1. Look for partners who share your interests and your niche, You may be able to persuade them to enter into joint ventures with you, share their experiences and you can learn from their mistakes and successes.
2. Brand your name and business. You must have been dead not to have heard marketers online and offline extolling the virtues of branding over the past 5 years. Then advertise your brand you can easily do this by just writing articles and submitting them to e-zines or web sites for republishing.
3. Remember to take a little time each and day to brainstorm. Your ideas are will bethe difference between success and failure. No ideas no plan no success.
4. Look at the habits and rituals of successful people and emulate them, they are not successful by accident, they all planned their success. Once you can see what they are doing do it yourself only do it more and do it better and bigger.
5. Take risks to improve your business. Advertise and pay for it, free advertising rarely works, once you get a success re-invest, trust me on this if you start to spend the profits from your business to early you will fail. You must re invest for success.
6. Include emotional words in your advertisements. Use ones like love, security, relief, freedom, happy, satisfaction, fun, etc. remember your ad is there to remind a client of their need for a solution to a problem, once you have them worried emotionally by the problem hit them with the solution and a bonus to keep them happy and the money is in your bank.
7. Visit forums on your topic and ask to review your web site. You can use the comments you get to improve your web site or you may turn the reviewer into a customer. Remember they have to visit to review and if your site is good enough they may buy when they visit. And if they do now isnt that some sort of review
8. Combine a product and service together in a package deal. It could increase your sales. If youre selling a book, or software product offer an hour of consulting or training with it, but make sure that you really know your subject and price your time in with the product.
Geoff Hibbert 2006
Geoffhibbert@homebusinessonautopilot.com
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Is Banner Advertising still effective YES: But you need traffic to get traffic from banner ads!
A trick is to try banner campaigns in combination with a pop-under campaign. Send cheap traffic to a web page with original content and some banners from 2-4 free banner exchanges.
On average, banners receive a click trough rate of 0.2% - 0.6%, but some banner ads receive a CTR of up to 3%. Its up to you to create a professional banner with an incredible free offer, so that nobody can resist!
Now lets assume that your banner has a click through rate of 1% (one click for every 100 banner impressions).
You will usually earn one banner impression for your banner for every two visitors you receive. Suppose you join four free banner exchanges. Then order a 50,000 cheap visitors package (traffic pop-under windows) for about $100 and send that traffic to the page you putted the banner code on it.
You should earn about 100,000 free banner impressions from the banner exchanges (25,000 credits from each banner exchange network). With a well-designed banner, expect to achieve a 1% Click Through Rate (CTR) or even more.
Thats one thousand (1,000) targeted visitors, who have already demonstrated an interest in your product (by clicking on your ad).
Targeted banner impressions often cost $10 per 1,000 impressions ($10 CPM). This equates to an advertising value of $1,000.00 and a cost per click (CPC) of only 10 cents!
Not to mention the branding effects: Your logo and web address will appear 150,000 times on other sites (100,000 on your banner and 50,000 on your pop-under window)! Sooner or later, your product or name will become known throughout the Internet.
There are several banner exchanges on the Internet.
John Iacovakis is an Internet consultant and has over 10 years of marketing experience. He is the owner of