Tuesday, May 5, 2009

More Tips for Growing Your Business

Have a contest where visitors and customers submit a favorite picture of them wearing a handcrafted earring (jeweler), favorite dog picture (groomer/kennel/vet) or favorite pose or strut (retail clothing). Ask them to post the video or picture to Picasa, flickr, or YouTube so you don’t have to host anything. Then post information about the contest to your web site and send an email campaign to your current email list announcing the contest. They’ll upload their content, and send their friends to see it, and you’ll end up getting more traffic. Make sure you reward the contestants with discounts or other cash and prizes.

You may also ask your customers to take videos of themselves talking about how they love your product or service. Then upload the videos right to YouTube. Tag the video with your company name and some keywords so you’ll come up high in the search engine rankings. There’s no better advertising than your customer testimonials. This can get you a better ranking in the search engines as well.