Consistency means that you advertise in different places, and on a regular basis. Let's face it - any advertising program must use multiple ways to reach their audience. Search out publications that are geared toward your target market, and contract with them on a "long term" basis. Many offer discounts for ongoing ads. When someone sees your ad in different places, they start to pay attention. Enough exposure and they just may contact you for further information.

Which brings us to third step in your program. If you don't use an auto-responder, you are simply not serious in your advertising efforts. The auto-response presents details to them about your offer. They not only get your response within minutes, but you get their E-mail address for follow-up purposes. You can get auto-responders from a number of places, but perhaps simplest is using Eudora email client. If someone sends an email to a specific address, or with a specific subject line, it can automatically file it in a follow up folder and send a canned response.

I got a check yesterday from a person I never even talked with. She visited our web site and requested additional information, which was sent by our auto-responder. What a great way to do business.

The final step is actual harvest, and you must have proper tools. You must have a way to immediately close deal and for prospect make payment. You can use a number of resources including your own merchant account, online checks or a service such as PayPal.

Advertising on Internet has no magic. Unless it is done properly, however world will NOT beat a path to your door. You must use same techniques and procedures that you would use in any offline advertising campaign.

Those that do will have a successful business, and like Virtual Garden reap a profitable harvest.

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Some 'start page' programs don't like 'pop up' ads. Pay attention to this when setting up your 'start page' programs.

Like a funnel, your website is focusing end, and your 'funnel page', banners, and 'pop under' ads funneling to your website. Every time someone uses their 'start page' program and your 'funnel page' is seen, your banners and 'pop under' are seen elsewhere and shown, amplifying your hits.

Other tools that work well with your 'funnel page' are text ad exchanges and rotators.

Text Ad Exchanges act like banners, but are link exchanges instead. Like banner ad, funnel it to your website.

http://www.mlmads.com/index.cfm?id=dsextonj http://site.linkbuddies.com/lb extex.php http://www.linbo.com/refer.cgi?id=1393 http://www.exchangeomatic.com/refer.cgi?id=967">

I haven't found a use for a rotator, but you may, and I don't want to leave this option out. If you use a rotator, you will add your 'funnel page' to rotation, and have your 'start page' programs point to your rotator.

Your rotator will rotate your 'funnel page' with any other page you need seen... like another 'funnel page'!?! hmmm... I may have a use for that rotator.

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When your done with your 'funnel page' you'll want to spend time with your 'start page' programs clicking through websites and advertising your 'funnel page'.

http://www.startblaze.com/cgi-bin/intro.cgi?57064 http://nomorehits.com/cgi-bin/redir.cgi?user=dsextonj http://www.clicksilo.com/referrals/info.asp?Agent=dsextonj http://www.viralvisitors.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?flag=8962 http://www.hitpulse.com/cgi-bin/start/newuser.cgi?referer=dsextonj

Look at what you see with new eyes. There are always ways to squeeze most out of free advertising. It's a matter of having an open mind and being creative.