What are the best way of marketing & advertising for a online gift shop?

Gift shop selling ready packed gift baskets %26amp; boxes etc....

What are the best way of marketing %26amp; advertising for a online gift shop?
Sell them on eBay or Amazon, you already have the online buyers gathered together, so there's no need to go after your target market from scratch.



You could also advertise your store on sites online buyers frequent, such as other online stores.



I also think it would be a good idea to buy ad space on e-card sites. People go there when they need to send a birthday/wedding/whatever card (and they're already internet-friendly people who prefer to send it by email instead of using a paper card, so they probably buy online too), so they would probably need some other gift as the ones you sell. Think of it as a great way to reach the people who are more likely to be your customers.
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Reply:I think the best way would be to contact many of the businesses in your area with websites and ask them to include your link (for a fee, of course.) Florists might be a good bet for you, and perhaps grocery stores if you are using their products for your gift baskets.
Reply:You may need to improve your website's position in search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.



It's called Search Engine Marketing - you can do a paid campaign like Google AdWords and/or Yahoo Search Marketing, or you can optimize your website for better natural search results.



Check out info on SEO and SEM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_Engi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEO



You can learn how to do it all yourself (cheaper but much more time consuming) or pay an SEM firm to do the work for you.
Reply:I would suggest putting a link to your place on another web-site that is popular, and has about the same type of merchandise that you carry.
Reply:Have you thought about ebay? You could open a store there and sell whatever you like from it...Check out this site for more information on how to set it up http://thebizoppnetwork.com/z/2169/CD159...
Reply:buy a quadrillion email addresses for $10 then spam the F out of everyone