Promoting Free Links

[milvos]

I guess this is a no brainer to most of us, I have a local site offering free listings to businesses. Have been emailing potential clients 100 at a time to review interest, and last lot got 5 views of the site out of 100, so not great. There is no catch with this either, free links with URL and all. I am starting to think that I should try promoting the links at $200 each and see whether this gets more interest.

Have you found perceived value comes into people deciding on where they spend there money, basically if something is free it must be no good?

 

[MrCat]

A low yield on the email campaign you're doing is that it may be considered as spam by your prospects as I am guessing they are unsolicited.

Try including in your email that normal inclusion in worth $200 - but for the first 100+ submissions or the ones that recieve such emails, it would be free. That would certainly get you more visits from your email campaign.

 

[netzilla]

Are these local businesses to you or global businesses?

 

[milvos]

Thanks for the ideas, businesses are local. I probably need to try phone and visits for a comparision.

 

[weblord]

you can promote them here if you want almost free
http://www.namepros.com/npclicks.php