I believe I have a great product

Maybe u should try market it at WSO

I would suggest researching keywords in your niche and going with SEO. Unfortunately $100 with google adwords won't take you very far.

WSO = Warrior Special Offer. Will cost you $40 to list. Not such a silly idea. It might just catch and get you a couple of orders (then you bump it back to page 1 for another $40). The problem with Adwords is keyword identification. What keywords are people going to key into Google? Identify those and you're more than halfway there... regards Allen

Put a link to your site in your sig file and you'll get better answers and maybe some suggestions on how to market your service. Signature links are allowed by new members.

I wouldn't put a link to it in a post. That would be self-promotional and that is what your sig file is for.

I really don't think that there would be anybody that would think that you are trying to promote your custom made paintings website if you posted it. Post the link or put it in your sig. The advice that you get will be a positive thing, as others will learn from it too.

It sounds to me like you need to create a business plan. In your business plan, be sure to include the following information.

What use does my product/service have?
What type of people/businesses would pay for this product/service?

You should give away a few freebies to see what people say about your service. This way, you have something to put on your site that shows your quality of work, as well as having those people tell their friends about a nifty new product/service.

Then make a website that you can use to build your portfolio, as well as adding content that will attract potential buyers.

Okay, your work is quite impressive. As suggested by a few fine Warriors, I'd do some serious keyword research and then use you $100 Google Adwords deal promoting it.

There's also another free Google deal floating around for $75 in free ads. You'll have to set up a separate account to get it. I've seen it on a lot of blogs lately and also on Youtube. You can probably do a search for it and find it.

You might also want to seek art blogs and post intellegent comments, which should be no problem. Many will allow you to also post a link to your site. Most people do this for backlinks, which is great.

You'll get that benefit and hopefully you can participate in discussions where it will be okay to encourage people to check out your work. After all, painting is a visual medium. Good luck and welcome.

You should market it as a WSO and also create your own affiliate product through clickbank and recruit as many affiliates as possible.

Your product looks great and your site very professional. Have your thought about starting an affiliate program?

At first look it seems like your product is best suited for people with disposable income. So you may want to join forums or websites where these type people are located. One other thing you may consider is focusing your marketing on one specific niche. (i.e weddings, anniversaries, or any other special event)

BKtaylor,
I'd look at either advertsing or contacting the owners (and offering a profit share deal) of photo hosting sites. There's loads now that offer this.
Also I know these are dieing now but I know in the UK photo development places still exist. I'd contact these and again see if they would be interested in a deal.
Here's a last off the wall idea...what about flower shops. Many of these now do a gift and flowers. Could you tie in with these perhaps?

Rich

Have you tried Ebay. I have friends who have successfully sold paintings on Ebay. Also try to get video testimonials from your customers on your website.

Whatever marketing strategy you chose to use, you will either have to invest time or money. No time and 100 bucks will not get you anywhere.

No matter what niche you are in, with a TRILLION or so URLs in Google, unlike a few years back, marketing online is a competitive thing these days.

It takes effort, time, and money to get results and to keep these results consistently.

Ralf

Try different platforms and retailers, like ClickBank, ClickRaffle, Pay.com and others, just make a research on Google, you'll find surely something that fit your needs

Ebay is useful and think the will be helpful for you.

Since your paintings are custom and creative. You may want to think of a more creative way to promote yourself. One that would compliment your product and target buyers that are actually looking for artwork or custom paintings.

In the WSO area, people are looking for IM products and services. They are not looking for paintings.
So your results would be very poor if any.

You're falling into the logical trap of thinking that you can just advertise to everyone and you'll get sales from folks that may want custom paintings. While that is logical, in practice, it doesnt work and won't get you good results online. Time and time again, it's been proven that targeted traffic converts best.

How should you promote yourself?
I say, stay away from adwords, unless you want to lose money. You know nothing about this stuff, so you would most likely lose your shirt. If you must, get somebody who does adwords to do it for you.

There are so many other ways you can promote your business online. Just pick a method and adapt it to your service.
Believe it or not, your custom painting business has nothing special about it, so that you couldn't adapt several other types of online marketing to it. The fact that you are new to IM is why you think it would be hard to do.

For example, here's a product that you could create for yourself...

Start Your Own Custom Portrait Business and Start Making Money in 24Hours Or Less!
Log into your account and watch the money flow in while relaxing on the beach...
Our studio in a box system will get you up and running today!

So basically, you could be an outsourced service to people who want to start a portrait
studio, but are too lazy or know nothing about painting.

They would basically be your affiliates and would receive a percentage of every sale that
they send you OR they could just follow your model and build their own custom portrait service.

You could create a nice IM product with videos and PDFs that would take people step by step
into the way you guys make your portraits and show them how easily they could make money with
you or on their own!

Slap it onto the WSO forum and I bet you'd make some money!

So you see how easy that was for me? Internet marketing methods can adapt to any
business!

That's how you do it, if you wanted to post something as a WSO. Be creative!

You might want to try using software to help with your marketing efforts. SENukeX will take you right to the top of the rankings and Scrapebox is another tool that'll help build you quality links that'll give your site a boost. The adwords campaign your talking about won't take you very far with only 100. You might also want to try getting affiliates to help you market your product.

I would add a page for custom wedding photo paintings then try to use keywords that bring in that market.

Maybe also a page for photo paintings of pets.

I think you should find someone to do your SEO and Ads for you. In the time it will take you to learn effective IM you'll have lost more potential sales than it will take you to pay a pro for the service.

Sorry for the off-topic, but this is pretty inspiring because once again, a little creativity and people are making money in ways I never though possible. Good luck with your site!

$100 in Google is not much. You need to target your advertisement to a particular area (like North east) or better yet, like a particular city like New York, Los Angeles, etc