I am part of a small online buisness(I’ll not put up a link to the website as I don’t know whether or not that would break the rules). and I am trying to figure out ways to advertise.
Right now one thing I am trying is I created a server with a user where I give out the password and started a server.
And you can go in and try out what we offer for free. Its really only limited by the fact that everyone can use it which means that if people want to try it out it wouldn’t be very good to play on so it is mostly to let people try before they buy.
There are also some various banner ads and google going on, but I was looking to see what other people have done as advertising gimmicks.
Speaking as a user, we hate pop up ads. Not as much as we hate those fricking Flash animation ads that pop up over what we’re trying to read and blast some obnoxious music while they advertise their crap.
Yeah, I’d never do popup ads. For one thing they are the easiest thing to not see. Just go to www.google.com and get their new toolbar and it blocks popup ads. Actually with proximotron I tend to not even see the embedded banner advertisements we use.
I was actually trying to think up more non ad related stuff. Like some little gimmick that would be akin to the badger, badger, mushroom type thing. Only it would have to do with our website. Something that is free and would be interesting enough for people to look at.
Like to expand on my username thing you can go to www.sparkgameservers.com and login with the user
username:testaccount
password:sparkgs
(I said I wasn’t going to do that, but I guess I really do need to to explain)
And you also get enough money if you sign up to start up for free.