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          Self-Starters Weekly Tips

       Monday September 16th, 2002

 

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Welcome New Subscribers & Faithful Readers ~  I’ve got some GREAT Do-It-Yourself e-business tips for you in this issue! Feel free to forward this issue to your friends and colleagues. As always… Happy Monday ;-)     

 

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

1) What is Web Service Network… and What Can You Do For ME?

2) Your Success Stories & E-Biz Tips – Free Advertising For You

3) Dramatically Increase Your Holiday Sales!

4) The Art of Advertising Your Online Business

You can now view tips from past issues online at:
http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com

Last Week’s Issue Is Posted Online Here:
http://www.webservicenetwork.com/newsletter/sswt.htm
 

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1) Web Service Network 

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Web Service Network is a full-service Web Development company offering

  • Web Site Design
  • Graphic Design
  • Web Site Maintenance & Updates
  • Customized CGI Scripts (form, shopping cart, etc)
  • Newsletter/Ezine Publishing
  • Auction Templates
  • Ebook Design & Publishing
  • and more!

If you have a great product, or a promising idea, but felt like you couldn’t afford professional web site design… think again! We offer free quotes and free consultation… If you have ever dreamed of owning your own online business, now is the time! Simply reply to this email, or click here: Lynn@WebServiceNetwork.com  ~ I’ll help you every step of the way!

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2) Your Success Stories & E-Biz Tips
      – Free Advertising For You
 

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Free Advertising is the best kind! Send in your Online Business Success Story, Business or Marketing Tips, or Articles of interest – be sure to include your Sig Line (4 lines total, include that website link!). I will contact you personally by email if your content is chosen for use, with specific publishing date and location. View my personal Success Story as an example:

http://www.webservicenetwork.com/lynn.htm  

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3) Dramatically Increase Your

       Holiday Sales!

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Do you need a fast-moving, high-sales Affiliate Program for your product? An Affiliate Program puts thousands of people to work for you as your Personal Sales Team – and you don’t have to pay them until they make a sale! My personal recommendation would be to list your product at ClickBank – it is by far one of the most popular programs to use, with an exceptionally high success rate. Put them to work for you today & increase your sales dramatically this Holiday Season!

You can also set up a Member database for your site within 5 minutes for only $2.99 per month. Free 7 day trial!
Visit: ILoveMembers.com


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4) The Art of Advertising Your
       Online Business…

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The Art of Advertising Your
Online Business

Are you done submitting your site to the 8 major search engines? Are you ready for the real methods of advertising that could blow the digits clean off your hit counters?

The Marketing "Guru's" have focused on 3-4 methods of advertising your web site that virtually everyone has adopted, ignoring the dozens, if not hundreds, of unique and effective internet advertising strategies that work wonders.

Everyone is always saying use these 3-4 promotional tools and your work is done:

  • Search engine submission
  • Email marketing
  • Banner advertising
  • Ezine advertising

If it was really that easy, wouldn't we all be millionaires right now?

Here are 10 unique methods of online advertising that the internet marketing experts will not tell you about:

  1. If you don't publish an ezine start publishing now. Putting a classified ad in an ezine is fine, however, the trust that you gain from your own opt-in subscriber list is much more powerful and valuable than trying to reach an audience that does not know you from a hole in the wall.
  2. Get your ezine listed in the 40 or so directories on the web that list newsletters. Many people search these directories regularly looking for newsletters that cater to their particular interests.
  3. Begin growing a huge subscriber base by participating in the ultimate joint venture: ezine ad swaps. There is a never ending amount of resources on the net that list publishers willing to swap ads. It would only benefit you to take full advantage of this opportunity.
  4. Write and submit original articles to other publishers and make sure that you include a resource box so that people can find your web site and subscribe to your newsletter.
  5. Participate in discussion forums regularly. This is huge but often overlooked. Many people visit discussion boards on a daily, if not hourly, basis. Appropriate, helpful and intelligent posts on a regular basis will bring about credibility and name recognition.
  6. Come up with an incredibly powerful sig file and use it in every email message that you send out and every discussion board posting you make. This is the equivalent of a business card and like the offline world, if you leave enough of them they will drum up business for you.
  7. Come up with some targeted classified ads and use them in ezines (try to swap ads with other ezines if you publish your own). Also, offer advertising in your own newsletter as this will provide you with an additional revenue stream.

IMPORTANT POINT

Tracking your ads is key. Use tracking software such as The Ultimate Ad Tracker™ to assign a unique tracking code to all of your ads so that you can determine which combination of ezines and ads is working for you and which is not.

Using ad codes will help you track the effectiveness of your advertising. This will in turn save you time and money and help you to achieve your goals faster.

  1. There are many different ebooks and several kinds of free software being given away by the internet marketing community. Many people wonder how they can afford to give away valuable information or products like this. Well, they are earning advertising revenue. Many of these ebooks and software applications can have links or banners placed in them (for a fee of course). You can pay to have your banner sponsor an ebook or a software application.
  2. Online classified ads are not dead. You just have to know the right places to advertise. Aol and the other online services have brought me a profit everytime I advertised with them. They used to only be available to members of the particular online service, however, they are now available to the general public. I suggest you get there before your competition does!
  3. Purchase banner ad space on highly targeted, high traffic web sites. Banner exchanges have become passe but purchasing banner ad space on targeted sites can be quite lucrative. There are many services that can purchase banner ads for you for very reasonable prices.

BONUS:

  1. Start an associate/affiliate program and submit it to the associate program directories on the net (at my last count there were 50 of them and growing). As with ezine directories, this is an extremely effective and free form of advertising, as many people will search these sites looking for new programs that they can join. This will drive people who are eager to sell for you straight to your site.

Article by Marc Goldman, Goldbar Enterprises. Our web site continues to help thousands of people achieve their dreams of financial independence. Increase your traffic exponentially and boost your online sales effortlessly and automatically. Visit goldbar.net before your competitors do. 

 

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   IN CLOSING…

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It is my personal mission to bring you an assortment of resources for your internet business each week in an easy-to-use format. Most of the resources found in each issue are a result of years of research that I have done for my own internet business and others, and are shared with you with my positive recommendation. You can view tips from past issues online at http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com. As always, feel free to share this issue with your friends or colleagues! 

 ~ HAPPY MONDAY ~

Lynn Terry, Editor & Owner

Lynn@WebServiceNetwork.com   

     Web Service Network

http://www.WebServiceNetwork.com  

My Personal Internet Business Testimonial:

http://www.webservicenetwork.com/lynn.htm  

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