Starting website promotion suggestions (EUR 200/300)

[Hyra]

Morning,

I've kind of exhausted the free promotional techniques for my online community site www.artinvolved.com. This got me some subscribers and content, but not as much as i had hoped.

I did the:
- Email all your colleagues with a descriptive story about the site asking for feedback and tell them to tell their creative friends.
- Submit the URI to dmoz and the social bookmarking sites (the bookmarking sites don't seem to do much though)
- Send the descriptive message to the over-time-made facebook,hyves,msn people available.

While traffic, ofcourse, increased .. it's nowhere what it should be.

I do realise promoting www.artinvolved.com and growing it bigger takes a LOT of time and effort, but I'm quite curious as to where to put that effort in at this stage.

Did i miss any effective free advertising things, or should i get my wallet out already and do some paid advertising. If so, on where.

I read something about advt. on high-traffic sites like pixel2life.nl and the like, which sounds like the right thing to do, but not sure if that's the right step at the moment.

Suggestions are highly appreciated.

 

[Jacklin]

You can pay and hire some ad space on relevant niche website having good PR for your advertising .. Else try to promote it yourself via different SEO methods or hire someone to do so