1. Communicate Effectively

All written communications should be short and concise. Once you learn how to write an effective sales or followup letter that gets results, share your findings with your team mates.

2. Organization

With massive amount of Email that we receive, it is important to learn how to keep things organized. A lost message can easily cost you a sale, and it is same with your affiliates. Once you have an efficient filing system in place, pass it along to your team mates.

3. Motivation

In my stay at home job, I offer several rewards to stir interest and promote activity on my team. This is something that I learned from my team leader, and it is one of things that pushed my business into profit mode. I teach this technique to any affiiate who wants to learn. Free Ebooks and newsletters are a terrific way to reward someone. I also help them to build their downline directly, by assigning prospects to them when they take a positive action. This keeps them interested, and helps to stabilize their income a bit.

4. Marketing Strategy

Many new affiliates jump into stay at home job market without any knowledge of what it takes to build a business. At one time, I was in same boat, and it was very discouraging. My Team Leader was extremely generous with his knowledge and experience, and taught me how to build a Website, how to exchange links, how to publish an article and a mountain of other things that I had no knowledge of when I started. I do same things for my team mates.

If they decide that they want to use a different strategy than me, I support them in that, as well. That means that I had to get a quick education on other methods of marketing so that I could steer them in right direction.

There many other facets of my business that I share with my team mates. I always hated "I've got a secret" mindset that I ran into in business world. By avoiding that mindset, and actually doing exact opposite, I have been able to build a successful stay at home job, and help a lot of new friends to do same thing.

Check with affiliate programs you've joined because many offer articles with your affiliate link attached so that you can put article in your newsletter.

Add free stuff in your newsletter. People love anything free. I have many free things I can offer, and if my visitor purchases something from company or applies for a trial version, I receive a commission.

Add content to your newsletter: In this ebook, I have linked many sites that offer free content for your website and newsletter. These sites are searchable, so you can find an article on just about any subject you need. Always add authors information. You'd want YOUR info added later when it's your article someone is going to put into their newsletter.

Submit articles to others newsletters and websites: Just as you will be using other people's articles, you can submit your own articles to these websites. Then other eZine authors may use your article with your information and website link in their newsletter.

I am going to supply you with links to some of places I have advertised using above mentioned methods. Keep in mind, I have targeted sites that I would most likely find people who are interested in MY website theme: Working from Home/Selling online. However, MANY of these are great advertising vehicles for anything you sell. These are all linked from online version of this article, http://www.gettingstartedonline.com

Contest Alley Add your contest for free Freebies For Women Add your Freebie for Free Work at Home Parents Inexpensive advertising on their site e-Business Moms Submitted my "Success Story" for free JaffaMSOnline Submitted my Free eBook to their ebook listings Moms Online This site offers a lot of free ways to advertise. Moms Online Contest Prize Donation Donate a prize for their contests and receive free advertising eBook Directory Submit your eBook for free Yahoo Message Boards Free to post eZine Database Post your eZine/Newsletter for free GoArticles You can submit articles you write for free, adding your bio/website links in article. People download these articles to put in their newsletters and/or on their website. Media Post Search for any type of advertising you would like: Web, TV, Radio, Newspapers. This is an excellent tool, especially when you are ready to do a press release. Link Promote Submit articles for free. WorkAtHomeBooks Add your free eBook here Workathome-com.com Add your Inspiring Work-At-Home story here for free and add your links. eZine-Universe Submit your eZine for free Submit Listing Submit your website and eBooks for free Google Search A Google Search set up so it found websites that accept Free eBook submittals. Bizy Moms Join this site and post on boards. Club Mom Join this site and post on boards. WAHP (Work At Home Parents) Join this site and post on boards. WebMomz Join this site and post on boards. WebDecals Have a decal made for your car. I put one on back of my car with a URL leading to a separate page on my site to track visitors. I get about 10 new subscribers a week from this method.

Constantly be on look out for ways to promote yourself.

Whenever you are surfing around, if you see a product that would compliment your website, search around on their website for a link that says "Affiliates", "Associates", "Resellers", "Make Money", etc.. Join their affiliate program, add a link on your website and add their information to your Affiliate accounts list.

If you see a message board, post a message.

Join every club you can find. Yahoo Groups, AOL Groups, MomsNetwork.com, InternetBasedMoms.com, HomeBusinessDirectory.com, etc… you can always find these free. Don't just join and forget it… post at LEAST once a week. If it's a fast moving message board where your message will be cycled down to bottom in a day, post every day.

Add your free ebook everywhere you can find that will accept it.

Subscribe to Newsletters that allow free advertising to new subscribers.

Never stop thinking.

Sell YOURSELF. Do not sit anonymously behind a website. Be out there, post on your message boards, introduce yourself, put up a page "About Owner", maybe with a picture. It's better if people know you and trust you. And don't mis-use this trust. I have a directory of wholesalers and drop-shippers for sale on my website. Sometimes people from different countries will email me and ask if directory would be good for them. I tell them absolutely not. These companies ask for US business licenses or Resale Certificates and only deal with US companies. So I will not just try to make a sale when I know I am deceiving person.

This is where work never ends. Don't ever stop advertising yourself. Whenever you are on internet, be on look-out for message boards, free advertising sites, link exchanges, etc.

Create a text document containing following:

A short description of your website (About 30 words or less)

A long description of your website (Up to 250 characters)

List of keywords pertaining to your website

An example of what you would post on a message board, keeping it short and adding a signature line with your website address

This document comes in handy when you are posting information around internet, so that you don't have to keep re-typing them over and over.

This Getting Started Article is in 4 parts. This is Part 3 of 4 To view Parts 1, 2 and 4 please do an Author search on Go Articles for Natalie Williams The full, hyperlinked version of this article can be found at http://www.GettingStartedOnline.com