Showing posts with label cross promotions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cross promotions. Show all posts

2009-01-31

How To Make Cross-Promotion

Cross-promotion is an easy and practical way of promoting. It is a win-win situation to get more traffic and clients for your business and for your promotion partners. Both sides can get benefit from it.

For off-line promotion, the most common way is to exchange business cards. By doing this with related business, all of you can collect more visitors.
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However, with the development of science and technology, noe almost all the businesses have their own sites, so site cross-promotion becomes more and more important. Here are some examples of how to do it.

The most popular way is doing link exchange and ad exchange. Both you and your partners put the other side’s links and ads on their own site. When visitors come to one site, they can follow the link to another.

Another example is offering bonus. If both you and your partner run membership programs, you can provide your client who login to your site with additional product offerings, your partner’s inventory, for example. Of course your partner should do the same. In this way, both of you can get benefit from this.
Besides, you can learn from other successful business. It is advisable to take a look at what other successful business in your market sector are doing, and maybe you can get some good ideas from them.

2009-01-22

What is Cross Promotion?

Cross promotion is one of the advertising forms that involve two or more parties. Cross promotion is a trend to promote marketing business. It’s a good way to attract other people to help you with promotion of your products. Each party helps the other ones to promote their products or services.

Visa is one of the good examples of effective cross promotions. They use cross promotion form to promote their product. They mention a store or whatever in their commercials. The commercials from Yourname.com talk about all that you can buy on "Yourname.com," and what a great place it is for buying that product. Then they will mention in the ads place the Visa credit card.

The above example is the most common. There are also several other different forms of cross promotion. What you need to do is to attract other companies to promote your products.

Cross promotion is a great way to advertise your product or service, but it might not be as easy to get going, such as the radio station. However, there exists the problem with cross promotions. The fact is that many of the companies won't take you seriously. Maybe you have to prove to them that you have enough audience and they could get benefit from this.

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2008-10-28

The secret behind cross-promotion

Nowadays, cross-promotions are very popular. Then what’s secret behind it?

According to Anderson, president of the Compelling Comminications Group, critical mass may be one of the factors. Some companies follow others to run joint promotions. Or many companies see the benefit getting from the cross-promtions, including brad-awareness and cash earning.

The motivation sounds simple, but it is not to say that cross-promotion is very easy to do. If you don’t plan well before you start, you may not only waste your time but money.

In oder to reach the goal of promising new markets and customers, you should work with a company that is reputable and trustworthy. What’ more, if the partner can supply some marketing resources you lack, then that is the best choice.

Before starting cross-promotion, you should have the following question in your mind: Do we enhance each other’s credibility? If we offer different resources? Is the sum of our parts bigges than the whole?