Hello everyone, I'm really interested in getting serious about marketing this product nationwide, these are frames inspired from nature and are cast from natural elements such as plants and fossilized shells etc. go here to see http://www.weldonspring.com/
is anyone aware of how to go about something like this.

Thanks

Good day --

First of all, very clean and effective site design... nice work.
Now, you've got some marketing work to do!
This is a pretty long list and perhaps too much to consume at once, but it should help you get a feel for what types of things you can do on the web.
The list is a bit rough, but feel free to contact me if you've got questions.

Driving traffic to your site

1. Keywords
a. Research the overture/google suggestions
b. Sign up for wordtracker.com
c. Use gorank.com
d. Also check out instantmarketingsecrets.com/keyword.htm
e. And smtek.info/cgi-bin/keywordtool.cgi
f. Searchguild.com/diffculty will rate how difficult to rank for certain keywords
g. Get expected traffic from www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion
h. Visit your competitor's web pages and look in the title and meta tags.
i. Look over your past customer testïmonials, and see if there are any keywords you can use. This strategy lets you get inside your customer's mind to produce more market centric keywords.
j. Consider synonyms.
k. Think of singular and plurals keywords.
l. Use hyphenation and variations. Example: webhosting, web hosting, web-hosting
m. Use abbreviations and misspellings.
n. Combine your keyword phrase into one word.
o. Use "space" and "+" with keywords. Example: web+hosting, web +hosting
p. Visit Crossword Compiler and download their demo software. Plug in your keywords and discover a multitude of additional words.
q. Once you have your list compiled visit Keyword Tumbler and download the frëe software. Put your keywords into a text file and then let Keyword Tumbler generate multiple variations of each keyword phrase you have

2. Metatag Design
a. Use a maximum of 24 words/phrases in your meta tags
b. Use phrases that describe your site
c. Use the words and phrases in your metatags/description in your site copy
d. Gorank.com will tell your keyword density (seek 3-4%)
e. Test your search engine friendliness
i. http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool...ine.viewer.htm
f. investigate links by spiders
i. www.gritechnolgies.com/spider.go?
g. check indexed pages on all engines
i. “site:www.yourdomainname.com”
h. monitor your position on all engines at rankwhere.com
i. google specific at: www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor-query.htm
ii. googlerankings.com

3. Hand submit site to search engines (The Big Six, all others results are driven from these indexes)
a. Yahoo!: Locate the proper category and then click “Suggest a Site”
i. Yahoo! Express ($): https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/express/intro
b. Google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
c. Teoma (AskJeeves), ($): http://sitesubmit.ask.com/
d. DMOZ (Open Directory): http://dmoz.com/add.html
e. Terra/Lycos: Locate the proper category and then click “Submit Your Site”
f. LookSmart ($): http://aboutus.looksmart.com/p/about...paidinclusion/

4. Link Building
a. Make sure your link on another site is your domain name, not a tracking url that has their domain name instead
b. Make use of customer sites and affiliate programs
c. Seek industry directories for link trading or article/release submission
i. DMOZ Directory
1. If your site is listed here, go directly to its category and research. If not, locate the category in which it’s most likely to be listed.
ii. Yahoo! Directory
iii. Google Directory
1. Google lists from highest page rank to lowest, hence the sites at the top of the list would be better for link exchange.
iv. Beware of Link Farms: Sites that have tons of links with no specific affinity.
v. Requesting a Link
1. Look for webmaster’s contact info within site
2. Link to their site from yours already
3. Provide commentary on an interesting part of their site
4. Don’t threaten to remove if no reciprocation
5. Only link to sites that provide value to your users
d. Use Google GARBO to find similar sites for link exchange
i. Related:http://www.yoursitename.com
e. Write articles that contain your keywords
i. Post on your own site with a pre-licensing statement that allows others to grab the articles and post on their site. Make sure that you give them a specified url to use
ii. Post your articles on other sites
1. ezinehub.com
2. ezine-dir.com
3. 1st-in-articles.com
4. ideamarketers.com/
iii. Acquire content for your own site that increases your # of pages, keywords for indexing/spiders (subscribe to RSS feeds). Do a search for “reprint articles”
1. Ezinearticle.com
2. Goarticles.com
3. Webpronews.com
4. 1st-in-articles.com
5. ideamarketers.com/
f. If applicable, create your own Blog/RSS for auto-feed to subscribers
g. Check the number of links coming to your site with “link:yourdomainname.com”

Good luck!

*prints out*

some good stuff there bob

thank you.

One of these days it will be more user friendly!

wow thanks for all the info!!!!

what year was that that you lived in St Charles? things are changing and growing here fast.
I moved here from Maryland 7 years ago.

Another question: do sales brokers work? id like to find a good international broker.

I'd sell your products if you offered them wholesale as well.

First of all thank you for the offer.

We offer them wholesale, I need to know what your experience is and a little bit about you.
Do you have a resume? Or are you a store owner? Do you know anything about international sales?

I am a store owner... I am not looking for a job. We do not do international sales.

ok, thanks anyway.