Whats the best way to promote an online store. I have a low budget and am not sure wheres the place 2 put my $

Getting more visitors is one thing; and turning those visitors into buyers is another thing. If you are running an online store, you need to do BOTH.

To get visitors to your website:

1. Offer the best products. Sounds like a no-brainer, but your products are your best advertisement - if visitors love your products, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends.

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. Some sites that accept free press releases are PRWeb.com, PowerHomeBiz.com

5. Advertise only if it will get you targeted traffic. Whether you use pay per click advertising or buying text links or buying banner ads, carefully monitor your return on investment. If possible, get metrics to tell you whether the PPC traffic is actually converting into sale. Google Analytics can show that to you if you are using Google Adwords.

With regards to getting the visitors to buy more stuff, here are some tips from the article "10 Ways to Convert Visitors to Buyers" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/072005/conversion.htm :

1. Provide quality products or content. Good conversion rates start with quality and a great value proposition.

2. Grab their attention immediately. Put your most important and succinct statement of what your website offer above the scroll (e.g. sales pitch, order button)

3. Itâ€™s about the customer, all the time. Visitors will respond to your offer only if you can successfully make the case that your website exists for them, to provide them what they need and offer a solution to their problem.

4. Design your page specifically for your target audience.

5. Make it easy for them. Make the ordering process easy. An indicator of how well your process works is the ratio of abandoned shopping baskets to total orders â€“ if this is higher than 10 percent, then it indicates that the online ordering process you have implemented is ineffective, or takes too long.

6. Improve your site's copy. More than a tool to inform users of what the site is all about, the best type of web site copy explains to a visitor how your product will fulfill their wants, needs and desires.

7. Think active! Use active voice to keep your customers motivated and fully engaged in the sales process.

8. Increase trust factor. Trust is a key element of success on the Web. Visitors purchase only from websites they know will safeguard their information, provide them with quality service, and offer them products that are value for their money.

9. Build customer loyalty. Loyalty marketing is a proven technique to increase conversion rates and improving bottom line.
10. Study your metrics carefully. You must have a set of key performance indicators that you can look at every day to understand the pulse of your business.

depends

if you want whole year pack it may cost 500$ to ...........$

or u may chose pay per click ads

but they cost more then paying for year like 500$ ...... pay per click crosses more that 2000$ per year//if for whole year

and rest depends wat ads r u having (text, gif banner, flash animated banner, and wats the size)

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Start by also moving it to ecommerce by setting up a store on eBay? Starting a store with the same name on eBay would surely get you quite a few views, and possibly sell more stuff if its allowed on eBay.

The best way to promote an online store:
1) Use forums/bulletin boards/blogs to get the awareness out
2) By several keyword searches and banner placements. Omniture (Yahoo!) and AdSense (Google) are pretty affordable and try hard to help out smaller business with smaller marketing budgets.
3) Get your friends to talk about your website. Email your friends with a "FYI, I'm started a new business, check it out..." Most friends are pretty supportive about these things.
4) Put flyers in cafes, libraries, bulletin boards or any place with high eye-traffic, lost cost (staples & paper), and the right target. College students, professionals that work in cafes, and everyday browsers are your best shot. And they'll self-select into your site. If they are genuinely interested by the description in the flyer, you have a good chance of conversion by your site, otherwise, they wouldn't have visted in the first place.
5) Form a partnership, link exchange, or other form of professional network. You may drive incremental traffic this way. And if the referral partner is a legit, you tend to get a better quality of customer.

You should buy advertising space on a website, blog, etc. which matches the services or products you are offering.

By advertising while there are many free classified places you can advertise for free or cheap.

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