My Favorite Home Business Marketing Ideas

Written by Tom Worsley


My Favorite Home Business Marketing Ideas By Tom Worsley

If you’re planning to make money online with a work from home opportunity then you need places to advertise. Fortunately there are literally thousands of places for you to advertise your business and or products online. Both FREE and FEE based advertising. Below is a list of my top 5 ways I advertise and get good traffic to my work from home based web site.

1)The major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and AltaVista can bring you lots of FREE traffic but getting your site optimized properly forrepparttar proper keywords so you rank onrepparttar 120569 first page can be somewhat of a challenge. You can pay for someone to dorepparttar 120570 process for you or you can do it yourself. If you do it yourself get ready to do allot of reading and research. Join SEO ezines and discussion boards. For free information on SEO articles you can go torepparttar 120571 following page. http://bigmoolla.com/optimization.html

2)Pay Per Click Search Engines (PPC) is a great way to get good quality targeted traffic to your web site. The experts say to find as many key words as you can that relate to your subject matter. But as I have found you really only need 2 or 3 really good keywords. You will need to test your advertising to see which ones work best for your opportunity and or product that you are advertising.

3)I cannot stress enoughrepparttar 120572 power of RECIPROCAL LINKING. Link trades are easy and can make you a lot of money. The best thing about link trades is they are free!! What you need to do is contact at least 100 webmasters a week asking to trade links. You need to do some every day, seven days a week! Or if your time is limited, devote a good 4-8 hours onrepparttar 120573 weekend to trading links. Of course,repparttar 120574 more people you trade withrepparttar 120575 more your site will be listed through outrepparttar 120576 Internet, which is more chances someone will come to your site and buy. This is your first step in obtaining your goals.

Why I Love L.L. Bean and How to Follow Their Lead Without Spending a Fortune

Written by Lois Carter Fay, APR


Before school started last fall, I bought a new, monogrammed backpack from L.L. Bean for my niece, Roni, for her birthday. She picked it out. It looked great. Lots of places to keep things organized. Pockets, zippers, places to clip things. When I gave it to her, Roni loved it.

Five months later, one ofrepparttar zippers broke. Bummer. But L.L. Bean offers a lifetime guarantee on its products so I sent it back and here's what happened...

A few days after I mailedrepparttar 120568 backpack to L.L. Bean, I received an email from their "orders" department, informing me they had received it.

The next day I received another email saying it had shipped. "Okay," I thought. "We should get it early next week." But to my surprise, a brand new backpack arrivedrepparttar 120569 following day!

And that's not all. Five days later I received a refund check fromrepparttar 120570 company inrepparttar 120571 amount of $4.55 with a note sayingrepparttar 120572 backpack was now on sale so a refund was due.

Now that's customer service at its best!

Obviously, L.L. Bean has an established procedure for handling each aspect of its business, as well as a very robust customer relationship management software program to automaterepparttar 120573 process.

How would you like to be able to automatically thank your customers for ordering from you, remind them to order again, suggest they order an additional product or two, and keep them up-to-date on your new products and services? Well, you can!

And you don't have to be L.L. Bean to do it.

Surprisingly, all it takes is a good electronic shopping cart. If you'd like to sell your products and services online, keep in touch with your customers and prospects automatically, userepparttar 120574 shopping cart to upsell customers to even more products they might not know existed, and do it with ease, Tom Antion's ebook, HOW TO PICK A SHOPPING CART SYSTEM THAT MAKES YOU MONEY, is for you. You'll be stunned by allrepparttar 120575 things a good shopping cart can do.

To give you a little "taste" ofrepparttar 120576 information included inrepparttar 120577 ebook, here's Tom's checklist for evaluating a shopping cart:

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