How 4$ Idea can Increase Website Traffic by 1000%

Many marketers would recommend this idea in order to increase their traffic because its not only cost effective but also helps you in getting excellent traffic and brand awareness. I will give you a idea on this by giving a real life example.

Free Tshirt

Recently a friend, started a franchise business and was looking for promoting his products online and also getting people to know about his brand which is when i recommended him advertising in Google Adwords & also by going for few sponsored blog reviews with well known blogs which can send him some traffic too. When he tried to contact few bloggers they quoted a minimum of 25$ charge per review and also didnt guarantee a link and also a real good review. Anyway my friend still tried out buying few reviews to see how to works out and most of the reviews were dull and the bloggers didnt promote these paid posts which gave me a idea on going in a different way.

I told him to get in touch with a Custom Designing T-Shirts company which sells a Tee for 4$ when you order a minimum of 100 T-Shirts in bulk. Now the total cost would be around 400$ for him. Along with this i told him to start a page on his website where it was written that recommend three of your friends to signup for their service, blog about this and you get a guaranteed T-Shirt for free of cost. Now with a very less promotion this campaign went rocking with more than 100 bloggers signing up for this and since this was in a chain they would even recommend their friends to signup for the service and grab a free Tee.

Each Blogger would blog about the amazing service, the free T-Shirt and also refer 3 more friends, which would overall cost my friend not more than 4$ per review. Isn’t it amazing that the same guys who were charging 25-200$ per review now did the same stuff for 4$ and also promoted these blog post reviews on facebook, stumbleupon & twitter to get referrals. This can give you a idea on how to approach and get things done which would normally cost you hundreds of $ and still would have given a boring result.

Bloggers can also opt for this strategy by implement ideas like Offering Free Domain Names, Free Hosting Accounts, Free Mouse Pads, Free eBooks etc which can create a buzz in the blogosphere and give a special boost in the whole blogging world. Did you implement any of these strategies to grab website visitors?

November 10, 2009 By Amit Bhawani Filed Under: Blogging

Comments

Abhijeet Mathur says:

November 10, 2009 at 6:00 am

I totally agree with u..
nice info. thanks..

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Sujith says:

November 10, 2009 at 8:38 am

Good information. In this competitive world, only innovative ideas can win. Thanx.

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Pavan Somu says:

November 10, 2009 at 8:49 am

wow great idea amit.. ur friend will be shocked by seeing this result. am i right?

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Amit Bhawani Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am
yep, he is doing the same stuff regularly with different products being given out for free.

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Rahul says:

November 10, 2009 at 11:34 am

But amit what if he get many hundreds of incoming links. What if Search engine consider this as link farm and punish website?

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Avinash says:

November 10, 2009 at 11:34 am

Nice idea, Amit.Saved your friend a lot of $$.It will be nice if you can mention the site, from where the TShirts can be purchased.

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John Samuel says:

November 10, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Interesting idea. Surely such sort of campaign helps the marketers a lot

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Rajesh Kanuri says:

November 10, 2009 at 4:04 pm

very good and crazy way to attract bloggers and get some good backlinks..

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Narayanan Hariharan says:

November 10, 2009 at 6:54 pm

Can you tell us which custom t-shirt designing company you recommended to your friend? I volunteer for an NGO and we’d like to print a few tees.

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Amit Bhawani Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 4:21 am
We originally got in touch with a local T-shirt printing company. You can contact justdial.com people and ask them for custom tshirt printing companies and take quotes from them. Single/2Colour designed Tees with a small punch line cost not much amount and you can get them at a lower price when ordered in bulk.

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Jaydip Parikh says:

November 11, 2009 at 6:11 am

Wonderful Idea., Any free thing attract people. It works well many time. thanks for sharing it !!

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Kaushal Shah says:

November 11, 2009 at 6:22 am

Hey Amit,

Very innovative and out-of-the-box idea. It really must have helped your friend a lot in marketing. If you could share the URL, it will be great.

Thanks,
Kaushal

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Sanjai says:

November 12, 2009 at 2:06 am

Amit rocking with new ideas. This is ur success story.

Make others follow you.

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Jai says:

November 17, 2009 at 6:58 am

Yaa it’s true by this way u promot a site cheaply.But it’s not good when u pull ur hand early.Hope u remembered that u started a weekly contest.But in 2nd week u burst when I was on top and then u stop contest.

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Amit Bhawani Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 7:06 am
It was because of time constraints. I will announce a contest this week which iam sure would be helpful to you!

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Jai Reply:
December 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am
thanks for reply

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Mark West says:

January 4, 2010 at 1:21 pm

I really like your giveaway idea! It created the viral effect he was looking for.

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Money making machine says:

March 5, 2010 at 6:29 pm

This is great method , i am going to do this

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Ragz says:

January 4, 2011 at 8:54 am

Really a cost-effective way to drive traffic to one’s site. I heard you are investing a lot this year on promotional activities…keep up the good work!

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humor says:

January 4, 2011 at 1:13 pm

cool trick bro

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Saket Jajodia says:

January 4, 2011 at 6:52 pm

Great idea…. Will going to help many people in saving $$$ and making…

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