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Promoting
Social shopping is huge on FuzzB. We offer several ways for you to interact with your customers and fellow business owners but it is up to you to become part of the action.
Why Promote?
Promoting yourself or your business is important because it allows you to focus on .
Is Promoting The Same As Advertising?
Yes and No. You promote your business through advertising. They both go hand in hand, but there are many more ways to promote yourself for free. It is important to determine how you want to promote your business and then set your advertising goals accordingly. You can start a promotional campaign based on humor, targeting yourself as an expert, or focusing on a cool niche product that only you have. Here are some ideas:
Promote Your Business On FuzzB
FuzzB wants you to be successful and we offer networking tools to promote your business. Your MyFuzzB profile page includes venues to chatter, blog, create store events and coupons. Get more exposure for free by submitting helpful articles to our Trends page or join our Street Team to get promoted and have your items featured on key pages throughout the site.
Promote Your Business Online
Ideas for promoting your business on the Internet:
- Plan Giveaways - This is a great promotion because we all like free stuff and it introduces new friends to your products.
- Get Reviewed - Send samples to blog and magazine owners who accept product reviews.
- Talk About Stuff - Write articles to educate and engage or make people think about a product in a new way. Make them say "that was cool", or "I never knew that".
- Help Others - Visit forums and blogs and answer questions.
- Collaborate - Team up with other business owners with complimentary products. Promote each other through blogging, sharing links and recommendations or adding business cards/coupons in customer packages.
- Offer Coupons/Discounts - Give repeat customers and friends a special discount of 10% on all purchase and offer coupons for so much off the next purchase to new customers (and offers to share coupon with friends).
- Write a Press Release - Issue an informative press release about your business and submit to free PR websites.
- Master Media - Let your personality and product shine in your own commercials/video.
- Submit To Search Engines - It's free and will help you get found online. Submit to the biggies Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing.
- Go Local - Promote your online business offline in your community by handing out coupon cards.
- Join Social Bookmarking Sites - These include Digg (www.digg.com), Delicious (www.delicious.com/), StumbleUpon (www.stumbleupon.com), and Google Bookmarks (www.google.com/bookmarks/), Kaboodle (www.kaboodle.com).
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