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Any ideas on free or cheap online advertising?

I have just opened a webstore and am having pathetically low traffic and sales. I was wondering if anyone has any creative marketing ideas that are free or very very reasonable? Sunk most of my resources into the website etc so I really need to get the word out there in a cheap way. Thanks

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2. Free traffic from search engines takes an investment of much SEO labor and months to get a return, search for the term backlinks and doFollow to find sources of links, each with tiny rank boosting value. You can find sites that will link to you for a price on webmaster forums, though not search enfine approved, many high ranked sites have unlikely "blogroll" links to them. Pay Per Click advertising produces immediate traffic, at a known per visitor premium cost, the more obscure your product niche is, the cheaper the ad prices will tend to be. Once costing a nickel, these days $0.25 to $1.00 is a common PPC price range. The big boys will purchase blocks of ad impressions for thousands, in part for branding, some buyes don't come around until they have seen your name a few times. You can play like the big boys by placing banner ads on a site that closely matches your store's subject matter, buysellads.com is a brokerage that matches sites to buyers, use the search filters and max cost slider to narrow the field of candidates. (Some site traffic figures may be pumped up by artificial means) The big time well funded store know through experience the value of a new prospect ad of a customer, and budget their advertising accordingly, knowing the repeat buying patterns of the average customer they will even take as loss on the first sale, knowing i the long run it pays off. Advertising costs are just a part of business. You know selling through Amazon costs some monthly fee + 10% - 5% of the sale, but provides the marketing machinery...
3. - Search engine optimization, takes time and effort but if successful can be extremely rewarding. - online fliers and catalogs, send to your friends and any one who might like it. - build a mailing list and send newsletters - have a cheap but good brochure or flier to get people to know - start a facebook page for your site. get your friends to become fans. These guys could help you out with the brochure, catalog, newsletter, graphics. they're rates are competitive. www.hugepotentialproducts.co.cc Good luck
4. Hi, Yes there's tons such as Merchant Circle. If you send me your email. I'm actually compiling a complete list of free resources/advertising. When I'm done I can get it to you! Best wishes for a prosperous 2010! Emmie emmie@ProgressiveBizNeeds.com