What are the key elements of marketing a website selling urban, trendy t-shirts?
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First, find some trendy urbanites. Seems like they all have Blogs or Webcomics.  (first three sources)\n\nIndie Click might be a good advertising channel (check out the ads ontop of Diesel Sweeties, 3rd Source below)\n\nOr purchase Yahoo! or Google ads.  This could work especially well if your shirts are filled with clever zietgeist keywords.
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you need to first identify who is your target market,\nsuch as age group,and many more variables, then you can establish a strategy to target that specific group,with\nwhat they identify with in correlation to your product.\nYou know this is very basic stuff, maybe you should hire a firm to help you along.
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Here are some tips:\n\n1. Check the ad copy and landing pages on your ads (or if you have 100s of ads, at least the top 20) - is the ad copy specific to the search phrase? Is the landing page enticing, and does it have any call to action (buy now, subscribe or whatever your call to action is). \n\n2. Analyze your results. Put in an excel spreadsheet your raw PPC advertising sales data, and cost data. What keywords bring in the most revenue? What keywords cost the most? If the keywords that cost the most are not bringing in enough traffic, ask yourself why? Is it the landing page? Or are there ways you can lessen the cost and get the same results?\n\n3. Check your brand. Scan the list of your keywords for your brand name (including misspellings). Check what fraction of your sales comes from those brand PPC keyword. These are sales that come from customers who already know you and seek you out. Maximize this by improving your non-PPC marketing efforts.\n\n4. Evaluate your phrase lists, and make sure that it covers the entire breadth of your products and services. \n\n5. Compare your general terms vs. specific terms. General terms (e.g. "diamonds") may cost more - but you may need to be on top of that list and pay higher so buyers looking for this term sees you. This is for top-of-mind awareness. Specific terms (e.g. "4 karat yellow diamonds) often convert better and enjoy lower PPC rate than more general terms. Analyze how important getting good rankings for your general terms, and what is the most efficient combination of general vs. specific terms.
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1. Think of something to attract the potential buyers. Be it a huge discount or dazzling ads/commercials.\n2. Think of increasing the varieties of your buyers.\n3. Think of increasing the varieties of your products.\n4. Think of convenient payment plans for your buyers.\n5. Think of a strategy to beat your competitors.\n\nAll the above needs close observation and careful plans.
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(1) Put something exciting (plus rudimentary contact info only if you don't mind?) in the top bar to the right of the branding logo;\n\n(2) make any graphics load faster;\n\n(3) if you have more than one page, then limit the graphics on the first page and grab the customer's attention there by a quick load to make them stay, and give them easy and quick navigation, at the top of each page, to other pages: limited graphics on each page, for quick loading (maybe some sort of thumbnails that could be clicked for larger detailed images?)
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First I need to know what the product is, run ads in the newspapers, and radio.  If local TV station would try that. Al lot of times word of mouth is the best selling tool you can get.
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Out of all things - I would say the BEST method for internet marketing is to have your website keywords and content match up well so that you are listed right at the TOP of the first page of search results for Google, Yahoo and any other search engines. \n\nHands down - that is the BEST way to market for FREE!\n\nSubmitting your site doesn't necessarily mean you will get high on the search engines though.  So make sure that your website is optimized so that the search engines "like" you.  You need to have your webpage content (the words typed on the actual webpage that everyone reads) be relevant to the key words that you use.  Also use keyword phrases - besides just single words.  For example: if you sell baby clothes - you wouldn't just put single words like   "   Carter,Gymboree,Childrens,Place  "\n\nYou could put phrases that you believe people may use to look up what you are selling - so for baby clothes you could put...  "   Gymboree boys clothes,Gymboree Baby outfits,Children's Place infant clothes,Carters Baby clothing  " etc...  make all the variations of the above phrases with all the name brands you would sell.  Each phrase is typed with a coma separating each new phrase - No quotes would be included.\n\nThe better your key words match up to your webpage content the higher your rankings can become.  Also create a link section on your website with only RELEVANT links.  Not links to anyone who will swap them with you.. but websites that have to do with childrens items. (or what ever you are actually selling) THis will help you to be higher on the page ranking too.
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IF YOU ARE PLANING STRATEGY FOR SMART MARKETING:What you should be looking out for is(1)\nCorporate Identity: You should be looking out for the unique visual reminders, symbols, or separate it from the others it’s corporate name, product/services, trade characters took out for the business environments. Structures, then see to the logos, slogans, graphic designs, colours, price.Sold variable cost per unit, contribution. Fixed expense then profit. Product packaging delivery all this and a host of other attributes make the product the best or worst of colours (David Bernstein) describes identity as a planned assembly of visual cues by which the customer can recognise a Company and discriminate one company form another and which maybe used to represent or symbolize the company.
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The first step is to prepare a media kit detailing your demographics (the more stats, the better in terms of breakdown of who your audiences are), your rate card and why advertisers should advertise on your site.\n\nHere are what advertisers are looking for when choosing sites to use for their advertising:\n\n1. Who are the visitors = It is important for advertisers to know whether your site's visitors are what they are after. More than just traffic numbers, they want to know whether they can get targeted traffic from your website. They want to know whether the customers they want are visiting your site.\n\n2. Traffic levels = Advertisers will often ask you how many visitors/pageviews/uniques you get in a month. Some will go to Alexa.com to check your traffic standing (not accurate, but many see it as a good guide). If you are selling banners through CPM rates for example, they will normally ask you how long it will take you to show the 20,000 ad impressions they ordered (or how many they ordered).\n\n3. Your rates = how comparable your rates are with others.\n\n4. Customer service = advertisers want QUICK support from sites they want to advertise on. You need to be quick to respond to their emails, whether inquiring for your media kit or asking your ad rates or checking the performance of their ad campaigns.The key to understand is that advertisers will always look for metrics to help them gauge the ROI they can get from advertising in your website. If they don't think your site will not give them a good ROI, they will not advertise or renew their advertising on your site\n\n5. Monitor campaign performance = advertisers want to see how their campaigns are doing on your site, so they can make decisions fairly quickly whether to change the creative, pause the campaign or increase the campaign. You need to be able to provide them with real time statistics. We use phpadsnew and it is just great (and FREE!).\n\nAside from selling advertising directly on your site, you also have these options:\n\n1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services. \n\nBurst Media http://www.burstmedia.com\nFastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com\nAdvertising.com. http://www.advertising.com\nTribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com \n\n2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system. \n\nGoogle Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/\nYahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/ \nIntellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm \nQuigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm \nIndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com \nCommission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com\nKanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html\nClicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php \nContextweb http://www.contextweb.com/ \nBidclix http://www.bidclix.com/  \nBidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com/
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Use a product that you use all the time. Tooth paste, deodorant, soap, brand of clothing, etc. etc. etc. This will give you an advantage because your already familiar with the product. Then just do a little research on that product like history of the product and company. After that set up your projected sales for a month. As a rule of thumb your advertising budget should be 3% to 5% of your projected sale. From there set up your web site and be sure to use power words that sale in your product description and advertising.
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I think there is an online company called "Neighborhoodies" that does that as well as other customized clothes ... the city ones are called "communi-tees".
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Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible: \n\n1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!\n\nRecommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/\nBig Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml \nCGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/\nHostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html\n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.\n\nIf you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm \n\n\n4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. \n\nhttp://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html\nhttp://i-newswire.com/\nhttp://www.24-7pressrelease.com/\nhttp://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi\nhttp://www.pr.com/press-releases\nhttp://www.prfree.com/\nhttp://www.clickpress.com/releases/index.shtml\nhttp://www.theopenpress.com/\nhttp://www.przoom.com/\nhttp://www.prweb.com\nhttp://www.newswiretoday.com/\nhttp://www.free-press-release.com/\n\n5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.\n\nHere is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhzreGmnCUicOoyedqypscUjzKIX?qid=1006022407481\n\n6. Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:\n\nCraigslist http://www.craigslist.com\nGoogle Base http://base.google.com\nClassifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/...\nText Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/\nRecycler.com http://www.recycler.com/\nYahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/\nUS Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/
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One of the best advertising things you can do is go into forums and chat rooms that are based on consumers of your product (i.e., if you sell shampoo, go to hair care forums) and chat with people about what you do. Be careful to observe forum policies, but most will let you tell about yourself, even if you can only say hello and add a line with your signature that links to your webpage. Consider reciprocal links (you allow folks to put a link or your site, and you get one on theirs) and web rings. Mostly, it just takes time, time for the search engines to find you, time to build a business of any kind.\n\nGood luck, and don't give up. It takes about two years to really launch a business.\n\n~Tia~
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Learn how to screen print on t-shirts and sell the shirts to teens
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A few ideas: \n\n1) Flyers & Business Cards - Who are your customers & where do they shop (e.g. grocery, home improvement stores, etc)? Post flyers where your customers frequent.\n\n2) Advertise Locally -- Newspapers, Craigslist, Yahoo! Local\n\n3) Word of Mouth -- Offer a great service & people will talk.\n\n4) Mailers -- Send out coupons, specials, etc.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Create a store at http://www.cafepress.com - all you have to do is create images with photoshop, and they'll put them on T-shirts and sell them for you. You get the difference of the base price and the markup price. Very easy, no strings attached, you just need to get people there to buy your t-shirts.
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Some shoestring marketing ideas:\n\n1. Create the best content you can offering the best products in your niche. Your product is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. \n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.\n\n4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.\n\n5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website.