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You've built your website. You've submitted to the search engines. You've optimized your meta tags. You've exchanged links with other sites. You have a newsletter that you email out weekly. You've advertised in other ezines. Well, at least I hope you have! You've done everything a small entrepenuer can to advertise their website. Correct? Wrong! Your next step is to GET OFF THE INTERNET!!!
Thanks to a new service by Cafe Press , you can now advertise your site off the web and get the word out about your site everywhere! Thanks to this innovative new service, with a few mouse clicks and the upload of your site or company logo, you can now offer your visitors t- shirts, coffee mugs and mousepads.
This creative service is different than most places I have seen. First and foremost, Cafe Press charges NO setup fee. Zip. Zero. Zilch. The service is incredibly easy to use. Follow their standards for the correct DPI to use in your graphics, and within minutes, you have an online store full of goodies advertising your site. There is no overhead for you, no inventory, no credit card processing, nothing. They take care of it ALL! Your store is created automatically, and you can instantly see what your products look like. They have set base prices, so you can mark them up a bit to make a profit if you choose.
For now, forget about potential profits from these products and think of all the ways you could use this unique marketing tool! The possiblities are endless!
Imagine several people at a large office sitting and drinking coffee with your logo and url on it. Or strolling through the mall with your URL t-shirt on. Now, picture yourself ordering a stack of mousepads and talking to the local computer store and giving a few away. Hang out at the coffee net houses with your url mug. Use it as a fundraiser for parks, donate prizes to local contests and radio giveaways, the list goes on and on. Whenever I wear my URL shirts, people inevitably ask, "What's that?" In line at the post office, shopping, at the gas station - everywhere! My goal is to get my mug on Letterman or Leno's desk!
With this unique service, you can generate an income for your site, or use it as a creative marketing tool, or, if you are smart, use it as both. Amanda Formaro spoke in a recent article about the effectiveness of website contests . What better to give away in your contest than your personalized website merchandise?
The more you get your name out in the public eye off of the web, the more people you will bring to your website! Never forget to leave your business cards in every fish bowl you see, tack them up on bulletin boards, have your url printed on your checks, and of course, don't forget to shop in your URL t- shirt!
To learn more about this unique service, please visit The ChildFun Merchandise store at and after you order your ChildFun goodies (wink, wink, grin), click the banner at the bottom of the page to set up your own store!
Jenny Wanderscheid is a corporate CEO and grassroots marketing guru disguised as a stay at home wife and mother of three. Her website, ChildFun.com is one of the leading parenting resources on the internet.
