More Traffic To Your Site = More $$$ : Not always

Written by Mike Nalbone


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Instead, choose a hit-exchange partner that allows you to select your audience: TrafficSwarm is great & I use them myself every day to generate about 1700 good quality hits/day. There are many others too. Just do a Google search for "traffic exchanges" & you should find several. The only problem I have with TrafficSwarm is that they do not allow your page to break out of a frame. I do, however, understand their reasons for doing this, as it stops (at least temporarily)repparttar user's TrafficSwarm session. While this is not usually a problem, sometimes it creates extra work for me when setting up an affiliate page to use with them because some ofrepparttar 124656 affiliate pages (especially ClickBank hop links) try to breakrepparttar 124657 frames. You can overcome this by creating a simple page forrepparttar 124658 product on your own server that doesn't use frames & just link to that one in TrafficSwarm. Your customer will see your page instead ofrepparttar 124659 affiliate page & (hopefully) will click on it for more info. Then, you forward them torepparttar 124660 "real" product page. You can see an example of how I do this here: http://www.nalbone.org/beer.html This page is located on my server & it'srepparttar 124661 one thatrepparttar 124662 TrafficSwarm member sees. If they are interested, they will click for more info & that sends them torepparttar 124663 sales page.

For more info on TrafficSwarm, see: http://www.nalbone.org/ts.html

Mike Nalbone is a freelance ghost-writer who specializes in providing web site owners with original content articles. You can visit Mike at: http://www.nalbone.org


Ten Free Tools You Need to Promote Your Business

Written by Marie M. Roker


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7. Free Stuff to Give Away

If you don't have any products, promote other people's stuff. Free Ebooks: http://www.free-ebooks.net http://www.supertips.com/101/index.htm Freebies: http://www.worldzone.net/ss/antelope/content_freebies.html Free Email Service: http://www.bigmailbox.com

8. Promote Your Site & Yourself

You won't get any business, if no one knows about your site. Join forums, join Yahoo groups, become a resource to other entrpreneurs. We can all learn from each other. Don't advertise on these forums, but participate. Include your signature file, so people can find out more about you. Can't find a forum or group for your niche, start one! Resources for Forums: http:/www.selfstartersweeklytips.com.forum http://www.supertips.com/forums/list.htm http://internetmarketingforums.im4newbies.com/

Promote Your Site for Free: http://www.selfpromotion.com http://www.addme.com

Groups: http://www.topica.com http://groups.yahoo.com/

9. Exceed Expectations.

Don't worry about what your competitor is doing, find out what they're not doing. Make your visitors and customers feel that you are a resource for them. Provide outstanding customer service. If your product or service isn't appropriate for them, refer them to someone else. It will get you more business inrepparttar long run. Find out what they like and give it to them.

10. Give Potential Customers What They Want

Use surveys as a way of communicating with current and future customers. Ask them how you can better serve their needs. Make them feel important by involving them in your business. Surveys are a great resource for getting to know more about your customers. You can get demographic information and more information about why they did or didn't buy a service or product from you. Free Surveys: http://www.votations.com http://www.zoomerang.com http://www.surveymonkey.com

Marie Magdala Roker is a mother, an Academic and Personal Development Coach, and a Certified Breakthrough Parenting Instructor, and a private tutor with Tutor.com. You can find out more about her at: http://www.smartbeecoaching.com or http://www.successfulchild.com


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