In our personal lives we create many relationships, but for some reason once we start an online business, we forget to speak to people and instead send ads through machine. We stop building relationships with people.

This has got me thinking, and I am going to try to break some habits, and start marketing myself, instead of opportunities I am involved in.

I'm going to start building relationships.

It won't be easy, almost every other article, or ebook seems to be about how to promote your website, or your business, but rarely how to promote relationships. But it is possible, and we have all tools to start building relationships.

For starters, we all have email addresses whhich could be used to start a conversation with someone. We have instant messengers, Yahoo, MSN and AOL to name a few, you can even use software from Imvite http://www.imvite.com/dougyt which has a payment plan built in and can access most of other networks anyway. And then there's Skype http://www.skype.com for voice chat which is as clear as a telephone, and free to download.

So we have tools to form relationships, lets start doing it.

It can only be good for business to get to know each other and form friendships, partnerships, and trust. In offline world you wouldn't dream of greeting a new potential customer by saying "Earn Millions Today" so lets stop doing it online.

Doug Titchmarsh Online marketer, and real life person.

7. Join free traffic generating sites and work them an hour a day to get free traffic.

8. Ask websites with relevant content to your site to link to your website. It is only common courtesy to offer them a link at your site.

9. Submit your web pages to major search engines every 30 days.

10. Give away free ebooks at your site. Ask me, I'll be pleased to post you some of them. Exclamation

11. Offer a training course by autoresponder.

12. Find a partner and include both your signature files at bottom of all emails going to both your databases.