If You Had $5,000 for Marketing, How would you spend it?
Please share..

THanks,
-C

Hmm... Good question.
I'll buy:
For 1000$ Links from PR=5~ sites.
For 500$ articles and submit in directories
For 1000$ banners etc.

It will be 2500$, after I will buy links etc.

Originally Posted by Woodcs82

If You Had $5,000 for Marketing, How would you spend it?
Please share..

THanks,
-C

Honestly? Ok here's what I'd do...

I would hire a person for $10 per hour pay him/her for an hours worth of work and spend the rest on myself...Bit greedy don't cha think? Oh well, at least I will get something out of the deal.

Originally Posted by Woodcs82

If You Had $5,000 for Marketing, How would you spend it?
Please share..

THanks,
-C

What am I trying to market?

If it's a soft drink, I'd probably setup booths giving away samples at sporting events.
If it's a news web site, I'd spend it on advertising.
If it's a site selling vitamins, I'd probably get a few late-night TV spots.
A blog? I'd use it to hire a few writers.

Basically just talkin about internet marketing, what methods would you use?

I'd get an online video produced for the product/service and market through social media. Sounds simple enough, but the depth comes in creative concept and target outreach. The beauty of an online video is that it can live on the web forever providing advertising well after your budget is spent.

Best,
-SpotZero

Yes I'd spend some on banner ads on relavant web sites.
The video idea is good if your product / site lends itself to a video.
Facebook has been very good for us, but I cannot afford the bids per click required. But if I had $5,000.....

I would spend all of them with adwords and with them i would have added adsense on my website. Here money goes with adwords and here some part comes back with adsense

Originally Posted by SpotZero

I'd get an online video produced for the product/service and market through social media. Sounds simple enough, but the depth comes in creative concept and target outreach. The beauty of an online video is that it can live on the web forever providing advertising well after your budget is spent.

Best,
-SpotZero

I'd probably go with this option as well.
Youtube at the moment is like "the second internet".

If I am looking for something I will do a search through Google of course.
But I will often do a secondary search just through YouTube results.
You'd be surprised how many small companies do well in YouTube rankings simply because they have interesting, compelling content.

If the product didnt lend itself to video (or if there were money left over) I would hire somebody to do some interesting and original research and post that onto my blog site.

Matt Cutts gives the example of a small company that hired a team of people to get a list of the top 100 contributors on Twitter and ask the team to rank the top 5 adjectives that describe that person based on the content of their tweets. For example Matt himself was in the top 100 and his adjectives were "intelligent, cute, boring, something, something".
Anyway, they posted these results onto a blog and that companys hit traffic went through the roof.

All because they took the time to generate original and interesting content.