My site has been active for almost a year now.
I sell baby gift baskets for all occasions, but am currently concentrating on new baby baskets until they start to pick up.
I also make and sell luxury birth announcement cards.
I am getting about 10 hits a day but in 10 months have made just 3 sales.
I have a links page which operates on an exchange basis and I subscribe to google addwords.
Is there anything I've missed that I can do to promote my site without forking out a load of money (since I'm running on a loss at the mo!)
Thanks
I can't see your site so can't give advice on it. But here is a marketing plan for you.
1) Make sure that your web site has been SEO'd (Search engine optimized)
2) Check your Gogle Adwords account to make sure that you are not advertising on keywords that are too wide - for example "gift baskets" . You are in a very competive market and the bid amounts will be very large. Go for the less obvious terms. Fine tune your ads and search terms at least once a month.
3)Design a basket that is unique to you. Write a press release about it and send it to PRWeb
4)Write at least 4 articles a month about the joy of receiving gift baskets etc. Place them on ezinearticles.com and articleshut.com ClickingBusiness.com has stacks of helpful information for you on how to do this.
5)Contact your local social clubs and tell them about your baskets. Offer to give a talk or present one as a prize (with your name on of course).
6)Design small baskets that could be "thank yous" to customers and tell local businesses about them.
Use your web site to display your baskets and put the web address on all correspondance. Your on and off site activities will gradually build up your traffic.
Banners don't work. You will need a good PR on your own site to get good links.
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