How can I get started promoting my e-commerce shop?

You can fill in your website with valuable and unique article.
Be a guest writer in some blog that have same niche with yours, and put your website link at the end of article paragraph.

Active in parenthood forums will also good to build relationships with the parents, educate them the benefits of using organic products for their babies.
You also can make related video that that lead to your website.

Hope it's help...

Cheers,
Amanda

create a facebook page, get Real likes and genuine friends.

put your site's link in your status update. this can generate real traffic to your e commerce shop.

Hmm. I've tried organic carrots, organic potatoes, and organic beef. But not organic baby clothes.

Would you recommend them with a red wine sauce or is the vinaigrette better?

Pretty tough niche from my experience, but it's nothing. Like anything you promote online, SEO, ppc, blog posts, classifieds etc.. There's actually endless things to do, even taking things abit offline.

Good luck

Start writing a blog posts targeting parents. You need to create a flow of organic traffic to your site if you do not plan to spend any advertising money. To do this oyu need good content and quality back-links..

If you had money to invest I would suggest using Facbook ads and set them to target 20-35 year olds who are moms. Using targeted ads like such will give you great results... But even then to gain trust and keep your visitors on your site you should have lots of quality content to keep them engaged.

Good Luck! MSG me if you need help.

Checkout Yahoo Shopping.

Blogging, Blog commenting, social media, and video. If you have kids of your own and take pics, Instagram could even be a great market for you.

Most important, get involved in the community (which is what all the techniques are pointing to). Start getting to know the popular bloggers and the avid readers. Find the mommy bloggers that are promoting affiliate products and build relationships with them.

Invite them to join your affiliate program when you have built up enough of a relationship.

Relationships are key in this type of niche!

I started mine by simply asking my friends to like on facebook and some of the closer fds to like and SHARE some of my pictures. Then it slow started growing.. Try digging some relevant baby articles or really cute baby photos with crazy outfit and post of your facebook fan page, people like to read and like these kinda things.

Well if someone does not have the money, one should put a good amount of effort to drive traffic through Search Engine and Social Media, SEO is still the way, although requires a constant effort but'll provide the most targeted and valuable traffic.

Blase,

Good suggestions! Nothing to add.

Video, video, video! Plaster them everywhere. Do several dozen 1-2 minute infomercials. Set up a blog in your site and start writing about your products. Eventually Google will start bringing some amounts of traffic. Maybe set up an affiliate program, also start posting one item each day that is on sale on Facebook and on twitter with a link coming back to that one item on your site so people can check out. Oh and then I would do lots of video! Video, video, video! Youtube is free. 50 is a good start, then create 50 more, and then create 50 more. And make sure you optimize them for search.

Start with branding your site.
Social proof your site. Hit all the main social networks.
Brand those social sites.
Start creating your content. Use the trifecta (as I like to call it)
Write content, 1 origianl for site re-write for article directories.
Take that content and create your pdf to submit to directories
Create your PPT and submit to directories
Use the PPT for making videos and submit those.

PM me if you have any questions.

Its a difficult work and not quick result oriented..But if you have good patience and blogging skill you will succeed.

Use social media extensively. It's free and will get you all the recognition you need. Join relevant groups and forums like baby care etc...think that should help.

PPC is the only way for you. Set a budget, learn to return a profit, or you won't make it.

To get good traffic in ecommerce site you have to take help from social site and give attractive offer.

Have you tried the butterfly click code i get a great response using it to promote anything you want to get more traffic.Its A Free Report

You could try the free download of IBP (Internet Business Promoter). I use the full version and it really is quite good. I was trying to promote my keywords "dog clothes uk" and it gave me a step by step analysis of what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong

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Well you know how popular social sites are becoming, so you can start by creating a special page for your business. Then you can just visit blogs and pages that are aimed for pregnant women or mommie with babies!

I considered purchasing a site in this niche a while back but the niche seemed a little weird to me and didn't fit my mold, personally. From my limited research on this niche, it is a profitable niche. With dropshipping profits around 30%.

I would recommend expanding from baby clothes and include cribs, mattresses, bedding, etc. I would then focus on setting up an email capture on the site. And have someone put together a strong PPC campaign. Once profitable, I'd run an SEO campaign for the necessary keywords.

All the while, searching for additional items to add to the site to expand, and niches that would appeal to the same audience; ie. new mothers/fathers, childrens toys, etc.

Try registering on some parenting forums that allow you to have a signature. Find some posts to answer and be helpful while putting a link to your website in your signature.

congratulation on your new venture!
Having joint WF is the first greatest achievement,i would advice you look for more free forums to participate in considering the fact that you have no budget for the same.
Also good in your list of to do, is your presence in social media sites,create Facebook pages,joint already existing pages,be active in Twitter,Google+ etc...make your impact felt...and make sure to include your link whenever u make an update or a contribution to a forum discussion.
Good luck!
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It would be quite useful to know what shopping cart you are using. Dedicated shopping carts tend to have some functionality that can help with marketing and getting noticed. While the advice here is sound there are some other marketing areas specifically for ecommerce but we would need to know what cart.

The best advice I can give you on Ecommerce is always, always rewrite the product descriptions.

Wow so many suggestions. And all good useful advice, but you can't do them all.

Choose one and stick to it until you have mastered it.

To confuse matters more I'll give you my 2 cents worth.

Network with people who have blogs in your niche. I have a young baby and a wife who's into organic stuff for babies so I know that it is a massive niche with people who have serious amounts of money to spend. You will make money in this niche if you make a plan and stick to it.

So here goes - I've adapted this from something I read in the war room the other day.

Write 3 awesome articles or pay someone on iwriter to write 3 high quality ones on some related topic. If you pay someone make sure you pay out to get an elite writer to get high quality stuff.

Head over to technorati. It's a site that has a massive database full of blogs in all different niches. Find the most popular ones in the 'organic baby stuff' niche. You want a blog that is run by an individual with regular blog posts. To check their traffic stats head over to compete.com.

Now send a quick email to the blog owner saying how much you like their blog and that you've attached a couple of free articles for them. If they like them they can do what they want with them ie publish them on their site.

Mention that if they do would they mind putting a link to your site in the bio box? Add a nice smiley pic of yourself and a couple of lines description.

It's hard work coming up with new posts to put on your blog so this blog owner is gonna be pretty stoked to get 3 free ones right there.

You'll get a whole pile of qualified traffic coming in pretty soon.

Wow! There are a lot of great suggestions here already and I'm quite sure you've already found the best option but I'd just like to say that it's a good idea to fill you website with unique and relevant articles. Also, you should seriously becoming a guest writer in a blog which is of the same niche as yours and then have your website link provided at the end of your article.

There are many parenting forums out there that you can join. Parents would appreciate the helpful information that you can offer about the benefits of organic products usage for their little ones.

Moving towards blogging route will help you out if you don't have money to promote your site on Google Adwords. Get started with Wordpress Blog and start posting relevant articles as per your niche, do take care of SEO while starting.

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Good luck!

So, you basically are looking for free traffic, right? For baby clothes I guess you can use Facebook and Pinterest. Create a fan page on FB and drive sales from there (getting fans would be a challenge though). On pinterest, pin good images and get into boards that have stuff similar to yours. The traffic is really good there.

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