My Marketing Efforts

Hi Everyone

I want to introduce myself. My name is David McIntosh and I am very new to internet marketing. A little less than a year ago my wife and I decided to start an internet business. Now though having an internet business was brand new to me business wasn’t. I have had my own brick and mortar business for 27 years. The funny thing is the internet business was totally unrelated to my brick and mortar business. I had started to work with web pages and started to see the possibilities and so it was something that I thought I’d try. I began to work on things last fall but it wasn’t until late spring 07 that we got our first web page up and working. With it we are selling Cedar Outdoor Garden Furniture. You can check it out at www.outdoorcedars.com.

After getting it up and working we needed to get people to find it ie: start marketing the site.

So this is and will be my ongoing journey in trying to market this new business. I will say right off the bat that I am by no means an expert. I have and am making mistakes and hopefully am learning from those mistakes.

We first tried to get someone else to do the marketing for us. I don’t know yet whether this was a good move or not. The company we hired has done some work but I am not happy with the results yet. They said it would take 2 – 3 months but after a month or so and partly because of their efforts I received a number of emails that opened my eyes to the possibilities of doing the marketing or at least some of the marketing myself.

This is one of the first places I found and it was a way of advertising my web page free. I really think it is and works good. It is called Hits2U. You can advertise your site for FREE. Through Hit2U you can also build a business by advertising them and in that way being able to advertise your own web site even more.

We are just getting started as I said and though I have not yet seen huge numbers coming to my web site as a result, it is one more way I am getting the name out there so people can find us. The more people see our name the more will go to our site. Traffic isn’t everything, you also have to have good product but having a good product with out traffic will not make sales.

So for now the verdict is out but the possibilities look really good. We will keep you informed as things progress. Also if you have tried it let me know what you think, If you haven’t, have a look, it’s FREE.

For now

Dave