Paid marketing

[shelma1Participant]

HI all,

I’m looking to network with people who are actively marketing their sites. (SEO/social networking/paid advertising.)

I’m running paid ads for my site on google express (pay per click) and Facebook, and I’m generating traffic and clickthroughs to the Symbiostock global search as well as the sites connected to me. I’d like to build on that by connecting with others who are also paying for eyeballs.

Hope there are a couple of takers. 🙂

[simiParticipant]

Hi Michele

I am planning to run facebook advertisement in next few weeks , as my site has really less traffic , i have to run such campaign i guess , howz your experience with facebook advertisement ?

Regards
Simi

[shelma1Participant]

I’ve gotten some decent results with Facebook, but Google seems to be working better for me. I do plan to run a promotion soon on Facebook, though.

[ChristineParticipant]

I have been thinking about this as well – not facebook but paid marketing which I will shortly be doing with Picturengine.

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[AndreParticipant]

I’ve done this with Facebook ads, Google adwords, and Bing. While it might be ok to get people’s attention, I don’t think it will directly help your sales since a sale in stock photography is always so specific that you can’t really plan or market for it.

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[ChristineParticipant]

You do seem to be reporting more sales than the rest of though Redneck so you are doing something right 🙂

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[marthamarksParticipant]

I’d be very glad to do some paid marketing, too, but I don’t have any idea how to go about it and haven’t had time to research it.

Has anybody found a good online tutorial for such things?

[shelma1Participant]

@redneck wrote:

I’ve done this with Facebook ads, Google adwords, and Bing. While it might be ok to get people’s attention, I don’t think it will directly help your sales since a sale in stock photography is always so specific that you can’t really plan or market for it.

Yet you’re advertising and you’re getting sales.

Before you can make a sale, people have to know you exist and you’re selling something. So advertising directly helps your sales. People might not buy something that one time if they don’t find it on your site, but now they know your site exists and might visit again if they need something. And, of course, linking to other Symbio sites gives them more choices, and they’re more likely to find what they’re looking for and return.

[shelma1Participant]

@marthamarks wrote:

I’d be very glad to do some paid marketing, too, but I don’t have any idea how to go about it and haven’t had time to research it.

Has anybody found a good online tutorial for such things?

Advertising on Facebook and Google is pretty easy. They don’t accept many words, so you’re forced to make your message short and sweet. I’ve posted a few articles about it in the marketing and Facebook threads, but I’ll look around and see if I can find something more tutorial-like.

[shelma1Participant]

Also, I’ve mentioned this before…at least hosting with BlueHost, there are Google and Facebook advertising coupons. You get $50 in free Facebook advertising and $100 in Google advertising after you spend $25 with them. Just scroll down in your C panel to “promotional.” There’s also a Twitter coupon, but I haven’t checked it out yet.

But surely spending $25 and getting $175 worth of advertising between Google and Facebook is a pretty good deal.

[AndreParticipant]

@shelma1 wrote:

Also, I’ve mentioned this before…at least hosting with BlueHost, there are Google and Facebook advertising coupons. You get $50 in free Facebook advertising and $100 in Google advertising after you spend $25 with them. Just scroll down in your C panel to “promotional.” There’s also a Twitter coupon, but I haven’t checked it out yet.

But surely spending $25 and getting $175 worth of advertising between Google and Facebook is a pretty good deal.

Yeah, I used the Bluehost coupons, even though my site wasn’t hosted at BH anymore at that time.

Stock Photos at PictureBreeze.com

[up_illustrationParticipant]

Apparently those ad coupons are only available for US and Canada accounts. 🙁

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@shelma1 wrote:

HI all,

I’m looking to network with people who are actively marketing their sites. (SEO/social networking/paid advertising.)

I’m running paid ads for my site on google express (pay per click) and Facebook, and I’m generating traffic and clickthroughs to the Symbiostock global search as well as the sites connected to me. I’d like to build on that by connecting with others who are also paying for eyeballs.

Hope there are a couple of takers. 🙂

I’ve added you to my network — i’m currently using adwords at a low level, concentrating on keywords for image collections and specific images – started in mid – dec — I’ve gotten more clicks, but so far no sales, but this is a slow time of year. i’ll be mostly skiing the next 4 weeks, so won’t ramp up further til I can mpnitor more closely

[shelma1Participant]

Great! I’ll add you as well.

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