This is also easiest way to promote your products because you have a captive audience for what you want to say.

3. Pay Per Click Search Engines. This is a relatively new trend, but it can provide you a way to get more targeted traffic to your business. Pay per clicks will provide you more targeted traffic than standard search engines and directories, and many will get you started for free.

4. Joint ventures. This is another method of traffic generation frequently recommended by "gurus".

A joint venture is where you find a newsletter publisher and have him/her promote your product in his/her ezine. The publisher get a percentage of sales made from advertising your product.

It is similar to affiliate marketing, but there are other steps involved to creating a successful joint venture.

If you follow steps above, implementing one step per week, in four weeks, you will have a complete marketing plan in four weeks.

The most important thing to remember in implementing a new marketing campaign is to track what you are doing. This way, you can abandon techniques that don't work as well as others.

Keep promoting, especially with these techniques, and you will show a profit.

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Jinger Jarrett is author of free ebook, "Ten Ways to Promote Your Business for Free. You can get your own copy when you subscribe to her newsletter, Small Business Success. http://www.smallbusinesshowto.com/newsletter.html _______________________________________________________

© By Jinger Jarrett 2003. You have my permission to reprint this article in your newsletter or on your web site provided you leave resource box intact.

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Examples Follow:

Good: Free Home Business Advice http://www.angelfire.com/zine/smallbiz

Bad: Click Here! http://www.mysecretsite.com

Use attractive white space between different links. Keep links to a minimum. Too many links confuse reader.

7. Friendly Tones. Don't write like a professor lecturing a college class. Write in a friendly conversational tone. You want your reader to understand your words without using a dictionary.

8. Quotes Use quotes sparingly. Only use quotes important to article.

9. Spell Check. When you've finished your article read it aloud. Does article flow along? Did it make sense? Did you use their instead of there? Run your spell check program and keep an eye out for common words that fool spell check program like; to, too or two.

10. Resource Box. Add your resource box. This is your opportunity to promote your website, ezine, ebook, affiliate program, or service. Add important information and a link directly to what you are promoting. Remember to include your email address if you want readers to contact you. Don't go overboard. Keep length of your resource box to 5 or 6 lines.

If you are a new writer on Internet, you will find suggestions in this article very practical, relevant and helpful.

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