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how to best spend $300 on my site

by sydneycraig
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hey all

looking for some tips on how you would spend $300 to promote and grow my site.

the site is about a month old and i have almost 300 products listed now.

i have tried stumbleup paid discovery and fb likes via FB, but small $

was thinking to spend around $300 to give the site a boost....

....so, what would you spend it on???

thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author jenmidas
    Ads swap?
    Look for vendors/forum owners that have the same niche you have
    Then make a deal to monetize your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Mensah
      Originally Posted by jenmidas View Post

      Ads swap?
      Look for vendors/forum owners that have the same niche you have
      Then make a deal to monetize your site.
      Adswaps are free bud, he wants to know what to invest his money on maybe you were referring to solo ads instead of adswaps.
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  • Profile picture of the author sydneycraig
    not sure you understand - im wanting to spend $300 on margeting/growing my site, which is monetised with amazon and other affiliate links....so not adding others advertising
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  • Profile picture of the author TheCodex
    Originally Posted by sydneycraig View Post

    hey all

    looking for some tips on how you would spend $300 to promote and grow my site www.coolkaboodle.com.

    the site is about a month old and i have almost 300 products listed now.

    i have tried stumbleup paid discovery and fb likes via FB, but small $

    was thinking to spend around $300 to give the site a boost....

    ....so, what would you spend it on???

    thanks
    How did you do with fb and what were you doing?

    Sponsored Posts or Right Column ads? Also, what was your CPA and avg cost per like?
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick Brown
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    Get someone do do better keyword research, get better product descriptions each about 200 words, Setup an FB Page with good content and do the same with twitter, etc, Get some good link building service and pay for quality links...
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    • Profile picture of the author RossK
      Originally Posted by Copy Surgeon View Post

      Get someone do do better keyword research, get better product descriptions each about 200 words, Setup an FB Page with good content and do the same with twitter, etc, Get some good link building service and pay for quality links...

      Completely agree with Copy Surgeon - your keywords are non existant, so virtually impossible to find.

      I don't know how well SEO will work for you - unless it is slightly more targeted? On the home page I looked at you could buy a Lambo driving experience in Vegas alongside some "sex dice". I'm not sure that whoever would buy one would also buy the other.

      Perhaps a more "groupon" style or marketing may work better?

      I would definitely be leveraging twitter and fb much more (both fan and follower building activites).

      Build a list, this will help you sending out offers.

      Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author TimothyTorrents
    And why not look into some PPC Campaigns? Like Adwords?
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  • Profile picture of the author sydneycraig
    FB likes were more of a tester - targeted people who live in Seychelles and was 22c a like.
    us was 58c but only tested $20

    yeah, i havent looked much at keyword selection as was sort of planning to focus on FB assuming that seo wouldnt work for this, being so varied (id probably wan to use those sex dice after driving the lambo around the tracl !!)...but think i will go thru all the posts soon and redo all the keywords and increase the text description lengths a bit.

    still very undecided on priorities of what needs doing, what i can do and what i need to outsource. i have time and basic seo knowlege but not sure of what to focus on..

    advice much appreciated

    cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author sydneycraig
    the site is confusing? as in too many varied products and not a specific niche? sort of the idea so it appeals to many...hpefully there are enough products that appeal to most people?!
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  • Profile picture of the author madein
    With $300.00 I would go with a good solo ad campaign. There are some great providers here on the Warrior Forum.
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    • Profile picture of the author James Clark
      To the OP. Well $300.00 is not a lot of money. But I got start with that amount. However, it was years ago. What I did was buy a book by Perry Marshall about writing PPC ads. Build a squeeze page and test it for conversions.

      Let me make myself clear. There are many ways to build a successful online business. You ask that question on this forum and 10,000 experts will respond.

      Well the last time I check only one out of 10,000 is the correct. And I'm not saying that I'm the one. But if you want to build a business you need a squeeze page that converts. You can find places to test your conversion rate for 25.00 dollars a day.

      Once you know your numbers (like 1 out 3 visitors opt-in to your squeeze page) then you are good to go, and you can position yourself as an expert because you can talk about testing. And that is the bulk of what we do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gengis
    I would invest it on Facebook ads.. I've had really good success with them, but I really know how to put them together too so maybe that's why.
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    • Profile picture of the author pintara3
      I would invest in some ppc advertising as mentioned earlier.Try Facebook ads, 7search, looksmart, Bingads.

      There are many more these ones are great for a start and they are very low cost per click.

      if you want a hand to write ads PM me I will send you a free copy of a great product dealing with pay per click and writing killer ads
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  • Profile picture of the author WalterW
    buy some quality articles, and do SEO i guess.

    It would be best way. SEO experts could do proper seo campaign and rank it higher and thus making you more sales
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    I would look at content...lol

    Also it is very confusing!

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  • Profile picture of the author sydneycraig
    ok, thanks for the replies. im going to go thru myself and look at the content and seo...will post my first amendment and check if im on the right track hopefully someone can let me know before i do all the products!!

    and ill buy some more FB likes/adds
    and try some of those other ads mentioned

    confusing - in that there are too varied products? or you dont know what the site is? do i need a better intro at the top - like "cool hand picked gifts you can buy from 3rd party online stores"

    thanks for the input...its taken a long time putting it all together so hopefully can make it work
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    I would invest in PPC (Bing Ads and Google Adwords), solo ads, blog advertising, forum advertising, high traffic websites, and Youtube advertising.
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    Originally Posted by Danny Cutts View Post

    that is very true :-) I do like Buzzbundle :-)

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  • Profile picture of the author sydneycraig
    ok, so totally useless im sure but whilst on fiver i managed to avoid buying a stack of cheap links etc etc...read all the advise here!

    but i ended up with this

    ummm what to do but show you guys!!
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  • Profile picture of the author owais211
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    I would advice you put the money to marketing the site.
    There are so may ways of doing that,you just need to spent a portion of that amount in hiring maybe an expert an IM coach to help you with promoting the site.
    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author RoseHunt
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    It's all about knowing what to say and how to say it in order to attracts potential clients, so hire a good copywriter. The right content and some well chosen keywords can do miracles!
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  • Profile picture of the author sydneycraig
    i have been looking more at keywords and now have a few ranking well for longtail KW. not many hits per post, but they will all add up and the organic hits from google is slowly climbing slowly tho!!
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Have you sold anything yet?
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  • Profile picture of the author arojilla
    notsaveforwallet did it with reddit ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dbrohman
    Could go for a good solo ad campaign, I've always had good luck with solo ads
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    I would work out a nice funnel and test some PPC traffic.

    You could easily turn $300 into $600 if you did things smartly, and had good systems in place, and then reinvest that $600 into more PPC ads.

    Not easy to do, however, if it was, every man and his dog would be doing this IM stuff.

    Definatly doable though.
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  • Profile picture of the author onqdirector
    Buy private network links for your keywords and rank your site organically.
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  • Profile picture of the author ToryBorysewicz
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    Remember to monitor and test. Often people spend on solo ads/advertizing/marketing but don't follow through with what works and what doesn't.
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  • Profile picture of the author rickdangelo
    This may come as a bit far off but do invest in content for your site. Hire a quality writer to come up with 800-word "in-depth" articles and then have a graphic artist re-purpose your articles into slideshow videos and infographics. That way you make the most out of the content. The key here is to ensure you get great articles to re-purpose. You can use the content for long term SEO. Best of luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author sydneycraig
    sold a bit but looking at around $100 from amazon and 2 affiliate sites (cj and shareasale) so over 3 months pretty crappy!!

    only gets around 50 hits a day - 100 if I post to fb groups/stumbleupon/etcetc
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  • Profile picture of the author abponline
    find laser target keywords in your niche and do PPC on bing, yahoo, google.
    create a good subscription form on your site and offer something free so people join.
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