No?

Then why do you market online as if you were Paris Hilton? Why do you use intrusive, annoying pop up ads (even as software to stop pop up ads continues to get so popular.)?

In fact I find all online advertisements intrusions of sorts (except those about Paris Hilton), Internet is just not a medium designed to carry advertising. There is only one effective way to market online and it’s free (more on that later in this article.)

Despite rapidly dropping online ad rates and despite online ads repeatedly failing to show results, world is still not convinced about this fact. Folks are still desperate to lose a few more billions marketing online before truth finally sinks in, if it ever will.

Even when it is clear that offline advertising and promotion has greatest chance of creating online success, many online entrepreneurs seem to have missed point. By way, even Paris Hilton did all her major “promotions” offline to have gotten this popular online.

So which is only effective way to market online?

It’s by posting free articles loaded with valuable free information. Use resource box at bottom of article to tell us who hell you are and why I need to know about your miserable existence. Remember I’m only human, only people I want to know are those who’ll benefit MY existence.

Your list articles could be a top ten list or top seven list that deals with a specific subject.

You could also write up a list of tips that deals with a broad subject such as marketing or promotion, and then add a catchy headline or title to your list.

Your list article could be without an introduction or you could write up a few short sentences or paragraphs to lead into your new list article.

With your introduction, write just enough to get your readers interested in your article before going into your list.

Some tips that will help you to maximize success of your list articles are:

1. Make each tip informative.

You could tell your reader benefit of using your tip, go into detail about how to use your tip, or define how your tip works if you're writing about something that is new to your reader.

One tip could simply state benefit of using your tip, or you could tell your reader benefit of using your tip and also how to use your tip.

The key is to provide genuinely useful information to your reader. If you're able to do this, you'll be able to get your articles published and achieve long term promotion of your business.

2. Write for your target audience.

For example, if you wrote a manual on e-zine publishing you could write up a list of ten e-zine promotion tips.

3. Use lots of white space.

Your articles will look cleaner and more professional, and you'll be able to keep your readers, including your skim readers, interested in your article.

4. Vary length of your sentences.

Use short and long sentences to get your points across.

For example, if you have two or three short sentences in a row, you could transform these short sentences into one compound sentence.

You could also make these short sentences into one compound sentence and one short sentence.

5. Write your articles as if you are writing to one person or even talking to that person.