Came across 94 marketing tips on another site, Some seemed relevant some not so
1.Write and submit articles. This will be indefinite traffic stuck in the search engines for you. Write quality unique articles.
2.Write and submit press releases, think prweb
3.Write a blog and use ping-o-matic to update the blog directories, BUT do it daily. Always make sure to link back to your website with your blog posts.
4.Try and get listed in DMOZ
5.Advertise your website in the appropriate categories at Craigslist.
6.If a niche related forum that you frequently visit allows signatures, then put your url in there
7.If your website becomes popular and starts getting lots of traffic, try switching to a dedicated server
8.Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site
9.Review some related products on epinion.
10.If you purchase a product that you actually like, then leave a testimonial with a url in it
11.Whenever you send an email to someone, add your url as a signature
12.Keep regularly updating content on your website/blog
13.Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites, e.g http://del.icio.us/
14.Add photos to your blog linked with appropriate keywords
15.Tag blog photos @ Flickr
16.Get readers to subscribe to your rss feed
17.Try coining your own term and trademarking it
18.Encourage comments on your blog
19.Include translation for your websites/blogs
20.Do not be boring, write about something that a wide range of people want to know about, not the inner workings of a hard drive
21.Make sure to check your grammar
22.Leave comments+your url on other relevant blogs - ideal for gaining 1 way back links
23.Make a custom 404-error page for your website
24.Start a publicity campaign, do something that individuals in your niche will take note of
25.Brand your website with a logo and a slogan/catch phrase.
26.Hold a contest that people in your niche will talk about. This will equal more links and traffic to your website (sadly the police banned my 'how long can a person stand in a pool of burning gas' competition)
27.Build a branded tool that individuals in your niche will use. Then give it away for free. If the tool is helpful, then you will get quality one-way links to your url
28.Contact small newsletter sources offline and submit articles to them
29.Try and get a free article on your online business, post offline
30.Develop a Good product. All of the marketing/advertising in the world will do you NO good if your product is poor
31.Make something innovative content that you can't get from the local bookstore, or eBay
32.Is your product groundbreaking? Will you leave individuals with no choice but to talk about your product?
33.Are you selling something that wide groups of people want to know about but have limited knowledge?
34.Write good content, if your writing is good then people will share it with their friends. In addition, webmasters will use it as content on their website with a reference back to your article, or at least they should.
35.Spark emotions. If you get people emotional about something then they will most likely talk about it (Cue another burning gas competition)
36.Get a custom t-shirt made with your website on it
37.Build a list of subscribers. Your subscriber box should be on every page
40.Open up a myspace/Facebook account and find targeted friends so that you can promote your services to them. Do not spam people
41.Join your local chamber of commerce, cheap and you'll get a link and most likely some new business.
42.Have an easy to remember domain name otherwise people forget your site
43.Add a bookmark option to your website/blogs
45.Use keywords in your image alt tags. For example, 
46.Make sure to include appropriate keywords in your title tag, search engines show more prominence or importance to keywords here
47.Place appropriate keywords in your anchor text when linking
48.If you have a profile anywhere online, always include appropriate keywords and link back to your website
49.Try to get links from websites within your niche with a high pr. The more 1-way links you have to your website, the higher your pr will become. Pagerank is important because websites with higher prs tend to get higher search results in Google.
50.Outsource work. You can hire freelancers to send emails, request JV proposals, or to answer customer questions
51.Offer something for FREE. Abracadabra is not the magic word, FREE is. It is like a worm on a pole for a fish in the water - its bait! Offer a free mini course or ebook to collect more subscribers. You can always offer a backend to monetize on this opportunity.
52.After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product. Example, if I offered a traffic ebook, then after the individual purchase it would make sense for me to offer a traffic conversion bonus for a limited time only
53.Become the virus within your niche. Make yourself the bug and have people talking about your product. When people talk about your product then you can induce the viral effect. However, you must give people a good reason to talk about you
54.Do your research and find expensive niches to tap into. A good way to do this is to find how expensive someone is paying for a PPC keyword
55.Become an active respected member of niche related forums. You can do this by offering quality posts. Hint Hint, it is not the number of posts you make, it is the quality. Remember, quality or quantity
56.Testing. You're flushing money down the toilet if your not testing to see what campaigns are bringing you in the most money compared to which ones are costing you money. Testing eliminates the campaigns that are costing you dollars so that you can properly maximize your marketing efforts. Without proper testing, you are guessing what is working. With proper testing, you know what is
57.Stay up to date on what is going on in the world, hot topic trends/niches
58.Network, the more the better
59.Offer an affiliate program for your product or service. Make sure to let your customers know that you have one, if they like your product then they will be happy to know that they will get money for referrals. Give them the tools to help them sell your product for you.
60.Write and give away a viral ebook. It does not have to be long as long as its quality information neatly formatted. You can also make a brandable ebook or report and allow affiliates the opportunity to brand their affiliate links in there to pass on to the next individual. You can then send this ebook to your subscribers or submit it to ebook directories
61.Add viral components to your blog such as social bookmarking options, refer a friend option
63.Answer people’s questions on Yahoo! answers with a link to your website in the sources area
64.Put a link in “about me” of your eBay profile
65.Make and upload a viral video to Youtube. Use appropriate keywords to target your audience
66.Record an informative podcast and submit to podcast directories
67.Provide helpful answers for Google adsense on their help forum with a link back to your website, at http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help
68.Get people to comment and add content to your site. When they do this, they will provide you unique content, no need to pay for ghostwriters
69.Ask your list what they want, then create it and sell it to them
70.Try JV's start small though, Rome wasn't built in a day
72.Make a screensaver and make it easy to download it. Have eye candy graphics combined with your company logo to brand yourself
73.Write something controversial and spread it freely to your target market. It can be something as idiotic as the Da Vinci code, but as long people talk about it, its a successful campaign. A few hints, something controversial is something that goes against established beliefs in your market
74.Take a guru in your niche out to lunch, and pay for it, and record the conversation (ask first!)
76.Always offer good customer service
77.Consider adding an offline direct mail marketing campaign or put an ad in your local free business magazine these normally only cost a few $'s
79. Put an ad in Yellow Pages, they hide it away but in the UK Anyone! can get a free line Entry - Categorised (Dickie Boys tip of the day)
80.Post bulletins in your local newsagents. However, since not everyone may carry a pen or pencil, place your contact information and url on strips on the bottom so that individuals can rip it off and take it with them. This again comes back to having an easy to remember site name
81.Post a video on your site reviewing products, increases sales like crazy
83.Submit a google sitemap for your website
84.Use a favicon for your site
85.Make your visitors more involved in your website. You can help accomplish this by adding CGI scripts to your site
86.Make sure you have no broken links on your site, and make sure that your website shows clearly in all browsers
87.Find old domain names that get traffic, purchase them, and then redirect them to your website
89.Properly optimize your website for the right keywords
91.Try to avoid java scripts on your website as much as possible. Ditto for frames
93.Avoid huge graphics, they may look good when loaded, but by then the guy who's on dial-up will have long ago hit the 'back' button
94.Know what your visitors want? Add a questionnaire to your site to find out
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