The Value of FREE in Internet Business

Written by Cathy Wagner


DO YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR? I have heardrepparttar saying "You get what you pay for," but I don't think that theory applies to Internet Marketing. Yes, there is tons of free advertising available onrepparttar 106023 net and there are millions of people using free advertising to promote their businesses, but is it effective? I think when you try to judgerepparttar 106024 effectiveness of Free Online Advertising, you have to take into consideration all that you can get for free.

PLACING FREE ADS · For one thing, placing free ads will help you learn whether or not marketing online is for you at all; if you hate placing ads, find other work.

· Placing free ads can teach you about writing ad copy; if you can't write copy that gets someone's attention on a free site, you definitely should not pay for ads.

· Free advertising also teaches you to readrepparttar 106025 terms of service before you sign up for a service; most of us have unknowingly agreed to receive mail from thousands of FFA network members everyday.

FREE RESOURCES You can, in fact, get a crash course in a whole new career with very little out of pocket expenses. The key here is using every free resource available to you and paying very close attention to your results.

· You will need web site statistics, this is your best way to know if your ad is effective. If you don't get statistics with your free web site, you can still get free statistics- by following simple instructions to insert a bit of code onto your site.

Affiliates – Don’t Sell – Pre-sell!

Written by Ralph Serpe


OK, so you have just finished putting together your Website and you are ready to start making some money. You heard about affiliate programs and how they are an excellent way to make some extra income from your Website. So you join a few, post some banners on your site, but you really don’t see many sales. Here isrepparttar reason why:

People makerepparttar 106022 mistake of filling their sites with huge banner ads and popup windows in hopes that people will click to their merchants and buy, when in realityrepparttar 106023 exact opposite is happening. People are completely turned off by banner ads and pop up windows. They are annoying and your site simply appears as one big sales letter.

Fortunately there is an effective way to promote affiliate programs from your site, and its through a process called “Pre-Selling.” Instead of blatantly advertising with banner ads, try writing content on your site that is informative and warm your visitors up. Then ”recommend” a product or service that will be of interest to your readers and they will click through to your merchants with a smile on their face.

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