Saturday, November 19, 2011

How to get buzz going for an online business?

How do I get buzz going for an online community so everyone talks about it? it is not a local site. It is a match site, such as match.com or monster.com. We match capital seekers and capital providers, just like job site matching job seekers and job providers, and personal site matching men and women.

How to get buzz going for an online business?
"If you build it, they will come" is not necessarily true on the Web. Putting a website up is one thing, but getting visitors to come to your site is another. The process becomes even more difficult if you have limited resources to market your business.





Here are some marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:





1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.





2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!





3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.





If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/201...





4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. My website (see my profile) accepts free press release submission (no strings attached!)





5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.





For example, if you submit articles on my Getting Financing section of my site http://www.powerhomebiz.com/financing/fi... you will stand a great chance of reaching people who are looking for capital.





The above strategies are very simple to do, but they can bring in loads of traffic without spending too much. Of course, if you have the resources, you can also utilize pay per click strategies or other advertising mechanisms to reach your target audience.
Reply:Best bet is to get the site listed on all the search engines and directories. Here is a cheap one to start with: http://www.kahmer.com
Reply:Post your business card on this site for free. People will click through your site.
Reply:The reality is that the companies who market the best %26amp; the most are usually the ones to enjoy the biggest success - So it is very critical to advertise as much as possible.





While traditional Advertising can be expensive there are many classifieds websites on the Internet where you can advertise for free or cheap. I have used both free %26amp; paid advertising (like Google's Adwords) with some success some were good others were not as effective. A few people in the know also use this NEW secret website called http://efreelist.org - The offer Free classifieds and allow you to post world wide The reason people in the know like this site - http://efreelist.org is because:





1) It is 100% Totally FREE - There is Nothing to Buy, Sign or Join - No options, No upgrades, No Traps No BS - Just 100% Free!





2) They Allow you to post UNLIMITED FREE Ads Nation Wide %26amp; World Wide - No Restrictions.





3) Ads receive an tremendous response World Wide because of their huge traffic.





4) Once verified - The Ads are Instantly Turned on - No waiting period.





5) Even though I advertise one place their Java Script at http://efreelist.org picks it up and simultaneously posts my ad on 200+ different sites around the world - Again NO CHARGE!





6) There is No Annoying Ads or Banners.





7) They Allow me to post up to 4 Free Pictures %26amp; I can edit my Ads at any time.





8) I don't have to go through Registration crap - I hate giving my name %26amp; address etc.....





9) There are No Hidden Agenda's - Just Advertise %26amp; go





10) I NEVER receive any spam BS. - No bugging BS to advertise or to upgrade!





11) And the most important thing for me is there is - There is No BS or Monkey Business...





12) There is No Catch - %26amp; No Bait %26amp; Switch, Nothing to join nothing to buy nothing to sign or other bull crap.





I highly recommend checking into free classifieds of all kinds %26amp; http://efreelist.org - Best of Luck!
Reply:Creating buzz? What get's people excited about something? Generally, it's something that is in some way unusual or unique that will get people talking. What can you do to create this talking point or viral effect in your community? It could be anything but is usually best if it is related to your business of course.





I would suggest you look at the typical aspects of your business and your target community's business and then ask yourself what is the opposite or something that would grab attention? You should think "in the box" and then go outside it.





Many times something extreme grabs attention. An example, jewellers may create the most expensive ring or most ornate item to generate attention and a bakery can make the largest cake/pie or something to that effect. As a community providing match making services for capital sources and seekers what can you do that is largest, smallest, fastest, easiest, most or least in some way?





As mentioned above opposites also attract attention and can be a buzz generator. Take any aspect of your offering or relevant to the activities of people visiting your site and turn it upside down. Ask if you can incorporate it into your services or offering. It doesn't have to be long term, it can be a temporary event just to create the buzz you want.





Competitions can work too. Can you put together a competition that relates to your target community or your operation in some way? Perhaps you can offer to double the capital offered for the most popular capital seeker. Make it American Idol style and make it open to the public to vote. Have voters register with a valid email to restrict abuse. You probably need some other limitations or checks to ensure integrity of the promotion but it would be one way of creating buzz you want. The other thing with having people register with valid emails is you can follow up with some light marketing or keep them on a newsletter list. Don't just consider this, you can consider many different competitions - just whatever you feel will generate attention and get the market talking. If your resources are limited, you can offer to provide services for free or you can find related businesses that would also want to generate awareness with the same market and may be willing to be a sponsor of the promotion.





Just some ideas to help with your thinking.





Getting buzzed? :)
Reply:put your web adress on your back window of your car, people will see it sitting at the light and maybe remember it.


Any decent forums/online communities for my age group?

NO replies regarding "Adult," pornographic or dating sites please.





I'm 37 and myspace.com is geared toward teenagers and 20-year olds -- not my age group. I'm a mom, business owner, homeowner, etc. and interested in things that my age group deals with. I'm happily married so dating and singles websites don't pertain to me. I would just like to meet some platonic online friends who share the same interests.

Any decent forums/online communities for my age group?
It would be helpful if you listed more of your interests. A lot of forums focus towards one activity (but have general forums to chat about other thins as well) such as video game forums or computer forums.


I just found one called "SyberMoms"


http://sybermoms.com/forums/


Maybe you'll meet people you like there?


That's all I've got, but if you don't like SyberMoms, you can go here:


http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all


and see if you find anything you like =D.
Reply:You might want to join http://forums.grab2travel.com wher eyou can talk about everything Report It

Reply:you know, setting up a 360 on here wouldnt be bad, theres a huge pop of people your age to talk too, or if your more sewious go to google scholar forums, extremely informative and intelligent conversations there too, not like the crud you get here.
Reply:Have you actually tried MySpace?





I originally went on there to connect with my daughter's friends but have found many, many 30s and 40s (and up!) on there. My mom is on there as well now :-)





If you've already checked out MySpace and it wasn't your scene here's two sites that I used to visit regularly:





www.friendster.com


www.tribe.net





Of these two I prefer Tribe. It has a heavy bias toward the West Coast (esp. San Francisco) but I found lots of interesting people here in Atlanta on there as well.





Good luck!
Reply:sark.com
Reply:And you can start your own. Or get a blog, it might just catch on...


I want to learn a dating site or on line community which is widely used in Moscow or in Russia?

Nowadays i will travel to Moscow so i want to find new friends,do you know any online community or dating site to find some girls in Moscow?

I want to learn a dating site or on line community which is widely used in Moscow or in Russia?
multiply.com is an online community, something like myspace.com, and common in Russia
Reply:Do a search for Mail order brides.
Reply:http://www.russianeuro.com/?ovchn=GGL%26amp;ov...





http://www.mymatchonline.biz/dating/russ...





http://www.russianladies.com/indexppc.cf...





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How does poor grammar and syntax effect the Yahoo! questions community?

Here are some questions I found when answering questions today:





(cut and pasted for full effect)





Why was other blogs was friend on my blog but my blog wasn't not????





How can i keep a certain blog "entry" private or allowed only a certain category of friends to read?





Why deleting an email in yahoo list, the next will be opened and i MUST to Mark as Unread every time?





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These are horridly constructed sentences. What do these types of sentences tell us about this online community and, the values people place on cogent writing?

How does poor grammar and syntax effect the Yahoo! questions community?
I hate it when people use incorrect grammar on purpose!
Reply:I find the poor grammar and poor spelling,and using instant messaging speak makes some of the questions almost unreadable, therefore, unanswerable !
Reply:It affects we very bdaly.
Reply:I used to be a grammar-freak like yourself. However, when I spoke with an English major friend of mine, he informed me that the rules of grammar and spelling go out the door in chat rooms and for the most part in forums, etc. He said I would have to deal with the fact that I am now a part of the Internet culture where grammar rules are allowed to be relaxed.





Also, people don't have time to proof-read each sentence they write. Then there is all the abbreviations people use (WTF?, ROTLF, etc.).





He also reminded me that the Internet is for everyone. It was not intended for English-only speakers, so we shouldn't be offended when someone misspells a word or word choice isn't perfect.





While there is a place for grammar, its application as a finely applied science will never be within the Yahoo! questions community.
Reply:Me are not to knowingly!
Reply:Here is an example I saw at Yahoo Answers and a response I mailed to my cousins.....





"pretty much yeah you can even get pregnant not have


sex it you both nude and playing around he the pre


sperm comes out it can find it way to you just like if


you were to sex with out so you might want to get a


pregnant test to see but you also have a chance that


you not i have a cousin that is married and been


trying to get pregnant but has not but it depends i


guess if you are ready i got pregnant with a condom


don't ask i don't know how but the doctor said that he


as not suppose to *** in side with comdon he suppose


to take it out be for he *** so in case it comes of in


side you and could had a hole so if i was u i would go


get check.."





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My email to my cousins with the above question shown....





"I laughed my *** off the hardest at the two periods at


the very end. Maybe with today's public school


English classes, they tell the students to just throw


in an extra period if you suspect that you may have


left one off earlier in your paragraph.





I hope I am around to check out the candidates for the


2040 election."





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Here is another one:





Q: "What are your opinon on the shoe's Converse?"





My answer was:





"There are important and interesting items in the English language you may want to study up on. They are:





1] verb tense, and





2] possession.





Let me give you some examples to duplicate your question.





a] "Are the zoo a place to see the stripe's Zebra?





b] "Why is Democrats always lack reasoning's sound?





c] "Do you knows this horsepower's car?





d] "I is going to eat this crust's pie.





There are some very nice English grammar handbooks, one of which is "The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, Fourth Edition, by Maxine Hairston and John J. Ruskiewicz.





Try it--you will like it! (and you need it)


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America has become an ignorant society because the standards we one had have been thrown out. Our school systems are pumping out morons like a factory. Foreign students will have all the jobs in future generations and the USA will degrade to a third world slum.
Reply:I can't answer for the community as a whole, but personally, I tend to ignore these questions as I find them too tiring to decipher. If this behavior is more or less standard practice, we will see a Darwinian tendency for these questions to disappear. The logic is twofold. The individuals formulating these questions will be discouraged from asking further questions as nobody responds, or they will clean up their act and check their questions before submitting.
Reply:Yes, the above passage could certainly be improved but you should also consider that English is not the first language of many people. If you're going to poke fun of the grammar mistakes someone has made, you should really make sure that your own is up to par. (see difference between effect and affect)
Reply:it shows the age group of people who get on here, the ignorance, and the lack of "care"...for lack of a better word. in my personal opinion, if you can't spell/use spell check and write a decent UNDERSTANDABLE sentence then you don't need to be on public forums
Reply:Bad grammar is my worst pet peeve. It's bad enough people can't speak English correctly, why oh why can't they at least edit it once they see it on the screen in front of them? It irritates me so much that I sometimes won't even answer questions that bad. (If I can even decipher them.)
Reply:It's affect, btw.





It makes one feel sad that so many people don't care how stupid they sound when they write like that.
Reply:I think it paints a picture perfect portrait of stupidity amongst the users.














By the way, you're not supposed to put a comma after a conjunction like you did in this sentence:








"These are horridly constructed sentences. What do these types of sentences tell us about this online community and, the values people place on cogent writing?"








And it's AFFECT not EFFECT.

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I'm looking for a certain online game. It's like runescape I think.. Help.?

It's an online community like runescape... but its not about dragons and wizards and stuff.


I've heard something about it and apparently you can make your own character and smoke weed on it and stuff...


Thats all the information I have on it really.


But I'd be grateful for any suggestions...

I'm looking for a certain online game. It's like runescape I think.. Help.?
Why do you want to use a game where you sit and pretend to smoke weed? that doesn't even sound remotely fun, just sad.
Reply:all i can think of is habbo hotel and second life.





www.habbo.com





www.secondlife.com





Hope you find what your looking for! =D
Reply:terraworld?
Reply:Hello Kitty Adventure Island Online


What is the best dating sight online?

Im a 20 year old male, im not an ugly person but i have trouble talking to women im figured id give the online community a try.

What is the best dating sight online?
WWW.BUSTYSINGLES.COM WWWHOTENOUGHORG
Reply:the one filled with the old guy that sais something about eharmony. i mean there you can get all the best grangirls
Reply:I don't know huh but I'll just give you a sample:





LoveHappens





???
Reply:don't. meeting ppl in person is a lot more exciting. if you can say any of these.... "hi", "how are you", and "have you seen the new spider man movie" then your troubles with talking to women will be over.


How to spread the word about fibromyalgia social networking community?

My wife has suffered with fibromyalgia for almost two years. We have been to a lot of doctors who have prescribed pains killer, physical therapy, and even a mental health professional. She had become severely depressed. Currently she is under the care of a holistic doctor ( very expensive !! ) and her pain is at least manageable. I know that I can never understand or experience that kind of chronic pain and I see that sometime she feels very alone. With that in mind I have launched an online community for people touched by fibromyalgia to find each other, get connected, and share their experiences - triumphs and pain. The site (http://fibromyalgia.ning.com/) is free to register and use. Please take time to visit and spread the word.





Are there resources I can use to spread the word about the project?

How to spread the word about fibromyalgia social networking community?
There are many fibro support groups on line. I'm not sure how yours is different, but sometimes an online group will let you promote your group on their site. You have to contact the owner of the site %26amp; tell them how your site is different %26amp; how it would be an asset to their members. Good luck. You can find the support groups by going to yahoo groups %26amp; refining your choices through support, diseases, to fibro.
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