Best Way to use $500 to advertise

[bauger]

I just saw a thread on how to use $50 to advertise. I've been pondering the same question but using $500. I know some may say use ppc but frankly I'm not interested in that at the moment.

I know ppc is direct traffic right away but with the wrong keywords you are just basically wasting money.

So to shed some light I am asking you fellow warriors on what you may use to advertise with $500.

Bruno

[affiliated survivor]

I think Adwords is best, in general. May be you should buy an ebook that explains how to find the right keywords. You can lose money with every kind of advertising.

[bauger]

Originally Posted by affiliated survivor

I think Adwords is best, in general. May be you should buy an ebook that explains how to find the right keywords. You can lose money with every kind of advertising.

Yes I know of adwords and some of the smaller ppc sites out there but like I said not really looking into ppc and I already have a couple of books on keywords and ppc.

Thanks for your suggestion

[Ewan Cormack]

It's true that you have to use the right keywords to make PPC work for you, but surely this just means that you should do some keyword research first?

Anyway, if you don't want to use PPC, but you still want to spend $500, pay an article writer to write tons of articles for you. You can normally get a good one for about $10 an article so that makes 50 articles.

Set up a blog and post articles to it. Create accounts at all the major article directories and post articles to them. Use article spinners to multiply the articles up. Continue posting to your blog, and to the directories. Socially bookmark everything that you put on the web. Backlink like crazy to your main ranking vehicle (ie your blog).

You should be able to get some nice traffic to your blog, via google and also via your articles on the directories. All the traffic should be targeted to your particular keywords, and you won't have to pay per click - just for all of the work to be done in the first place.

[affiliated survivor]

What do you have in mind. Buying solo ads or pop ups or whatever. Frankly I do not know much about other methods. Paying a ghostwriter to write a small ebook and giving it away for free could also be an alternative.

[CurtisN]

Your question is really vague...what are you advertising for? Your ebook? Your lawnmowing service? Different things call for different advertising strategies.

So what's your product? What's your niche (if you want to disclose it)?

[borischileno]

well I would split it with some ezine advertising, there some really great places you can send out solo ads.

[bauger]

Originally Posted by CurtisN

Your question is really vague...what are you advertising for? Your ebook? Your lawnmowing service? Different things call for different advertising strategies.

So what's your product? What's your niche (if you want to disclose it)?

Ah I forgot that my bad. It will be a short report. A quick start guide to starting a home based business.

[ostrich99]

I'd say it doesn't matter what you spend it on as long as you can measure it.

PPC obviously is very easy to measure, but some other types of advertising are not as easy to measure.

For instance, advertising in a magazine is more difficult to measure unless you are sending them to a unique URL which you can then track the response with.

Whatever you do, just make sure you can measure your effectiveness. I can't stress that enough.

If it costs $500 to make $500 in sales, that's fine. Heck, sometimes I'm even willing to lose a little money on the front end, just make sure you have a backend to make money off of or make your landing page convert better.

Ostrich99

[borischileno]

if you have a backend product, that will show them how to do it, then I say give it away for free and up sell or include a backend service or extension to the product in the start guide. give away the farm but sell the seeds.

spend 80% of your ad budget on ezines that target the homebusiness niche

[Ewan Cormack]

Originally Posted by bauger

Ah I forgot that my bad. It will be a short report. A quick start guide to starting a home based business.

Do you think that it's really worth spending $500 advertising a product like that?
How much are you selling it for?
What sort of percentage of your traffic do you expect to convert to sales?
How much traffic do you expect to get?

[bauger]

Originally Posted by scattermouse

Do you think that it's really worth spending $500 advertising a product like that?
How much are you selling it for?
What sort of percentage of your traffic do you expect to convert to sales?
How much traffic do you expect to get?

Its a qive away product with a back end product too

[Ewan Cormack]

Ah - my bad. I misunderstood you completely

[bauger]

Originally Posted by anthony2313

if i was you, put the 500 dollars towards

article marketing and ezine solo ads

what other type of marketing are you doing?

I haven't did any marketing as of yet. I was just getting ideas before I started out. Good information always helps

[Paid Surveys]

I would agree with spending the $500 on getting some high quality articles written that link into your niche and post them via automated article submission like isnare.com. However if you want my honest opinion i wouldn't pay for advertising at all and just keep building backlinks myself.

[bauger]

Originally Posted by anthony2313

ok i see

here some free and paid ways you can advertise your website

Free Methods

article marketing
video marketing
classified ads
blogging
press release
web 2.0
twitter
facebook
myspace
seo

paid methods

solo ads
ppc
list builders
banner ads
text ads
media buys
ebay
ppv
paid safelist

you can also check out

rushhourtraffic.info

for different traffic methods you can

use to send traffic to your website.

Thanks for the information

[Sell]

Adwords is fast and has a targeted audience. Cost saving is important.

[AaronJones]

Originally Posted by bauger

I just saw a thread on how to use $50 to advertise. I've been pondering the same question but using $500. I know some may say use ppc but frankly I'm not interested in that at the moment.

I know ppc is direct traffic right away but with the wrong keywords you are just basically wasting money.

So to shed some light I am asking you fellow warriors on what you may use to advertise with $500.

Bruno

$500 could be spent this way.

Set up an article directory...about $100 to outsource it.

Spend $400 on articles, again outsourced.

You focus on free ad methods in the beginning, and bookmarking your articles until you can afford to outsource that also.

At the very least you can get your money back or more from selling the site.

Best case is you'll have a site you can add articles to and since your the owner can include any links you want, including body.

Also others will build the content of your site.

[FXDaddy]

I agree with getting an article writer to create some articles and setting up a site to direct traffic to. Adwords can be very hit or miss if you don't have a lot of experience. In addition, once you spend that money on Adwords, no more advertising. If you pay an article writer, you will still have articles around to bring continued traffic to your site.