The Power of Joint Venture Marketing
Joint ventures are one of the most powerful internet marketing tools you can use. They really consist of a number of different methods, such as link swaps, giveaway events, or whole joint business ventures.
What is Joint Venture Marketing?
Joint venture marketing is where two or more website owners or online business owners combine forces in some way to get more traffic to their websites, more customers for their business and to make more money.
These joint ventures can be as simple as swapping links with another webmaster so that you display their link and they display yours to get more traffic; or they can be as complex as whole combined business ventures where you partner together on starting an online business.
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Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
How do I get my small business on the internet? How do I promote my website on a shoestring budget? Who can help me with my home based business? If you are asking yourself these questions, then read on ... you will find plenty of useful marketing tips for your small or home-based business.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Articles - How to Get Free Super Powerful Publicity for your Business
Having worked with a large number of small business owners, one common mistake I see over and over again is the obscene amounts of money they throw away on advertising. Many of them believe the more money they spend, the more business it will bring. WRONG!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!
So what’s a new entrepreneur to do?
It’s simple!!! Write articles.
Writing articles is an excellent way for you to get free publicity. Getting an article published is free and some publications even pay for your contributions. The publicity you receive by having your article published in a newspaper, magazine or website can be worth thousands of dollars in equivalent advertising space. Well written articles yield better results than advertisements and earn you respect from customers, who see you as an expert in your field.
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
www.web4business.com.au
Friday, June 18, 2010
SEO News: 6 Things You Can Do Today to Drive Traffic to Your Website
Website (and business) marketing is not a one off exercise. Whether you have a brand new website or one that you've had for a while, you need to continue promoting it in order to bring you more visitors.
You need to constantly work on it, fine-tune it, discard methods that are not working and implement new ones.
The following 6 methods are simple to implement and can be done for free by you today.
1. Email Marketing
Your first step should be to send an email to your existing clients announcing the existence of your website. You should also ask your customers to forward your email onto their friends, family and colleagues.
If you are starting a new business and don't have any customers yet, send an email to people you know who may be interested in your offer.
Remember to email your clients every time you make changes, add new offers or features to your website to remind them to come back.
The next step could be to send your announcement to an opt-in email list. Opt-in email lists contain people or businesses who have requested to receive information about certain topic(s). There are many companies who can provide you with these lists.
Under no circumstance should you EVER send unsolicited email (spam) to people you either don't know or who have not requested to receive your information.
Remember to email your clients every time you make changes, add new offers or features to your website to remind them to come back.
The next step could be to send your announcement to an opt-in email list. Opt-in email lists contain people or businesses who have requested to receive information about certain topic(s). There are many companies who can provide you with these lists.
Under no circumstance should you EVER send unsolicited email (spam) to people you either don't know or who have not requested to receive your information.
Ivana Katz
www.web4business.com.au
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
Stop Wasting Money Driving Traffic to Your Website!
Many new online entrepreneurs waste thousands of dollars promoting their shiny new websites, only to be disappointed by the results. They are so excited about finally having arrived on the internet, they want to announce it to the world! And who can blame them.
If you are blushing right now because you have thrown away a lot of money promoting your website without getting the results you were hoping, read on ... all is not lost.
Friday, May 28, 2010
What are Joint Venture Giveaway Events
Joint Venture Giveaway Events
What are Joint Venture Giveaway Events?
As you may know I am really into joint venturing. I believe that this is the way forward in today's economy. One of the most exciting new internet trends to emerge recently are Giveaway events, and they are gaining popularity really fast.
Mostly they are free, but you can pay a little to get more exposure. They are designed to help you grow your list. If you are interested at all in expanding your list, I would really recommend joining one. This is one that is starting in a couple of days and runs for the next two weeks. It's the right time of year and getting into all of these joint venture giveaway events and getting your products in could build you an email list much larger than you might think right now.
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Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
What are Joint Venture Giveaway Events?
As you may know I am really into joint venturing. I believe that this is the way forward in today's economy. One of the most exciting new internet trends to emerge recently are Giveaway events, and they are gaining popularity really fast.
Mostly they are free, but you can pay a little to get more exposure. They are designed to help you grow your list. If you are interested at all in expanding your list, I would really recommend joining one. This is one that is starting in a couple of days and runs for the next two weeks. It's the right time of year and getting into all of these joint venture giveaway events and getting your products in could build you an email list much larger than you might think right now.
Read complete article
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
Friday, May 21, 2010
Promote your business via social media
What is Social Media?
Wikipedia describes Social Media as an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing, and voice over IP, to name a few... Read complete article
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
Wikipedia describes Social Media as an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing, and voice over IP, to name a few... Read complete article
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
Thursday, May 06, 2010
SEO Tips: Get More Traffic with These 10 Important Inbound Links
Don’t overlook your inbound linking strategy as you think about search engine optimization for your site. An inbound link is a hyperlink back to your site from another web site. The one constant and reliable strategy in search engine optimization is that sites with a variety of high quality backlinks rank higher in the search engine results pages.
Why are these links to your site important? They can can…
- bring potential customers to your site when they click on the link
- increase the number of visitors to your web site
- dramatically improve your search engine rankings
Even though there are software packages on the market that help automate the linking process, use them sparingly, if at all. The only way to succeed in linking strategies is (aside from creating useful content that will encourage inbound links) by manually creating the links. That’s a hard fact to swallow, given how I like to automate as much of my marketing as I can.
Here are the 10 most important inbound links you must have to your site:
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Dummies Guide To Facebook Marketing
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 4 years, you would know how popular and widely used Facebook is today.
Just a few short years ago, you had to encourage all your family and friends to join this social networking website (just after others convinced you to join). Nowadays, it’s rare to find someone who hasn’t got a Facebook account.
At last count, there were over 350 million users on Facebook and this number is continuing to grow. It overtook MySpace as the number 1 social networking website on the planet last year and is just behind Google when it comes to online traffic. You are then able to understand how important Facebook marketing has become for all websites.
Ivana Katz
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
FREE and Powerful Way to Promote Your Website Through Link Exchange
FREE and Powerful Way to Promote Your Website Through Link Exchange
What is a Link Exchange?
Link exchange is an extremely powerful marketing strategy whereby a website owner exchanges links and banners with websites that have similar content.
Why should I exchange links?
There are several reasons that you should exchange links with other businesses.
Results in search engines are determined by the material you have presented on your site and by other off-page factors such as how many other sites link to your website. The more links you have pointing to your site from relevant websites, the higher your site will rank.
Exchanging links will drive valuable targeted traffic to your website when visitors follow a link from your link partners.
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Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
What is a Link Exchange?
Link exchange is an extremely powerful marketing strategy whereby a website owner exchanges links and banners with websites that have similar content.
Why should I exchange links?
There are several reasons that you should exchange links with other businesses.
Results in search engines are determined by the material you have presented on your site and by other off-page factors such as how many other sites link to your website. The more links you have pointing to your site from relevant websites, the higher your site will rank.
Exchanging links will drive valuable targeted traffic to your website when visitors follow a link from your link partners.
Read complete article
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Website Promotion: Tips On How To Generate Free Leads Using Social Networking Sites
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources » Blog Archive » Tips On How To Generate Free Leads Using Social Networking Sites
Free lead generation is a very cost effective way to promote any online business. Social networking sites are some of the best ways to generate free leads. Some of the ways I personally use them to promote my online business is by using Social networking sites and making multiple profiles on them. Then when you have your profile accounts set up you need to pimp them to make them look professional and do not try to sell your products directly on your profiles. Instead make yourself interesting and someone who arouses curiosity so when you start sending friend request people will come to your profile and take a look. This is where you can start to get them to your website because these social networking sites allow you to have links on your profiles.
Continue reading Tips On How To Generate Free Leads Using Social Networking Sites
For more information about running a small business and website promotion, visit www.web4business.com.au
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
Free lead generation is a very cost effective way to promote any online business. Social networking sites are some of the best ways to generate free leads. Some of the ways I personally use them to promote my online business is by using Social networking sites and making multiple profiles on them. Then when you have your profile accounts set up you need to pimp them to make them look professional and do not try to sell your products directly on your profiles. Instead make yourself interesting and someone who arouses curiosity so when you start sending friend request people will come to your profile and take a look. This is where you can start to get them to your website because these social networking sites allow you to have links on your profiles.
Continue reading Tips On How To Generate Free Leads Using Social Networking Sites
For more information about running a small business and website promotion, visit www.web4business.com.au
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
Friday, January 30, 2009
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources » Blog Archive » A Twits Guide to Twitter Promotion… 10 Top Tips
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources » Blog Archive » A Twits Guide to Twitter Promotion… 10 Top Tips
If you are not using Twitter effectively, you are missing out on a serious opportunity for promoting your business. For those that do not already know, Twitter is an online service, designed to let family, friends and workers chat and stay in touch. Twitter famously asks the question; “what are you doing?”
As well as being a great place to socialise, twitter can be an amazing tool for promoting your business, but only if you know how to work it… here is a mini guide to working with Twitter. The first few tips are about how to get started on Twitter, and then we move on to how to get followers. Finally, we look at what to do with the followers when you have them. We assume you guys and gals are capable of actually registering for an account at twitter.com yourselves. ...
Continue reading A Twits Guide to Twitter Promotion… 10 Top Tips
For more information about running a small business and website design & promotion, visit, www.web4business.com.au
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
www.web4business.com.au
If you are not using Twitter effectively, you are missing out on a serious opportunity for promoting your business. For those that do not already know, Twitter is an online service, designed to let family, friends and workers chat and stay in touch. Twitter famously asks the question; “what are you doing?”
As well as being a great place to socialise, twitter can be an amazing tool for promoting your business, but only if you know how to work it… here is a mini guide to working with Twitter. The first few tips are about how to get started on Twitter, and then we move on to how to get followers. Finally, we look at what to do with the followers when you have them. We assume you guys and gals are capable of actually registering for an account at twitter.com yourselves. ...
Continue reading A Twits Guide to Twitter Promotion… 10 Top Tips
For more information about running a small business and website design & promotion, visit, www.web4business.com.au
Ivana Katz
Websites 4 Small Business
www.web4business.com.au
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Website Marketing - Using Blogs as a Free Marketing Tool For Your Business
Articles - Using Blogs as a Free Marketing Tool For Your Business
I admit I stuck my head in the sand when I first heard about Blogs. It was just too hard (so I thought) - another new technology to master and I wasn’t even sure of the benefits, so I ignored them for a while.
Then I attended a marketing seminar where a whole session was devoted to Blogs - how simple they were to set up and use and what unbelievable benefits they provided for a business. And the best part – most of them are free!!!!
So what exactly is a blog?
A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily or weekly using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
Read more about Using Blogs as a Free Marketing Tool For Your Business
For information about creating a website for your small business, go to:
http://www.web4business.com.au/
I admit I stuck my head in the sand when I first heard about Blogs. It was just too hard (so I thought) - another new technology to master and I wasn’t even sure of the benefits, so I ignored them for a while.
Then I attended a marketing seminar where a whole session was devoted to Blogs - how simple they were to set up and use and what unbelievable benefits they provided for a business. And the best part – most of them are free!!!!
So what exactly is a blog?
A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily or weekly using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
Read more about Using Blogs as a Free Marketing Tool For Your Business
For information about creating a website for your small business, go to:
http://www.web4business.com.au/
Monday, December 29, 2008
Free Website Promotion
Free Website Promotion - How to Get Free Super Powerful Publicity for your Business:
by Ivana Katz
Having worked with a large number of small business owners, one common mistake I see over and over again is the obscene amounts of money they throw away on advertising. Many of them believe the more money they spend, the more business it will bring. WRONG!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!
So what’s a new entrepreneur to do?
It’s simple!!! Write articles.
Writing articles is an excellent way for you to get free publicity. Getting an article published is free and some publications even pay for your contributions. The publicity you receive by having your article published in a newspaper, magazine or website can be worth thousands of dollars in equivalent advertising space. Well written articles yield better results than advertisements and earn you respect from customers, who see you as an expert in your field.
Read more about Free Website Promotion
Websites 4 Small Business
http://www.web4business.com.au/
by Ivana Katz
Having worked with a large number of small business owners, one common mistake I see over and over again is the obscene amounts of money they throw away on advertising. Many of them believe the more money they spend, the more business it will bring. WRONG!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!
So what’s a new entrepreneur to do?
It’s simple!!! Write articles.
Writing articles is an excellent way for you to get free publicity. Getting an article published is free and some publications even pay for your contributions. The publicity you receive by having your article published in a newspaper, magazine or website can be worth thousands of dollars in equivalent advertising space. Well written articles yield better results than advertisements and earn you respect from customers, who see you as an expert in your field.
Read more about Free Website Promotion
Websites 4 Small Business
http://www.web4business.com.au/
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