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AdvertisingNovember 29, 2005 1:24 pm

Your online business will likely require more advertising than a contemporary business downtown, yet some new to the world of online business do not spend the time and money to advertise their business appropriately and are, in turn, loosing money. Your online business is crammed into the world wide web along with thousands of others selling the same product or service as yourself. Consider this scenario: In your hometown you want to open an art supply store. In that same town there are thousands of art supply stores. In order for your business to be successful, it will have to stand out in some way from the others. This is exactly what is happening when a business is opened online. There is so much competition, that you must take drastic measures to ensure that you are getting noticed. Advertising can be done in so many ways online. These are some of the most successful ways that you can promote your online business.

Advertising in e-zines is a popular way to promote your online business. Ezines are the magazines of the internet; they written on a particular subject and read by those interested in that subject. Therefore, ezine readers are already potential customers and advertising your site in ezines that are related to your business is almost guaranteed to help drive traffic to your site and increase sales for your product. You should be sure when advertising in ezines that you are not advertising along side competitors. Ask the ezine producer if there is a policy concerning posting competing ads. It is also a good idea to subscribe to the ezine before making a decision about whether or not to advertise in it. An ezine that runs fewer ads is a better choice than one that runs many ads. You can look at the online Directory of Ezines to find publications that are relevant to your company.

Pay-per-click programs are an excellent way to advertise your business without taking a risk that you have advertised in the wrong place. With pay-per-click, you can advertise you site and only pay for those who click the link and go to your site. Another popular pay-per program is the pay-per-lead program that allows you to only pay for leads. Usually this means that you pay for only those who download a trail, fill out a form or enter a sweepstakes; whatever you choose. Lastly you can display pay-per-click banner ads in which your company would be allowed to place a banner on their site and you will be charged for every click that your banner receives.

Opt-In email is a great way to advertise your business, however it is expensive and it can be misused very easily. Using opt-in emails, you would submit your sales copy to the company that will in turn email it to those on their mailing list. You should be very careful since some of the companies that advertise their mailing lists as opt-in email service is sometimes really SPAM. It is essential that you have a perfect and effective sales letter when using opt-in mailing lists. Without and effective sales copy your money and time have been wasted.

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AdvertisingNovember 25, 2005 2:59 pm

There are many ways to promote your business online and off. The first and foremost are “back links” from other sites that have relevant content to yours. Why relevant? Search Engine “spider food”! If you have a website about a home business and all of your back link text are about home business and the page your link is on has a good rank for the keyword home business then your rank will go up also! Simple and makes perfect sense dosen’t it?

Request reciprocal links for sites that are related to the content on your site. Do a search using keywords that you have for your site. Visit some of the websites that you find. Look to see if they have Link Partners. Many sites will have a link that says, “join our link partners”, or submit your site. If they don’t then simply email then and ask if they would be interested in trading links with you. Make sure you notify them of your home page URL as well as your Link Partner URL.

Visit forums relevant to your content. Only post if you can be helpful. Do not spam. That will get you a bad reputation fast. When you do post, include you website link. Don’t waste a lot of time. If you don’t see any posts that you can reply on then move on….In most Niches you can usually find several targeted forums or blogs that are related that you can post comments on.

Start your own forum! Many servers offer web space as well as scripts for forums or blogs. That way you can target your own forum to refer to your web page contents. You can get a 30 day free trial for my server. They offer several different scripts for forums as well as blogs. Just “plug it in”, and start posting articles!

Another way to get multiple back links would be to join a network of friends. Not only do you get to meet like-minded people that are interested in your business, you also get free advertising spots. The Network I have been a member of for over a year is Adland. I get a lot of page visits from banner impressions as well as my text ads. All free. Plus you can start your own forum there and invite all of your friends to join. The friendliest online environment I have found.

My favorite: Article Directories! Why? You write about what you know about. Your Business. What could be more relevant?! Include you signature/Bio with your website link. Be informative and concise in your article, include your keywords in the article. Submit the article to directories like Goarticles Other people visit the article directory to find articles relevant to their pages. They are allowed to download your article and use it on their website but have to keep your name and link intact in the article. Therefore, you could spend 30 minutes writing a content rich article about your site and it may be displayed on hundreds of websites! That affords you “unlimited” links back to your site. Who knows the possibilities.

Offline advertising can also be beneficial. Including newspaper advertising, direct mailing, placing your website address on your car, roadside signs. These will be talked about in another article. If your interested in these forms of advertising now. Simply do a search on your favorite search engine for “offline advertising”.

May we all prosper with health and wealth.

About the Author: Angela Cardwell, Owner/Manager Oakleyinernational
Concentrating on bringing you information about Affiliate Marketing and Website Design and Promotion.