Congratulations on becoming a Namada Agent! We are dedicated in assisting our offline agents market and promote their agent program both offline and online. We have put together a list of some of the necessary steps to marketing your new websites on the Internet. We strongly recommend purchasing your very own domain name and utilizing a marketing technique called URL forwarding.
Online Marketing | URL Forwarding
Benefits of Using URL Forwarding
To save tremendous cost on designing and hosting your very own website, many website owners and designers use URL forwarding or redirecting to point their domain name to a website located at another destination on the world wide web that may or may not have a long or hard to remember web address.
Improve the traffic to your agent website using URL forwarding. By having a dedicated domain name the search engines find it friendlier for their spiders to visit which will provide better ranking.
For example, visitors to www.yourname.com could automatically be redirected or forwarded to your assigned Tel3Advantage agent website. URL Forwarding is fast, effective and an inexpensive way to market your program on the World Wide Web.
Purchase Domain
Purchase your domain name I.E. (www.yourdomain.com) - This step is very crucial in any effective online marketing campaign. It is important to have a keyword (I.E. Long Distance) if possible within your domain name for ranking purposes on many major search engines. (I.E. www.longdistance.com) TEL3Advantage recommends www.godaddy.com for the purchase of your domain name. Refer to our Handy Resource section at the bottom of this page.
Domain Forwarding - During your purchase of your new domain name there will be an option for forwarding your domain name to a separate URL(website). This option will allow you to promote your new domain name without having to actually build a website. Once you select this feature it will ask you to select the URL you will be forwarding to. You will then input the URL(website) that was provided to you during your enrollment with Tel3Advantage.com.
Market Website
Search Engine Submission Once you have completed your domain forwarding you can submit your new domain to the many major search engines. There are numerous services that will submit your new domain to the major search engines. Refer to our Handy Resource section at the bottom of this page.
Banner ads - There are many sites that are willing to place a banner of your product on their site. Look into Banner Exchange programs. Refer to our Handy Resource section at the bottom of this page.
PPC Campaigns (Pay per Click campaigns) One of the most common ways of driving traffic to your website inexpensively is PPC campaigns. For as little as 5cents per click you can have targeted traffic going to your website. This is a common way for new websites to market their website to targeted traffic. Refer to our Handy Resource section at the bottom of this page.
E-Mail Promotion - Send a well-planned, customer-focused e-mail promotion to a targeted list of potential visitors (i.e. Tel3Advantage offers free minutes on sign up). Spend time on your e-mail's look and content: You want to offer value to your potential customers and not have it appear to be spam.
Web Affiliates - Hook up with Web affiliates hundreds of sites that all link their traffic to yours and get visitors from sites with related content. Refer to our Handy Resource section at the bottom of this page.
Online discussion groups and chats - Get active in online discussion groups and chats and always include your URL in your signature. (Don't do any hard selling, though. Most groups frown on such behavior and will think you're spamming the group.)
Internet marketing trends - Keep up-to-date and current on Internet marketing trends. This is very important for most major search engines often update the requirements for getting ranked on the specific search engine. Refer to our Handy Resource section at the bottom of this page.
Ask your existing customers, friends, and family for business referrals or have them sent to your new domain name or website. Put your website domain name on everything you send out.
Use off-line advertising for your product (print, radio, billboards) and don't forget to always include your new domain name on all advertising material.
When creating your own ads, make sure you understand whom you're targeting, the goal of your campaign, and how to creatively use the ad confines to get viewers to click on your ad, not away from it.
Use other selling venues like online classified advertising sites to increase exposure to your site and products.
Domain Purchasing
GoDaddy - www.godaddy.com
