Internet Marketing Tycoon

**epithet** · 06-24-2006, 05:49 AM

Hello guys!

In order to advertise our site, get visitors to our site and to increase our overall site traffic I'm planning to have a certain contest wherein it will involve only our clients. These clients will be required to submit a story regarding their experiences while working with us. Whoever gets the best story will win a free webmaster for a month.

Any comments on this guys? Do you think this is a good idea?

epithet

**vangogh** · 06-24-2006, 08:33 PM

I think it can be a good way to market yourself to existing clients. It will at least remind them about the experience they had working with you which I assume was good and get them to think about you again. If giving away your services for a month to one client leads to paying gigs from other clients it would probably be worth it.

I'm not seeing where the seo part comes into play. It sounds like what you would be getting other than than reminder to your clients is some content for your site in the form of essentially testimonials, which can go a long way toward getting new clients to contact you. The content alone though wouldn't guarantee any seo benefit and it's doubtful your clients will know how to best write a page with seo in mind.

Are you thinking your clients will link to your site or their stories to generate links?

I actually think it's a good idea to promote yourself, not so much for seo benefit, but for the reminder to clients and a way to give back to them as well as for the testimonials they'd be giving.

A couple of things to keep in mind though. Not all clients will write a story even for the free webmastering. They'll probably all say they will, but don't count on it. You should get some, but be prepared for less than you might at first think. Also if you haven't already considered it absolutely limit that free month of webmastering to a certain number of hours. Otherwise the winner will probably expect you to be at their beck and call anytime they want for the month.

**chrishirst** · 06-25-2006, 06:35 AM

Don't know about getting clients to write a story! Ususally it's a hard slog getting them to write an email

**epithet** · 06-26-2006, 05:40 AM

Thanks for the tip vangogh. This contest is actually not intended to solicit more links to other sites; rather it is intended to get valuable stories from our satisfied clients. In return they might as well refer us to their co-site owners, thus another clent(s) for us.

Yes you are right with the one-month free webmastering services as free...I was thinking, how about a day? A day means 8 continuous hours working on on-site SEO, link building, article submissions, etc.

I get your point chrishirst. That's actually what I'm thinking now. Some convincing techniques for our very busy clients. Any suggestions?

epithet

**vangogh** · 06-26-2006, 09:25 PM

I think you can still offer the webmaster services over a month, just put a limit on the total hours. So maybe a month of free webmaster services up to a total of 10 hours.

It's hard getting clients to write shorter tetimonials let alone stories. I ask every client if they'll write me a testimonial. All agree, but only a few ever write one. And even of those who do write a testimonial many aren't written well enough that I'd want to add them to my site.

You might need to offer some incentive to them to get them to right the stories. Maybe an hour or two if that free webmaster service.

**epithet** · 06-28-2006, 04:42 AM

It's really hard to convince busy people to spare you even a minute of their time...We can't blame them: TIME IS GOLD.

Your suggestion in terms of the free webmastering services is nice vangogh. Let me include that in my proposal...

How about if I prepare something like a contact form for our clients? There will be specific questions there which will require them to give objective answers. Isn't this scheme easier than writing a story on their own? Then perhaps from the information they wrote from n the contact form, our journalists will then come up with a short testimonial. Send the testimonial togethe with the duly filled up contact form to the client, let them check it, and if they agree with it, then that's it. Does that makes sense?

epithet