Starting an internet based business when you have zero marketing experience is, to say the least, bewildering. I speak from personal experience as I started out with no specialized knowledge. I gradually weaved my way through what seemed like hundreds of sites selling just about everything and tried to resist buying every white elephant that was offered.
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11 Ways to Promote Your Blog
1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your blog content and that your listing should be refreshed. Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes. Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse these sites to find something new.
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Yahoo! manages to utilize its huge network of websites and portals to provide Yahoo! Search Marketing services which provides you an opportunity to advertise your business in a number of methods. The methods are sub-divided in the following categories:
Sponsored Search: Display your ad prominently in leading search engines such as Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista, CNN and Infospace
Product Submit: Get your product listed in Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Buyers Guide and be found by millions of users
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Do you know that you can promote your home business absolutely free of cost? Moreover you can generate quality traffic of the potential prospects who will come to your site because they are interested in what you sell.
Yes! It can be done absolutely free. And it is fun too.
# Write and publish articles ?
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Many small online business owners have yet to understand the sheer power that comes from building consumer confidence. They struggle with sales month after month, but still, when someone tells them their site design needs help, they get offended. “I spent a lot of time building my own site!” is the reply.
Here’s my reply… “So what?”
It doesn’t matter who designed your Web site. If it isn’t cutting it, then it’s time to move on.
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Search engine optimization by some is considered a science and by others is a game. Recently working on many sites and promoting them for over six months now has made me realize some of the basic techniques. There are many books available about the subject, and almost unlimited resources on the Internet. But the fact of the matter is, the true SEO guru’s do not give up their secrets because they are very valuable and once a secret is passed out it’s no longer an asset.
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Many websites have great ideas, excellent content, brilliant deals and terrific potential. However, the truth is, the majority of these sites fail. This is for the simple reason that these sites can not get sufficient visitors.
I hope to address this problem with 8 sure-fire ways to bring guaranteed visitors to your site within a matter of days:
1. Write your own articles
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SEO, not again!, you may groan. The webmaster world is inundated by articles and "how to’s" with regard to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). If you are a rookie webmaster, chances are, like me, you may have embarked on a merry-go-round on the SEO circuit, depending on which article and opinion you were first exposed to.
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Bring those visitors back for more, applauding you and saying BRAVO! They will create a buzz about your great site, and send you many more visitors through word of mouth. These visitors are your personal marketing force.
If you are a non-techie like me, you may not have heard of what a “sticky” Web site is (it is the stuff that lures visitors back again and again). But we do know we want that!
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I Just Can’t Wait For Valentine!
by: Susan Kimberly
I Just Can’t Wait for Valentine!
My boyfriend Stephen and I have been together for a year now and we are separated by 2 hours drive. Last February, I kept complaining how both my sisters had plans for Valentine’s Day and how much I miss him. And all he did was try to comfort me. On February the 14th, I was awakened by our love song “I Can’t Live Without You” and then found a stem of red rose on each step of the stairs leading to the front door. As I opened the door, I found him standing with the biggest and cutest teddy bear asking if I wanted to be his valentine. Later that evening, he had a whole moonlit dinner for us (he actually made the candlelit dinner). It was so impressive and romantic! I still talk about it to this day.
-Jane ‘I Just Can’t Wait for Valentine!”-
Just Do It!
When my boyfriend of 9 months told me he was never going to get married unless a woman asked him, I was surprised. I had always prepared my self to say yes to him when he did, but now I had to change the plan and ask him. Last Valentine’s Day, he took me out for a romantic dinner in an Italian restaurant. I wanted to read to him a letter I wrote telling him about my feelings and what I wanted out of our relationship. During our main course, I started reading it slowly, looking at his face every once and a while to see his expressions. I then suddenly got out of my chair and walked towards him, while still reading the letter. When I got to the part in the letter where I wrote that I was going to propose to him I told him to hold the letter for a minute, knelt before him and told him it was going to be my honor if I could be his wife. The look on his face was priceless; he looked at me and with tears filled eyes. Everyone in the restaurant was looking at us… I was crying out of joy and was the happiest woman on earth. This is my Valentine Day I will never forget 
-Just Do It Marlyn-
Valentine Hunt
This is my idea, and I’m going to use for this Valentine year… First, I talk to her boss at work, and arrange to have her scheduled for a day when she doesn’t really have to work. When she shows up that day, her boss tells her they don’t need her and she can go home, but hands her a note (from me) which is the start of a series of poetic clues. The gist of it is the first clue indicates she should go to the place where we first met (fare included with this clue). When she gets there, the second clue hints at the place we had our first dance (keys to a car included with this clue). When she gets there, she finds another clue hinting at the place we had our first kiss. At the end, the last clue sends her to her favorite outdoor spot, where she will find a toy shovel and uses a treasure map drawn on the back of the clue to dig up a treasure chest jewelry box, containing the engagement ring. When she gets it up and finds the ring, I come up behind her, drop to one knee and tell her she is my treasure, and ask her to be my wife.
-My Treasure-
A Fantastic Night
I’m a radio DJ and have been courting with my boyfriend for 3 years. On Valentine’s Day I had to work all day and was really bummed that I couldn’t be with my boyfriend. When I got off work I called him and he said that he was tired and that we could see each other for breakfast tomorrow. I was really disappointed but I was too tired to care. When I got home I went into my bedroom and found a beautiful black lingerie with a long stemmed red rose on it. There were petals everywhere and 12 long-stemmed roses placed on my favorite places around my room. My boyfriend had even taken off the petals and sprinkled them in my bathtub surrounded with candlelits and the scent of rose, a bottle of wine with 2 glasses oh! it was so romantic, and more than I could have ever dreamed of!.This was a fantasy that I had told him once and he remembered. I was so shocked that I stood there for about 10 minutes just gawking at the whole thing. I knew right there that I loved this man, and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.
-My lifetime husband-
White Roses Means ‘True Love’
My boyfriend turn up at my work place in the morning of Valentine’s Day with 2 dozen white roses. I was totally surprised and amazed! My co-worker had asked him why the white roses and he said, “White roses means true love.” I was blushing, speechless, crazily in love and totally happy! On my day, he took me out for lunch at this classy Chinese restaurant; he knows that I’m absolutely a Chinese food freak! Oh no, my Valentine surprise wasn’t over yet! We spend the whole weekend in Phuket and once again knocked me off my feet! It was the best Valentine ever! I felt like a princess that weekend! He certainly made it an unforgettable one!
-Surprise Love-
Spend this Valentine with wonderful gifts and ideas for the special one you love. “U too can have a Fantastic Valentine!!!” I have been married ever since the Valentine Surprise! and just can’t wait for Valentine Day!
Susan Kimberly
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Susan Kimberly Last Febuary, I kept complaining how both my sisters had plans for Valentine’s Day and how much I miss him…And all he did was try to comfort me. On Febuary the 14th, I was awaken by our love song and…”I Just Can’t Wait For Valentine’s Day!”…U too can have a ‘Fantastic Valentine’
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