June 24 at 10:24am

Cheat Sheet #4:Jon Reiss’ Web Marketing List

Today’s post is again brought to you courtesy of Jon Dieringer, and is part of continuing series of cheat sheets from prior TFF posts.


Jon Reiss’ web marketing list:
1. Go to Godaddy.com and purchase a domain name. Get one that ends with .com. Get your movie title. If it is unavailable add “movie” or “themovie” or “film” to the end. (You don’t need to purchase any other services during check-out.)
2. Sign up for WordPress.com. Make your blog the title of your movie/ domain. Start posting press releases and other articles, such as reviews.
3. Sign up for Youtube.com. Make your username title of your movie/ domain. Post your trailer, or you can do a video “pitch”.
4. Sign-up for an account on Facebook.com.
5. Sign-up for Flickr. Get your username title of your movie/ domain.
6. Sign up for an account at del.icio.us. Bookmark your domain, facebook page, blog page and you tube page.
7. Sign up for a google account, to use their alerts, place connect with people who talk about you.
8. Sign up for Box Office Widget. Place this on your website and on your blog. Use it as your signature on forums.
8. Sign up for Spottt. Place this banner code on your myspace page, blog, and the thank you page from Box Office Widget.
10. Go to Yahoo! Groups and find all the groups that may have interest to your film and join. Participate in the group, rather than just spam the group.


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  • Brayden
    Flexibility is one good point for strategic web marketing. Your patience will certainly be tried at the maximum, but the effort is worth making if you track the web marketing strategy that can lead you to success. Without careful investigations you may end up with a marketing strategy that takes money and generates a low revenue, totally insufficient to cover the expenses.
  • GB Hajim
    Thanks for this!!!!
  • Ashley Meyers
    I would add Twitter to this list. Get a Twitter account and start searching for people who tweet about independent film. I've been able to find a lot of film bloggers on Twitter who have given our movie some nice reviews.
  • implantingideas
    nice post i find yahoo answers the best though yahoo puts the limitations that only 20 answers can be answered in a day nonetheless your cheat sheet is a must for anyone who is looking to build quality backlinks and traffic.
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