If SEO and PPC are not good marketing avenues for micro businesses, where can they turn? Currently, their best bet is IYPs. The IYPs, broadly speaking, are an extension of print yellow pages into online sphere. While they still have some major improvements to make, they offer a familiar, quick, and affordable way for micro businesses to begin showing up online. With many IYPs, a business that is listed in local yellow pages will get an automatic free listing online. For a fairly reasonable cost, perhaps $25 - $150 per month, listings with many IYPs can be upgraded to better visibility, just as in yellow pages phone book. It’s not a panacea: certainly, at this point in time, traffic is far heavier on search engines than on IYPs. However, IYPs offer some unique advantages besides low cost and relative simplicity: traffic to IYP is more qualified, because it is clearly focused on a particular category; IYP listings often show up in search engines results (“free” SEO!), and ability to tailor advertising to a micro geographic location is generally better. It’s early days for micro businesses on Internet, but trend is picking up, and avenues provided to these businesses for their online promotion is already one of hottest topics in internet marketing.

LiveCamNetwork started out as a home office project, and soon found itself lucrative enough to move into separate offices. “I came on there was one studio. Then a month later we went on to two for last two years. We just added third one this spring, so we can hire even more chat hostesses now.”

Jen, also a photographer, is aiming to set up 12 studios to fill out site’s unique combination of gabby chat hostesses, smooth well-lit video, and clear audio streaming. “Oh yeah, definitely. I really want them to hear giggles, moans, you know…”

"We used to have some photo gallery content, but I’ve since taken it down because, first off, it got tired. Too many other sites had that stuff, and it wasn’t what we’re about. You want live, not static, when you come to LiveCamNetwork,” said Jen.

LiveCamNetwork.com is expanding this year and promising to offer more of what its customers want – which is, as she says, “No BS live cam chatting with best chat hostesses on web. No hiding faces, no silent rooms or sickly sound. At least, not from my studios. A sexy chat worthy of that word.”