Building and optimizing your static, dynamic and/or e-commerce website around search engines for organic search results is key to bringing you the targeted web traffic you desire without having to pay big dollars every month in advertising. Search engine optimization is a tool that allows small businesses to compete against larger businesses on the web. SEO also helps to drive traffic/sales without having to pay for clicks (like Paid Search). This is probably the most appealing aspect of SEO to the smaller companies, the fact that they can bring in traffic and sales without having to "pay" for it (this is somewhat relative of course, time does have a cost associated with it). And you can get it for FREE! If you have a website that you think could benefit from search engine optimization, you definitely have to check out this resource.
You can do all the marketing and promotion in the world, but if you can't close the sale, all you've done is waste a lot of money! SalesPractice.com is a member-driven online sales training community and information center featuring top sales training content including articles, videos, podcasts, discussion forum and more.
32 creative ideas for marketing your online business that are sure to get you thinking! Includes SEO techniques, linking, email, paid advertising and other traditional marketing ideas.
This is a fabulous site with loads of valuable, practical advice on how to do email marketing right. Includes guides to email laws in the US/UK/EU; pages of short, easy-to-read explanations of email marketing topics, and much more. Definitely worth a few minutes of your time if you are or intend to market using email!
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If you are using articles to publicize your specific expertise, this is one of the main sites you want to submit your articles to. You allow publishers to reprint your articles in their ezine or website; they put your brief bio and web site link at the bottom. Or, if you need content for your own ezine, this is a great place to look. Use of this site is FREE.
* We use this site to promote Solo-E.com, and found some of our first experts here!
The idea behind this site is: Don't judge a book by its cover, read a chapter instead! As an author, you can upload one chapter of your book for people to read and then they can click over to order your book from your site or Amazon or wherever you sell your books/ebooks. And it's FREE!
One of the best sites to list your articles and promote yourself. You can submit up to 10 articles; then you must be approved for Platinum Status (based on the quality of your submittals.)
PRWeb.com lets you get your press release out to thousands, at no cost! You can optionally upgrade to get a higher ranking and more tracking features. Solo-E.com uses PRWeb for all our press releases.
Writing press releases can be a very cost-effective way to gain credibility as an expert. This resource offers guidelines and tips, as well as samples and templates for creating your own press releases. Submitted by Donna Boyette.
Make sure your newsletter reaches all your subscribers! Before you mail out your newsletter, just run the copy through this free service from Lycos, based on the rules of the popular SpamAssassin filter. Recommended to me by several leading ezine experts!
