6. Hire a famous local person to endorse your product or service. Make sure person is well known to your target audience. Include their picture and statements on your ad copy.

7. Include your own picture on your ad copy. This will show people that you're not hiding behind your ad copy and will increase their trust. Also, include your contact information below picture and a brief statement or quote.

8. If you genuinely care about people, tell your potential customers on your ad copy that you will donate a percentage of their purchase price to specific charity. They may just buy your product to donate to charity.

9. Ask your potential customers plenty of yes and no questions in your ad copy. The questions should remind them of their problem and make them think about what will happen if they don't purchase your product.

10. Tell your potential customers they will receive a free prize if they find five words in your ad copy that are misspelled or spelled backwards. The longer you can keep someone reading your copy greater chance of them purchasing.

© Kim Beardsmore

3. Sign Guest Books

When you visit a well-designed web site leave a compliment on their guest book. You could give them a compliment on their content, ease of navigation, graphics and so on. When you post your compliment include your signature file so other people will see it when they sign guest book.

4. Write A Review

When you visit a web site you enjoyed a lot write a review for web site. Write about benefits you gain from site, web site design, interesting online services it offers and like. E-mail review to web site. Tell them they can publish it on their web site if they include your signature file at end.

5. Send An E-mail To The Editor

When you read a good article or enjoy a certain magazine, e-mail a compliment to editor. Give editor permission to publish compliment in magazine if they include your signature file at end. The editor may also post it on his or her web site.

© Kim Beardsmore