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Posted: 2006-02-01 / Author: Peter Dobler
Free Advertising The Smart WayFree Advertising: Your biggest asset when becoming an internet marketer is to
know how to get free targeted traffic to your web sites. It
doesn't matter how many web sites you're promoting. Your
primary goal should be to keep the cost down. It feels
great to have monthly sales well into the thousands, but it
also can ruin your day when you realize that most of this
money goes right back into your advertising costs.
Yes, there's a rule that you need to reinvest 75% of your
profit into advertising and marketing. I like this rule,
but it also needs to be timely constraint. I think this
rule is good for your first 3-6 months of business. After
this you should be able to pull back the cost for
advertising without impacting your income streams.
My philosophy in internet marketing is that if you have to
spend a lot of money to keep a positive cash flow, the
competition is probably too intense for this market
segment. You will be better of to research a new niche
market.
On the topic of free advertising, there are many free
classified ad providers, but only a few sites offer truly
free advertising. They all want something in return,
there's no webmaster out there who promotes your stuff for
free just because he/she feels like it today. One way to
get free advertising is to tap into a startup company.
There are hundreds of web sites that want to be the next
Google. To attract new customers they give away free pay
per click credits. Sometimes up to $100 worth of clicks.
Another way to receive free quality advertising is to give
these webmasters what they want. In most cases it's a link
from your website to their website. This can be a problem,
especially if you want to keep your home page clean from
too many flashy banners.
In this case try to figure out of the link back is required
to be on your home page or any page from your website. If
there's no requirement to have the link on your homepage,
create a collection web page that is not necessarily part
of your whole web site and put link back from this site. To
keep the flow put a tiny link from your home page to this
page and you're done.
Don't even think about to put the link on your web page and
a few days later you will remove it. These days the link
back verification is done automatically and they will check
from time to time if you keep your promise or not. Your
free ride will suddenly stop and you will gain a reputation
as cheater.
For more information about free advertising visit my web
sites.
About the Author:
Peter Dobler is a 20+ year veteran in the IT business. He
is an active Real Estate Investor and a successful Internet
business owner.
Collect more free software and bonus content for your own
web site at http://www.online-business-idea.com
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