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Started a new business, please help me focus my efforts

by tpgrm
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I've started a new business selling a service over Skype video. I've registered the domain and am in the process of creating the website. My goal is to sign up 50 customers by April. To reach my goal, what are the top 5 supporting projects I should be involved in e.g. YouTube marketing, blogging, SEO etc...

Thanks again for your help!

Terry
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Hooper-Kelly
    Hi Terry,

    It's good that you've taken action and have set yourself a specific goal. Well done!

    YouTube will always be a good starting point.

    But - if you could be more specific about your products and target market - we can probably be more definite about other traffic generating avenues you could explore.

    Warmest regards,

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author tpgrm
      Hi Paul,

      Thank you for the quick and encouraging response! I am committed to taking massive, focused action to reach my goal.

      My target market is musicians. Because my service will be over Skype video, I assume marketing via YouTube would be a natural fit. My questions is, where is the low-hanging fruit in terms of driving qualified traffic to the website?

      Thanks for your help!

      Terry
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      • Profile picture of the author curly sue
        if you are selling a service, youtube is a great place to start, and ran a blog about your work. wish you had told us more about your service though, we could be your first customers
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    It's impossible to help you unless you give us more info.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Originally Posted by tpgrm View Post

    I've started a new business selling a service over Skype video. I've registered the domain and am in the process of creating the website. My goal is to sign up 50 customers by April. To reach my goal, what are the top 5 supporting projects I should be involved in e.g. YouTube marketing, blogging, SEO etc...

    Thanks again for your help!

    Terry
    Easy: You go there where your potential clients are. Social marketing, forums, blogs etc. Make a FB page, look for connections, make a G+ page as well, check out sites, talk to webmasters for guest blogging etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author napoleonfirst
    There are many branches in the I'm tree but SEO, mobiel marketing, social media marketing, CPA and offline consulting are some of the things that seems more interesting to me. You can focus your time in anyone of then since these trends or branches of I'm are ever green.
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  • Profile picture of the author kayode10
    Originally Posted by tpgrm View Post

    ..................... I should be involved in e.g. YouTube marketing, blogging, SEO etc...

    Thanks again for your help!

    Terry
    You don't have to go far guy, i would advice you to concentrate all your effort on how to generate massive traffic with youtube.com
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    Terry,

    You should start with finding if there is a market for your service.

    Then you can find other people who offer the same service and see what they are doing so that you can possibly do it better.

    For advertising, you can use:

    PPC.
    Article marketing
    Video marketing
    Create your own blog and put some content there on a daily basis.
    Forum marketing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Hooper-Kelly
      Hi Terry,

      Glad you found my response helpful ...

      Hi Paul,

      Thank you for the quick and encouraging response! I am committed to taking massive, focused action to reach my goal.

      My target market is musicians. Because my service will be over Skype video, I assume marketing via YouTube would be a natural fit. My questions is, where is the low-hanging fruit in terms of driving qualified traffic to the website?

      Thanks for your help!

      Terry
      I've just run a Google search for 'forums for musicians' and been given 24 MILLION results.

      Obviously, most of those will be useless, but then ... you have to kiss a few frogs before you find your prince.

      Often forums get ignored in favor of more 'sexier' traffic methods, like FaceBook. But consider this: every single person on a forum is passionate about that particular subject. Whereas FaceBook or Twitter users are multi-faceted, so you have to drill down to find the folks you want to contact.

      But, on a forum, everyone is a potential customer.

      Warmest regards,

      Paul
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