Turn Your Expertise Into Free AdvertisingWritten by Josh Greth
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AllNetArticles.com Article City.com NetterWeb.com 3.In addition to articles themselves, most any publication or distribution source will allow addition of an About Author section to publicize yourself and your business. Use this area to place a hyperlink to your website and email. Include your phone number, name, experience in your industry, qualifications, etc. Anything that you feel best describes why you are an expert on specific topic at hand, is a good idea. Don’t forget, you want your readers to be able to contact you for further publication of your article once they have seen for themselves great and valuable resources you can create about your industry! Make decision that is best for your business, and best of luck! Please visit Josh Greth at CardStreet.com. Copyright 2003 Josh Greth. All rights reserved.
Josh Greth has developed, owns, and is the reigning CEO of CardStreet Cardservice Corp. To date, they have established over 100,000 successful merchants and helped make their dreams a reality, by creating a simple, yet cost effective, means of credit card processing. For more information on credit card processing, or to obtain your own merchant account for a retail, internet, wireless or phone/mail order business, please visit CardStreet.com.
| | 25 Ways To Promote Your Site Online And OffWritten by Josh Greth
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16.Create you own links directory, by searching out link partners who offer similar or complimentary services or products, yet are not in direct competition with you. 17.Come up with creative, yet cost effective, sweepstakes and promotions for online customers. Apply it through using signups for your weekly or monthly newsletter as entries. Offer visitors more entries if they can suggest your site or newsletter to a friend, and then contact that person via email with appropriate information for them to signup as well. 18.Harness power of numbers and create an affiliate program to use hundreds, even thousands of others to sell your service as well. For a nominal share in profits this advertising pays for itself because it is performance based, not traffic based. You pay for what you get. 19.All orders placed online should include an invoice printed on corporate letterhead, a product catalog, and a free promotional gift such as a pen or mug as described in #3. 20.Have someone from your staff participate regularly in online discussion groups, signing all responses with hyperlinked URL of your website. A very effective technique to get many employees interested in corporate promotion is to allow certain “breaks” in their day, which are specifically centered around them being online, discussing industry news in industry related forums and chat rooms. They are free to meet new people, surf chat room of their choice (as long as it related to your business) and converse with whom they wish. 21.Invite customer feedback through an online poll, and find out exactly what they want, how they want it, and if you have got it or not. 22.Create mini-sites to add exposure for your main URL, and then place these sites on auctions sites like e-bay. Run special promotions and prices for certain items just on these mini-sites, for specific blocks of time, and find out exactly how successful this tool turned out by your order fluctuations. 23.Place min adds in classified directories all directly linking back to your main URL. Most often these classified sites are free, or charge very little to place an ad on a regular basis. 24.Create a forum on your own website for customers whom are interested in your products. For instance, if you run a mortgage site, creating a forum for buyers and sellers of homes to exchange tips and experiences on selling their homes, and finding their newest dream homes, would be quite a nice marketing tool. 25.Utilize power of internet to spread links back to your site by developing a tool that countless numbers of people, even people loosely related to your industry, would find interesting and beneficial to their visitors. When they place tool on their site, code will have a link back to your site already in it, because you develop product. Such tools could be traffic counters, online poll tools, and free search engine submission devices. Make decision that is best for your business, and best of luck! Please visit Josh Greth at CardStreet.com. Copyright 2003 Josh Greth. All rights reserved.
Josh Greth has developed, owns, and is the reigning CEO of CardStreet Cardservice Corp. To date, they have established over 100,000 successful merchants and helped make their dreams a reality, by creating a simple, yet cost effective, means of credit card processing. For more information on credit card processing, or to obtain your own merchant account for a retail, internet, wireless or phone/mail order business, please visit CardStreet.com.
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