If you owned Pixel2life, where would you advertise it?
#1
Posted 07 August 2006 - 12:15 PM
Dan
#2
Posted 07 August 2006 - 12:26 PM
#3
Posted 07 August 2006 - 12:34 PM
Alternatively you can involve your visitors in free advertising. Encourage people to link back with a variety of buttons and banners - even outright asking for support can work. For example, I encouraged members of a community I run to post a blog entry about the community on one day last year in exchange for a link in a thank you entry on my personal blog - about 50 members took part and it's only a small community (driving a huge spike of hits and applications to join). Imagine the amount of people that might consider taking part in a similar thing for P2L?
#4
Posted 07 August 2006 - 12:51 PM
Outside the web you should be looking at people that will interview you, Oprah and Ellen Degeneres would be great people to contact and don't laugh at this idea lol because it does work.
Your local newspaper/radio stations - the editors love personal success stories and anything web related is a good story these days.
Merchandise - pens with pixel2life on them etc, hats, caps even a calendar of pixel2life's best artwork selected by members. And t-shirts I would love a t-shirt with that pixel bowl looks so much nicer than the previous P2L arrow
Contacting educational institutions with flyers on pixel2life etc
On the web companies charge a small fortune for advertising you could be looking at $1,000's just for a few page impressions to get all of 10 clicks and maybe 1 new member. I'm personally against ad campaigns of any sort I have tried numerous ones and the stats are not great, word of mouth is free and works a lot better.
Try several leading software companies for a partner spot, I added P2L to SwishZone and they accepted P2L immediately - your promoting their software by offering a service in tutorials so all is fair and some of these guys give nothing back to the little people if you get what I mean.
And personally I feel every webmaster that submits tutorials to P2L should have P2L somewhere on their site.
Adding a proper download manager, Art Gallery, Resource Center and maybe even Blogs to Pixel2Life to increase member participation and the word will spread P2L has it all (btw IPB has all of these components and they are a simple install that fits into the sites look no skinning nothing) I use them at 13 if you want to test them out.
That's it for now
#5
Posted 07 August 2006 - 12:59 PM
That's all I can say for now, It's a suprise. ;P
#6 _*Zenom_*
Posted 07 August 2006 - 04:11 PM
^im sure it will be expensive though *_*
#7 _*Zenom_*
Posted 07 August 2006 - 11:13 PM
I dont think thats a good place to advertise. Like I mentioned before, TV commercials is a good place
#8
Posted 08 August 2006 - 07:57 AM
Word of mouth, contests, joining rival forums.
#9
Posted 08 August 2006 - 12:47 PM
of the car would get some attention.
On a serious note why not try one of the many "techTV" type shows.
In the states we have shows like ScreeSavers I'm sure there are other such shows around north america and the rest of the world.
hmm. Thought a few other things after reading donna's post in more detail.
How bout setting up webmail e-mail addresses for your users. Instead of someone using gmail or yahoo mail they can use p2lmail. [email protected] etc.. You can then run advertisements that way when a user sends e-mail to a family member or buddy.
Along those same lines you can offer free blog or website templates that people can use free of charge as long as they keep the copywrite info in place. You can then run p2l adds on those tempaltes and esp the blogs. The blogs would work great as I'm sure there are tons of people out there that need/want blogs but simply don't have the time or knowledge to set one up. I'm not sure what you bandwidth issues are but if you can host the blogs pre-set-up it would really get some attention.
Contact ISP's and hosting sites. Work with them to include P2L as a resourse. Having run a hosting company for a while we used to add links to P2L to in our welcome message to the customer when they signed up. We did this without even asking you for a dime and you may or may not have known about it. P2L was a site that we recommended to our customers who were getting started on the web.
Hope that helps
Paul
Edited by xis, 08 August 2006 - 12:57 PM.
#10 _*Zenom_*
Posted 08 August 2006 - 12:48 PM
Edited by Zenom, 08 August 2006 - 12:48 PM.
#11
Posted 08 August 2006 - 04:41 PM
Advertising on Habbo would be like advertising on TV as soon as Habbo goes on TV Habbo will get more hits, and if your Link is on there so will P2L.
Can we also take into consideration It's not about the game but It's about the people that even glimpse the site for a few seconds.
Also... Habbo is filled to the brim with Photoshop and other Art creation users. Some of which already come here. Now lets reel in the rest.
#12
Posted 08 August 2006 - 05:09 PM
They already adore P2L, ya see P2L tutorial links going around all the time.
#13
Posted 08 August 2006 - 10:34 PM
http://revision3.com/systm/
Other than that, perhaps just start a bunch of small ad campaigns on design related sites . You can check webmaster forums like NamePros.com or SitePoint.com for listings of people looking to sell text and banner links.
Xis, I thought of a high speed chase for my own site lol. But I figured the news would just blur out the 10 foot banner I was going to trail behind my car .
#14
Posted 09 August 2006 - 02:07 AM
Xis, I thought of a high speed chase for my own site lol. But I figured the news would just blur out the 10 foot banner I was going to trail behind my car .
Nah, the beauty of it is that it's live and the media is too stupid to blur it out. It won't be till later that night or the next night before someone from the IT department at the local news station clues everyone else in
#15
Posted 09 August 2006 - 05:02 PM
#16
Posted 09 August 2006 - 08:17 PM
I was offered a comercial on much music for free, since they were going to sponser a company of mine.TV! Create P2L commercials so it will be broadcasted everywhere in USA and Canada.
^im sure it will be expensive though *_*
Hoot
#17
Posted 10 August 2006 - 01:11 PM
And personally I feel every webmaster that submits tutorials to P2L should have P2L somewhere on their site.
I don't know if it's done now, as I don't write tutorials, but I would be more than happy to link back to P2L and if I submit tutorials to P2L, have some sort of link back to MY site. Like a list of Tutorial Contributors avaialble so that I can see all the sites of people that have made tutorials. Not necessarily seeing the tutorials themselves.
#18
Posted 10 August 2006 - 03:09 PM
#19
Posted 11 August 2006 - 01:11 AM
1. Try and get adobe to put a link to p2l in there help manuels for users new to the design comunity. In exchange adobe could posibbly sell more products from users seeing what the programs can do from the tuts. Thats what got me into 3d was the tuts on this site. It told me what programs to use and who to buy them from.
2. Try to get on a tech tv show. Im from the US and the have i think 2 or 3 tech channels on extended cable. Maybe try to work out a once a week live tutorial from the p2l staff.
3. Buy ads in magazines such as pc mag. Only the tech people would read this mag and im sure most of them design as a hobby but would like to learn more.
4. Games such as warcraft 3 and starcraft on battle.net have sponsered tournaments and also have a space for an ad on their battle.net online gaming. check out blizzard.com
5. Sounds lame but open up accounts on places such as myspace and facebook with the account of pixel2life. Lots of people hit up those sites. Not always tech people but this type of advertising would be free.
Some things i wouldnt do is the email idea people will just come to use and abuse it.
I wouldnt do the blog either cause that wont get to many people and will be a huge bandwidth use.
Hope that helped out some. Thats all i could think of now.
#20
Posted 11 August 2006 - 05:06 AM
I second the idea for adverting in PC magazines distributed all over the world and go for the exzact target market. People with PC experience that may want to start graphics.
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