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Marketing during the economic recession

Enam — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:05:39 +0000

The ever worst economic recession is affecting economic life of all of us. Now we need to struggle more to survive in this recession hit competitive market. So we must seek all options to save every Penny. This is true for our marketing plan as well. Particularly small businesses must cut off their budget for advertising campaign for the shake of their existence.

There is no alternate of online marketing during this economic recession period. Because online marketing is cheaper than traditional offline marketing methods and not affected by economic recession. There are a lot of methods available for online marketing like Pay Per Click, Pay Per Impression, Advertising on Free Online Classifieds, Sponsor ads on online newsletters, marketing on online social media (this involves promoting your products on online forums, social networks, bookmarking sites etc), email marketing and finally SEO etc. Not all methods are suitable for every product or service. You need to test which methods will best fit for your products or services.

I am providing online marketing solutions for small businesses for long time. I provide manual online marketing and don’t use any software. I have a team of hard working crews. Visit my manual online marketing service website to learn more about my services.

Using twitter.com as a marketing tool

Enam — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:13:23 +0000

I am using twitter for a while. My profile is http://twitter.com/enamul . Feel free to follow me. I have seen a lot of articles using twitter as a marketing tool. I didn’t try seriously yet in that way. Twitter.com is within 400 most popular sites on the net and getting much more visitors day by day. It’s expected that twitter may be used for marketing your service or product. The import part of twitter marketing is to get targetted followers. The more followers you have the more powerful you are on twitter.

The concept of the twitter is “What are you doing?” But it has gone far away from this. People now use twitter to post some tips, asking for suggestions, sharing ideas, news and so on.

Following are some tips I have found on the net to get maximum visitors from twitter:

1. Share Some Interesting Things happening in Your Life. Post at least one twit dail. The more you twit the more followers you will get. But don’t try to send hundreds of twits daily. You may get banned.

2. Search for people your niche area and follow them. Don’t follow too many people suddenly. You may get banned for blindly following others.

3. Join Professional and Social Networking Sites Put link to your twitter page and request others to follow you.

4. Ask for help or direction to your twitter friends in an area where you need clarification – people wants to show their expertise and knowledge to others.

5. Don’t just post tweets, get involved with conversations – The more involved you are, the more friends that you will establish.

6. Follow back your followers unless he is a spammer.

7. Post some useful tips for your niche on regular basis. People who are looking for some tips or ideas for your niche will follow you.

Follow me on twitter.

Three successful years of freelancing

Enam — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:55:41 +0000

I have successfully completed three years as a freelancer. I started on ScriptLance.com. I won the first project on ScriptLance.com on 10/5/2005 at 20:26 EST.

I started with a veiw to get programming jobs as I know Visual C++ and some other programming languages. Eventually I have switched to internet marketing. Now I no longer offer programming as I can’t manage time for programming. At present I am offering online advertising, search engine optimisation and data entry services.

Although I started on ScraiptLance, now-a-days I get projects from various sources and I no longer participate in bidding on ScrptLance.

Craigslist ad posting service is the single most service which brings me a lot of fortune. I am trying to expand my services by offering new services day-by-day.

By this time my team has also grown. Initially I started alone. Then only a few guys started to work with me. Now about 10 guys work with me. I am considering to expand my team further.

I express my heartfelt gratitude to my valued clients who used my services. A lot of thanks to all who provided me valuable information and suggestions time to time.

I hope more young guys from Bangladesh will start working as a freelancer like me and earn some foreign currency for the country.

Country wise list of popular online free classifieds

Enam — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:27:19 +0000

craigslist and kijiji are two most popular network of online free classifieds worldwide. Other popular free classifieds networks are gumtree, olx, kugli, locanto, franglo etc. backpage is very popular in the USA but backpage doesn’t has network outside USA except a few sites in Canada

Following is a country-wise list of popular online free classifieds:

USA: craigslist.org, kijiji.com, backpage.com . More free calssifieds of USA.
Canada: craigslist.ca, kijiji.ca, Classifieds.Ca . More Canadian free classifieds.
UK: gumtree.com, craigslist.co.uk, adzooks.co.uk, adoos.co.uk. More free classifieds on UK.
Australia classifieds: gumtree.com.au, craigslsit.com.au, ozfreeonline.com
India classified ad posting: quikr.com, craigslsit.co.in, kugli.com, webcosmo.com, locanto.com, vivastreet.co.in, olx.in
Japan classified advertising: kijiji.co.jp, craigslist.jp
Spain local classified websites: loquo.com, spain.franglo.com,
New Zeland classified websites: gumtree.co.nz, auckland.craigslist.org
Singapore free online classified sites: www.gumtree.sg, craigslist.com.sg, olxsg.com
Italy classified advertising: www.kijiji.it, italy.franglo.com, italyclassifieds.net
French local classifieds: www.kijiji.fr, frenchclassified.com, paris.franglo.com
Germany classifieds: kijiji.de, locanto.com
South Africa classified sites: gumtree.co.za, orangepages.co.za, youpost.co.za
China online classifieds : baixing.com, shanghai.craigslist.com.cn, www.locanto.cn
Philippines free classifieds: manila.craigslist.com.ph, classifiedsph.com
Russia : www.slando.ru, ru.anuncioo.com
Poland : www.gumtree.pl
Hong Kong: gumtree.com.hk, hongkong.craigslist.org
Thailand: craigslist.co.th
The Netherlands: www.marktplaats.nl, amsterdam.craigslist.org
Mexico: craigslist.com.mx, www.mexonline.com, mexico.zeezo.com
Brazil: rio.en.craigslist.org, redeparede.com, brazzilads.com
Argentina: buenosaires.en.craigslist.org,
Switzerland : zurich.en.craigslist.ch, market.local.ch/en, www.kijiji.ch
Belgium: www.kijiji.be
Austria: kijiji.at
Czech Republic: www.slando.cz
Slovakia: www.slando.sk
Hungary: www.slando.hu
Ukraine: www.slando.com.ua
Turkey: www.kijiji.com.tr, www.turkeyclassifieds.com
Taiwan: www.kijiji.com.tw, tw.anuncioo.com

Feel free to share popular free classifieds of other countries here.

#1 on Google’s SERP

Enam — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:32:48 +0000

google search results for

Wow! I am #1 on google’s search results page for the search phrase “ad posting service“. It’s a great achievement. Click on the image at left to see actual search results on google.

Content is the king. No fancy design is required for SEO. Don’t bother for PR. Only a few backlinks form related sites are enough for reaching first position on SERP. I didn’t use any graphics on my site except my own photo. My site is also on google’s first or second page for some craigslist and free classifieds related search terms. I am lucky to get most of my visitors form search engines. And most importantly, conversion rate for the traffic from search engines (particularly google) is very high as compared to traffic from other sources.
So try to put related quality contents on your site and get some quality backlinks. Reaching google’s first page is not tough unless you are competing for some highly valued terms.

I am not offering full SEO service yet although I am learning SEO basics and offering link building service. Now I am confident that I can offer SEO service professionally. I was doing SEO for my client’s site gotengines.com on experimental basis for last few months. It’s now on google’s first page for “used engines” (without quote marks). I am preparing myself to offer SEO service very soon.

Craigslist like sites for Canada

Enam — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:23:11 +0000

Like craigslist.org in USA, craigslist.ca is also very much popular in Canada. Craigslist has implemented phone verification for Canadian cities too. So it’s time to seek other sites like craigslist for Canada. Following are some popular online free classifieds sites of Canada I frequently use:

kijiji.ca : In Canada Kijiji is as popular as craigslist. In some cities kijiji is even more popular than craigslist. Kijiji has many more Canadian cities on it’s list than craigslist.ca
backpage.com : Although very popular in USA, backpage has only a few Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal
Red Leaf Ads: New but nice free ad site. Try it.
http://www.adpost.com/ca/
Tradepoint : Tradepoint is Canada’s free online classifieds network for used autos, cars, used trucks, boats, computers, Canadian real estate, antiques, furniture, electronics and much more.
Oodle free classifieds : free classified site as well as free classified search engine.
http://www.cdncc.com/
Classifieds.Ca a premiere free classifieds ad network of Canada
Adoos Canada
Canadaclassify.com Canadian Online Local Classifieds Service
BuyAndSell.Canada - Canada’s National Free Classified Ad Network.
btcanada.com – Free Ads – Canada Free Classifieds
OLX Canada
http://www.sellitbuyit.ca/
http://www.classified.ca/
Canada’s bargain city
Kugli local classifieds
Hoobly free local online classified site.
Locanto Free Canadian Classified Ads.
Post an AD is a FREE Online Classifieds Website for Canada.

Craigslist money making ideas

Enam — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:10:23 +0000

craigslist.org is the largest free advertising venue on the internet. Millions of people are doing trade on craigslist. It’s free both for the buyers and the sellers. There are a lot of ways to make money from craigslist.org. Some people browse craigs list to spend their leisure time, some people to find out home business opportunity, some other to find out their soulmates. You can make money from these floks if you can advertise properly on craiglist.

Following are some ideas for making money from craigslist.org:

Sell your old un-used household items like old furniture, dress, toys etc. on craigslist.
Advertise your affiliate links on craigslist. Don’t forget to hide your affiliate link with free URL redirection or better with your own domain. Affiliate links normally will not work directly on craigslist.
Advertise your service on relevant section of craigslist to get some more clients.
Collect emails from craigslist and email people offering your service. Be aware of being blacklisted due to spamming.
Post ads for other people. Craigslist posting service has good market demand. You have learn the tricks of craigslist posting first very well to offer ad posting service.
Make phone verified accounts and sell those. Only US residents can avail this option.
Teach people how to post on craigslist successfully.
Write eBooks and sell on craiglist. You can write eBooks on a lot of subject like Photoshop tutorial, how to make money online, affiliate marketing, credit repair etc. Quality eBooks are sold well on craigslist.org.
Search gigs section of CL. A lot of people post ads on this section for people to do specific tasks. Contact them for the jobs that you can do.
Advertise on craigslist for fund raising for charity.
…. [please list your craigslist money making ideas as comments] ….

Marketing of a new website

Enam — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:45:53 +0000

Marketing of a new website is not an easy task. A lot of new websites are coming into existetance everyday. Only a few of them can catch significant amount of traffic. While quality content is a must for an website to be popular, a good website with unique quality contents may fail to catch expected amount of traffic due to lack of proper marketing strategy.

Follow are some marketing strategey which should be considered to market a new website:

Advertising on free classified sites like craigslsit, backapge, kijiji etc.
Exchange links with relevant sites. Don’t exchange links with spammy sites.
Bookmarking on social bookmarking sites like digg.com, stumbleupon.com, delicious.com etc
Blogging on free blogging sites like wordpress.com, blogger.com.
Comment posting on relevant blogs
Posting on forums
Directory submission
Offering affiliate program
Advertising on local newspaper, TV, billboard and other off-line media
Submitting press release
Article submission
Sponsoring news letter
Marketing through social networking sites like MySpace.com, facebook.com etc.
Advertising on Google’s AdWord and similar other advertising network.
Search Engine Optimization
Publish RSS feeds and submit your RSS feeds on feed directories.
Publish videos on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
Promote on Yahoo Answers
Make a custom 404-error page so that you don’t miss any traffic. You can provide a link back to your main website or directly redirect to your home page.
Put a “Tell a Friend” feature on your site so that anyone can easily refere other people to your site.
Promote on Yahoo Groups and google groups
Offer free news letter.
Buy traffic
Participate in traffic exchange programs
Put your website address on your business cards, brochures and flyers etc.
Use twitter.com to send regular updates of your site.
Make a lense on squidoo.com