How to Advertise Your Business Online

You have a new business, but no customers yet. Here are some easy inexpensive ways to capitalize on the internet to market your business.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Search Engines and Directories: When people look for things online they typically start with search engines. You can submit your site mannually to these engines. Goto AltaVista, All The Web, Google, OpenDirectory, and Yahoo to submit your site.

2. Pay-Per-Click: This is an inexpensive way to market and ensure that you do not spend money unless you get results. There are many options, many of these are listed on PayPerClickAnalyst.com. One common one is Googlekeywords when it puts your ad up whenever someone searches specific keywords. The advantage of this option is that you can set a limit so you do not get more clicks than you want to pay for and set the price per hit.

3. E-Newsletter: Start a newsletter online to talk about issues that would be of interest to those who may buy your product. Yahoo groups lets you do this for free. In this way you have a listening audience to teach about your product and convince to buy your services.

4. Link: Find other websites that sell products complementary to yours. Propose a partnership where they advertise your site on their site and visa versa. In this way you instantly increase your visibility at little to no cost.

5. Testimonials: Write testimonials about your business on yelp, yahoo, etc so that anyone with a search engine can find and learn about you quickly.

Tips & Warnings

• Think outside of the box. The internet is a great new frontier so everytime you see a website try to think how you can get yourself on that site.

[sneedc]

on 12/22/2008 The internet is an amazing, scary, wonderful place to make money! Thanks for helping us get noticed!

[lucindaroth]

on 11/12/2008 Thank you for the comment.

[EdenSharpe]

on 11/12/2008 Thanks for the tips. I've never heard of payperclickanalyst.