Internet Marketing Tycoon

**jcsuperstar** · 08-01-2006, 11:52 AM

Hi,

I’m currently in the process of setting up a new online web business/shop selling t-shirts. I have a supplier, and they will ship directly to the customer, I have someone setting up the OS commerce site for me, and am sorting out the other basic stuff, like phone numbers etc, etc.

Now the question I have is a simple, but yet I know it’s not…

How do I get genuine hits/people to visit my site?

Now I believe the most affective way is to use ad-sense (Google?) But my knowledge on this is very poor…is Google the best? What about the other search engine ad-sense services, like yahoo, ask, msn, etc.?

Can anyone please help/advice me on the best way to go about this, as I’m totally new at trying to get people to visit a site, any help would truly be greatly appreciated.

I realise the main key is getting lots of genuine visitors to my site, as I’m presuming common sense would dictate the more genuine visitors, the more people that are likely to buy my t-shirts.

Many thanks in advance. :helpsmilie:

**briansol** · 08-01-2006, 12:38 PM

are you selling custom shirts that others can design, or shirts that you've designed?

**jcsuperstar** · 08-01-2006, 03:41 PM

There already made, there rock and horror t-shirts mostly.

**NBF** · 08-01-2006, 05:11 PM

Okay, I don't mean to rain on your parade at all (I swear I don't), but I am all about being real:

What is it that you are going to do that the other 5849020485 t-shirt selling sites aren't doing?

The way to succeed is by doing something other people are already doing and doing it better. It's very simple, but I can pretty much guarantee that you won't get to the levels you hope to without living that mantra.

All of that said, I would like to be helpful too.

First, don't spend money on advertising until you have the metric in place to measure success. It's really easy to waste a heap of money on advertising without any return.

Second, work on SEO. There is tons of info out there if you aren't familiar with what to be working on.

Third, find where the t-shirt buyers are and go there. Are college kids the people that would buy these shirts? There are tons of college forums out there - start posting and BE HELPFUL. If you link is in your sig, interested parties will find your site. These are Rocky Horror shirts? There must be cult-like fan clubs. Join them, participate, and just keep your link close at hand (but no spam!).

That should get your started.

Best of luck to you!!

Laura

**Slevin** · 08-01-2006, 09:43 PM

Post rock music and horror film discussion forums.