We love design gallery websites, and we think you should too. Here are three great reasons to embrace them and also a listing of a few of our favorite sites.
One -- Grass Roots Marketing
One of the most successful marketing strategies we've found here at EF involves getting listed on these sites. If you happen to have a product or service that would be beneficial to web designers or web design enthusiasts, you might be able to find some success here, too. The great thing is that web designers also have clients and even if your product doesn't fit them personally, it might be a fit for someone they know.
There's just one requirement-- you have to have a really great website design for your product or your business. If you've got that, then just start submitting your site for consideration and see if you can get posted. It's fast, free, fun and the traffic from a listing can really stack up.
(if you don't have a really great website design, maybe you should contact us and we'll help you out)
Two -- Paid Advertising
We've had such great results from marketing our products-- especially Light and Icebrrg -- that we've even gone to the next level of sponsoring some of these sites to keep an ad up in front of all of their traffic. This has also been a great source of traffic and accounts on our software and the cost per click and cost per conversion almost always beat Google adwords. Of course, our products are highly correlated to the market for these sites, so naturally there is some good performance there. It's not free, but it's still a great way to get yourself out there and also show support some of these great sites.
Three -- Great Design.
Even if you don't need to market yourself through these sites, I still recommend you check them out. They are a great way to stay on top of what's happening in the world of web design and even application development. Plus, it's just nice to look at good design. So, to get you started, here's a list of a few of our favorites.
Posted on
Wed, March 28, 2007
by Tim Wall