Sunday, September 23, 2007

The Secrets of Free Advertising

The Secrets of Free Advertising
The opportunities for getting free advertising for your
product or services are limited only by your own
imagination and energies. There are so many proven ways of
promoting your objectives without cost that it literally
boggles the mind just to think of listing them.

One way is to write an article relative to your particular
expertise and submit it to all the publications and media
dealing in the dissemination of related information. In
other words, become your own publicity and sales promotions
writer. Get the word out; establish yourself as an expert
in your field, and "tag-along" everything you write with a
quick note listing your address for a catalog, dealership
opportunity, or more information.

Another really good way is by becoming a guest on as many
of the radio and television talk shows or interview type
programs as possible. Actually, this is much easier to
bring about than most people realize. Write a letter to the
producer of these programs, then follow up with an
in-person visit or telephone call. Your initial contact
should emphasize that your product or service would be of
interest to the listeners or viewers of the
program--perhaps even saving them time and money.

Other ways of getting free or very inexpensive exposure
include the posting of advertising circulars on all free
bulletin boards in your area, especially the coin-operated
laundries, grocery stores, and beauty and barber shops.
Don't discount the idea of handing out circulars to all the
shoppers in busy shopping centers and malls, especially on
weekends. You can also enlist the aid of the middle school
students in your area to had out circulars door-to-door.

Some of the more routine methods include having a
promotional ad relative to your product or service printed
on the front or back of your envelopes at the time you have
them printed with your return address.

Be sure to check all the publications that carry the kind
of advertising you need. Many mail order publications just
getting started offer unusually low rates to first-time
advertisers; a free-of-charge insertion of your ad when you
pay for an order to run three issues or more; or special
seasonal ad space at greatly reduced rates. And there are a
number of publications that will give you Per Inquiry (PI)
space--arrangement where all orders come in to the
publication, they take a commission from each order, and
then forward the orders on to you for fulfillment.

Many publications will give you a contract for space. In
this arrangement you send them your ad, and they hold it
until they have unsold space, and then at a price that's
always one third or less the regular price for the space
need, insert your ad. Along these lines, be sure to check
in with the suburban neighborhood newspapers.

If you send out or publish any kind of catalog or ad sheet,
get in touch will all the other publishers and inquire
about the possibilities of exchange advertising. They run
your ad in their publication in exchange for your running
an ad for them of comparable size in yours.

Finally, there's nothing in the world that beats the low
cost and tremendous exposure you get when you advertise a
free offer. Simply run an ad offering a free report of
interest to most people--- a simple one page report with a
"tag-line" inviting the readers to send money for more
information, with a full page advertisement for your book
or other product on the backside. Ask for a self-addressed
stamped envelope, and depending on the appeal for your
report and circulation of the publication in which your ad
appears, you could easily be inundated with responses!

The trick here, of course, is to convert all these
responses, or a large percentage of them, into sales. This
is done via the "tag-line," which issues an invitation to
the reader to send for more information, and the full page
ad on the back of the report, and other offers you include
with the complete package you send back to them. As
mentioned at the beginning of this report, it's just a
matter of unleashing your imagination. Do that, and you
have a powerful force working for you that can help you
reach your goals.


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How to Use Social Networking For Website Promotion

How to Use Social Networking For Website Promotion
Social networking is the six degrees of separation through
which anyone can be connected to another person through a
chain of associates that has five mediators. When anyone
tries to expand the number of one's business, and increase
social contacts by making connections through individuals
it is termed as social networking. The unparalleled
possibility of the Internet to promote such connections is
only now being fully recognized and exploited, through
Web-based groups established specifically for the purpose.

Website promotion is the ongoing process to promote a
website to bring more visitors on to the site. To increase
the traffic to a site, you should use some techniques such
as web content development, search engine optimization, and
search engine submission. You should start your website
promotion efforts by listing your site with the most
popular Internet directories. Because they can send you
substantial amounts of traffic and affect your ranking in
various search engines, it is wise to make sure that your
site is present in all of the major directories before
doing anything else.

If you have been trying to get traffic to your site without
paying for it, you must know by now that participating in
online communities is one of the best ways for organic
marketing. Social networking is a very essential part in
website promotion. Social networking helps to enhance your
websites traffic. It allows you to promote your website,
web pages, products and services through millions of people
who visit community or directory sites where you post
links. The back links that are created through these sites
will help generate the traffic volume to your site that is
already registered with a particular social networking
platform that helps to promote your site and business.

You have to become a part of a social network, when you
create links in social networking sites, so make sure that
you create your own personal profile before you begin this
exercise. Your profile has to be the one that is appealing
to other people, especially to the sites different members
so do not forget to use the profile to express a little
something about yourself too. Your objective would be to
find a way to boost your site's pace through these social
networking sites. This will help ensure that your profile
will supply information to the user that is beneficial to
them, when they click on your site.

There are several advantages of social networking in
website promotion. Unless specified for enhanced services,
it is usually free of charge to network through these
platforms. These social networks are the best examples of
'word of mouth' promotion.

The internet is a vast and potentially powerful tool when
dealing with the masses, especially when dealing with well
known websites and networks. But website promotion also
entails some obvious disadvantages. The target audience is
not always selective and you can be subject to a lot of
bogus enquiries and feedbacks. Privacy is minimal as a
social network is visible to all.

However once you have established a strong social network,
you will be able to increase the visibility of your site
easily. If people like your website, they might increase
the chances that others in their respective networks will
come across it.


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