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gprentice

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The more designer folk that visit this (our site).. the more our images are viewed... the more likely they are to be purchased...

The marketing ideas are not the domain of the admin folk alone... many ideas make selection of what to use, better...

May I suggest that we share some marketing ideas... to lift those 10% YoY numbers.

One idea that I have seen work is to promote a "referral programme" - that is to directly reward members who refer new users to the site - who then go on to make a purchase.

This works by using a link from your own site or by asking the new comers to use your membership number as they register to the site. This is collected by the site and the referrer is rewarded by a "clip of the sales" for the following 12 months. It does not have to be the photographers own pic that gets downloaded, but rather any pic from the site.

Such a direct reward encourages the kind of behaviour that Phil has talked about in the Photo Sales 2014 discussion.

.. Ok that is my 2 cents/ first idea... other direct suggestions welcomed?

Graham

eyeball

Posts 34
yes good idea

Another idea is for greater use of social media, especially facebook. I guess most of us here have a facebook presence and we could all like MCB and post to it etc, could work in spreading the news

mychillybin team

Posts 637
One clarification, the double digit annual growth achieved over the last few years is not 10% pa; Annual sales growth has always been in the mid 20's to mid 30's % range, and at times higher.

Ideas to help mychillybin grow sales even faster are always very welcome and helpful. Roll on the good ideas.

Often even unusual initial ideas can be refined further and then used to good effect, so don't hold back with any ideas you may have. One point though - if you have any particularly unusual ideas, then please email them direct to [email protected] so that we don't share them with our competitors on this forum.

cheers for now
the chillys

gprentice

Posts 72
radical .. yes... but have you considered a name change?

people searching for NZ photos (new designers) would not guess MBC...

.. even if there are alias sites that point here (of course there may be already...)

mychillybin team

Posts 637
Thanks Graham - always willing to consider radical ideas - being an entrepreneur at heart.

We have a couple more strategic steps to roll out yet relating to name - just waiting for the right time for both of these; these should give us more of the benefits of generic word names for search and let us keep the great current benefits of the distinctive mychillybin name too for brand and domain name.

cheers for now
the Chillys
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