1. Publish an ezine. Your ezine will help you to stay in touch with your visitors, sell your products, and promote affiliate programs you've joined to your subscribers. Get more people to join your ezine by offering a bonus for subscribing to your ezine such as an ebook, email course, an ad or access to your membership site. 2. Publish testimonials. Your testimonials will help you to get more of your visitors to purchase your product by showing them how your product has helped other people. In addition to posting testimonials for your product on your site, also post testimonials for your ezine to get more of your visitors to sign up....

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Think about it, how many emails do you send out every day? How many of these forwarded jokes, pictures, stories etc do you receive every week? Why not put your email to work for you?! Add a link or two to your signature file. Mine looks something like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susanne I am a Work at Home Mom Wannabe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You get the idea. You can start as simple or as fancy as you'd like. You do want to get your readers attention though. Make a statement, ask a question. If you'd like, offer something free....

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You'd be surprised how easy it is to turn someone into an e-shopper. The security of a shopping cart allows customers to know instantaneously that everything is OK and that their credit card number is in fact not lost in cyberspace. When gaining the trust of a potential customer, it is important to go the extra mile. I e-mail my customers numerous times to make sure they are happy with their product, and to ask about their success. All of this may seem time consuming, but it is worth it. My clients have come to expect reliability and honesty from me, and I would have it no other way....

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Are you looking for something unique or unusual that you can use as a free product bonus? Here are 10 that not only fit your needs, but are useful as well. 1. eBook Of Reviews - Publish an ebook of things that are related to your target audience. You could review products, web sites, movies, etc. 3. E-mail Alerts - Allow your customers to sign up to an e-mail alert list. You would then send them an alert whenever you find out news or information that could affect their life or business. 5. Personal Notes File - Collect notes that you've taken about your industry and compile them into a downloadable file or ebook....

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The day has come for your new website to go 'Live'. After tweaking this and changing that you are finally ready for the herds of potential clients to bombard your website with promising loan applications. While you sit by your email program for a few hours waiting for that first application to come through, you realize that there is more work to be done. The first step that should be taken is setting your short term and long term goals. This can be as simple as writing two sentences on a sheet of paper....

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My wife laughs every time she sees me doing it. "What are you doing, honey?" she calls, already knowingthe answer. "I'm planning", I reply with a smile. She laughs and I get back to work. She laughs because she swears I spend half of my time"planning". But, if you ask me how I'm able to get asmuch work done as I do in only 3 hours a day, I'll pointto a black Franklin Covey planner with about a dozenlaminated checklists inside. Building an Internet business is easy. Seriously. I'mnot saying that it's not complicated, because it is....

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Everyone is talking about blogs these days as the magic money-making marketing tool. Some of the hype may actually be true, but I suggest you cut through most of what you read about blogs just long enough to understand why every business needs a blog. Right now, that's not to say this won't change, search engines are in love with real blogs. By real blogs I mean blogs that are set-up and run by businesses that offer useful content on them. Like every successful marketing method there are people out there setting up fake blogs and dumping garbage, but keyword rich, content into them in order to trick the search engines into ranking the content highly....

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The Internet is connecting advertisers and marketers to customers from Boston to Bali. If you're thinking about advertising on the Internet, remember that many of the same rules that apply to other forms of advertising apply to electronic marketing. The Federal Trade Commission Act allows the FTC to act in the interest of all consumers to prevent deceptive and unfair acts or practices. The FTC has determined that a representation, omission or practice is deceptive if it is likely to: 1. Mislead consumers and 2....

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Did you know that, on average, only 2% of visitors to yourwebsite will purchase your product or service? Good news, you can improve that number, quite radically bycollecting subscribers and re-marketing your site to them. Two ways you can do that - a hard way and an easy way... The hard way is through just offering one-time offers or waiting for your website visitors to give you their nameswhen visiting your website. What can you expect to get this way? A trickle of email addresses, maybe a few each day that will grow into a substantial list "some day" Now, the easy way....

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FREE online classified advertising - the equation is simple. A business needs to reach out to more and more people on the Internet. Each website has a particular level of visitors, otherwise called traffic. In order to reach out to more traffic, businesses barter Internet online advertising space and thus increase traffic. This way, everybody wins. The businesses are more visible at no additional cost and the customer gets a wider choice of products and services. In addition, partner websites ensure better traffic for better business....

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Any small business owner in a B2B or B2C market has struggled with the decision - should you outsource your internet marketing to a full-service marketing firm, or should you bring employees in-house for your marketing team? First you need to define your marketing goals - are you building a long-term brand or just bringing a new product or service to market? Do you have sufficient capital to support a marketing team? Your budget for advertising (ie, Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing) should be taken into account when considering your marketing budget - for online companies this is the largest single cost....

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How much does an advert in Yellow Pages cost? How many enquiries would you expect to get back for that investment each day? 1? 10? 100? What about an ad in the local newspaper or a trade publication? They don't come cheap. When was the last time you heard an advertising salesman say: "If you're not happy with the volume of responses and sales you get from the ad I will give you your money back." How many times have you heard an ad salesman say: "I will tell you exactly how many people view your advertisement, how long they read it for and which ad they were looking at before they starting reading your ad....

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If you are on a shoestring budget and need to find cheap advertising on the internet there is nothing cheaper than FREE classifieds and they are literally everywhere you look. The trick to FREE classified advertising is quantity and testing. Test every ad that you run. And you are going to have to submit hundreds of ads every week. Once you have found a dozen or so classified sites that are working for you, you can concentrate less on posting ads and more on finding new sites that work. Stop using all the classified sites that do not produce results....

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