It is important to talk to your spouse regarding what your business structure and hours will be prior to starting your home-based business. In end, it will alleviate ‘you don't have enough time for me' argument.

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Last, you can create your own newsletter. This is more of a long-term strategy, but one that you should start early so that you can get effects as soon as possible. Everyone that signs-up, 20% may return to your site from links in your newsletter. This will build over a period of time and add lots of free traffic. A valid newsletter may consist of a single article about subject of your site, followed by information telling them how to unsubscribe or subscribe. If you don't have time to write your own article, there are many on Internet with permission to reprint included, just remember to include author's bio or resource box at end. To find these articles, go to Google and type: ?????? articles reprint. Just fill in ?????? with your website topic. Now you will start submitting your newsletter (ezine) to many ezine directories by visiting Google and search for "ezine directories". This will help you establish links to your ezine and create more subscribers for your newsletter, thus creating another source of free traffic.

Using these highly effective ways to increase traffic to your web-site will help you market your business and reach a larger consumer base.

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