When you set up your tutorials at autoresponder, don't forget to put a couple points of interest about your site/business. You also want to make sure you have a little thank you note preceding tutorial. Introduce yourself, say thank you and encourage prospect to ask questions or visit your site for more information. This will help to build a relationship with customer and to build your reputation also.

After everything is set-up, next step is promoting your tutorials. This you would do in same way as promoting other things.

Email Signature:

FREE 4-day tutorial on painting furniture! http://whateveryoururliswouldgohere

Announce it on message boards & discussion lists (if allowed) Make sure you read all rules before posting. If you cannot post it, then add it to your signature. Announce it in your ezine and on your homepage.

Post it on appropriate announcement lists.

Add it to your ad swaps and free classifieds.

Put it on your business cards.

Add it to your resource box, if you write articles.

Post it to newsgroups.

Use your imagination and see how many different ways you can come up with to get word out about your tutorials. These tutorials will go a long way in building your reputation, your business and you!

- If you look at my awards pages at http://www.internet-tips.net/awards.htm you will see that I've also included text of emails from award programs. These are good testimonials as they provide a reason why award was won. This can serve to add credibility to your site and information that you present (and product you may be trying to sell).

It's pretty simple to submit to awards sites. Simply locate them (and there are some good resources listed at end of this article), read instructions and enter data. If you win you'll hear back from them in a few days or weeks. Generally at that time you will receive an email with instructions on how to add award to your site. Usually there is also some advertising included (it's part of price that you pay).

Unless you find an award that you really want, I would suggest limiting submissions to those awards that will give you a link back to your site. A major part of reason to go through all of this trouble is to get more traffic. The only way to achieve this is to get that back link.

My advice is simple. Spend a few hours each week scanning through award listings such as those at bottom of this article. Submit your site to perhaps thirty or forty awards. You will win some of them. This should become part of your standard weekly promotional activity.

The gain will be that you will feel better about your site (assuming, of course, that you win any awards), your popularity will rise, and perhaps you will gain some small amount of additional traffic. At very least, people who are judging awards will have to visit your site at least once to check it out.

Additional Resources -------------------- Our awards code of ethics http://www.internet-tips.net/Winawards/awardsethics.htm

Website Awards Worksheet http://www.internet-tips.net/Winawards/awardsworksheet.htm

Revisions to Worksheet http://www.internet-tips.net/Winawards/awardsworksheetrevisions.htm

Daily editorial - January 10, 2001 (Make A Web Site That Wins Awards) http://www.internet-tips.net/Daily/20010110.htm

Join Web's Best Awards webring! http://www.internet-tips.net/Bestwebawards/Joinring.htm

So you want to run an awards program? http://www.internet-tips.net/Awardmaster/awards000.htm

Win An Award for your site http://www.internet-tips.net/Winawards/Winanaward.htm