I would appreciate help on this...

[Nate]

I hope this is the correct place for this.

I am working on a little idea, and I do mean little. This will be something I will promote to a smaller demographic; people in my county and a few surrounding areas. So it is NOT something that can go nationwide.

That being the case, I have bought the domain and will get the website ready, but I feel like non-internet advertising is going to be a must, with just a little bit done online.

My ideas are:

• Some ad-words

• A mailer (snail-mail) to the correct demographics

• Flyers

• Ads in newspapers and appropriate local magazines

• Craigslist

• Ebay

• A local Craigslist type thing that seems to be used here more than CL

The product will need to be mailed and I hope to be able to take orders just on the internet. (Getting a real merchant acct. seems to be out of my reach now, I wonder if I'll be able to do this with just Paypal and something like 2CO for the time being???)

Anyways, I hope that is at least enough information to get some help from some people.

• How can I best test this to see if there is even a market before going gung-ho?

• Are there other advertising avenues or ones on my list that should not be done?

• What about the idea of advertising on Craigslist/ebay/CL substitute, prematurely with the intent of checking interest and capturing email address?
• Would a small adwords campaign also accomplish the same thing?

I would appreciate any feedback from you marketers out there. I know I have to go be missing a lot. Thanks.
-Nate

 

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[Nate]

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Epz nusi sitquptit gsun KTduvv us epzupi esi nadj eqqsidoevif. Vjeplt hazt, xjev e kixim ug e gusan.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Tqipf $50 gus e tquv e mudem gmie nesliv epf dsegv geos -- qmedi zuas qsufadv vjisi epf hiv giifcedl. Us, eqqsuedj tuniupi xovj e cuuvj epf uggis vjin e gmev gii us dunnottoup vu qmedi zuas qsufadv.

Tuapft moli zua'si tvomm op nesliv sitiesdj nufi wt tvesv-aq nufi.

 

[Nate]

Ziej, nesliv sitiesdj. Vjeplt gus vji jimq.

 

[Nate]

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