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In this article I will discuss how important is it to build community websites rather than straight forward sales pitches. Selling online is about bringing people together, not about stuffing products down your visitors throwts and expecting them to buy from you.

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We have conditioned our minds all of our lives to accept advertising billboards, radio ads, newspaper ads, commercials, and all sorts of other advertising materials wherever we go. The same applies on internet. This "conditioning" has enabled us to see past all ads and look directly for pertinant information that we are seeking.

People who are new to internet are more likely to click on your ads for no apparent reason but to simply search and keep searching. Others that have beed online for years now, tend not to pay attention to as many ads on a daily basis like they used to.

If you are serious about making money online without having to spend too much of your budget, create a "community online". It is in our nature as human beings to want to belong, or to be involved within a community setting. Communities come in all shapes & sizes and are not limited to gender, race, nationality, or religion. A community can cater to whatever topic you wish and welcome whomever you desire.

Same concept applies to your website!

Building a community within your website is key to increasing your business, keeping visitors coming back, and keeping your advertising budget in bank. Show your visitors that you aren't just here on internet to sell them something. For example, we (Smartads), we are here to teach what we know about internet marketing. By teaching, we too learn more, gain more business, and attract new visitors.

RESIDUAL TRAFFIC IS THE KEY!

As i've always mentioned to my clients & readers, getting people to your website is easy part. Anyone with a $500 credit card can get traffic to their website, it's keeping them there and getting your visitors to come back on their own time is what makes owning a website a dificult proposition.

Visitors always come back to communities they can relate to!

I always to go back to internet marketing communities online like:

www.webpronews.com www.sitepronews.com www.searchenginewatch.com

and so on... There are many internet marketing resources available for business owners. We are fortunate to have access to vast amount of resources that we do, in order to increase our business & to increase our knowledge.

FREE,FREE,FREE!

This is one word that is all over internet because person that is giving something away knows that people will spring to life when they see word FREE!

The problem with this is most of time FREE software or ebooks or affiliate programs that you receive are not worth paper or ebook they are wrote in. Everyone wants something for FREE but I have yet found anything FREE that will put money in your pocket day in and day out. It could be advertising that site owner will tell you will bring you more sales in one week then you can do it in a month.

With a list over 34,000+ double optin subscribers that I built in under first year one thing that my company was built on was not something that was FREE! Yes you can signup for my eZine Haileys Comet Weekly eZine for NO COST. But once you find information that we offer all of our subscribers you will see that only thing FREE will get you is information.

I am so SICK that so called guru's keep telling you and other marketers online that you can join their affiliate program for no charge and you will earn $1000s a month without any effort. Then once you give out your email address and name so that you can signup you get inside just to find out that you will have to upgrade to a pro membership to get paid, Yes you might earn some money from your advertising and promotions but unless you start putting out some money you will not get what you earned from bringing others into program!!

STOP RIGHT NOW AND THINK ABOUT ALL THE AFFILIATE PROGRAMS YOU ARE IN, Do you get money sent to your paypal,Egold or other payment companys because you are a FREE MEMBER? Of course NOT! If you want to be paid from these so called million dollar programs you have to pay yourself (Upgrade or your clients that came in from your hard advertising efforts will go to person in your upline if they upgrade before you do

So if you have to spend money to make money why would you not spend money on good responsive advertising that will bring in your new downline members and start building that HUGE check you have been looking and working so hard for? There are MANY places online that will put your business opportunity in front of people that are looking for that one thing you already have.

Paid Advertising dont have to be something that you have to go broke over. This is something else I hear every day, " I cant afford to spend money on advertising" Well I hate to be bearer of bad news but if you do not have money to promote your program or product you are not going to be able to reach point of getting into a HUGE profit. In fact your promotion efforts are what makes your success!