Ideas to Promote Your Domain Name
After you have spent time and money acquiring the right domain name and developing your website or minisite, the next step is to promote it as often as possible!
There are so many opportunities to promote your domain name to existing and potential customers, including:
- In your email address - after the "@"
- On your business cards
- On your company letterhead
- On brochures and leaflets
- On the side of your cars, trucks and company vehicles
- In your TV commercials
- On your radio ads
- In your signature on discussion forums
- Incorporated into your logo
- On tradeshow booths
- On billboards
- In mobile ads
- In magazine and newspaper ads
- In articles about your company
- In every incoming link pointing to your website
- On invoices
- On awnings
- On packing slips
- On press releases
- On white papers, estimates and proposals
- On packaging and wrapping materials
- On carrier bags
- On the product itself
- On product literature, manuals, instructions, guarantees
- On presentation folders
- On address labels
- On spec sheets
- In your email signature
- On your Facebook profile
- On lanyards, nametags and badges
- On newspaper inserts
- In your Yellow Pages ad and listing
- On your company nameplate
- On your Twitter page
- On your Twitter background
- On flyers and handouts
- In classified ads
- On brochures and leaflets
- On direct mail
- On the membership page of your local chamber of commerce
- On gift certificates
- On stickers and decals
- On promotional items and giveaways
- In your voicemail message
- On your out-of-office auto responder message
- On fax headers and cover sheets
- On coupons and vouchers
- In your Google Maps listing and other local business listings
- On your cheques
- On thank-you cards and greetings cards
- On corporate wear or uniforms
- In the sidebar of your blog
- On your envelopes
- On receipts
- In presentations
- In the "watermark" on photos and videos
- And every time anyone tells somebody else how to find your company on the web.
