There are several ways on How to Promote a Product Online and make it gone viral. Some of the techniques here are FREE and some cost money. So, it is great to know both types then choose which one to go later on.
Why Promote a Product Online?
Let’s talk about the reasons why we want to promote a product online. Obviously, it can reach worldwide audiences easily by using the power of internet. Another reason is the lower investment to start-up online campaign. There is no excuse for traditional business to stay out-dated!
If you have not had a sales funnel, you might want to learn using it first or hire experienced marketer to set it up for your product. Without sales funnel, your chances of conversion is really small and people probably not going to buy it. Sales funnel is just a set of system that filter your audiences from giving up their email, watching your product video, see your product overview and testimonials, to eventually buy the product.
Don’t worry about it. You can still promote your product without complicated sales funnel. It is just an option that you might want to consider in hoping a product gone viral fast!
Ways to Do Online Promotion!
There are many ways to promote your product online and show it to people all over the world. The path you choose can be very tricky. So I will explain in depth later on. Here are several mediums/options to promote a product using internet:
- Solo Ads
- Social Media Advertising
- Google Adwords
- PPC (Pay-Per-Click)
- Blogging
- Video Ads
Those are some popular ways to give your audiences the opportunity to check out the product. Depending on your budget, you can escalate your product easily if you have a great one to promote.
What is Solo Ads?
Solo Ads is basically a service that allows you to promote a product to other person e-mail list. Example: Tony has 1000 subscribers in his e-mail list. Now you come to him and make a deal. Hey Tony! I want to promote this product to your 1000 subscribers, how much would it cost me?.
The usual price of Solo Ads depends on that person. He can charge you between $50 – $200 for sending your offer to his 1000 subscribers. Note that NOT all of them will buy your product. So you need to find another person to buy this service and track down which one has more active subscribers.
Things you need to do for Solo Ads is simply preparing an e-mail that at the end of it is a link to your product. If you are a beginner, then you need to pay someone writing an attractive e-mail campaign that will increase the conversion rate.
What is Social Media Advertising?
Social Ads is the offer or banner shown on social media such as Facebook and Instgram. Those two are the most popular one. Some use hashtag and weird technique to suck people into a sales funnel.
Facebook is also a great place to promote your product using its banner to show up. When people click on it, it will bring them to your page and see your product. If they are interested, they might want to click on the link and get into your sale funnel. For more details click on Facebook Advertising here.
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What is Google Adwords?
Google Adwords is an awesome way to get visitors to see your site and product. This one however is more targeted. Let say you are selling an antique glass. So who you want to target is a household. They are more likely to be interested in your product. This can be done using keyword research and put your offer on the first page of search engine.
Once someone click on your ads, you will be charged 5 cents to $50 per click depending on how popular is the keyword you use. You really need a big investment here! But if your product is good, chances you will make huge profit.
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What is PPC or Pay-Per-Click?
PPC is almost the same as Google Adwords. The difference is PPC shows your ads on other people’s blog. Let’s use the antique glass again. What you want to do is finding a blogger that are posting an article about antique glass and make sure he/she has a well-established visitors!
You as the product owner can negotiate the price of how much does it cost per click. Usually it ranges from 50 cents – $2 per click. As you can see that PPC is much more cheaper than Google Adwords.
What is Blogging?
Blogging is perhaps the cheapest method to get your product gone viral, however it takes time to grow and built. As a blogger you need a domain name($10/yr) and webhosting(3.96/mo). That’s all you need to pay. The rest is hard work for building its authority and ranked on search engines. When it is ranked, you will get tons of visitors. And tons of visitors = opportunity to make money with your product. ( Learn more about generating revenue on a website here! )
What is Video Ads?
Video Ads is what you see mostly on Youtube. This kind of ads can be costly as Google Adwords. Alternatively, you can create your own video and link to your product site under the video description. If you have some money in place, you can hire professionals to create an enticing video about your product and launch it on Youtube. Likewise, you just create your own as much as you can. People will probably find the uniqueness in your video and decided to buy your product evntually!
That’s the quick overview of popular mediums you can promote a product. If you want to learn more for FREE, check out my recommendation platform that will guide you step-by-step from scratch to promote your OWN product or Other people product.
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Edy Chandra
Lots of great information here about how to promote products. I am just starting out and it seems like there is so much info that I might be going into overload or overwhelm! 🙂
Hi Patty,
Glad that you learn new things here on how to promote a product online. It’s okay that you don’t get them all. Slowly you will discover best suited approach to your online business 🙂
Take it easy..
Cheers,
Edy
Hey! Great post!! This actually really helped clarify what these sites are. I honestly would’ve just picked a random one to advertise my site lol. I’m glad you did all the dirty work for me lol
lol Alexus,
Happy to do the dirty work for you 🙂
Anyway, that’s just the quick overview of it. All of those methods can be very easy to escalate and profitable depending on how you manage it. In time, you will get the point which one is best for promoting your online business product/service. However, as for starting out, I highly recommend to do blogging as it builds the foundation first.
Let me know if you want me to do any dirty work in the future. lol
Cheers,
Edy
Hey Edy,
In terms of social media marketing; Facebook in specific I found that promoting post with great images actually get great results. Leaving off an image is a big no-no. However, whenever you’re advertising on Facebook you need to make sure your niche is something that is commonly shared on Facebook.
Have you used LinkedIn for advertising? I read somewhere that users on LinkedIn make 20,000 more annually. So targeting people on that social media network might be something you want to check into.
Garen
Interesting information from you Garen!
I agree that we need a great high-quality related images to advertise on Facebook. But Social Media is not really a good place to advertise, because people are not in the state of searching for solutions to their problems. Sure it can make some bucks, but not as high as ads on Search Engines.
As for LinkedIn, I have heard few positive results from different people. I will dig down into it and discuss it in the future 🙂
I like how you added the business person and they look very positive this got my attention to look further into your site. Also the explanation video about using AD word was a good touch to your site.
Hello Terry,
Glad to know that you like my header image and content. I will try my best to give insight toward online marketing with simplest explaination 🙂
What about clickbank and jvzoo for promoting products. The only thing is when you are new to this they explain how to chose products and how to get the code but not what to do after that.
I have really enjoyed reading your posts and you explain them so clearly. Thank you
seo is definitely a great way to promote your products. But since it takes a while to rank, you should definitely do some google adwords. Since it’s also great for your website`s ranking to have some traffic on the site.