What are your top 3 strategies to market your business?

Seo
Ppc
Ppv
Solo ads

If done consistently, there's no reason to fail.

I call it my triple A Business Model, here it is (in a nutshell...)

A1 - Build my Audience

This is my email list (mainly), here the two major facts are lead magnets and traffic sources. So far my top traffic sources are:

1. My Email List
2. Integration
3. Solo Ads and Ad Swaps
4. PPC (Mainly Facebook)
5. Social Media

A2. Develop Affinity with my Audience

I do this by doing live web broadcasts and webinars. I like doing live web broadcasts because it really builds that relationship fast and I can deliver targeted INDIVIDUAL results to the people on my list quickly.

A3. Passive Cash Flowing Assets

Next, I simple re-purpose the content from the live shows and I turn them into sales funnels to promote affiliate products. Works fantastically, then all I do is take that money I make from my commissions and buy offline assets.

Stuff that puts money into my pocket passive. I find offline assets are far more valuable then online.

Overall, it's a simple system, I work 8 hours a month (mostly doing live shows, which are fun) and I don't have to worry about support teams, dealing with affiliates or FTC crap.

My integration brings in the vast majority of my new leads on autopilot and my re-purposed content delivers follows ups as well as my live shows delivers personal results and my assets ensure that I make more money over time without me working harder for them.

Just keeping it really simple...

Mark

1 - Choosing a hungry/desperate niche
2 - Building a website around that niche
3 - Paying Fiverr people to build Link Wheels, drive traffic, and submit articles

1) Blogging

2) Forum marketing

3) Blog marketing

3a) Social marketing

Yep, variety is key. I use solo ads, CPC Broker, blogging, social media, and email marketing to get the word out. If you had a brick and mortar business, you would definitely have to spend money to get your product in there and open your business--same goes for online. I tried for a long time to make it go with free advertising--it works if you have the time, which I don't! So I put my faith in my goals and am now spending $ on advertising. Fiverr.com is a great tool--I just used it for the 1st time today to bring more fans to my FB fan page and another to bring many more views to my blog, which has advertising built around it. $10 spent--let's hope the result is good!

(i) Build relationships

(ii) Avoid hype

(iii) Provide value

Hey!

Activities associated with:

• Know
• Like
• Trust

Simple things...

Llwyddiant!

Joe

1.Search target market
2.Offer value for money product
3.built relationship with customer

A strong combination of Craigslist campaigns, Email marketing, and SEO

1. SEO - Can't complain about free traffic when it's up for the taking.

2. PPC - It's okay to pay for traffic though I only do this for my own products, not sites based on affiliate commissions.

3. Social - Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest each have a large captive audience. Different niches will be more applicable to some than others. In general you should at least be active on a Facebook page and sharing interesting posts. If your content is exciting, funny, controversial or otherwise viral you can really expand your reach quickly. Giveaway promotions are also very effective with social media.

Honestly we don't need any specific strategies to market an online business.If there exists a strategy ,its name is "Organic". Everything should be natural ,we don't even need a single backlink (backlinks will find you naturally), or we don't need to buy a single click or impression

The secret is starting something unique ,or innovate something new out of existing ,or just create a clone of something already there ,but the difference is keep working on it on a regular basis (Most of the people will fail at this particular point aka losing interest)

for example if you want to be blogger ,discover your area of interest under the globe (not niches with top cpa offers) ,blog it,add unique contents (no stuff like spinning or whatever) ,at least add one unique article per day ,then keep on going for 6 months ,i say it again 6 months

And its not a surprise that the blog can make your living ,not just living ,happy living ,so here goes my top 3 strategies

1) Never ever think of money

2) Be Organic /Natural

3) Don't forget Rule No: 1

;-)

1) forum posting
2) Craigslist
3) consistency

for me it`s

1. my IM blog
2. my email list
3. my membership site
4. solo ads
5. forums

Paul

Thanks guys these are great insights. But what is funny is that marketing is not that complex come to think of it because everyone has their own strategy but a lot of similarities.

1) Identify
2) Conquer
3) DESTROY!

Just kidding

Craigslist...
Social media...
Video...

Craigslist
Youtube
Facebook

There is SO MUCH traffic on those 3 sites alone. And I still suck at facebook. Once I master facebook like I've mastered CL & YT, I don't think I'll need any other sites tbo.

SEO,SMM,Classified adds posting

Social networking sites are the best platform to spread our services because these services help us to get direct traffic. There are multiple social networks but for the best work you we should use Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Myspace, kasbee, Stumbleupon, and Bebo. These platforms are amazing and responsive.

also try getting low cost foot soldiers. there are tons of websites out there that provide traffic gigs, like uturk and fiverr.

i have a few gigs on fiverr. i do like drop card delivery stuff like that

1. Niche blogging
2. Email marketing
3. Social Media Networking

1. Paid advertising
2. Strategic partnerships / alliances
3. Free publicity

RoD

I think if I have a big business online I need to build my SEO dream team. It will consist of:

Blog Writer
Guest Blogger
Link Builder
Technical OnPage SEO
In-House Tool Developer
Sales/Account Manager/Project Manager

In that way, they could focus on what they do and to be organized in marketing our business.

Regards,

Ronnie

PPC and Social Sites :-D

mot) write articles
hai) build lists
ba) help people

Lots of good advice here. My 3 have been said over and over. I would just add that quality is the key to success in affiliate marketing in the new environment being formed by Google. Vets can get away with a lot more because they have built lists. Without this you will definitely need to establish yourself in your niche through a quality blog that really reaches your market.

I find it interesting as a beginner, how each of you has a different plan of attack and I am assuming most of which are working for each of you to some degree. Very cool stuff.

Email Marketing
SMM
SEO
PPC/PPV
Solo Ads

1.)craigslist
2.)facebook
3.)commenting on blogs

wish you the best of luuck
David