Coming up to Wedding season, how would you promote a jewelery business online?

One of the most powerful marking "tools" online nowadays is social media, so if this were my business, I'd create a presence for myself on sites like Twitter and Facebook, for example, and perhaps participate on a related forum where I might occasionally mention my business and/or have a link to my website in my forum signature. By creating a "presence," I don't mean simply posting links/ads to your own site (which I ASSUME you have ... and, if not, should have). I mean by interacting with people on these sites and adding something to discussions.

People will want to feel like they're interacting with a real human being, not just seeing a commercial every time they see your name/username. On Facebook, create a "fan" page for your business as well. Another thing you might do is to write guest blog posts if, say, you have specific experience related to weddings, for example, where you can tie in a mention of your jewelry-making and have a link to your site in your bio.

You can also write about jewelry-making specifically and look for sites where such posts/articles would fit in. You can also start your own niche blog. Another idea is to create pages on sites like Squidoo.Com and Hubpages.

Com, which are both sites I'm personally familiar with and find very effective in helping me promote my own online business (while making money directly from those sites).

There are so many ways you can promote and advertise your online shops. It is crazy to follow them all. Select those that you are comfortable with and start your internet marketing now.

I will be adding on to the list whenever I come across new ways to promote your store. Submit your stores/websites to search engines. Example: Dmoz, Google, MSN and many more.

Put your websites/blogs/stores/lenses links in your email signature. Make sure that your friends/family members/employees email signatures have your links too. Forward interesting information, news, photos, videos, jokes, sad stories and all kinds of junk mails to your friends.

Your friends will forward these mails to their friends. Make sure that you forward these mails to friends that like to receive them, not those that hate junk mails. Put your websites/blogs/stores/lenses links in your forum signature.

Join and participate in niche forums related to your products. Use a funny/attention seeking user name whenever you register for a social networking site/forum/Squidoo and more. Create lenses with Squidoo.

Make one lens for your store and make different lenses for your different products. Link all related lenses together. Make useful comments on other people lenses.

Your user name will links back to your "My Squidoo" page which links to all your lenses. Do not spam. Submit your new lenses to Squoogle, tagfoot, Reddit, Digg, The Isle of Squid, Squidpedia, Stumpedia Lensroll.Com, Squiddit and more.

Use Lensroll at your side bar of your lens to lensroll related lenses to your lenses. Join and participate in Friendster, MySpace, Multiply, Xanga, Facebook, and more Build a fan page in Facebook. Make your own video about your products or stores.

Remember to put your links in your video. Use keywords, descriptions, in your video file name and submission. Submit your videos to Metacafe, YouTube, MySpace, Digg Videos, blip.

Tv, AOL Video, Google Video, GoFish, Vimeo, Yahoo Video and more. Create a video sitemap on your store/websites when you have a few videos. Make a lens about your videos.

Add your video to your stores, websites and blogs. Create and blog about your products and stores. Example: Blogger, MySpace, Wordpress and more.

Feed and ping your store blogs. Icerocket, BlogExplosion, Technorati, Weblogalot, Pingomatic, Pingoat, and more. Offer different RSS/social bookmarking option on your blog.

Example: del.icio. Us, StumbleUpon and more. Use good keywords in your blog titles.

Submit your store blogs to blog directory. Example: BlogExplosion, Weblog Directory, We Blog A Lot, Kmax, and many many more. Post useful, honest, comments on other niche blogs related to your products or stores.

Do not spam. Make sure that your posting on your blog is fresh. Keep updating.

Create a podcast about your products and store. Submit your podcast to iTunes, Odeo, Podcast Alley, PodOmatic, Podscope and more. Create newsletters for your store.

You may want to host with MailChimp or YourMailingListProvider. I am using MailChimp and I am loving it. You can see some of my newsletters here.

Offer freebies or special sales to newsletter subscribers when they sign up. Include discount coupons, sale and promotion, new products, feature products, holidays and events products in your newsletters. Remember to include your store address.

Keep an archive of your old newsletters in your store. Promise your newsletter subscribers that you will not sell, share their email with outside parties and you will not spam them before they sign up. Let your subscribers know how often you will send them your newsletters before they sign up.

Put your newsletters opt-in form on your store/blog/lenses/websites. Submit your products and stores to classifieds. Put your advertisement on areas where most of your customers came from.

Example: Kijiji, Ablewise, Craigslist and more. Look for niche classifieds for your products. Submit to them.

Submit your product feed to Google Base. Upload your products photos to Flickr, BubbleShare, Fotolog and more. Tag your photos at Flickr.

Join and participate in Kaboodle. Add in as much products in Kaboodle as possible. Bookmark all your stores, websites, blogs, lenses at del.icio.

Us, tagfoot and more. StumbleUpon your stores, websites, blogs, lenses and more. Give positive and useful reviews in StumbleUpon, tagfoot and more.

Do not spam. Exchange links with your competitors. Write and submit press releases/articles.

Give good and useful comments in other people guestbooks. Do not spam. Hold an online contest on your stores, websites lenses or blogs.

Give away your products with your links as presents. Get other bloggers to write about your products. Example: PayPerPost.

If you are willing to pay for advertisement, use Adwords, Kontera and more. Create niche websites/lenses for your mega store. Join affiliate programs and get affiliates to sell your products for you.

Example: ShareASale, Commission Junction, LinkShare and more. Design standard banners with all kinds of sizes. Give your affiliates plenty of choices.

Check Standard Banner Sizes for your reference. Email your affiliates about your latest promotions and discount coupons so that your affiliates will know what to do with them. Add a poll to your websites, stores, lenses and blogs.

You can get free polls at Pollhost or Vizu. Create a page and archive all your old polls in your website, store and blog. Join and participate Twitter.

Add Twitter to all your blogs, websites, stores, lenses and more. Include Twitter application in your Facebook, lenses, blogs, websites, stores and more. Join and participate in discussion groups.

Example, MySpace, Yahoo Groups, Microsoft Groups, Google Groups, Facebook, Kaboodle, and many many more. Start an internet war related to your products/stores.Do not offend anybody/company/brand/products. Be creative.

Announce your internet war via discussion groups, blogs, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Monkey Brain, popular forums and anywhere you can think of.Be a contributor on Yahoo Answers, Answers. Com, AllExperts, Wiki Answers, MyLot, and many more. Get your friends and family members to include your websites/blogs/stores/lenses URL in their blogs.

Get them to talk about your products for free. Treat them to lunch for doing that. Create some useful software that advertise your stores/websites/blogs/lenses and distribute for free on your website.

Create interesting and fun application that advertise your websites/stores/blogs/lenses. Distribute these application for free. Example: ticker, avatars, banners, etc.Run an online forum/bulletin board.

Offer freebies with purchases. Make sure your freebies have your stores/blogs/websites/lenses URL on them. Offer special discount coupons for their next purchase.

If you have created an interesting website/article/lens/or anything that you think it deserve more attention, submit them to Ma. Gnolia, BuzzFeed, Plaxo, Tumblr and more. Exchange links with yourself.

Example: Your own blogs, websites, lenses, stores and more. Exchange only related links. If you have design your websites/blogs/stores yourself and you think that your design is fantastic, submit your websites/blogs/stores to website design competitions.

Write an ebook related to your products and advertise your websites/blogs/stores/lenses in your book. Distribute your ebook for free or allow reseller right.

What you need to do to promote a jewelery business online is to advertise in social networking and search engines. Along that advertisement is an offer for bundle price, payment options, affordability and assurance of customer satisfaction.

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Pdf http://nymag.com/weddings/listings/jewelers/ Medakit Info: http://nymag.com/newyork/mediakit/ Contact Info: http://nymag.com/contactus/ http://www.swsmag.net/ Advertise Info: http://www.swsmag.net/advertise/ http://www.weddingfactorydirect.com/ Contact Info: http://www.weddingfactorydirect.com/aboutus. Html (maybe list your jewelry with the wholesaler for salons to purchase your jewelry) In this section I'm giving you links to mass market idea sites on packaging, home parties, consigning your line to various stores, etc. Links below: weddingwire.com/wedding-events0 weddingwire.com/wedding-events1 List want ad's for stay-at-home-mom's to throw parties for your jewelry line (like Tupperware) give the hostess a 50-60% discount on the jewelry she wants to order, or 10% of total sold at the party, referral fee for other mom's she refers for future parties. Amazingly this does work it gets your name out there, your design word of mouth is very powerful.

Good luck with your endeavors.

1. Consider consulting with local bridal and tux shops/ formal shops in your area. Offer to post a link for their business on your website in exchange for allowing you to post business cards or fliers in their store.

Ask if they could post your link on their site in exchange for their link on yours. 2. Inquire if you could have a small showing in their store during one of their wedding/ bridal promotions.3.

Create vibrant fliers and distribute them to customers of the bridal/ formal shops as they leave the stores.

I would start by selling a couple of things on eBay and mentioning your store link on that page. Craigslist is another option for local sales. Create a squidoo lens about the business, then put backlinks to it on other sites like xomba or hubpages.

You could also add the store's link to your signature and participate in blogs about jewelery. All this can be done with almost no monetary investment. If you have a large budget for advertising, buy some Google ads or banners to run on another site.

Good Luck!

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