After you have taken the time to create a web site to focus purely on your product or service, you will soon be confronted with the question:
How do I promote my Web Site?
However, before you dive into answer the question above, I also want you to ask this question:
Who knows the most about my product or service?
Just having the site alone is not going to drive clients to your site in droves. Research into internet marketing will soon teach you that you have many options when it comes to promoting your business online. The most popular are Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click, Social Media Marketing, Online Reputation Management and Affiliate Internet Marketing.
Now that is a lot of 3 letter solutions. This breakdown can either inspire you - as it might help to give you a step-by-step strategy or it might do the opposite and just confuse you and make you feel like you have information overload.
The good news is that there are internet-marketing companies that focus purely on helping you with your marketing challenges and they are the answer to question one (use an Internet Marketing Company). However, what you can do and should do is focus on ONE of the key areas of marketing your Web Site and that is creating the BUZZ which is the answer to question number two (You). The person most educated about your product is YOU. Therefore, you are the best person to talk about the product or service and build up the hype. Let the internet marketing company handle the technical stuff while you handle the social networking designed to focus on talking about your product or service.
Facebook is more fun than SEO and once you get the hang of it you too might get hooked on chatting away all day on what you already love to talk about - You and your product or service. If you want hits to your web site, you want other people to be talking about it too.
So you will need to get out there and start building up a buzz and spreading the word. Once you get a small wave going, others will do the work for you. This viral type of marketing can be extremely effective and there are new companies popping up that will focus purely on this type of business model. They will offer packages designed to simply create a buzz about your product or service.
What you need to do is let an internet marketing company focus on everything from SEO / Search Engine Optimization (improving your web site so that it is better catalogued by search engine companies like Google, Yahoo and Bing) to managing PPC / Pay Per Click advertising (testing and changing ads that are displayed in search engines like Google). All of your focus and energy should remain on talking about the product or service as much as possible and in every way possible.