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How To Properly Submit Your Website To Directories - Jeff Schuman
Having a top placement on a search engine and enjoying the traffic that comes with a top ranking is dependent on many things. Certainly at the top of that list is having as many links and quality links pointing to your site. Your competition has...
Building Your Business With a Specialist - Kate Smalley
Building Your Business With a Specialist What is a Virtual Assistant or Freelance Secretary? More and more, experts are discovering the developing importance of working with a team of people who are specialized in their fields. It is becoming a...
7 ways to choose your own home business for maximum success - Michel Richer
Deciding to work from home can be a good decision or a bad one. It depends of your attitude and your love for business. If you really make the decision to start a home business you have made the first step to succeed. But now the question is: " How...
The Secrets of The Shriekers - Adam Senour
I am constantly bombarded with all sorts of advertisements, single-page sites, and sites offering very little real content but some wonderful new "product" or "service" for sale that purports to make its customers wealthy beyond their wildest...
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Written By:
Warren Contreras
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I am reasonably sure that anyone reading this article is
familiar with all the free online advertising resources such
as the all too familiar Sp-m, Classifieds, FFA pages,
Banners, Text Ads, Traffic Exchanges, Newsletters,Guaranteed
Visitors, Paid to Read, Paid to Join, Link Swaps, Pop-ups,
Other 'In-Your-Face' Ads, and the list goes on and on.
The question I would like you to consider is, when you see
this kind of stuff yourself what is your 'Frame of Mind'?
My guess is you know what's coming and your shields go up.
You pull up your waders and trudge on through, oblivious to
the thousands of messages ricochetting off your armor just
so you can collect a few more hits for your own website or
offer. With Millions of would be online marketers doing this
hour after hour and day after day, is it any wonder that the
Internet slows down to a crawl and even stops at times?
So what if you could put your message on hold for a time
when your prospects finished their 'Direct Advertising'
chores. They have returned to their curious wanderings
online, a time when they are now open to checking things
out. Instead of shoving your material in their face, they
come looking for you to see what you are doing. Maybe even
ask a few questions. Kind of like stopping off for a cold
one with the gang after work.
The online equivalent to this scene is being played out
today and every day and you can participate for free. It is
called 'Social Networking' or even more appropriately for
us, 'Business Networking' and is easily found with your
favorite search engine.
Since this can hardly be considered blatant advertising (at
least not directly) I will say the one I am most familiar
with and use myself, is the Ryze Business Network. With a
free account they allow you to create a 'Home Page' where
you can display whatever you want other members to see. I
suggest you tell about yourself - continued below ...
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instead of wasting it on
more advertising. Those that visit know that they are on a
Business Network and know you are here because you have
something for sale.
Now, think about what 'Frame of Mind' you would be in if you
dropped by a potential friends page to sign their guestbook,
looked over their 'Home Page' and decided to click a few
links trying to gain more insight into their personality.
You might even be considering an alliance or joint venture
with them. Can you see the difference?
You are no longer perceived as a 'Salesman' but a 'Fellow
Businessperson' instead. Chamber of Commerce 'Mixers' have
been an example of this approach for years and been very
successful. Now you can accomplish nearly the same thing for
your home business from your computer.
If this all sounds complicated and too hard to understand
how it could possibly work, I would suggest getting a free
account and give it a try. There is free 'Interactive' on
the job training available through sub-networks that fit
every imaginable interest, where you can ask questions and
read the answers from your peers.
There are facilities to search out those you have a common
connection with and they have already given you permission
to subtilty contact them by virtue of being a member.
Blatant advertising is prohibited so you will not be
bombarded with junk ads. It's more like receiving an
invitation that you can read privately and decide if you
want to attend.
So now it is all up to you. Continue contributing to the
degradation of Internet bandwidth with huge numbers of
attempts required (many not even reaching the target) to get
a single response, or try something new.
About the Author
Warren Contreras is just another online marketer that puts
his pants on one leg at a time just like you. Learn more
about him at http://lead-network.ryze.com/
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Top Ten Online Choices to Get Clients to Choose you Again and Again - Part 2 - Judy Cullins
Did you know that 95% of coaching businesses fail because their owners don't pay enough attention to sales copy? Whether you are a professional speaker, coach, or entrepreneur, every business wants more clients. Even more, they want to entice...
How Much Home Loan Can I Afford? - Gary Gresham
Have you ever asked yourself how much home loan can I afford? If you know how much of a payment you qualify for before shopping for a home, your purchase will go much smoother and it can save you a lot of headaches. How would you like to find the...
How to Earn What You're REALLY Worth In The New Economy - Louis Burrows
These are exciting times. Every day the headlines tell us about someone else who made a fortune almost overnight in the new Internet economy. Of course, not everybody is getting rich. The vast majority of North Americans are actually earning less...
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