#3. New and unknown pay-per-click companies usually offer f*r*e*e ad campaigns as a bonus for signing up to increase their lists. It can be a big savings. Some campaigns work better than others. It can feel like a bit of a hit-and-miss effort sometimes. It depends on what you want to market. Here are a few to start. This changes weekly, thus, some companies may have already converted over to pay only. You can find more with a www.google.com search for "’pay-per- click’ and ‘free ad campaigns’":

Name/Value/URL B2BSearch $100 http://b2bsearch.tv eTRiT $100 - http://etrit.com OhSpot $50 - http://ohspot.com Ban-x $25 - http://ban-x.com BBFind $25 - http://bbfind.com 4PortalSites.com $10 - http://4portalsites.com CashDream $10 - http://cashdream.com a1max.com $5 - http://PayPerc.com/a1max/ Bluemacs $5 - http://www.bluemacs.com

Now you have three new f/r/e/e and effective advertising methods. Experiment, try them out and watch sales and visitors come.

3 -- Fill-in-the-Blank or Multiple Choice Form

You can design a "fill in blank" or "multiple choice" form in HTML or in text. HTML is easier to complete yet it can take too long to download if they are long and some international browsers also take long to download HTML.

You can send form through an auto responder system before or after completing something. They make purchase before/after you automatically send them form. The form makes submissions easier for them to complete and will increase response rate.

There are software packages and vendors who will set up this form and track results for you.

Resources:

How to Write HTML forms: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.1

3. Web Survey Collecting

Use web surveys to gather their recommendations. There is software to help you create surveys and track results. Survey hosting can be an online based or PC-based product.

Web Survey Software

Perseus Software: Free trial offered, several versions available, price range $495-$995 http://www.perseusdevelopment.com/softwareprod/download.html

Survey-Said software http://www.surveysaid.com/survey-software-introduction.html

Hosted Software http://www.hostedsurvey.com/ Survey Pro http://apian.com/ $1195

Survey Vendors

SurveyMonkey.com http://www.surveymonkey.com. Basic is free, upgrade is $19.95. They offer a great comparison chart that I found very interesting.

Free White Papers, Articles, and ebooks on Survey How-tos.

How to conduct a web survey: http://www.websurveyor.com/create-an-online-survey.asp

Top-10 Web Survey Issues and How to Address Them http://www.digitalbiz.com/pages/library/research/top_10.html

Set Your Web Survey Goals http://www.workz.com/cgi-bin/gt/tpl_page.html,template= 1&content=1326&nav1=1&

Perseus offers seven different white papers that will expand your knowledge on taking surveys. http://www.perseusdevelopment.com/surveytips/whitepapers.htm

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Four areas that will increase quality of your testimonials:

1. Ask them what their goal was for using product/service. 2. What positive emotions did they experience by using product/service? 3. Did they experience any reduction in fears and concerns after using product/service? What worries were removed from their lives? (Before and after picture) 4. How did _______ help other people in their lives?