This is quite irritating, as youtube advertisements are actually playing before and after the video you would like to play. This new YouTube ads have no skip buttong, you will have to watch the whole 30 seconds ads.
But this would be a new channel for Internet markerter to buy some advertisements slots, and this would be limited to those who could make video advertisements.
I am currently exploring the use of email marketing as I know that there are a lot of people in the affiliate marketing uses this. I do not intend to use them for affiliate marketing purpose, but just to keep my members updated, so it may be a monthly thing going on. I tend to keep away from email marketing all this while because I kept the perception of it as spam, but then I notice that some online community are sending monthly newsletter which I am keen to get updated. So will give this a try.
First I will need a good software that supports HTML, if you have any software in mind free/paid is fine, as long the price is decent and I can do a trial before purchasing. Currently I am giving these two software a try for free:-
If you have any experience in this field, feel free to drop me a comments as I will need help in this as much as possible. I do not want to do this wrong the first time.
Marketing through other sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or Youtube would be consider as Social Network Marketing. SNM is still very new as you can see those sites above are only created few years ago and today, there is more and more people using these channels to promote and advertise their website or products.
Previously I have covered some tips to do some of the Social Network Marketing on Facebook like making pages and having a ads banner on your facebook profile. I have been using them on some of my websites and blogs and some proven to be pretty successful and there is more interaction day by day.
I started using full feeds on my facebook page that I have created, then slowly I do only excerpt rss feed because my final intention is to have visitor to visit my website.
It has been a month and although it is not as high as search engine traffic but I am currently getting 5.67% of my traffic from Facebook alone and as my fan grows, I will actually increase this value / or increase the visitor referred by facebook.
I am doing a trial for Malaysia purchase since I got the advantage of getting supplies of Surgical Face Mask and earn a small margin out of it. Previously I have tried various software for ecommerce. OS Commerce was the first but it has limitation because it is very very hard to edit things, but I still maintain the website with OS Commerce. After that I tried Zen Cart, I think it is better in terms of theme editing, new add on module and admin panel is much better, but still remain a lot similar with OS Commerce. While choosing Zen Cart I have tried Joomla’s Virtuemart and CubeCart but each have its own limitation and I ended up with Zen Cart.
My third experiment on online shopping cart is Wordpress E-Commerce, I wanted to try this a long time but did not had the chance until yesterday I setup a Wordpress E-Commerce site to sell only 2 items, which is the highly demanded Surgical Face Mask. Although I will not recomend this plugin for a full fledge e-commerce site whereby you have a lot of item because the order handling, receipt, invoice and quite a lot of features in a normal shopping cart is not there. Nevertheless, I like the fact that it is using Wordpress, and I am very comfortable with adding more plugin to make it search engine friendly.
My first 2 E-commerce site had fail, although not making lost since I could still make the money to pay for the domain renewal. This is my third, and purposely built on top of my 4 years old Classifieds to gain credibility. So if you are interested to purchase some 3-ply face mask or surgical mask.
Get them here: Surgical Face Mask
This is simply an application whereby you could add a custom box. In this custom profile you could add your own banner promoting your website, fan page, groups, or even write a message. Previously I have covered how you can create a facebook fan page, and this would be a great tool to promote your fan page.
Simply go add custom profile box as your facebook application. You will even get a WYSIWYG text box to write your own message there. There is also different type of fonts to choose from. The only down side is that the box title always remains as “custom profile box”. You custom box will look something like this:-
As you can see, I am always promoting my Malaysia Classifieds as I am competing with large companies with 5-6 digits budget that is competing with me, so I am always trying to take the first step in doing Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization for my site. Hopefully I will win this challenge.
