One of the things I hear most often when I talk to people about promoting their websites themselves, is that it ‘takes too much time’ and they ‘don’t know where to start’.
Well, while I can see where they’re coming from on the second point, the first one doesn’t ring true with me. It’s not about spending loads of time every day, it’s about doing SOMETHING every day and seeing the effort pile up and bring results. It’s about not giving in because you ‘don’t have the time’ and not putting things off because you’re ‘not sure how’.
I love the idea of using ‘different’ marketing techniques rather than the usual same old same old. You know: “Make the price end in a 7″, “Offer loads of freebies that are actualy worth nothing”, “Pretend there are only a few places for signups”. I’m not stupid (I hope!) and neither are you, so we all know that offers such as that aren’t really offers at all. And every time I see a price ending in 7, it makes me cringe (sorry!) 
