How do I advertise/generate new leads, interest for our online HollywoodCharityAuction.com?
Question by P. W: How do I advertise/generate new leads, interest for our online HollywoodCharityAuction.com?
Does anyone know of any low-lost/free ways to generate leads and get more people to register and bid on our private online auction site? (www.HollywoodCharityAuction.com).
We advertise in yahoo groups, email our registered bidders, blog, twitter, post to forums, but need a new way to find new people who are interested in VIP tickets to TV shows, Movie Premiere tickets, Set Visits to TV shows, signed scripts, etc.
This site is a fundraiser for The Broadcasting Training Program, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization formed in 1992. (www.theBroadcaster.com)
Any further advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
PS Sometimes we post individual items on Ebay, but lately they have not sold and we are stuck with an Ebay bill for an unsold item.
Best answer:
Answer by Joey
There are several things that you can do and the list of resources you are using is far from complete. Here are just a few sites that you can use that can help you gain even more interest and some pricing.
www.PR.com
PR.com is a website that allows you to publish free press releases. These releases show up on the web pretty well but if you want a link to your website you will have to pay $ 30 per instance and they will only be live for a month or two if you are lucky since they utilize viral marketing and as new releases and articles hit, older ones get buried.
www.ezinearticles.com
Ezine is good simply because of their ranking. the site will help you get information and they make money off of the pay per click of your article, meaning that your competition is more than likely going to be on the page as well. Simple tip is to offer to sponsor your own articles. The cost is right around $ 50 a month last I looked but it will stop your competition from showing up on the article itself.
www.sayitaloud.com
I have to tell you, though they are somewhat new, this is quickly becoming one of my personal favorites. All of their articles are 100% original in tons of different categories and you can sponsor your article for an entire year for only $ 55.00. You can also look at your demographics and sponsor top banner ads on other articles for the same price. They don’t haver any monthly or pay per click fees which makes them much cheaper than almost any other medium out there. With tens of thousands of visitors a week and growing, you are sure to get your best value out of them now. The biggest negatvie is how much they keep changing things on the website. I start to get used to one style and another feature comes on board that I have to figure out. But I guess that’s pretty common for new sites like this.
www.wordpress.com
Most people know about wordpress but they are worth noting in here. WP is good and free, however the easy access has really made it a targeted home to spam and people quickly get buried in the archives. You will put a lot of work in only to have it get buried rather quickly, so be sure to use as many relevant keywords as possible to increase your organic results in the search engines.
There are plenty of other things you can do, however, getting a good marketer would probably be your best bet. Feel free to yahoo me if you would like (swapitall) if you would like additional assistance.
Hope this helps.
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