The best way to advertise your business

[Kanu]

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MARKETING STRATEGIES (Advertising, searc engine optimization) Tips & Tricks
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.. The BEST way to keep your customers is the reliable services that you provide them. So, maintain your reliability at high and put your efforts to serve them better. ALL THE BEST

1. ADVERTISING

1. give time to time discounts of your products and services on your website
2. Make a chain of your friends internationally and tell them about your business and let them advertise your business to their end friends.
3. Make your affiliates, give them a good revenue for the traffic on your website.
7. Submit your sites to all the free and paid search engines. The best search engines are google.com, search.com, findwhat.com etc.

2. SELF PROMOTION

1. http://www.selfpromotion.com/ . This is the best place to start promoting your website. And best of all it is free to use. Self promotion allows you to promote your site to over 400 different search engines, indexes, business directories and awards.
2. http://www.jimtools.com/ this is another free utility that promotes your site to 400 search engines and indexes and over 200 free for all (FFA) links pages. Do not use self promotion and JIM tools in the same weeks since many of the search engines and indices are same. Compared to self promotion, Jim tolls takes a lot less time to submit to 400 search engines and indexes.
3. http://www.associate-it.com/html/main/300free/ this free utility lets you submit all the pages in your site at one time to 24 major search engines. All the submissions are done in real time; you can watch the submission results as they happen. Depending on the speed of your internet connection and number of different pages you are submitting, this may take anywhere between three minutes to a few hours. The good thing is that you can start the submission and then surf the Net as usual in a different browser window.
4. some other search engine site registration URLs are:
a) http://www.thepromoter.com/
b) http://www.announceitamerica.com/The_Announce-O-Matic
c) http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
d) http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
e) http://www.directhit.com/
f) http://www.goto.com/
g) www.yahoo.com
h) http://www.prweb.com/submit.htm
5. The most consider search engines
a) http://www.altavista.com
b) http://[email protected]/
c) htp://www.excite.com
d) htt://hotbot.lycos.com
e) http://infoseek.go.com
f) http://home.microsoft.com
g) http://www.netscape.com
h) http://www.dmoz.org
i) http://www.snap.com
j) http://www.webcrawler.com
k) http://www.yahoo.com

3. Advertising on different websites and magazines

-One of the best lists of places to advertise is:
http://www.uran.net/imall/mother.html - mother of all classified links
-The best way to advertise your business is to create an ad center website for you where you can advertise your website as well as your clients website. You can also charge them accordingly. So, here is the new goal- make a website called Web Store Engineers ad center ie. wseadcenter.com
-The folowing sites are representative of FREE classified ad systems:
1. http://www.websitings.com/classads/sites/278118.htm
2. http://www.links2u.com/?389414
3. http://www.adlandpro.com/default.asp?rep=16359
4. http://www.trafficdirectory.com/cgi/members/GP3612

4. Newsgroup forums participation
There are a number of internet forums (including AOL) and newsgroup where participants can discuss home businesses, network marketing, MLM. By ex-changing views with other participants, associates are able to establish relationships or make participants aware that you are a source of products or services or the business opportunity. The forums are a good sources for basic network marketing information and tips used by other people. Some of the more popular forums and newsgroups are:
1. http://www.mlm.com/cgi-bin/bbscnfg.cgi
2. http://www.mlm911.com/overcame.html
3. http://www.mlmforums.com/forums.html
4. http://www.mlmwoman.com/bb.htm
5. http://talkbiz.com/cgi-bin/mlm.cgi
6. http://www.mlmsuccess.com/cgi-bin/forum/dcboard.cgi
7. http://www.onlinemlm.com/ubbcgi/Ulti...i?action=intro
Newsgroups:
1. alt.business.home
2. alt.business.multi-level
3. alt.make.money

5. Free Banners
The following websites offer free banners
1. http://www.web-animator.com/
2. http://www.animationonline.com/
3. http://www.coder.com/creaions/banner/
4. http://www.stkusers.com/banners/
5. http://www.coolarchive.com/logogen.cfm
6. http://www.stuff.uk.com/banners/index.shtml
7. http://www.mediabuilder.com/abm.html

Hopefully, this document will help you to promote and advertise your business.

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

Re: The best way to advertise your business

Might want to spell check that post....

You also left out the most important means of advertising....print your URL on everything...letterhead, business cards, any published materials.

[Kanu]

Re: The best way to advertise your business

You are right Vic, but printing is more useful for offline business then the online.

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

Re: The best way to advertise your business

Not at all.

When you have an online business, you should take every opportunity to expose people to it.

Business cards are a must. If you do any kind of interaction with people.

Heck, when I leave a tip at a restaurant, I leave my card. They may not need our services, but may run into someone that does and remember us to recommend.

Letterhead, receipts, everything should have your web address on it. Especially print ads.

You are right Vic, but printing is more useful for offline business then the online.

[Red Flare]

Re: The best way to advertise your business

Heck, when I leave a tip at a restaurant, I leave my card. They may not need our services, but may run into someone that does and remember us to recommend.

I just had a similar thought about leaving card with a tip.

Is this considered "good etiquette" to do so?

[Red Flare]

Re: The best way to advertise your business

Kanu, good links list.
A couple of questions/comments:
1. You listed dmoz.org three times. Did you intend it that way?
2. The limited knowledge of search engines I have, tells me that most of the "secondary" SEs pull their data from the primary once: Yahoo, Google and MSN. Wouldn't submitting to the primary once cover all the basis?

[Kanu]

Re: The best way to advertise your business

listing of dmoz.org was the typo error... :(

[beglobal]

Re: The best way to advertise your business

I think nowadays with the internet has born a new form to advertise: Advertisment online for example i suggest to all of you to read about SEO (search engine optimization) and Marketing optimization too.