8 Tips to be Successful with your own JV offer

Most likely you have already heard other people getting all excited about JV’s and how they can help you build your online business.

Or maybe you belong to that group of people who are not familiar with JV offers, which is short for joint venture offers… also known as business proposals.

Either way… you can benefit tremendously from the following 8 tips to be successful with your own JV offer. Let’s get started…

1. A JV offer doesn’t require a JV partner to buy your products or services to become a JV partner.

Asking you potential JV partner to buy the product or service would be considered a sales offer and not a JV offer. A JV partner is usually offered a free review copy of your product or service.

Doing that drastically increases your chances to gain a JV partner as this makes him or her feel obligated to return the favor by doing his part of the partnership and e.g. promoting your product or service to their lists.

Why am I mentioning this? Yes, you guessed it right… I had people contact me to do a JV with them and when I asked for a review copy to check first the value of the product… I was referred to their sales page!

2. A JV offer has to be a win/win or better a WIN/win.

A JV offer has to provide your JV partner with one or more additional benefits for becoming your partner… his WIN. Your win will e.g. be to be able to tab into your JV artners list and gaining extra sales.

A JV offer that offers a win/win could e.g. be:

“I am looking for JV partners that can promote my product or service to their list of contacts.

In return for you are recommending my product or service to your list, I will not only provide you with a free review copy of my product or service, but also pay you a 10% higher commission than regular affiliates.”

Another example… a JV offer for a service you provide could e.g. offer this:

“I am looking for a JV partner who needs a small to medium sized software product developed in Visual Basic. I can offer to do that for you free of charge in return of 10% of the profits you generate selling that software for the first year starting at your first sale and 5% for the time after the first year.”

Again, a win-win situation… the JV partner has a product without out of pocket expense that he can sell exclusively to his lists, his WIN. And you can earn royalties for live without your own list.

3. Don’t make the initial JV proposals too lengthy. Especially when you propose to a well know marketer, this can be the JV kill. Those people often have very limited time and will not even read your message all the way to the end if it’s pages long.

It is better to send a short teaser email first and then follow up once they reply with all details.

4. Make your potential JV partner feel like you’re a peer and not a salesperson.

Do your research before you send your first email to a potential JV partner.

Make the style of your JV offer personal, mention details about their business and how the JV offer can help them in what they want to achieve.

5. Don’t let your JV partner do all the work, participating in the JV should very as little work as possible for them.

Be prepared and offer them to provide marketing material for your JV partner. This can be solo-ad copy, banner and text ads and other materials your JV partner can use to share the word about your product or service.

The less work it is for them, the more likely they will become your JV partner. It is that simple.

6. Don’t just go only for the big player.

Overlooking smaller publishers that have a very loyal and responsive list can be another mistake. Besides, those will be much more likely interested in your JV offer as they are not flooded with them (yet).

7. Show them how you can help their clients and customers.

Give an example how your product or service compliments your potential JV partners own products or services. This way you help them to provide an even better service to their clients and customers.

This will also build trust that doing a JV with you will not only earn you and them money, but show that you are interested in helping them to look good in front of their own clients and customers.

8. Test your web copy and conversion rates and provide details.

By letting them know your conversion rate, they will know that sending traffic to your is not a bottomless pit. They can estimate how much they will be able to earn by doing a JV with you.

If you know e.g. that you will generate 1 sale out of every 70 targeted visitors your sales page gets, then let them know that you have a 1.4% conversion rate on targeted visitors.

Knowing all of the above, your next question might be… where do I find JV partners to contact?

Here is a list of resources in alphabetical order that will help you getting started:

- Anthony Blake Online - Entrepreneurial Success Forum: .ablake.net/forum/

- JV-Network: Free membership site to become a JV partner of top marketing experts or to post your own JV offers for a fee: add2it.com/see.pl?JVnetwork

- jvAlert: Paid membership site to become a JV partner of top marketing experts, post your own JV offers and search their offers database: add2it.com/see.pl?jvAlert

- jvAlert Member Forums: .jvalert.com/forums/

- JV Money Makers Forum: jvmoneymakers.com/forum/

- Mark Hendricks’s Inner Circle Marketing Forum: Free section to post and find JV offers: .hunteridge.com/forum/members/

- Mark Hendricks’s JVdealmaker Players Club Forum: Free section to post and find JV offers .jvdealmaker.com/members/

- Michael Green’s “How To” Internet Marketing Forum: .howtocorp.com/forum/

- MikeFilsaime’s Marketing Forum: Free section to post and find JV offers .1sitemanager.com/forum/

- The Warrior Forum: Free section to post and find JV offers (Note: Before posting, first post helpful feedback in other sections of the forum) .warriorforum.com/forum/

- Warrior Discussion Forum: Free section to post and find JV offers (Note: Before posting, first post helpful feedback in other sections of the forum) .warriordiscussion.com/forum/

10 Steps to Getting Paid for Your Marketing Materials

How many times have you heard the same sound bites come out of your mouth to your clients, prospects, and audiences, almost boring yourself to tears in the process? Imagine generating money directly from those sound bites, from those pearls of wisdom that effortlessly trip off your tongue. Yes, it is completely possible, and here’s how to do it.

1. Capture those tidbits of information as soon as they come to mind. Jot them down in a notebook or get them into a Word document. They can be in a raw format, with just enough information to jog your thinking about what you mean. There will be time to refine them later.

2. Let a couple weeks go by, allowing most of the information to surface in your thoughts. It rarely happens by declaring two hours on a Thursday afternoon to sit at your computer to think of it all.

3. Refine and organize the tips. Divide them into categories and edit the text. Use a writing style similar to what you are reading here.

4. Be sure to include your contact details so readers can easily reach you. Add a brief section about your background so people will know your qualifications for presenting the information.

5. Hire a graphic designer to make the words look good on the page. Your completed product will be a tips booklet measuring about 3

Merchants Earn More After Affiliate Marketing

An attraction of affiliate marketing is the savings that the merchant will gain when he no longer conducts his own advertising and publicity. Some merchants, who already have a well-established affiliate marketing program, no longer bother to conduct any activity that will lead to more sales. Such may not impair the current sales of the online business, but it failed to tap into another avenue of selling that can increase the revenue of the online business.

Thus, the merchant must still conduct some form of advertising even when he has an effective affiliate marketing program, and even when he has hundreds of affiliates conducting the promotions for him. The merchant must look into making a second or even a third sale to the customers he acquired. Such is called back-end selling. The practice of back-end selling can complement affiliate marketing.

Here are some ways that a merchant can perform back-end selling:

Newsletters &ndash Whether through email or sent through snail mail, these publications are perfect avenues to introduce the other products of the merchant. These other products are the back-end products. Therefore, in the merchant’s website, there should be a part where the customer is asked whether he would like to receive free newsletters from the online company. If the customer clicks yes, then this customer will be taken to a page that will ask for his email or mailing address.

Thank You Letters &ndash Sending a thank you letter for patronizing the merchant’s products is not just a form of courtesy. It is a wise business practice. With the thank you letter, the merchant must mention the back-end product.

Customer Satisfaction Calls &ndash If the merchant is not comfortable in writing brilliant thank you letters, he may choose to give the customer a phone call. During the phone call, the merchant will check if the customer was happy about the product they already bought. This call shows a concern for the customer. But it is again an avenue for back-end selling. The merchant will attempt to mention the back-end products.

Customers Only &ndash In the website of the merchant, there will be a webpage that can be accessed only by its customers. When a visitor has become a paying customer due to affiliate marketing, this paying customer can go to the webpage that contains more about the product that he has bought. In that same page, there may be ads for the back-end products

Back-end selling for the merchant becomes easier because the customer has already given his trust after the initial sale brought by affiliate marketing.

MySpace Marketing

With the ever-growing popularity of internet social groups, MySpace has become the leader. MySpace has become so popular; it has spawned a whole market of new business opportunity through marketing and advertising. No other website in the world allows one person the ability to communicate with millions of people with the click of a button. This has allowed e-commerce a new channel of communication with potential customers.

Now most people wouldn’t look at MySpace from a business perspective, but e-businesses and artists realize that MySpace is a goldmine of business opportunity. MySpace is the internet’s largest un-tapped marketing resource. 75 million plus users, 15 million daily unique logins, 240,000 new users per day, and nearly 30 billion monthly page views - that’s 10,593 page views per second. This is a network where the majority of people don’t even see the marketing value.

MySpace has been continually evolving, changing with the wants and needs of its users. They have given Musicians and Bands the ability to share their music and group information with millions of other people, giving them an opportunity to expand like never before. Since MySpace has implemented the MySpace Music area of it’s social network, different genres of music are increasing popularity like never before, and artists are finding new and unique ways to communicate with potential and current fans.

Using this network as a marketing tool can be more complex than most people realize. There are many rules and regulations that MySpace has implemented, that if you don’t follow, you can find your profile deleted very quickly. They do not allow spamming in any form. This means, you cannot setup a profile to mainly do business. MySpace is built around the casual users, so you have to disguise yourself as one. The goal is to look like a casual user, with much to offer to other users, and have TONS of friends. The best way to reach everyone is through group bulletins. These bulletins will go out to everyone on your friends list with one message. Just like a mass e-mail. But again, do not make these seem like an advertisement, of you will find your friends reporting you to the MySpace authorities very quickly. There are tons of other tips and tricks to utilize the MySpace market to it’s fullest.

Take my advice, and do some research. There are tons of articles and blogs on the topic of MySpace marketing such as MySpace Trends. Blogs like these contain so much information on promoting your e-business or music through MySpace.

Marketing Secrets Of A Class Clown

Creating a strong brand and establishing a leadership position in the marketplace is one of a franchisor’s greatest obligations. Most franchise companies, at least when they’re getting started, have underwhelming ad budgets with which to do this. Too often, they take a cautious marketing approach, wary of making a mistake. They end up taking the most obvious, logical course, and become indistinguishable from the rest of the pack. Those who create break-through brands are rule-breakers. They understand the power of a bold idea, undiluted. Though they may have been A-students, they know the Marketing Secrets of the Class Clown (MSCC).

Here’s how I learned the MSCC. I was class clown laureate of Sacred Heart Grammar School and, later, a clown-in-residence while attaining my highly prized Masters degree in Fiction Writing. I proceeded, to the continued delight of my parents, to become a banjo-playing street musician, appearing outside of some of Chicago’s finest venues. Street music was actually the best possible preparation for my career as a marketing and brand development guru. When your business model includes giving away your product away for free, then convincing your customers they should pay you for it anyway, you learn to engage and delight quickly, or else.

Sometimes it takes a village (idiot)

A couple of decades ago, in the mystical land of Ohio, I registered for a banjo contest at an upcoming festival. I regretted it as soon as I arrived. There was a sea of spectators, most looking (intentionally or unintentionally) like civil war reenactors. There were literally dozens of A-student banjo-playing competitors, all joined by the common bond of being at least twice as good as me. Halfway through the competition, the emcee called my name and I climbed reluctantly onto the stage, clad in a derby hat, paisley pants and rainbow suspenders. The reenactors started to chuckle. The emcee asked me how many banjo contests I had been in.

“Including this one?” I asked.

“Yes, including this one,” he said.

I thought hard for a few moments, then answered, “One.”

The crowd broke into such uproarious laughter that it frightened me. They kept laughing and laughing, like this was the funniest joke they had ever heard. Sizing up the situation, I ditched the difficult tune I planned to play, and launched into my comic “Schizophrenic Dueling Banjos,” in which I frenetically play both parts of the famous tune.

The applause was thunderous. I took a technically undeserved 3rd place out of about 40, and was a celebrity for the rest of the day. Among the serious banjoists there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth. A class clown had beaten the A-students.

It was an important marketing revelation for me. All the serious, technically proficient competitors were all playing the same tunes. They were all trying so hard to do what they were supposed to, trying so hard not to make a mistake, that they became indistinguishable from one another. The crowd wasn’t there for technical proficiency: they wanted some fun on a Sunday afternoon. Some personality. Some entertainment. Some relief.

Send in the clowns

In the late 70s, before my freshman year in college, we all had to submit pictures to the frosh publication the New Student Record. Every guy sent his coolest picture, the one where he’s leaning against the fake birch tree, his puka shell necklace visible from his open shirt. The idea, you see, was to get chicks. I felt so pathetic as I looked through my pictures that I took a quick shot of myself wearing a Groucho Marx nose & glasses, and sent it in. When the NSR was published, I was flooded with calls from people who wanted to meet me. In fact, every time I’ve risked looking exceedingly stupid, I’ve been rewarded in some way.

The point is not that humor is the appropriate approach to every ad campaign. It’s not. But nonconformity usually is. Your goal is to engage interest. To stand out. To distinguish yourself from the pack. When it comes to CFO, hire the A-student. But when it comes to calling attention to yourself, you need the guy who sat in the back row. In the big classroom microcosm of the business world, you need to hire the class clown, and let him or her go to work.

In fact, I’ll wager you this: next time you see a really great ad or commercial, one worth talking about later, it was created by a class clowns working for A-students who understand that caution can be the most reckless approach of all.

9 Packaging Trends That Will “Connect” You With Consumers

Today’s consumer is a moving target. Choosing the right consumer and the right demographic to target is an important decision. Monitoring what is hot and what’s not can dramatically influence a package design’s success or failure. Package design is an integral way to connect with your customer. But do you clearly understand the needs and wants of these elusive markets?

Understand the customer is critical. The problem today is that one package may not satisfy the needs and requirements of all buyers.

There are many niche markets out there and each one requires specialized packaging. So if you are targeting one of those, do your research first. What works for one target market may not work for another. So….

1) Find out what package attributes appeal to the customer you are targeting. If it is a harried homemaker shopping for your product then convenience of use had better be at the top of the list. Those over 50 are seeking convenience too but issues like the size of print on the package and ease of use top their priority list. Make sure your package employs the characteristics that appeal to your target market.

2) Understand how the package will be used. Families no longer sit and eat a meal with everyone at the same time. There are special diet requirements or dieting in general in most households. It’s not uncommon to serve different meals to different individuals. Package sizes will vary accordingly. EX: People who travel a lot buy sample or trial size packages because they are small and easy to deal with

3) Know your customers current buying trends. Several years ago, we went through the supersized phase. There are still a lot of supersized packages; however, buying trends are changing to smaller sizes in general. To package smaller does not mean less profit, in many cases it means more. Consumers are willing to pay a premium for convenience, ease of use and a smaller quantity. Remember the three premium baking potatoes in a package cost almost the price of a 5 lb bag. If you live with just one other person, do you really need 5 lbs of potatoes?

4) Keep abreast of new packaging technologies. Creative, new products have the advantage in the marketing world even if their technology is not new. Several years ago, Metedent took the world by storm with the duel aperture dispensing mechanism. Recently hosts of new cleaning products have revived interest in this type of dispensing. Look for innovate ways to combine two products into one package.

5) Watch where people shop. There is a shift from traditional retailers to new and innovative store formats. The convenience store, once considered a low-end marketer, has now transitioned into store that provides premium products at a premium price. This evolved from the hurry up and go mindset demonstrated in today’s shopping habits. Recent studies are showing that consumers no longer make one big trip and stock up but make several trips a week and get just what is needed at the moment at the most easily accessible retail outlet. EX: The grab and go cups of snack foods convenience stores are now offering. This category did not exist a couple of years ago.

6) Keep pace with “hot button” packaging issues. This includes legislation too. People do really care about the environment and the amount of excess packaging. There is a move afoot to expand the number of vegetable-based plastic materials used in food packaging. If packaging consumers give these products their endorsement, look for other new products to surface. Legislation can change packaging mandates overnight. There have been “bottle bills,” surcharges and bans that prohibit the use of certain packages. EX: Several fast food companies are test marketing corn-based plastic packaging materials. Ex: Ban on juice boxes in Maine and aerosol cans in Chicago.

7) Security in packaging is becoming increasingly important. This will continue to come into focus as more people become concerned about product integrity. One major security scare could force everyone to change their packaging methods immediately. Look for new tamper evident and security devices that can be incorporated into your packaging. Cost efficiencies are now making many of these devices more affordable and will soon become mainstream.

Competition of various packaging materials is increasing. From the imports that are readily available to the merger and acquisition mania that is taking place, keep current on your chain of supply globalization. Certain products such as plastic bags that used to be the mainstay of American manufacturing have now gone offshore. Ethic diversity both her and abroad is demanding that all packaging be multi-lingual and people really don’t care where the product packaging is manufactured.

9) External influence of power players. The big box retailers are driving packaging procedures and policies at retail. Mandates from these companies such as RFID tracking are in their infancy. This type of requirement could become mandatory overnight. If you want to do business with companies such as Home Depot and Wal-Mart, you will need to include the design and selection of your packaging materials as per their demands and others will follow suit.

Remember, the customer depends upon you, the designer, as a resource. They expect you to keep up with packaging trends and technologies and provide the latest and greatest innovations the industry has to offer. If you cannot connect with the consumer through package design, do not expect your products to fly off the shelf.

To Pitch Or Release

The Internet has, without question, provided more opportunities and better communication between the media and business owners. However, it has also encouraged an onslaught of press releases for which the media simply can not keep up. This means, that you, the business person must either deliver press releases so compelling that they will shine through the proverbial slush pile, or find a better approach for reaching your target editors or producers.

For the very same reason that the personal approach works so well on the Internet with consumers is the same reason it works well with editors and producers. Press releases are without a doubt the easier route. Simply write and click send then sit back and hope someone with a valuable title will notice. The hard truth is that getting a press release noticed is becoming more and more of a challenge. Unless you happen to like standing in a very long line and hoping an editor will dig through a very deep slush pile to notice your news, may I suggest a more direct, successful approach to garnering press space? The pitch.

The pitch requires a little more work, research, and preparation but also nets better results. The pitch is really only a verbal press release. If you can get the phone date, you have a better chance of being heard, of personalizing the story, and therefore getting the much coveted time in the media spotlight.

Publicists have long understood the value of the pitch and in fact, the pitch is the number one reason publicists are paid the big bucks. Do they have something you do not have? No. It’s a tool anyone can learn to hone. Will you mess up a few pitches? Yes, without a doubt just the same way you messed up a few press releases. The difference is that you didn’t hear about it with your press release, which in reality did not help you. It is a tool that will require constant improvement but the rewards and both personal and professional.

So what does a pitch consist of? A pitch contains all the same information that a press release requires but you present it in a less formal way, over the telephone, directly to the editor or producers. It’s important that you take the time to prepare your pitch and be able to discuss it without reading it. Research the publications, radio shows, or television spots to be sure that your particular story will fit in with their theme and then either write, email, or call for an appointment to present your story.

Not only does the pitch personalize your story and make you real for the editor or producer but you will also begin to build contacts within the media. These contacts will eventually become professional friends that will smooth the road to greater and greater media opportunities.

Once you have delivered your pitch, asked for a time or space slot, don’t forget to thank the editor or producer both in the conversation and in writing. Be courteous and respectful at all times. Never try to talk and editor or producer into your story, as they know their market better than you do. If you get a rejection ask for a referral to a more appropriate market and keep trying.

Yes, press releases definitely have their place. A consistently distributed press release will keep you in the eye of the media, which can pave the way to a more productive pitch. So in affect, using both tools is the best approach. One is definitely weaker without the other, but together they make an impact that can’t be beat.

Overall, it’s persistence that wins in the long run and this is a quality every publicist has. However, you can learn the ability of persistence simply by practicing it. Keep at it and before long you will be a media hit!

How To Gain Link Popularity (Quick Report)

In this quick report I will tell you how you can gain link popularity for your website and at the same time your website will be receiving targeted visitors. Increasing your link popularity will increase visitors and you will sale more. For better result promote only one URL and not the entire website. Make sure you have search engine friendly meta tag and URL.

Follow the steps below.

Step 1. Search Engine and Directory Submission

Submit your website to search engines and directories. For best result, it is recommended that you manually submit your website to search engines and directory to the right category. Most search engines and directories offer free submission.

Step 2. Articles Distribution

Create or buy articles with the keyword that you want to advertise. Example, if you have a payday loans website then you should write some articles about it or find someone who can write them for you. I do recommend that you submit about 50 articles related to the keyword that you are advertising. If you do not want to write the articles than go to .getafreelancer.com or .getacoder.com and post a project asking for articles about the keyword that you are advertising. You must mention that the articles that you are buying are for redistribution. After you get the articles, that you will distribute, at the bottom of every articles you should ad the link of the website that your are promoting. See example below on the bottom of this article.

After all your articles are ready to distribute then go to iSnare.com. They will submit your articles to a network of 1500 niche content sites. There you must buy credit to distribute your articles. 1 = $2 You only need one credit per article. Also many websites are looking for articles to add to their own website, so you will getting a link back every time your article is posted to another website.

Step 3. One Way Link Exchange

In this step you will buy a membership at the IndexGuy.com link exchange. Link exchange is not a good practice, but you can buy this account because is like paying to directory to get your website added in certain category. Click .isnare.com/distribution.php link to go to IndexGuy.com and shop for a membership. I personally recommend the Bronze Membership for $6.95 a month and you will get 3110 inbound links (This number is daily increasing).

That’s it. Now you can wait to get listed at search engines and directories. Some search engine might take up to two months in order to list your website. But your popularity will build up with time. Just be patient.

How to pick free advertising methods that produce results

To earn any kind of money on the internet we all need to do the same thing… generate traffic to a web page.

But not all traffic is equal. And while some methods to generate traffic for free are a pure waste of bandwidth, others will really help you to generate an income.

One easy question you should ask yourself when choosing a method to generate quality traffic is:

Would I pay attention and notice this kind of an ad myself?

If you answer that question with no or most likely not, than chances are that many others will also not notice your ad. And this means it’s just a waste of bandwidth as people won’t buy what they don’t notice.

But if you can answer that question with yes or most likely, then chances are that many others will notice your ad as well. This method will in fact help you to generate an incom^e through quality traffic.

Now, let’s take a closer look at several free advertising methods and evaluate their effectiveness.

1. List Building Tools

TheListMachine - add2it.com/see.pl?TheListMachine

This free program allows you to advertise via email to twice as many people as you and your downline members have referred to this program.

The unique twist in this list building program is that it builds a second reverse matrix for you of people you couldn’t contact otherwise. This way your possible exposure is increased easily.

Members receive email from their upline at their regular email account and not a secondary spam account like it is practice with safelists. This improves the chances of your message actually being read dramatically.

One downside of TLM is that you need initial traffic to build a list. But their unique twist allows you to double your efforts.

Ask yourself the question… do you read and pay attention to well written emails that arrive in your regular mailbox? My answer is most likely.

Other list building tools in alphabetical order are…

EzineFire - add2it.com/see.pl?EzineFire

ListBandit - add2it.com/see.pl?ListBandit

ListInferno - add2it.com/see.pl?ListInferno

ListJoe - add2it.com/see.pl?ListJoe

MyViralAds - add2it.com/see.pl?MyViralAds

MyViralWebsite - add2it.com/see.pl?MVW

OptI^nStorm - add2it.com/see.pl?OIS

SubscriptionRocket - add2it.com/see.pl?SR

2. Banner / Text Ad Exchanges

Banner / text ad exchange tools in alphabetical order are…

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Banner Beast - add2it.com/see.pl?BannerBeast

BannersGoMLM - add2it.com/see.pl?BannersGoMLM

Don’t-Touch-My-Ads - add2it.com/see.pl?dtma

EasyHits4U - add2it.com/see.pl?EasyHits4U

Hi-Traffic Ads - add2it.com/see.pl?HTA

MyViralAds - add2it.com/see.pl?MyViralAds

MyViralWebsite - add2it.com/see.pl?MVW

3. Traffic Exchange Tools

AutoHitsNow - add2it.com/see.pl?AutoHitsNow

This free program allows you to generate traffic to your web pages in exchange for you visiting other peoples web pages.

Usually any kind of auto surf program has the problem that most people will not even see your sites and this way they just waste your bandwidth.

AutoHitsNow tries to overcome the problem by offering more credits for manual surfing and a random, but rather often offering of bonus credits during surf sessions that you can only receive if you pay attention.

This easy method of generating traffic will only get the attention of some people. It’s more or less a numbers game. Other traffic exchange tools in alphabetical order are…

EasyHits4U - add2it.com/see.pl?EasyHits4U

JacktenFourty Traffic - add2it.com/see.pl?JTF

MegaHits - add2it.com/see.pl?MegaHits

TopSurfer - add2it.com/see.pl?TopSurfer

TrafficPods - add2it.com/see.pl?TrafficPods

TrafficRoundUp - add2it.com/see.pl?TRU

TrafficSoldiers - add2it.com/see.pl?TS

TrafficSwarm - add2it.com/see.pl?trafficswarm

4. Publishing Articles

One of the best ways to get tons of free, super effective traffic is to write your own articles and publishing them all over the net.

To find free places that accept your articles, simply visit .google.com and search for: submit article for free

If you don’t mind to invest a few $ to save yourself hours of work, then take a closer look at this tool that does not only allow you to submit your newsletter to hundreds of places all over the web, but also your articles: EzineAnnouncer - add2it.com/see.pl?EzineAnnouncer

5. Creating Content Web Pages

Search engine traffic is another very effective source of traffic and highly recommendable. Simply create as many content web pages as you can. The more pages, the more traffic you will get over time.

You can publish your own articles, product reviews, endorsements and much more on your own content web pages.

Tip: To get your new pages faster into Google, the most important search engine, get your home page added to at least one high Google PR page (see: toolbar.google.com).

A low cost way of getting your own domain & hosting is GDI. For just $10 a month you don’t just get all you need to get started to put your own content web pages online, but also an excellent way to earn yourself an extra incom^e.

A final tip: Once you got into the habit of using free methods of generating quality traffic you will find the following program very helpful. It allow you to promote everything from a single page…

Home-Income-Team - add2it.com/see.pl?HIT

I am sure that you agree that the lesser you have to promote, the easier and more effective it gets.

Balancing Your Promotions

Promotion of your online business may take a variety of directions. Some will bring more success than others. Every one is important to consider when you are trying to open the door to visitors to your site.

This article discusses several of the more useful ways to promote and the necessity of keeping some balance in your promotional efforts.

– SEARCH ENGINES

Everyone needs to make an effort to get their site indexed to the major search engines. If you have no idea how to do this, here is one of the most important links you will every locate and it comes at no cost.

.Selfpromotion.com/

If you want more people to visit your website, you must know how to create search-engine-friendly web pages, and then submit your URL to all the major search engines. That’s what this site is all about.

– LINKING

Think of links on other websites as road signs that point to your site. That’s what links do. They will be useful if they are on high traffic sites that are relevant to your site’s content.

Now there are many ways to create and maintain links. Too many for this article to discuss. Here are a couple of pointers about linking.

Avoid “link farms” that create a load of useless, irrelevant links to your site. They may do more harm than good with the search engines.

I recommend that you create a links page and manually add and delete links. Avoid purchasing and installing scripts or other such methods.

If you don’t have the skills to do that then, there are some good paid services that will manage your links. A simple search on one of the major search engines will turn up a bunch.

Here are a couple that I can recommend:

.Reciprocalmanager.com/

.linksmanager.com/ and

.websitetoolbox.com/

– JOINT VENTURES

This is simple. I have something to promote. You have a website or newsletter. I will pay you a portion of my profits to promote it.

It can work well if you can endorse the item with a personal statement and recommendation.

Be careful of jumping on all offers. Make sure they are legitimate.

– ARTICLES

One of the least expensive and most effective ways to get some exposure for your business or newsletter is to write and distribute articles.

Publishers are looking for good, fresh content for their newsletters and ezines. You provide it with a well-researched article.

The trade off is that they are required to include a short resource box at the end of the article that links back to your site.

It’s a Win-Win situation.

One of the ways to let your article gain exposure is to list it in several of the online article directories like:

.ArticleToGo.com/

.BizSiteBiz.com/marketingarticles

.marketing-seek.com and

.articlecentral.com

There are many others. Just search “article directories”.

– AD SWAPS

Great way to get some no-cost exposure. If you have an ezine or newsletter, just locate some similar publications and offer to swap ads with them.

– EZINE ADVERTISING

Probably the easiest ways to get some exposure quickly is to locate and advertise in some selected publications.

Be sure that the newsletter is likely to reach your target audience. It won’t do much good to promote your “Yellow widgets” to an ezine which is made up of readers who are mothers of newborns interested in learning about how to mix baby formula.

You can also spend some serious money quickly with this type of promotion. Be sure and track your ads to make sure you are making money above your advertising expenses.

Depending on the nature of your online business, some of these promotional types may have more or less relevance for you.

Whichever means you use, try and keep a balance in your efforts that will allow you to most effectively reach your target audience.