Finding An Audience

[TCH-Sales]

Now I know this is the question people have struggled with online since the begining of the internet, but I thought I'd throw the question out there to see if anybody had some new sugestions.

 

After doing the obvious, like submiting yourself to all the search engines, what's the best way to get yourself noticed online? Since converting my site into more of a "column-based" service, I've gone out trying to get a online column writter's possition, just to get my work on another public forum, but so far haven't had much success at all.

 

Right now the majority of my viewers and readers are those that fallowed my livejournal for the past few months, and I'm begining to think (meaning no offense) that they're lazy. I mean, why go out and go to a diffrent page when you can get all your friends thoughts on your friends page?

 

So if anybody has some good sugestions on making myself more "marketable" or to get myself known better out in that vast internet universe I'd be humble enough to offer many thanks to you and yours!

[TCH-Andy]

I'm no expert - I've managed on one site, which I get about 70 hits a day - nothing massive, but it gets noticed.

 

I'm just setting up another site, which is for a company I have just started - so I have got to do exactly the same again and get some people visiting, although I haven't got the "image" or "brand" sorted yet.

 

I would say

 

- Decide on what audience you want (so that you can target it at them)

- Give them something useful for free (information in my case)

- keep updating things so that they come back.

 

Easier said than done in some cases

 

Maybe there is something we can do by helping each other out from this forum.

 

What is your audience - who do you want to visit & why?

 

Andy