And when you are running a special, don't forget to advertise on sites that compile savings information. My favorite is http://www.clearancecrazy.com But there are tons of them.

11. Utilize Every Contact as a Potential Marketing Contact

One category of products that I sell is gourmet coffee, tea, and snacks. It has absolutally nothing to do with my primary business, http://www.SuccessPromotions.com. However, it is very successful in its own right. Http://www.coffeeteaetc.com gets more hits regularly than Success Promotions. Why? Because I tell everyone about it. For example, every time I get a free cup of coffee somewhere, I leave a couple business cards and web cards. (see www.mothersdayout.com/ for web cards) I participate in marketing material exchanges through Mom Pack mentioned earlier. When I meet someone who sells any type of home party product whether it be food/kitchen oriented like TupperWare or completely different like PartyLite Candles or House of Lloyd, I tell them about my business. It is easy to recruit for and easy to promote. Almost everyone I know drinks coffee or tea. I give away samples. I invite neighbors over for gourmet coffee. Everyone I talk to is a suspected buyer or reseller until they prove themselves otherwise.

You should assume same.

Wear clothes that you sell or jewelry. Drive car that you sell. Drink coffee that you sell. And be prepared to share them with anyone who even casually asks.

Along same lines, encourage your own customers to do same.

I have purchased many shirts from Sirr Max, http://www.sirrmax.com Their positive logoed apparel fits my personality and I enjoy sharing their messages of hope with anyone who takes time to read my clothing. At least twice a day, when wearing Sirr Max apparel, someone will comment on how much they like my shirt or admire message on my tote bag. I'm always prepared to give a business card to them. Ordering from this online giftwear site is easy. But potential customers have to get to site to order. So I help Pamela Jordan of Sirr Max by advertising for her every time I wear her clothing.

If you sell anything besides underwear, then your customers' friends are going to eventually see it. Make sure they are prepared to tell their friends how they can get some too.

12. Network

The dreaded "N" word. This has nothing to do with multi level marketing. It is all about who you know and what you know.

When you network, you invariably make potential business/client contacts. So do it wholeheartedly. Don't just join a group like Digital Women http://www.digital-woman.com or The Network for Women http://www.thenetworkforwomen.com, but participate in them. Join email lists. Advertise. Donate time, products, services, etc. Make yourself visible enough within group that your networking is accomplishing something. The contacts will be invaluable. And you neve know who you will meet who either is just now looking for gifts like you sell or knows someone who is.

Its a new year and all of is are ready for a fresh, new start. Make an effort to utilize these suggestions in way most appropriate for your business. Sell more gifts by working to sell more gifts.

And remember, Success Promotions, http://www.successpromotions.com is always just a quick browser surf away with tons more tips, tools, and tricks.

Here's how program works. First you sign up for hits for clicks exchange programs. These programs give you FREE hits to your site for setting up your start page to their site. This is not home page to your website, but start page to your web browser. If you just signed up for one, you would keep hitting same surfers over and over, so you sign up for 10-20 and rotate them in your browser. The rotator code is located in instruction manual link at bottom of this page.

Next you sign up for FREE banner exchange programs. The banner exchanges run off program you have loaded in your opportunity rotator, not on your main site. If you ran all banners on your main site, you would end up with a banner farm and no space to sell your products.

Now you want to sign up for FREE exit exchanges. Exit exchanges trade you fresh hits for your site when you display their ad to visitors that are leaving your site. This is totally FREE traffic. This is one of keys to making this system self-replicating.

Then you sign up for FREE advertising sites. Individually, each site will get you a few hits per day, but if you plug them into each other, they become a nice little traffic generator that will send you hundreds and on good days, thousands of hits.

And finally you want to sign up for a FREE mailing list development program to feed you thousands of leads daily. This is not a safe-list. This is your own, private opt-in list that you can advertise any product you like. This list is worth gold and will make you hundreds of thousands of dollars over next few months and years.

Now secret is to plug all these systems and programs in to each other. Individually, each program works well and generates leads for you, but when they are plugged into each other and functioning together as a well oiled machine, you have a lead generator that just won't stop.

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I wish you much success in all of your marketing endeavours. My virtual office door is always open so please contact me if I can be of any assistance with your marketing.