Good way of online advertising?

olouie

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I need some opinions on online advertising. I currently run a small business that sells imported premium tea online (with some local deliveries also).

We are currently using Google Adwords to advertise, but we wanted to reach a larger audience and were wondering what was the best way to do it.

Of course we are 100% against pop-ups, spamming or other types of annoying ads, so what do you guys think the best way to advertise is? Relative cost should be low to moderate.

Thanks
 

Ketteringo

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Post your website on popular message boards? ;)

I would find other sites that prospective customers might visit (other tea sites?) and ask them if you can buy advertising space, or maybe do a link exchange.
 

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: Ketteringo
Post your website on popular message boards? ;)

I would find other sites that prospective customers might visit (other tea sites?) and ask them if you can buy advertising space, or maybe do a link exchange.

That's what I would do, form partnerships.

Find some tea forums become a regular poster, put the URL along with a small tag line in your sig (within forum rules).
 

olouie

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Yeah I am looking for some good tea forums, most seem to be lackluster as I guess tea people dont post that much (or at least compared with ATOT =p )
 

DaveSimmons

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Try banner ads at sites with educated, well-off readers since most everyone else buys Lipton :disgust:

FARK.com rents out their top banner, you could try it once or twice and see what happens.

Try give-aways of packages at one or two of the most-visited tea sites, and/or becoming a sponsor.
 

olouie

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FARK.com looks interesting, but I am not sure that that is our target audience. At least looking at the other ads on there it seems the services offered are quite different and more geared tech / humor ;-).
 

cpals

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Pay me $20 and I'll email everyone in my address book to go to your website. :)