How can I better advertise my web design company?

I need some ideas to get my companys name out there so that I can find new clients. I've tried posting some ads, that got me a few responses in the first 2 weeks but since then nothing.

How can I better advertise my web design company?
Have you tried Craigslist.org?





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Reply:The best advice I can give is make any companies website better, then pitch it to that company and resell them something they already have but better. Or look in the phone book for companies that don't have websites and create one for them and try to sell it to them. You are going to have to find your clients with web design, once you have good recommendations from past clients you should be set.
Reply:Try you Digg your website
Reply:G'day v.e.n.d.e.t.t.a's,





A good web design company is a dime in a dozen!





There are more web design companies out there you could poke a stick at!


In saying this, there are hundreds of businesses out there that are still meaning to get a website, but are too scared with the technology!





Unfortunately, steelghost1 is absolutely correct. You need to get some recommendations out there!





You're business needs to build a name for yourself, maybe, check up with your current customers.


Ask for feedback about:





Your services,


Your product (e.g. web design)


Your approach **





**Your approach is a courageous question, but an important.


If you're a very customer service person, maybe visit some of your local businesses with your laptop (I presume you have a laptop) and ask them if you can show them your web designs and suggest what you can do for them to improve their business via a website design such as yours. You might find you’ll only need to do this two or three times a week before you start build a name for yourself.


Remember if you’re to do this; practice, practice, practice your sales pitch, do be too pushy and dress nice… etc…





Try starting a competition and getting it listed in a competition website, but get a solicitor to sign off on your terms and conditions!


www.comping.com.au


www.lottos.com.au





Review where you have been posting your ads? Free services over the internet are great, but things are free for a reason.


Try the following websites:


www.truelocal.com.au


www.dlook.com.au


www.gumtree.com.au


www.cracker.com.au


www.aussieweb.com.au


www.digfoot.com





You may have to pay for some type of advertising in some form?


i.e flyers, radio, internet marketing(google adwords, yahoo marketing)





So maybe try a premium listing with these websites, or that other company with yellow in its words, which I would never recommend.





Back to recommendations, there are two Australian websites I know of that are free:





www.womow.com.au (pre-dominantly Melbourne)


www.raveabout.com.au (pre dominantly Sydney)





They work on your customers reviewing...





And also my very own website:





www.isuggest.com.au





Which is the world's only rating and ranking website, meaning your business will be ranked against your competitive business via customer reviews, but you customers can filter the reviews into five categories:





Overall Rating


Staff Friendliness


Staff Product Knowledge


Product/s Purchased


Time Efficiency





Our company also sends out a package containing products to help your customers review your business via, SMS, Postal and online. It's only free advertising till the 8th Mar 08. With a promotion of "subscribe of one year and recieve an extra year for free, for the first two hundred businesses".


We advertise your business via direct mail-outs, online search engines, charity events and media (i.e radio)





For more information, visit my site. Sorry I could ramble about it all day/night!





I hope that has given you a few ideas and good luck v.e.n.d.e.t.t.a's





Jean (Johnny) Warwick


OZ-E-Advertising – Director


www.isuggest.com.au








Disclaimer: Please seek legal advice before undertaking any plans, I’m just advising from personal experience only.
Reply:Here are some free web marketing tips.





Not all web marketing needs to cost money. Aside from website submissions, there are a number of things that web marketers can do that are free, though they may be rather time-consuming. Other marketing tactics are relatively inexpensive, and are often well worth the investment.





Follow these basic steps to market your website and business.





Free Web Marketing Tips


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Reply:Assuming that you have an active website, consider placement of various critical SEO [Search Engine Optimization] metatags that can


surely achieve a high search engine presence and


increase Internet traffic to your website. These


metatag strategies work well with published websites


at Google and Yahoo.





Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based


website, make sure to fill-in the property entries


such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing


to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can


be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the


Internet audience and their incoming setup. For


example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages


take too long to load up and therefore analog users


will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the


Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL


lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So


before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple


question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or


DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users


for maximum marketability, then select analog users


since 80% of most resident users are still analog


Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages


is best for them.





A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,


is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit


the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a


graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.





Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots


are unable to properly classify textual material.





Placement of Metatags:





A ranking or search order does take place with Google


and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which


should consist of no more than 65 characters separated


by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic


terms, the goods and services, followed by a location


from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.


The placement of a domain name which is not generic


within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your


domain name is a major recognizable brand name.





The second metatag is the "Description" which is


usually 41 words to form a complete sentence which


best describes one's goods and services.





And the very last category - "Keywords" are also


somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural


and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries


which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which


is defined as the loading, and submission of


repetitive words into a particular metatag category.


"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported


to Google's spamreport.com can result in the


elimination of your website from their search


directory.





Good luck!
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