Need suggestions

[Jack_Smith]

If one wanted to promote a new service or tool that might be of use to webmasters and bloggers, and reach them in as short a time as possible, what suggestions might anyone have?

[edited by: caveman at 6:31 am (utc) on Feb. 6, 2007]

[caveman]

Hmmmm, seems someone just asked a similar question.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Jack_Smith]

Is there anybody who can give any kind of suggestions.

[caveman]

The threads linked to, if you followed the link above, include some of the best advice published anywhere on the Web for getting a site going. They also cover quite a good range of suggestions. It's hard to believe you found nothing in there of any use. But if you didn't, are you able to specific more clearly what kinds of help you're looking for (avoiding specific product/category mentions, etc.)?

[hiredesigner]

Submit your tools to different scripts sites. Also you can use your tool in the forum signature

[Jack_Smith]

I just want to reach to webmaster and the bloggers. The tool is completely free of cost. Pleaes tell me where should I post about my new tool and how can I get the bloggers to use the tool. How shall I convince them. What should be the strategy fo promoting the tool.

caveman, please give me some suugestions.

Waiting for your valuable sugestions.

Regards
Jack

[caveman]

Hmmmm, OK.

Well, I guess I'd do what all posters do when trying to get good advice. First, I'd acknowledge help when help is given. In this case, because your opening question was somewhat basic in nature, you were pointed to a thread that contains links to all sorts of great advice. As I noted above it's hard to believe you found nothing there of use in there. When asked to specify more clearly what you were looking for, no further info was forthcoming. Only a repeat of the original request. That is probably why there hasn't been much uptake here.

Specifying webmaster and blog communities is so broad that it suggests the need for you to get some more learning about Web site promotion and marketing and traffic building...which is what the threads pointed to in the link above are geared to. I will reiterate: The info provided in the links noted in the thread above would be a really excellent place to get information and ideas about how to approach your target market, or any target market.

But, since that doesn't seem to be doing it, let's try this...

You have a target market you wish to sell to. No one is going to provide a list of every site you might wish to market to, or from. That would be a very long list, and specifics like that are against our TOS anyway.

However, the same holds true for anyone trying to sell a product or service. There are ways to approach the problem. I might start by doing lots of searching around the Web to find:
- places that Webmasters go for information about how to run their sites better;
- places that bloggers go for information about how to run their blogs, blogging tools, etc.;
- and to the extent possible, slant my searching to the areas in which my tool or service most apply.

So for example, if I were providing a tool to help sites get more traffic, I might search as a Webmaster would search when looking for such a tool, and see if I could advertise on the sites that rank well for those searches, or partner with those sites. Same with bloggers.

Basically, put your head into the place that your target audiences' heads are at, search as they would search when looking for a tool or service you provide, and advertise or partner with those sites.

Then I'd go out and, where it is acceptable, post authoritative posts or offfer authoritative articles that help establish myself in that community.

I'd offer incentives if possible. And so on.

If you're gonna catch fish, you need to think like the fish. Figure out where they go, what they want, and feed it to them. ;-)