Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-26 Thread Shane Greenup
While the advice already given should be very useful and, as described, 'provide the most bang for buck', I am a big fan of what I consider guerrilla marketing - taking advantage of every form of free exposure you can get your hands on. One of the most effective in my experience, is forum posting

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-26 Thread Beck Rands
Shane thats GOLD Thank you very much who knew this list would be so helpful? the forum posting is interesting, i read Problogger (fab book by the way) by Darren Rowse and he suggests these things below but its also great to see that it actually works have a fab day Beck On 27 May 2011 04:00,

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-26 Thread Beck Rands
Shane i clicked through to your personal blog :) it did work I am loving your piece on militant atheism Beck On 27 May 2011 08:05, Beck Rands beckra...@gmail.com wrote: Shane thats GOLD Thank you very much who knew this list would be so helpful? the forum posting is interesting, i read

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-26 Thread Adam Rands
Coincidentally the Mailchimp guys just posted a very detailed blog post about their Spam detection systems last night. Interesting reading http://blog.mailchimp.com/project-omnivore-declassified/ -- Adam Rands Iguana2 - Managed Sharemarket Services Email: adam.ra...@iguana2.com -- You

[SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread doogirl
Hi all, Let me introduce myself, my name is Olivia, I am totally new to SB. I am about to embark in possibly the scariest and most exciting thing I have ever done. I am starting an online business (retail), it's still early days for me. I have had this niggiling idea for years and decided to

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Mathew French
Get Your SEO Right. Learn about CPC advertising and how you can reduce your cost through have good web and good content. Get a Blog up and Running. I am not technical but am OK at Writing and we are getting good exposure through key words from our blog. Word Press is optimised well out of the

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread James Hilton
Depends on what you're selling, Olivia... On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:19 PM, doogirl oliviamel...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, Let me introduce myself, my name is Olivia, I am totally new to SB. I am about to embark in possibly the scariest and most exciting thing I have ever done. I am

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Beck Rands
Hi Matthew All the stuff you say here is good and I had not heard of Vertical Response so thanks for that. I just need to ask about purchased lists here. The reason being I did some marketing for a friends' business a few weeks ago who had very little idea about the internet and marketing. So

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Mathew French
Hi Bec. Yes, I have come accross that with Mail Chimp and Also VR. When you set your website up, make sure you have facilities on your site to capture e-mail, as well as options to sign in for News. This is what they will look at when authorising your account. In terms of Mailing list, it is a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Beck Rands
wow! thanks Mat, that is brilliant and helpful, and thanks to Jeromy for piping in too, thats very useful stuff Beck On 26 May 2011 15:01, Mathew French mathew.fre...@subscribe-hr.com.auwrote: Hi Bec. Yes, I have come accross that with Mail Chimp and Also VR. When you set your website up,