YOU CAN DO BUSINESS ONLINE 101
In this article I will share a lot of links with you that I
found helpful because for me finding the links and sorting
through them is the most time consuming project in setting up an
online business. The first step is setting up your website. If
you are in Multi-Level-Marketing,a lot of companies provide you
with an affiliate website. If this option is not available to
you, you must find a website that that will sell you a domain
name and host your domain. I recommend www.doteasy.com for very
reasonable rates. When choosing your domain name pick something
easy to remember that says a lot about what you do right away.
Next you can find free templates for you site at
www.freesitetemplates.com and you can?t save more money than
that! If you need help setting that up, I recommend my favorite
webmaster, Linda, whom you can contact at www.paolicchi.com or
find your own through a search engine. So now you have a
website. The next step is promoting your website so that people
will know about it. You can use traditional methods to start
with. Get business cards printed with your website on them and
give everyone. You can do this for free at www.vistaprint.com
and choose from a color printed card selection and only pay for
shipping and handling. Why not save money where you can? You can
create flyers about your product and/or services and create
tearoffs with your website on them. Of course, you can also call
all of your friends and family and tell them to visit your
website or better yet send or give them all cards. These
traditional methods only get you so far. So now it is time to
hop online and sort through the vast sources of promoting your
site over the internet. The bad news is that it can be time
consuming. The good news is that I will help you sort through
all the options. The really good news is how very rewarding it
is when you get your online promotion running. So if you get on
a search engine like www.google.com and type in traffic or
advertising you will be overflowed with links. First let me tell
you what I avoid. To me all the promises of guaranteed traffic
are a waste of time. A lot of those companies just use pop ups
or other methods of getting the visitors but since they are not
really trying to reach your site, they probably won?t stay
there. Also, email blasting is useless due to the same
principle. Submitting your site to search engine, on the other
hand, is invaluable because the traffic that lands on your site
really wants to have your service or product. You can submit to
40 search engines for free with www.submitexpress.com. You will
also want to submit to Yahoo when you get serious about your
business. I say when you get serious because it costs $299 but
you get serious results too. I also recommend you get traffic by
signing up at http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?222965 for a
free account. It is a search engine of members who can place up
to ten advertisements on the engine for one or ten different
URLs and it is free. Now you are off to a good start and I say
start because there is so much more to learn if you want to be a
huge success on the internet. I will cover more of these
promotional winners for you in my next article, ?You Can Do
Business on the Internet 201.?