5. With online banking taking over many of you may not be able to use this tip to its full potential. Inserting your business card in all out going mail, this is what utility companies do every month. We all have electric and Cable or Satellite TV why not follow there lead. Start stuffing today...

6. If you have children in school, this is a good idea. You can promote you business at PTA meetings, and Parent Teacher Conferences. This is a great time to not only meet, greet and network with other moms.

7. Post ads, flyers and cards on bulletin boards at supermarkets, community centers, and local businesses. Many businesses have a jar or box that you can put your cards in when you visit. Check your local area for a Staples or OfficeMax store I have seen different promotions when they are offering businesses a chance to win prizes all you have to do is leave your card.

8. Tell everyone you know what you are doing, ask him or her to tell others. Networking is a powerful form of marketing. Call your friends and family ask them what they are doing while you tell them what you are doing. Work together; promote each other as long as you are not doing same thing. If you are why not join forces, Joint Ventures are hot online who said you couldn’t do them offline as well.

In conclusion, this is a partial list of what you can do to market, promote and advertise your business. Each of these can work for online and offline businesses. This is an on going process, you too can come up with many more ways to get you business out to public.

However, it is strongly advised that you use bold, underline, and italics sparingly in order to ensure that only your most important points are receiving full attention of your customers. This paragraph is entirely in bold text to illustrate one of potential pratfalls, which may occur as a result of excessive use of highlighting. Which portion of this paragraph is most important? And why is this entire block of text more important than rest of page? It’s too difficult to tell. Use bold, italics, and underline sparingly for this very reason.

The colour coding of important words, and selection of those colours. "Cool" colours such as Blues and greens are traditionally used to relax user and put him/her in a positive mood conducive to sales; and "hot" colours such as reds, yellows and oranges are meant to incite user into making a purchasing decision.

Headings and subheadings. Headings and subheadings should be used to break up long blocks of text into shorter and easier-to-read sections. In case of Amazing Formula website, graphic headings are used to break up content; however, for search engine reasons, you may wish to consider text-based headings to split up your content into sections.

Bullet lists. These lists can be numbered, as this one is, or they can be unordered, as Amazing Formula ones are. There doesn’t seem to be much difference in either event, as long as copy for each bullet remains concise and to point as in point 2; although unordered list bullets can be stylized with graphics, as Amazing Formula website has done.

These are seven secrets of The Shriekers. Implementing them on your website should lead to a significant increase in sales and profits.

Adam Senour is the owner of ADAM Web Design, a leading web design and development company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.