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Effective Marketing
Effective Marketing For any business to be successful whether on or offline it has to be marketing effectively. You are going to need more than a great looking site with fabulous products or services to obtain success. You will need to run an...

Ethical Promotion - Because it's YOUR Reputation!
Have you ever bought something someone recommended and then thought, "Man, was that a waste of money!". I certainly have! Did that experience make you less likely to take that person's advice again? Of Course it did! Why would I want to take the...

Making e-Business Your Business
If you don't use the Internet in your business today, even the word "e-business" may be a little intimidating. But it doesn't have to be if you take it one step at a time. Here are a few tips that can help in building and promoting your e-business. ...

People Just Don't Answer
Same old story. You sent an email to someone you thought would be interested to do your project and also would be interested for an additional client, but they didn't answer. You blame the person on the other line but you need to understand...

Submitting Your Site To The Open Web Directory: Some Dos And Don’ts
One of the most important steps in any site’s publicity campaign is the submission to the Open Web Directory (http://www.dmoz.org) as this directory provides search results for many of the most important search engines and online portals....

 
Promotional Tools for Online Businesses That Work!

Promotion...also known as selling. Not an easy task in today's market, but with the right tools you can succeed. What I know is what I have learned in promoting a.k.a. selling my web site, spiritwhole.com, and trust me, I could write volumes by now. But, to make it short and sweet, here are some tips that you can use to get your business purring like a kitten that actually work:
* Your friends and family. Yes, they love you, and most of them are more than happy to help you out. What I did was design a killer flyer and asked them to distribute them to their co-workers and the like. Now that's cheap labor.
* I wrote a few articles that interested me and tied them in with my business then, approached various sites that I thought would be genuinely interested. Most of them that I approached were interested and, guess


what, people are reading my articles with my business name tagged at the end.
* Donate a percentage of your profits to a good cause that interests you. This generates tons of interest in your business by word of mouth and by association with the company that you are donating to. And hey, you'll have better karma too.
* Send small inserts with your bill payments. Yes, with your bills. Traffic to my site doubled after I began doing this. The people that you pay money to are opening the envelope and depositing the checks that you sent to them. Why not add a small insert with your payment....they promote like crazy with inserts when they send you the bill. You're just returning the favor.


About the Author

Graduated UW, 1989, BA in Bus. Admin.
Owner of www.spiritwhole.com
Published Poet
Animal Lover