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How to advertise my online business?

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my website is a travel website i am looking how i can get people to sign up for my weekly news lettter and also buy travel from me?

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steve

http://www.clownfishvacations.com

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  1. Write articles about your website or ideas.

    Submit your website for users to review, free!

    Post Free Classifieds.

    Go to Famous Pages

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  2. There are plenty of ways to promote your site.

    1)Article Marketing

    Really a powerful method in getting audience. Write a good article based on your niche topic and submit it in article directories. Just go to google or yahoo and search for "free article directories". It will suggest you a host of directories that you can easily submit your writings. When people surf in that certain directory, they might stumble into your article and you got all the fame needed to be successful in Internet Marketing.

    2)Blogging

    This method is just like the article writing. You write what you want but good contents for your audience in blogs. The better you got, the more audience you get. You can also submit the same contents that you wrote in blogs in article directories. You get instant viewers if your article is in top 10 within your niche

    3)Offer free stuffs

    It's always good to get free stuffs. Everyone likes it.So offer some free stuffs such as e-books or software for your audience. You will get a good, loyal and repeating audience. If you are looking for FREE e-books to market it in your site, check out this link.

    www.abc-netmarketing.blogspot.... provides a host of e-books on internet marketing. The e-books will be updated weekly. So hurry up and get your best one soon.

    4)E-mail Marketing

    It's as easy as ABC. Just promote your site to all your online contacts using e-mail.Write a good email that will attract your audience. If you got the contents right and able to convince your contacts , you are on your way to success.

    5)SEO-Search Engine Optimization

    Check out

    www.ezinerticles.com for HOT tips on s****.>
    6)You Tube Videos

    Use free videos from you tube and paste the links in your site. People like video tutorials better than articles or e-books.

    7)Google Adsense

    I strongly suggest you to visit www.abc-netmarketing.blogspot.... and learn about google adsense.If it's not the best, atleast one of the best income generator for your websites. Visit the link and watch the video tutorials for FREE.

  3. Steve, Here is a short list of ways you can get traffic to your site. Some cost, others do not.

    1. If you have any control over the site's source code, you can do SEO, or search engine optimization. Just do a search for SEO helps. What you will be doing is keywords and metatags.

    2. Join as many internet forums as you can find time for that have travel or vacation as a theme. You can't advertise overtly, but you can create a signature file with links in it to your website. As you contribute in the forums, asking and answering questions, people will begin to click on those links and check out your site.

    3. Start a blog on travel and vacations, etc. Write articles that are informative and have keywords relevant to both the blog and your website. Submit that blog to the search engines for indexing. You will get traffic because people will find you and want to see your website, and you will get links to your site that will make you look better to the search engines.

    4. Advertise on as many free sites as you can find.

    5. If the company you are selling for will let you, join travel and vaction webrings.

    6. You can also buy leads from leads vendors. Just do a search for leads. You want leads specific to people searching for good vacation deals, etc.

    Offline, you can use business cards, advertise in newspapers, make up flyers and pass them out, do word of mouth advertising.

    These are a few suggestions

  4. Things You’ll Need:

    computer

    enternet access

    a phone

    a phone book

    Step1First step, forget about google adwords and yahoo sponsored links and about paid advertising online all together. Think like the big guys. Your best and most effective advertising is off line.

    Step2Look around your community and see what is available for advertising. Radio is still a very affordable advertising venue if you get your message out at the right time. For a radio spot your best time is between 5:00 and 5:45 PM. Why because most people are in their cars driving home at this time. Second best is between 3:00 and 4:00. Prices will very from station to station, so call around for pricing. And don't forget the AM stations. Many people listen to radio talk.

    Step3Call local cable company for pricing, There are lots of homes with cable now days. And one good commercial on cable might be exactly what your online business needs. Think Overstock.com. You never saw them in "sponsored links, you saw a short commercial with a catchy jingle. Think about your sites strongest points and how you would put it in a thirty second spot.

    Step4Print is still a very effective form of advertisement. Determine why and who would be interested in your site. Is it a site that sales a product, or a site for people looking to work from home? When you know who your potential customer is you can then determine what type of print ads you need. Different types of print can be the local news papers classifieds, bi-weekly free papers, there are also advertisement companies that will print your ads for mass mailing, these are good because you can determine how many people you want to try and get your ad in front of, or even target the ads to a certain economic group by zip codes. The king of advertising print is the yellow pages. I have had success with this by havening two extra phone lines installed, one a local number and one an 800 number. These phones are for business only and I deduct the advertising and phone lines as a business expense. I use and answering machine to answer the phones and direct them to my website. If your voice is enthusiastic it will help, or ask a friend or family member to do the recording for you.

    Step5Another great way to advertise your online business is to advertise it as an "get free info about" ad. The way you set this up is to create a page with a web form. When the person goes to this page they are enticed to give you their email address and name and even phone number if you like to you and give you permission to respond to them with the info about what ever it is you are promoting. The "Landing Page or capture Page" needs to be written in a way not to give the whole store away, but to make them want to know more about this "awesome" product or service you are promoting. They then sign up with their name and email address, you then tell them they will get a conformation email with a link that they must click to get the info. This is set up with an auto responder with a link to your next email auto responder. When they push the submit button, it auto send your conformation email with a link back to a different auto responder, when they click the link it goes to another form page that says click here to confirm, when they click it the form sends another auto response email to them with your "sales" email describing in great detail the opportunity or promotion with the link now to your online business site. Why go through all this? The money is in "THE LIST", They can not accuse you of spam now, they have double opted in to receive email from you. When they request the info that is one opt in, when they confirm that makes two, their email and i. p. address is now stored in the inbox of your auto responder. and now you have an email address for future advertising emails. Just be sure to put in a disclaimer at the bottom of the email saying that "this is not spam, you have requested email from me about .....what ever" and then ad one more link at the bottom of the email to another auto responder for REMOVEL of their email from your list. This link when pressed goes to an auto responder that sends them a message that their email has been removed, it also send you a notice to do so. Now you are building a list of people who want to get emails from you on just about anything you want, You can even set up more auto responders that will send out emails every week or every other day if you like. Or create a news letter, If you get a very large list you can even make money by letting your readers post ads on your news letter. So there you have it, think out side the net.

  5. Hi,

    There are many ways to market a small business on the web.  You can buy banner ads, text links, or use PPC.  However, the best way is to get listed in a bunch of portals. Portals and directories are like phone books, and they often provide a lot of traffic because they tend to rank high on Google.

    This portal is giving away a free business card holder for lising your business (I got mine a few days ago in the mail).  If you want to know about some other portals, just let me know.

    http://www.directory-exlusive-biz.info

    Best of Luck

  6. You can always try to promote your business by giving your potential customer an incentive to sign up, like giving them a promotional stress reliever if they sign up for your weekly newsletter. Remember anyone no matter their age always love a gift you are going to have to make sacrifices here and there to gain a good customer base. Try checking out some stress relievers from: http://www.got-promotional-products.com/...

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  8. After an initial review of your opening webpage and the noticeable absence of any SEO metatag entries, it appears as if you or your web designer have intentionally not chosen this way of promoting your website.

    Perhaps you want to rely on outside marketing strategies such as purchasing media time.

    Good luck!

  9. Advertise your business on free classifieds, relevant forums and social networking websites. Monitor the response you get periodically to find out what works best. From http://ad5.info

  10. You can use Constant Contact.

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