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Will yell.com advertising be worthwhile?

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Hi

I am a self employed web designer based in South Essex and I have a little money to invest in promoting my business.

I have spoken to the people at yell.com and they will offer me a ‘middleweight’ advert for my yellow pages book area for around £590 for he year – this ad has photos, logo, bullets point, weblink etc.

In all honesty I probably need to get say 2 normal/average jobs from this to get my money back.

Do we think this is the best use of £600 for advertising? I have tried Google ad before but it seems to be company’s offering their services to me (in India etc) and people looking for work who consequently get in contact, from this route.

Have other people used Yell.com for similar businesses and found it fruitful? or are there any other avenues that you might suggest. I am not looking for free advertising ideas, I’m pretty sure I have exhausted all these.

Any help/advice would be great.

Thanks

Ashley
I take it that’s your own website Ellie, I genuinely wanted some advice please.

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August 12th, 2010 at 9:41 pm

How to Successfully Promote a Non-Business Blog?

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I am thinking about starting up a blog with a proper domain name (e.g. www.myblog.com rather than www.myblog.wordpress.com) and its own web server.

I’m also stuck with Niche ideas? I don’t want to sell anything and bear in mind I work full-time, this blog is merely a hobby to pass my spare time :) I’ve looked on Google but everything can be so vague like ‘write about your hobbies’. I don’t really want to write a blog about writing a blog ;) ideas are welcomed!

All the ‘how to promote your blog’ guides I have come across have all been related to web stores or businesses, or something that makes money. Does anyone know how you’d promote?

I have less than 100 friends on Facebook/Twitter (as they are all family/good friends, not ‘networking’ people) and have discovered from experience that asking them to share links and retweet links never works; if I am lucky I’ll have one person do it, but that’s it.

Any other suggestions? I know about meta tagging and adding to search engines, but how do I really drive traffic in?

Thanks :)

how to create a dating web site like www.adultfriednfinder.com — please help( web hosting – internet )?

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dear guys,
i have registered the domain name . i wanna know what i have to do now—- i wanna create a dating web site for my country — is this a profitable business-
i think adultfriendfinder.com is earning more than google or ebay
but they are not existing on the newspapers or tv……..
tell me the steps i have to do
1) domain name is done
2) then what—– i got a idea to choose powweb.com as the host
3) then what———————————–????

hope a perfect and simple answer
take care

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October 6th, 2009 at 10:24 am

How can i get my website to have more hits…?

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My web site never seems to get anywhere on google searchs i have set a budget of £100 per month for key words but i never get any enquiries, all my business comes from local advertising, any ideas…

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September 18th, 2009 at 5:37 am

How Do I advertise my web design skills?

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I’ve just started my own web design business and with a slight lack of £££ I’m struggling to advertise to anyone that might pay me.

Anyone got a good idea as to how I might be able to advertise on the cheap?

I was thinking of letter box flyering, but I’m sure most people just chuck them in the bin!

I’ve got a load of designs under my belt – a New York Documentary Producer, a London Artist, 2 actresses, a model/Batman Extra and a couple more (most of these were freebies).

Is there a decent place to advertise my skills, any good promotion ideas, any advice at all?
I already have my own site, I’m optimised and appear at the top of google. I also sell hosting and host most of the site’s that I’ve already made.
I want advertising solutions, not web design solutions.


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