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written by me.
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- Gas station by the pumps
- Train station on bulletin boards. Also, near the train times / ticket buying area.
- On trains above seats. Many train riders read the ads as they get bored.
- Public hang out spots where many people go.
- If you are aiming to get younger people for your site/product: Skateparks, pools, and other public active venues.
- Public library; note: many only allow non-profit organizations to post ads.
- Starbucks: they also only allow non-profit organizations though.
- Beach - near/in bathrooms, by food/drink areas
- Smoking gazebos/areas. Smokers socialize, but also read things posted up when they are getting their fix.
- Elevators. Inside them people will read them when waiting. Often people don't talk in elevators, so give them a creative ad to read / look at.
- College lecture areas/classrooms. The time that it takes a professor to come into the room is often 5-10 minutes. Provide a link and some catchy information and soon people will visit your site when waiting.
- School newspaper. Often free, and you can offer cash incentive for article writing. Or just advertise 🙂
- Public computers > Change home page.
- If offering social sites, or help-sites try out churches and meeting areas for AA, NA, and other groups (youth, parents, therapy, etc)
- Banks, 5 feet away from ATM. Often people have to wait for the ATM as someone is using it. They usually stand 5 or so feet away so they don't intrude on the ATM-user's privacy. Great place for ads!
- In small coffee shops. Offer them $$ to let you put your ad up near their menu, register, or where people wait in line.
- Throw down $50-100 to a cafe. Get 50-100 coupons that give coupon-users $1 off their next coffee/etc. Offer these coupons on your site for registration/post(s).
- Get white cups. Make stickers or get a permanent marker. Write a creative message and your site URL on it. Offer free lemonade near the beach. Tell them that it is a free lemonade stand in order to promote your site and it'd be great if they checked out your site on their phone. Even set up a page like yoursite.com/b which will automatically prompt them to book mark the site.
- Like the beach lemonade stand this is even better near libraries that allow visitors to bring drinks in.
- If you don't want to write on a bunch of cups: Do the two methods above, but write your name/catchphrase on note cards or get pro-looking business cards for it.
- Get balloons. Blow them up with helium, and attach to strings. On each balloon write your site link (get some friends to help). Every kid loves free balloons.
- When the kid is happy, the parent will wonder what 'YourSite.com' is.
- Buy chalk. Write your site name on your drive way, parking lots, and entry areas to public spots / stores.
- Find a store not doing too well. Offer to hold a kid/young adolescent event to paint pictures on the exterior of their wall. Buy/create a nice looking plaque with info about your site and a nice These paintings are sponsored by _______.com
- If you are an intellectual community: post historical facts about your hometown on your site in a page like site.com/townname - Then put these facts in the places that they regard to (individual facts at a time). Leave a link back to your site for more town facts.
- If you have a general forum: Offer a chatroom specifically for people in your town. Invite people to engage in the chatroom and learn more about their town, chat with other residents, etc. Some of them will check out your site and register!
- Get sturdy posts/wood (often carpenters and stores have discarded wood they can't sell/use). Get flat, thin (but sturdy) wood for a posterboard. Build a sign, and put it in your front yard. Advertise your site!
- If you have a car, spray paint your site name on the sides. Or get a decal/sticker that can come off if you don't want it on anymore.
- Get paint for windows and paint those car windows with your site name / small info that can be quickly read!
- Find older crowds. Offer support for technology related issues if they visit/register at your site. Also, offer tutorials and web seminars for getting used to basic technology (email, word processors, Facebook, etc.)
- Ask your local library if you can hold free web seminars for people. Get a presentation together and get ready to do some public speaking. Teach people how to use computer programs (basic ones) and use the internet. At the end of your presentation offer further support/help on your site (ties right into the tip before this one)
- Go to your local movie theater. If it is anything like the ones around me, it is not doing too well. The prices for advertising are probably not too expensive. Buy some advertising before their movies. Make sure you create an awesome promo video, that isn't just text and music!
- If you run a media-related site: Find a local music concert that plays local/new bands. Offer them a $$ to play your short ad for your site in between bands. Let's say $5 per ad. If there is 10 bands you will pay $50 for a large crowd (of let's say 100) to directly hear your ad.
- Same as the tip right above, find a local concert going on. Offer bands to speak briefly/recommend your site for media discussions before or after playing their music.
- If you have some hosting space: Offer to create or host a band page for local bands. All of a sudden their friends are visiting the page you are hosting. And of course there is a link back to your media forum/site !
- People hate the rain. Buy some cheap/crappy rain coats (the plastic-bag looking ones). Get your site link/info nicely printed on them. Hand them out when people need them. Good events that people won't leave even though it's raining include: Halloween, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Easter, church events aka Sunday.
- Find your local youth group. Provide them with a forum/place to go to on your site. Even better, create a new forum?
- Get stickers / decals. Give them out in a trigger-happy manner!
- Head to the skatepark. Offer these stickers/decals to riders willing to put them on the bottoms of their boards. Many skaters check out each other's boards and let's say 5 people check out 1 persons board...and you get 5 stickers on boards. That's 25+ people seeing your site link/motto. And perhaps that's only 5-10 people that actually go to your site. Then let's say 3-6 people sign up. Now if 2 people become loyal members you are getting hundreds of posts from them. Wouldn't you say that is worth it considering that usually you'd pay $$ for each post on an exchange board? I think it is.
- Get your staff out of your friends in real life that hold your interest. They will tell their friends. Soon your site will have a Facebook effect - People are joining because their friends are there. Then their friends join, etc etc.
- Buy pens with your site name/link on them. Buy index cards. Put cups of your pens and the index cards next to public computers. Often people need to write something down quick - be their answer. And leave a message near the pens/cards promping them to visit your site, and also to keep the pen!
- Get notepads that have your sitename/link printed faintly on each page. Put these notepads in public places. People will write stuff down, rip off the note and whenever they look at the card they will see your sitename/link!
- Always leave your site open on your phone/computer. When a friend uses it they might be like 'oh what is this Kongz site?'. Calmly say, oh it's this site I run. If they are a cool friend they'll ask you about it. They'll send their text, or email and then later they may check it out! When they leave send them a text with your site name/link saying like "oh hey here's my site if you wanted to check it out again".
- If you are a confident, attractive person: Get a t-shirt that says: Talk to me YourSite.com! - Walk around. Better yet, write this on your back, stomach, or chest.
- Get your friends involved. Make your Facebook cover photo something about your website.
- Post your articles on Facebook, get your friends involved.
- Write articles about local products/stores. Give them the article on paper. Send them a digital copy with a backlink to your site.
- If you own a webmasters/graphics forum: Redesign your school site or another local organization's site. Leave a 'Designed by YourSite.com somewhere'.
- Even homeless people use the internet; in shelters, libraries, etc. Give them a few bucks and a card with your site name/link. Tell them it'd be good karma to visit your site. The more you give, the more they'll talk about your site. (homeless people always share the stories about receiving money if it's more than the usual dollar or two)
- Get an ad in the hairdresser's. Many people get their hair cut and want to read something / look something up on their phone.
- Throw down about $100. Go to the local popular pizza joint. Give them $100 for thirty $30 coupons. That's $90, and they get $10 profit. Make sure you can write your site link on 30 pizza boxes that will be delivered to homes for this deal. All of a sudden 30 families/people are seeing a note saying 'Check out YourSite.com to see why you have a $3 coupon for your next pizza in this box'. Or require registration on your site for the coupon code.
- Next time you have a major site update: Get your family around for a BBQ and use your most recent updates as the reason for having people together/celebrating.
- You have people in your room? Cool, get a cheap canvas or posterboard: Write your site name/link on it. Your friends will say what the hell is Site.com?? And then you tell them. 🙂
