing ...

Hilly

Posts : 17 Join date : 2009-05-21

that wordpress blog looks very good.