Online Promotion: Five Point Plan for Promotion

Five Point Plan for Promotion

Written by Pamela Heywood

There are no secrets: there are no magic formulas. Forget about making money fast while you sleep. Sure, you can automate processes so that your business continues to operate while you are snoring away, but there is no substitute for your initial application and hard work.

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OK, assuming that you have built a website appropriate to your business (no, one of those self-replicating ones will NOT do!) and that you are publishing a regular ezine. Both need content: both need quality, but there's plenty of help out there to achieve it.

Now what you need is traffic, or in less technical terms, people looking at your site, your business, what you have to offer.

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The Absolute Best Way to Promote Your Site For Free

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