Work at Home Business Opportunity - Marketing Tip - Contests

Running a contest on your site is a great way to get people to your website or blog. It's also a super way to get them to tell others about you. It also gives you instant credibility because you must be "big-time" if you can run a contest, right? Well, that is what your free visitors will think.

Rather than go too in depth about this marketing strategy, I am going to give you a link to an article I found recently that discusses contests and giveaways in detail.

It's called Read How to Run a Blog Competition to Find New Readers and Make Your Blog Sticky ... You will understand soon!

After reading it you will know a lot more about the marketing value of running a contest or giveaway on your website/blog.


Until next time... have a great day and go get some marketing done!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Business Advertising Tip - Billboards

Billboard advertising is nothing new. We have all seen them for years... you know... the big huge signs "billboards" on the side of the road with an advertisement for some business on them.

You know why you have seen them for years? Because they work! Companies wouldn't still be paying for the advertisements on the billboards after all these years if they didn't work.

You can get one a spot on one of those billboards for relatively cheap. I am sure the price differs in all areas and depends on the location of billboard. However, I have seen some pretty low rates for billboards in high traffic areas.

If you can get your business advertisement on a billboard in a high traffic area I am betting you will be able to generate quite a few new customers. This could work for an online or offline business.

Check the rates in your local area. If it's in your budget I think one of these ads could be well worth it.

 
Until next time... Have a great day and go get some new customers to your business!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg


 

 

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Work at home based business - SEO Tip - Content

Content, Content, Content! That is one of the MAJOR factors that will get you high rankings with the search engines.

The reason the internet is around is to provide information. Valuable information (content) on your website will go a long way in helping you boost your search engine rankings. This is especially true for Google and Yahoo, which are the two biggest and most important search engines.

Even better than boosting your search engine rankings, content will keep your visitors at your site longer and keep them coming back much more often.

So make sure you are frequently updating your website with fresh, quality, relevant content. An easy way to do this is by putting a blog or article directory on your site.

Until next time... Have a great day and go get your website optimized for those search engines!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
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Google Pagerank and Linking Explained

Today I want to talk about something that is important for your work at home business website. It's something called Google Page Rank (PR) and there's a lot of speculation and theories that revolve around what exactly it is and how important it is for Google rankings.

So what is Google Page Rank (PR)?

A blog post I came across recently called, "Google Page Rank Explained?" will help shed a little light on the subject for you.

I highly suggest you read that post if you have a business website or blog. You will learn more about Google Page Rank (PR). Even if you think you know all there is to know (like I did) you will probably still learn something.

Until Next Time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your website!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Home Based Business Marketing Tip - Free Vacation Vouchers

A lot of times hotels will give away free rooms in order to get people to stay. They do this hoping the person(s) will spend money on other things, stay longer, refer friends, come back some other time, etc...

You could give away a free vacation offer as a "thank you" for visiting your site, buying something from your site, signing up for your newsletter, etc...

This will increase the chances of people doing the specific task you are offering the free vacation voucher for. It will also increase the chances of them telling their frends about it so they can get one too. You could get a whole viral marketing campain going just by offering free hotel travel vouchers.

 
Until next time... Have a great day and go get some free traffic to your site!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
  

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Promotion Tip - COOPS

If you don't know what a coop is I will tell you really quick... It's basically just a group of people putting advertising dollars together in order to get prospects for their business.

You can get more bang for your buck by doing mass advertising with a group and giving each person in the COOP a percentage of the leads generated.

There are some home business opportunites out there that have really good coops set up for the members to join if they want to. Probably the most well-known of these is SFI marketing group.

The corporate headquarters of SFI offers a coop and so do many of the group leaders within the business. I actually have 3 shares of the COOP that my group leader provides. That's 75 guaranteed sign-ups every month. For a very good price.

Check into your business opportunity or affiliate program if you are a part of either and see if they offer a coop. You won't find an easier way to get highly targetted, highly responsive, and guranteed sign-ups.

 
Until next time... Have a great day and go get some promoting done for your business!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
  

 

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Free Work at Home Business Traffic Tip - Guestbooks

There are many people that have guestbooks on their websites. A lot of these websites are high ranking and get many visitors. A lot of them also have a guestbook that has a high google PR value.

Do you know what this means? If not, you will in a second!

It means you can go and sign these guestbooks to bring traffic and/or PR to your website. Most guestbooks allow you to put a link to your website in the comment. This gives a link to your website (that's a very good thing). Plus, anyone reading the guestbook may see your link and check your your website (another really good thing).

It's easy to do... just search for your topic and then the words "sign guestbook" after it. For example let's say your website focuses on working at home...

You can go to google or any other search engine you like. Then put in this search... "work at home" "sign guestbook" ... It will bring up sites that have a work at home topic and that have a guestbook for you to sign. Pretty cool, eh?

Don't just randomly post a comment on every guestbook you find. Instead check out the website and leave a sincere comment. This will keep your reputation intact and provide the webmaster with what they are looking for. Win, Win situation!

You can also put a guestbook on your website very easily. This will help you in the long run because it lets visitors make comments (they like that) and it will bring people to your site that are looking to sign a guestbook. While they are there they might find something that interests them... and YOU GET PAID!

You can find a quick and easy way to add a guest book to your site at the Newbie Club. The offer free guestbooks that only take a few minutes to set up. That's where I got mine.

 
Until Next Time... Have a great day and go get some free traffic to your website!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Internet Marketing Tip - Surveys

Putting a survey on your website is a really good way to not only attract more people to your site but also learn the needs of your visitors.

Some people like to make their opinion heard, others just think it's fun to take surveys, and still other people like to take surveys for other reasons. Whatever their reason may be... People like to take surveys.

Adding one to your site is a fairly easy process but it can attract more visitors and make your current visitors come back for more.

However, a bigger advantage of having a survey on your site is to collect information from your visitors. You can ask them questions designed to give you more info about what they are looking for. Then, you can use the information to give them what they want.

Maybe you find out your visitors are looking for more "how to" information on widgets. Well, now all you have to do is put up a "how to" widget page.

Here is a popular site for finding surveys to put on your website... Survey Monkey

You can find all sorts of surveys there and you can even design your own. There are free versions and paid versions. You will have to decide what you need.

Until next time... Have a great day and go make some money with your business!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

PS - If you would like to make some extra money taking surveys you can check out Survey Scout. They offer a huge database of companies that will pay you to take simple surveys from your home.

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Work at Home Business - Marketing Tip - Business Directories

There are lot of directories out there that you could have your website listed in. Many of them have a high PR rating and get a lot of traffic.

Having your website listed in them gives you a link back from a high PR site... Very good for raising your rankings! It also gives another place for peopke find your business.

A couple of the more well-known directories are the DMOZ Open Directory Project and the Yahoo! Directory. These are a little harder to get into than some but it is WELL worth it if you do.

Here is a list of free directories to get you started...

http://www.jayde.com/
http://www.pedsters-planet.co.uk/
http://www.url.biz/
http://www.searchsite.com/
http://www.ectrade.com/
http://www.maxpromo.com/
http://www.searchwarp.com/
http://www.subjex.net/
http://www.websearch.com.au/
http://www.asiadragons.com/

Submit to as many directories as you can find. Many of them won't accept you the first time or even the 5th time but some of them will. Just keep submitting. You will want to make sure your website is done because most of them don't take "work in progress" websites.

This is a great marketing technique so give it a try. Many of the directories are free to get into and others cost money. If you don't have the funds to pay to get in just stick with the free ones for now.

Here are a few more directories for you to try. However, most of these you have to pay to be included...

http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.joeant.com
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.gimpsy.org
http://www.hotrate.com
http://www.xoron.com/
http://www.lycos.co.uk/dir/
http://www.business.com/ 

Well, there you have it... Another great way to Market your business website! If you have learned anything about work at home business promotion / marketing / advertising by reading this blog, I encourage you to tell others about it so they can benefit too! 
 
 
Until next time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your website!

Dedicated to your home business success,
Trent Brownrigg
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http://www.home-business-team.com

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Free Viral Marketing Resource - MyViralWebsite.com

Hello Everyone,

This is a brand new Viral Marketing site… and a brand new idea. It’s the ultimate link cloaker on the net. The guys at My Viral Website transformed the traditional link cloaker into a $$$ CASH $$$ machine!

But, as I said, you will NOT only benefit from the free link cloaker, you will also:

#1 Double or even triple your affiliate sales
#2 Build a MASSIVE opt-in list!
#3 Cloak your affiliate links to stop thieves!

What I just want to add is that you don’t need a website to sign up for this site. You will benefit from it the SAME WAY as a website owner!!!

Double or even triple your affiliate commissions...  In less than 40 seconds!

I have been using it for about 2 weeks now with outstanding results. It is a great way to ensure your commissions don't get stolen by using the link cloaker. I have also built my list up faster than I ever did in the past and made some extra money while doing it.

This one is definitely worth checking into as a great way to market your website or affiliate site. It's free to sign up for and only takes about a minute. I talk about Viral Marketing quite a bit here (i.e. People Telling Their Friends About You) and this is a great viral marketing tool to get you going. 

Good luck with your marketing!! My Viral Website

Until Next Time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your website!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Home Based Business - Advertising Resource - My Free Ads Secret

OK, the title of this post may be a little misleading. You see it says, "My Free Ads Secret". Well, it's not actually "My" free ads secret. That is just the name of the product that I am suggesting today.

I ran across it last night and thought it looked like a pretty darn good advertising product. I actually found it on another website so I decided to look into it some more.

There is a ton of information about the product at the website. I urge you to at least go check it out by clicking here.

I haven't used the free ads secrets product but it looks like a great way to get some major advertising done for your business. The actual product isn't free but the claim is that everything after that is.

It's all about getting millions of free ads for your business or website. If even a fraction of it's true, that is still a LOT of free advertising.

Hey, the theme we are focusing on with this blog right now is "Advertising, Marketing, and Promotion". I know most of the time I offer free home business tips but sometimes I think using a product like this would be very useful. It may not be free at first but it sure seems to offer a lot of freebies after the initial purchase. I can't vouch for product because I have not personally used it. All I know is what I read.

Until next time... Have a great day and go get some visitors to your business website!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Work At Home Business Tip -- SPY

Yeah... That's right! I said spy. What I mean is to spy on your competitors. See what they are doing, what they are offering, freebies they are giving away.
 
Call them and see how they treat inquiries. Email them and see how fast you get an answer and how accurate it is.
 
Pretend to be a customer, go through all the motions, and see how their service is. Make a return to see what their policy is.
 
ETC... ETC... ETC...
 
 
Just get to know everything about how they run their business.... Then DO IT BETTER!
 
All products being equal people are going to choose the business that offers more of a positive experience. Give it to them and they will come to you.
 
 
Until next time... Have a great day and go get some sales from your business.
 
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg  

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Free Business Marketing Tip --- Demonstrations

If you offer a tangible product then giving free demonstrations is a great way to make sales. A demonstration allow people to see exactly what your product can do for them.
 
You can show the features and benefits of your product so people will know what they are getting. This is much more convincing than an ad trying to tell them what your product is.
 
Even if someone wasn't out to purchase your product they could see you giving a demonstration and suddenly be interested.
 
You can give demonstrations in stores, shows, homes/offices, TV, or even the street. If you offer a good enough product and a great demonstration you could easily draw nice sized crowd in a short amount of time.
 
What's one more advantage of demonstrations? .... They're FREE! All you pay for the marketing is your time.
 
 
Until next time... Have a great day and go get some sales from your visitors!
 
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Home Business Advertising Tip --- Book Inserts

I learned this little trick from a friend on mine a couple months ago. It's actually a pretty darn good method for advertising. I am not sure why I never thought of it before but I didn't!
 
Anyway, here it is....
 
Make up slips of paper about the size of a bookmark with a nice little advertisment for your business on them. Make sure you have the name of your business, the nature of your business, and your website URL on them. Plus, anything else you can fit that you think sounds good.
 
Then make a bunch of copies of this "bookmark". Now, go to every bookstore, library, and anywhere else that has books. Find the section of the store that has the books written on your business topic (or any topic similar).
 
Put your little advertisement in as many of the books related to your topic as you can find. If you can find enough bookstores, libraries, etc... your advertisement could be shown to a very large amount of people. This will be targetted traffic as well because these people are looking at books on your business topic. That means they are already interested in something similar to what you offer!
 
This won't cost you hardly anything but time so any sales you make will be pretty much all profit. Plus, your new customers might tell a few friends about you. After a while you could have a lot more people doing business with you just from a few book inserts.
 
Give it a try... you have nothing to lose!
 
 
Until next time.... Have a great day and go get some people to your business!
 
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Marketing Tip -- Press/News Releases

You can bring in a LOT of visitors to your website/business in a very short amount of time with a well written press release.
 
Similar to writing an article or a column in a newspaper you will write about something in the current news (related to your business) and then back it up with credible facts. Add a little infor about yourself and you are set.
 
You can also write a press release about your own business. If you have done something recently like start a new line of product, add a great resource to your site, sponsor some big event, etc... you can write about it.
 
The best thing about these is that they are free and targetted. So whether or not you get 10 or 10,000 visitors all you will have spent was your time.
 
Here are a couple sites you can check out for press/news releases... http://www.xpresspress.com and http://www.prweb.com
 
 
 
Well, until next time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your website!
 
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Work at Home Business - Marketing Tip of the Day - WRITE EBOOKS

An e-book is quite similar to a regular book except it is entirely online and a heck of a lot easier to produce and distribute.

E-books are the "Big Thing" right now and only seem to get more popular all the time. Writing an ebook will give you a huge amount of credibility in your field. By creating a good ebook you can be seen as an expert basically overnight.

Writing an ebook can be a fairly simple task. Just go out an investigate what others have written about. What people need to know. And how to write an ebook. Within a couple weeks you can have one written and ready to go.

Then all you do is sell it, offer it as a freebie, set up an affiliate program with it, let others give it away, etc...

Your name and business will spread faster then you could ever have imagined. Just one well written and well marketed ebook could bring in thousands of people to your business and thousands more dollars.


Until next time... Have a great day and Go get some business!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Website Marketing Tip --- Games

Computer & Video Games are big business. In fact, some
recent reports have said that the video gaming
industry is now larger than the movie industry. Plain
& simple... people like to play games and are willing
to pay for it.

One idea that is used by one of the online travel
sites, Orbits, has been to include games in their
popup ads... especially on their ESPN.com ads. They
have a flash version of Dunk-the-Dummy, Miniature
Golf, Homerun Derby, or Longest Drive games.

This works because they combine the natural sporting
tendency of their audience with uniquely designed ads
for plane tickets, hotels and rental cars.

In one case they have a 3-hole mini-golf course, with
one hole shaped like a plane, the next whole shaped
like a hotel and the last hole shaped like a car.

While very interesting, I did not find it relevant
until I received this tip from Sandra Jackson
regarding "Advergames".


She claims that having an online golfing game, has
"brought over 25,00 players a day to my site".
Not sure if that was 2,500 or 25,000... but it's a good
number of visitors in either case.


The key here is the site that had the Golfing game also
sold Golfing related products... so the people coming
to play golf online were good prospects for the
products the site sold.

Also, the longer a visitors stayed on the site playing
golf the more products the site was to able advertise.
More exposures translates into a higher likely hood
that the site will display a product the visitor may
be interested in ...and the longer a visitor stays on
a site, the more likely it is they will come back to
the site in the future.

Not all businesses can easily combine a game that is
related to the topic of their site, but you can adapt
traditional games such as hang-man to use words
relating to your subject.

In addition to advertising your own products, you can
also use the Google AdSense program to increase the
revenue generated from game generated traffic.

You can find a few cool games to offer on your site for
free at:

http://games.trafficologyresources.com


Until next time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your site!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Website Advertising --- Don't-Touch-My-Ads.com

Here is an easy way to advertise your website for free. It's called, Don't-Touch-My-Ads.

It's simply a traffic exchange system where you will display ads on your desktop to earn credits so your ads will be displayed on other people's desktop.

Here are some of the keypoints to DTMA:

* Makes use of previously wasted computer time.
* Your Ads Cannot be ignored and will always be seen.
* Will instantly capture the immediate attention of the user when they return to their PC.
* Will advertise your website and affiliate programs passively.
* Are only shown to targeted, interested prospects.
* Only takes about a minute to sign up and get them going. It's also free to use. In my opinion FREE TRAFFIC is good traffic no matter how you look at it.

I have used Screen Saver traffic rotaters before and thought they were OK for getting some free traffic. However, they were not nearly as good at DTMA.

With "Don't-Touch-My-Ads" your ad doesn't rotate away every minute like it does with screen saver programs. Instead the user must check out your ad or dismiss it before they can keep working on their computer. It's much better that way!

I have been using DTMA for a few days now and like it a LOT so far. I am not sure how much more traffic it has brought because it is too early to tell. However, I know ads have been getting shown on my desktop so mine must be getting shown too.

They aren't all that annoying either. I sorta thought they would be but they really aren't. I have actually come across some pretty interesting sites. The ones I don't want to see I just close.

Anyway, DTMA is definitely worth a look. So check it out real quick: Don't-Touch-My-Ads.

We try to find Free Traffic here at the Biz Tips Blog and that is exactly what DTMA is.

Until next time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your site!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
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Blog is back up now and has changed!

To Everyone Reading This Blog For The First Time... WELCOME!

To everyone else...

Well, blogger still has a bug so it seems that my old blog is either lost forever or it will be a while until they get it back.

I was sick of waiting so I started a new blog. Then I copied/pasted most of the recent posts from the last blog into this one.

As you can see the blog has a new look but the great information hasn't changed!

I obviously didn't paste all the posts from the old blog into this one but I did get pretty much all of good ones from the past month or so.

I am sorry for all the inconvenience of it being down for the past week. There was nothing I could do about it but wait.

I really hope you all like the new look! I love it.

Now, I will be back to frequent posts about all sorts of great home based business / work at home stuff. The theme for now is still "marketing/promotion/advertising techniques".


ENJOY!


Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

PS - You can also post comments now! You can do it by clicking the little "comments" link under each post.

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Work at Home Business - Traffic Tip - New Google Service

This next traffic tip was submitted by the
Nitro Affiliate Manager, Chip Tarver:


Google has added some nifty new FREE services about
which a lot of people are not yet aware.

The first is a free email alert system that lets you
know when any website links to your site.

It's called Google Web Alerts. All you have to do is
answer a couple of questions, and Google then emails
you when there's new info matching whatever search
you asked for. The URL is ...

http://www.google.com/webalerts/create


The second cool service is a way you can track any
types of news that influences your marketing, your
website, or anything else you're interested in.

To track news articles, try Google News Alerts at ...

http://www.google.com/newsalerts/create

Chip Tarver
Manager, NitroMarketing Affiliate Program
http://www.NitroMarketing.com/na.o/traffic


Until Next Time... Have a Great Day and Go Get Some Traffic To Your Website/Business!

To your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Work at Home Business Tip - Free PPC Idea

I received this idea in an email today. It fits perfectly with this series of free traffic tips here at the Biz Tips Blog. I guess today I don't have to use my brain. I just copied and pasted :)

Here you go...

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FREE PPC IDEA
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Using Pay Per Click Listings For Free


Pay Per Click Search Engines are just like any other
search engine except you have to pay for each click
someone makes to get to your site.

To use them for free deposit the minimum required, then
only bid .01 on the keywords related to your site that
cost much more for top positions.

What this will do is list you in their massive database
but due to the fact your listing is so far down the
list, nobody will ever click through to your site. If
they do click on your ad, it will only costs you .01.



How Does This Help?

Many free search engines use the Pay Per Click Data
Bases to improve the quality of their own search
results. The settings I use get me about 1 months
advertising for $25 resulting in a 10% increase of web
traffic.

Your results will vary based on whether you want to try
and ride it for completely free or use a small
advertising budget as I do.

The PayPerClick search engines that gives me the best
results is Findwhat.com .

It only costs $25 to get started. The FindWhat.com
Network is comprised of hundreds of high quality, high
traffic destination websites and search engines like:
CNET's Search.com, Excite, Webcrawler, MetaCrawler
and Dogpile,

So just by being listed in Findwhat you also get listed
with these search engines through database sharing. I
have not tried other PPC listings as it does require a
deposit and most want $100 up front.


Glenn Madden - American TradUR Company
http://www.tradur.com
New E-book Release May 2004
Internet Business How To Start Guide


Well, that was easy. I hope you enjoyed it because it took a long time ;)

Until next time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your website!

To your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Home Business Promotion Tip - Guarantees

Guarantees are like Gold! People are very skeptical by nature so offering some sort of guarantee will help to ease their worries.

Here are just a few examples:

"Double Your Money Back If..."
"XXXX amount of dollars in the next __ days or your money back"
"Satisfaction Guaranteed or you get ____ free"
"Money back plus $XX if we don't deliver on our promise"

The point is you want to make them do business with YOU! If your competitor doesn't offer a guarantee then you are already a step ahead. The odds are with you that the prospect will pick you.

Make sure you ALWAYS honor the guarantee! Nothing will drive your business into the ground faster then a bunch of people telling everyone they know not to trust you.

You also want to make sure that the gurantee isn't far fetched. Don't guarantee them they will make $1,000,000 dollars in 30 days or less. We ALL know that's a bunch of crap!

You need to ease their mind with a guarantee not make is so far fetched that they run the other way even faster.

Until next time... Have a great day and go get some people to your business!

To your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Business Advertising Tip - Coupons

There is no doubt that people love getting stuff for free or cheap. Offering a "buy one get one free" or "buy one get one half off" coupon or even just a "50% off" coupon is a great way to get people to purchase from you.

If they are already going to buy whatever product or service you sell then you offering an incentive will most likely bring them to purchase from you.

You don't only have to use this technique with offline business. Just put some sort of redeemable coupon or code in your online promotions and you can use this just the same online. Then, when someone comes to your website they type in the code and get their discount, or freebie, or whatever!

If you offer great customer service, quality products, and they are satisfied with their purchase then there is a good chance they will come back to you next time, even without a coupon. They also might tell a friend or two. This could get a nice viral marketing campaign going for you with little extra effort on your part.

Well, until next time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your business!

To your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Internet Marketing Tip - Blogs

Having your own blog is a great marketing tool. You can offer advice, information, fun stuff, freebies, or anything else you want in a very short amount of time with a blog.

What is a blog? Short for Weblog... Basically, it is an online journal where you share your thoughts and knowledge with the rest of the world. You are reading a blog right now.

Having a blog on your site is a great way to bring back the search engines. They are typically updated every day or two so the search engines will keep coming back to find your updated website. Great for rankings!

Also, you are giving people something they want so they will keep returning for whatever it is that your blog offers. For instance this blog offers home business, work at home, and marketing tips. Many people (like you) need those types of tips so they keep coming back everyday to read them.

Getting a blog is easy. There are many blog in a box packages and free blog hosting sites that allow you to start a blog quickly and easily. Here is a free blog hosting site that google owns called blogger. They are who I use to host my blog that you are reading right now. Go and check them out they are quick and easy.

Until next time... Have a great day and go get some traffic to your site!

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Free Home Business Advertising Tip - Sponsoring

A great way to spread the word about your business is to sponsor events in your area. There are many games, events, charity drives, intramurals, little leagues, etc... That are just waiting for people like you to give a little bit of your $$$ to help out.

You will usually get your business name on a T-shirt, or sign, or flyer, or something else related to the event. A lot of people will be seeing these events and YOUR business name. It is a great way to drive local traffic to your website or offline business if you have one.

Then, it may just set in the word-of-mouth train if you give a good impression. Before you know it you may have hundreds or thousands of new visitors just because you gave a little money to sponsor a couple events.


Until next time... Have a Great Day and Go Get Some Traffic!

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Home Based Business - Website Traffic Tip - Power Linking

It is no secret that doing link exchanges will boost your website ranking, your traffic, and your PR thus increasing your sales and profit. However, that is just part of the equation. You shouldn't stop there.

Quite a while ago I had heard about a product called Power Linking. It was being talked about on the incredible and elite Warrior Forum. If something is talked about there then it's worthy because that is where many of the "Big Dogs" hang out. I was busy doing something at the time so I didn't pay much attention to it. However, I recently came across it again.

Just looking at the home page it has at least 5 testimonials from some really Major Names in Internet Marketing... Willie Crawford, Jim Daniels, Stone Evans, and more! Not to mention that the guy who made it, Jack Humphrey, is no amature.

Reading through the page it seems like the product has some incredible information. It was made to produce a steady, consistent overdose of free traffic to your website. WE ALL WANT THAT!

I have done a lot of link exchanges in my Online Business Career with much success. If this product delivers on it's promise (judging by what I have heard it does) then it is well worth the investment.

I guess if we are looking for traffic then this is a product worth looking into. Click Here To Check Out "Power Linking"


Man, going back and reading the last few days of posts I seem like a darn commercial for these products. I don't mean to sound like I am giving a sales pitch to you. Yes, I will make a commission on many of these products if you buy them. However, I don't just throw anything at you just to make a buck. I truly think that you can get some major traffic by using this stuff. I haven't personally used all of them but I have used a lot of them with variations of success. Traffic = Sales = Profit = One Heck of a Great Day! So get it where you can.

Well, until tomorrow... Have A Great Day! As usual it is now time for you to get out there and get some traffic to your site so you can make some $$$$!


To your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Home Business Promotion Resource - Mega Promoter

I just came across Mega Promoter recently and it seems like a pretty darn good tool. I have never personally used it but I have seen it all over, so someone must be using it.

In a nutshell it is an ad blaster software that will submit your ad to over 2,500,000 websites with a click of a button.

Here are some of the highlights from the website (I just copied and pasted these):

*Automatically Have Your Ad Blasted To 2,500,000+ Sites With Our Unique Set and Forget Technology!

*Use our unique Autopost feature: You can leave your house and still have your ads submitted automatically by us!

*Get 5000 Hits To Your Website Per Hour!

*Reach 185,000 targeted Ezine Members with our Bonus eZineBlaster!

*Drastically increase your web site traffic EVERY day!

*Have your Ad submitted to the best and busiest business advertising pages, Advertising Networks and Search Engines across the net!

*Reach more than 1000 Advertising Networks across the net!

*Use our high traffic link placement service to reach thousands in just seconds!

*Have your Ad submitted - day after day throughout the year - automatically!

*Increase your link popularity (important for great search engine rankings!)

*You can use our ad posting service whenever you want, forever!

*We make sure your ad is submitted to the right categories and sites for the highest exposure!

*Promote as many websites or products as you like!

**AND MORE!


I honestly can't tell you how much of that is true but even if you get a fraction of those results I think it's worth a one time fee of only $39.95

They even say that you won't get Spam complaints or trouble with your ISP. (They say that... NOT me)

I would say that if you are looking for a quick and easy way to get the word out about your business everyday then this is worth a try. Like I said above I haven't used it so please don't think I am giving it an endorsement. I am just throwing it out there as a possibility.

This blog is published to give you home business / work at home tips. As you have seen, the theme recently has been "traffic for your business". This Mega Promoter seems to fit right into that theme!

Go and give it a try if you think it sounds as great as I do. Let me know what kind of results you get.


Well, until next time... Have a Great Day and Get Some Darn Traffic To Your Site!


To your success,
Trent Brownrigg

PS - Here is a great website promotion site to check out... Promotion World.

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Work at Home Business - Free Traffic Tip - WEB RINGS

Webrings can bring you in a little traffic for virtually no effort on your part. All you do is put a little bit of code on your site and you can get a few visitors per day. True... you probably won't get much traffic but every little bit helps. Heck, you might find your next big sale, or distributor, or affiliate from one of those few visitors.

So what is a webring? Basically it's just a bunch of sites with a common theme that are all linked together in a "ring" or circle. Typically each member puts a code on their site that shows a little "webring" banner.

Not only are the good for getting a little traffic they are very useful for helping each other out. That is actually the main purpose of them... to help the other webmasters.

Here is a website to help get some more information or sign up for webrings http://www.webring.org/rw


Until next time... Have a great day!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Website Traffic Tip - Screen Blaze

Two weeks ago I started using a free traffic generation technique using my screen saver.

I am serious! Every minute that I am away from my computer I am racking up visitors to my site just because my screen saver is earning me traffic points.

How is this possible? The website is called Screen Blaze. All you do is sign up and then in a couple minutes you will be good to go. Then you get 1 showing of your site for every 10 minutes your screen saver is going. This means that all night long while you are sleeping you are racking up visits to your site.

I figured there would be some catch to it. However, I used it all last night and all day today and haven't seen any reason to stop using it. It's free traffic and I don't have to do anything at all for it. I suggest you at least try it out. Here is the link to Screen Blaze.

Plus, you can disable it at anytime and go back to your old screen saver if you want. I tested it out to make sure and it worked. I am going to keep using it for now. If anyone else uses it and likes it then please let me know.

Until next time.... Have a great night!

Trent

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Work at Home Business Promotion Tip - Nitro List Builder

This tip is a very fast list building strategy. If you have been around internet marketing for very long then you have no doubt heard about the importance of a list. If you are new then you will hear about it soon (like right now). It's true! Every Expert/Guru/WhateverYouCallThem will tell you that having a list is vital to business.

The only problem is that it can take quite a while to build a big enough list to really profit from it. Sure, having even a small list is good but a HUGE list is MUCH better!

I learned a little secret list building strategy from a very well-known Internet Marketer named Willie Crawford. He revealed that a lot of the "Big Dogs" use Co-registration services to get up to 100,000 subscribers for as little as a penny each.

I looked into it and it is a really great deal. You can get thousands of people in your opt-in list for a VERY small price. Heck, just a few sales will cover your costs and if you keep them satisfied, you will retain much of your list for many more future sales.

One of the most well-known and trusted list Co-Registration List Builders out there today is Nitro List Builder. They are the ones Willie Recommended. I checked around and it seems they come highly recommended from a lot of people.

With NitroListBuilder You can buy a fresh list of 25,000 to 100,000 or more OPT-IN names who just requested information on how to make money online for as little as PENNY each. Plus, you get a few really nice bonuses to go with it.

I recommend checking them out at the very least. I really do think it can be a very effective way to get a huge list really fast. If you only make a small % of sales to the list you will still be in profit.


Have a great day or night or both. I will talk (blog) to you later.


To your success,

Trent Brownrigg
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Business Website Promotion Tip - SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the best way to get a steady flow of free visitors to your site. The best kind of visitors are the free ones. Even better than that are long term free ones.

If you get your website ranked on the first page of results for you particular keywords then you can expect to get many visitors each and every day, forever (as long as you stay at the top).

For some keywords, such as "work at home" it can be quite difficult to achieve really high rankings. For others it is not so difficult. All you need to do is learn some SEO and you are on your way.

A very good and well-known website for SEO is http://www.highrankings.com

Go there and get started on your SEO skills. I am sure you will pick up on some very good tips as well as other sites to visit.

I am sure you can find a resource or two that will help you with your SEO on my new page of this website. The Home Business Web Resources Page. With over 225 links to some of the top business resources you are sure to find something you need!

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Home Business Marketing Tip - Joint Ventures

Joint Ventures (JV) are a great way to promote your product or business and make some nice $$$$. I personally know of someone who recently made over $12,000 in one day from a JV. Of course, this is not typical but it is typical to make good money from JV's.

You see there are a lot of people out there with Huge lists of people that already trust them. There are also a lot of people with great products and no list. Then there are those with great products and huge lists.

All you have to do is contact someone with what you are looking for and ask for a JV. Let's say you have a great product but no list. You just need to find someone in your business niche that does have a list. Then you offer them a certain % of the profits to send an email out to their list marketing your product.

You make money on every sale and so do they. It's a win-win situation.

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Work at Home Business - Marketing Tip - Ads on High Ranking Sites

Usually my marketing tips are free. This one isn't free but it isn't horribly expensive either and it will drive a lot of targeted traffic to your site...

As you probably know, there are websites that get thousands of visitors every day.

I would venture to bet that whatever niche you target has at least one site that gets hundreds or even thousands of visitors each and every day.

Did you also know that many of these sites offer advertising for a very reasonable price?

It's true! You can sometimes get an ad on a very high ranking, high traffic website for as little as $25 per month.

That means thousands of people could see your ad for less than a dollar per day. I think it's worth it! And you? Even if it costs $250 per month you can still get a great return on investment by advertising on high ranking sites.

In fact, I even offer advertising on my high ranking home business website. If your niche is related to Work at Home or Make Money Online, you can get advertising on my site for very reasonable prices. Check out my home business advertising page for more information.

Well, I gotta go for now. If you need anything just ask. I am always willing to help out with anything I can!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Free Website Traffic Tip - Traffic Swarm

There are quite a few traffic exchange programs out there. Honestly, hardly any of them work. However, I have found that Traffic Swarm works a lot better than others. While it's still true that you won't get very high quality/targetted traffic, you will at least get quite a bit of traffic. The more people that see your site, the better your chances of making a sale or finding someone that will refer others.

Go to traffic swarm and sign up for a free account. It only takes a few minutes to do and you can start generating traffic within a couple hours.

They have sent over 1700 people to my website this month for free. You may just find really soon that you would like to upgrade to the paid version for many more benefits.

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Home business / Work at home Tip - Follow Up

Follow-Up, Follow-Up, Follow-Up ... Did you get that yet? Do I need to say it again?

One of the main keys to a strong business is to follow-up with your customers. Ask them if everything is as expected. Get feedback from them. Offer them deals or freebies. Make sure they remember you in the back of their minds all the time. Just getting a customer is only half the battle. Keeping them is winning the war. Chances are you won't keep them if you don't follow-up with them.

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Internet Marketing - Free Viral Traffic Tip - MyViralAds

Using MyViralAds you will advertise your site in such a way that it can't be ignored. You simply paste a little code onto your website and when visitors leave it will come up.

The person must either click on an ad or close the window because if they don't then they can't continue to browse. They also do not interfere with your website at all. They only come up when the person is leaving anyway.

You get to pick the category so your ads will only be shown to targetted people interested in what your site has. You can get your ad to be shown 2,000,000 times per week or more. Imagine how many people you will get to your home business if only a small % of those people click!

Did I mention that it is free?

I just started using them (actually the page they are on hasn't even launched yet) so I can't give you any feedback with my experience so far. However, I do have a friend who uses them and he has given me positive feedback about them.

I think it could be a great way to get traffic to your site. Why not try it? It's free and easy.

Well, I have to get back to packing stuff up so I can haul a load to my new house. Have a wonderful evening!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent

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Free Business Marketing Tip - FORUMS

There are tons of online business forums just waiting for you to help out others by offering your advice. What do you get in return? A link to your website and lots of recognition! Not only does this help your search engine rankings... There are also a LOT of other people at those forums that just might click your link.

If you would like more information on this, here is an article I have previously written on the topic of forum marketing... http://www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com/forumsuccess.html

Be sure to subscribe to my feed for tons more great business information and advice!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg

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Viral Marketing Tip - Open Your Mouth and Talk

You think I am joking with that title, don't you? Well, I am not! The tip of the day is really about simply opening your mouth. Of course, you have to talk too. Sorry I am making it so hard on you.

Tell Everyone You Know About Your Business

You would be surprised how many people you actually know. I have seen expert studies show that a 25 year old typically knows at least 1000 people. I am serious... 1000 people or more that you know fairly well. Think about how many more that would be if you are 40 or 50 or 75 years old!!!

Now here is the true power of it all.... Each one of them also knows another 1000 people (give or take some). So if you tell everyone you know and you tell them to tell everyone they know and so on...

Eventually your business will have reached thousands upon thousands of people and all you had to do was talk! Not to mention that getting a word-of-mouth referral from someone makes it much more likely that they will act.

So get out there and start telling people about your business!

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Business Website - Free Traffic Tip - Link Exchanges

First of all you need a website if you are planning on building a solid and long-lasting business. Once you have the website you need to get it ranked in the search engines and get traffic to it.

What's the best way to do this?

LINK EXCHANGES

If you get a lot of sites, that are somewhat on a similar topic as yours, to link to you then you will get a high ranking in the search engines for your particular keyword. Once you do that then you will get a LOT more traffic. You will also get more traffic from the links themselves. They will be on other websites so there is a chance that their visitors will click on it.

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Business Marketing Tip - Give Away Freebies

Underpromise and overdeliver! That is the best marketing strategy ever. You can do this by giving away free stuff at your website or in your newsletter without advertising it first.

Say someone visits your site from an ad that never mentioned anything about getting a free ebook or something else free. They will be delighted to find the gift.

This is a great way to get people to not only return to your site but tell their friends about it too.

Don't Know Where to Find Free Ebooks to Give Away???
Click here and you will find some great ones!

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Work at Home Business - Traffic Tip - Testimonials

Ask customers or business associates to give a testimonial about your and/or your products. Then post in on your website or send it with your mailings.

You would be surprised how well this works. People tend to believe other people much more then they believe the person making the pitch (YOU).

When someone sees that another person (or 20) has had a great experience with you it will encourage them much more to do business with you as well.

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Business Promotion Tip - Free Classifieds

There are thousands of free classified ad websites all over the internet just waiting for your ads. I know you may have heard about these being a waste of time but I know of a lot of people that use free classifieds very successfully. The trick is to track your ads to find the ones that actually pull well for you.

You must be very persistent with this method. Post a lot of ads and keep doing it. Always change your copy to find the ones that attract the most visitors. When done correctly you should be able to bring a lot of traffic without spending a cent.

Be sure and get a free throw away email address to use when posting to free classifieds. You will get a LOT of spam and you don't want it all going to your actual email.

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Work at Home Business - Marketing Tip - FLYERS

Flyers

That's right... Good old fashioned flyers. You can print up a nice ad on a piece of paper... make 10,000 copies for next to nothing... and post them EVERYWHERE.

You can hand out flyers to people wherever you go. Post them anywhere you can. Put them under car wipers. Etc.. Etc...

Just think if you really did print 10,000 flyers and only 5% of them actually brought someone to your Website/Business. That's still 500 targeted visitors to your business. Then, some of them will tell their friends, so you have just created even more traffic. Do this as often as you can and you will have a LOT of traffic before you know it.

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Home Business Promotion Tip of the Day - Free Ezine Ads

There are many ezines that give away free ads to new subscribers (which is also free). Some even give them out frequently just to fill a void in their advertising space. These ezines typically get sent to 500 - 100,000 people (give or take a few). You can do that math and realize that's a LOT of exposure for next to nothing.

So, how do you find these ezines? Well, there are numerous ways but the best way, by far, is to get a membership to the Directory of Ezines (DOE). The DOE was the first and still is the best ezine directory on the internet. They take all of the work out of finding good ezines to advertise in.

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Free Marketing Tip of the Day - Write Articles

Unless you have either just started working online or you have been under a rock for the past few months, you have no doubt heard all the rave about writing articles to increase your traffic. Well, it's true! I started writing articles a few months ago and my traffic/sign-ups have increased by a huge percentage.

It's easy to do... Think about whatever the theme for your business is and then write articles about things people want or need to know. Once you have done that then submit your article(s) to as many places as possible that will take it.

Example: if your business theme is work at home then write something about working at home and then do a search for "work at home" "submit article" and then submit it to all the results.

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Free Marketing Tip of the Day - Enhanced Business Card

Get an enhanced business card

-Make it have color, maybe your picture if you can, make sure your website address in on it. Maybe have a cool quote. Put a free offer on it. Just make it stand out among all the other business cards someone might see in a month.

Give it to everyone, everywhere!

Then, when they look into their pile they will notice yours. They may even tell some friends about you. Guess what?... you have just created a lot of traffic to your business/website!

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