Funnny how traffic can just spurt from a single source rapidly. A few years back, I was approached by the manufacturer of the "the phone thong," a leather cellular phone holder that was thong shaped. I bought into this item and was the first on the web to have it in a web shop. Being first with the item made me first in the SERPS, on Google anyway.
One morning about 7 months after I began selling these items, WHAM...I got about 30 orders in one hour for phone thongs. I had no idea what was going on, but I'll take what I can get. I got a call from my father during that same hour and he told me he was watching CNN's technology segment and the anchor mentioned the "Phone Thong" as an inovative item for cell phones. Folks who were interested Googled it and my site was there, ready to sell them.
When we talk links, I wonder if these alternative media links to the internet, i.e. Television, Cable, Newspapers or magazines have ever been explored as far as conversions go? I know I'm a believer now in power of being mentioned on television. I just wish I could figure out how to be mentioned again. What is better, the a TV link or Adwords? Magazine ad or Adwords? (in my opinion, anything is better than Overture search). I wish I had the ad budget to figure it out, however, I'll bet someone has already done the work, I just don't know where it's at. Any ideas?
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