There are plenty of free tools online for marketing. And many will get you sign ups and sales. This report is not a commentary on the quality of all free marketing programs. We agree some do work. This report provides an alternative to the “long term” usage requirement necessary in order to find the free “working” programs. It’s purpose also is to help eliminate the “seeming” reluctance of free signups to upgrade. It is a way to virally market and to help eliminate long waiting periods when trying to get sales while using free marketing tools found online.

1. You Must Ask Advice Before Utilizing Free Tools. You might be surprised what you find out and the secrets that you can learn.

Asking advice instead of jumping right into freebee land (to market online) is the smart way to begin your online career. Don’t be enticed by the online neon freebee lights….The Internet is full to the brim with free everything and there are millions of people doing business on free sites. The question always is, “what does this do to their reputations?” You can learn “Other” alternatives.. Seek out entreprenneurs who have experience in starting web business(es) with little or no money. Learn inovative tricks that bypass bad choices. Just visit a forum and ask a few questions there…….

Here are a few of the more popular groups:

• http://ablake.net/forum/index.cgi

• http://friendsinbusiness.com/board1/index.cgi

• http://www.sowpub.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl?

• http://williecrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

• http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/184615

• http://www.tipsbooklets.com/discussion.htm

• http://msgboard.iverify.com/wwwboard.pl?#11385

• http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/166590

2. You Must Read and Research Options On Your Own

Listening to advice and believing what you hear are two different things. Because of this, it is also advisable to research the difference between paid and free alternatives online for yourself. After all, how do we really know who we can believe? While some marketers have used a strong combination of free and paid advertising to build their entire self sustaining businesses, many a well meaning entreprenneur has nievely utilized an archaic outdated free service and found themselves going around and around in an endless circle with little or no results. This time wasting activity can be completely avoided by being kind to yourself and getting the facts..

3. You Must Consider Reselling Products that Teach Some of the Alternative’s to None Productive Freebee Marketing.

In this way you can kill two birds at once, not only will you learn of alternative free marketing techniques that work much better then tradition free online marketing, but you will also kickstart a very lucrative income quickly, and eliminate free hosting problems if you can focus your efforts.

All in one packages online offer a possible solution, and you can get started with your ONLY existing $25 and never pay another cent..

Various Hosting Companies today offer affiliate programs to their hosting customers. You get hosting, products to sell, and more professional free ways to advertise when you take advantage of one of these alternative products. You can actually consider these packages “all in one” online businesses. Sell just three of these packages and your “hosting business” is free. You could accomplish the feat within one month if you make sure your first month is dedicated only to selling this service. Since a battle plan is given right at the start this shouldn’t be too difficult. Especially if you’re one to follow step by step instructions.

Do a search in the search engines for: All+in+one+hosting+ solutions. You’ll be sure to find lucrative reseller opportunities attached to your findings.

This $25 secret has and is all you need to get started making a living on the internet with no more then $25 in your pocket while bypassing free advertising pitfalls and obtaining professional hosting……………

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Copyright © 2004 Anna Mattingly

About The Author

Anna Mattingly is a writer and the owner of a number of online businesses. She has published a children’s book called Arties Big Surprise which is available at http://ebookforkids.com. She has taken advantage of the principles and concepts outlined in this article by taking part in both the PLUG IN PROFIT SYSTEM and the Third Sphere Business In A Box Opportunity.

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It is no secret that many small importing companies have become big importing companies by capitalizing on the opportunity to buy goods from Chinese companies and re-sell them at great profit margins. With that accelerated growth comes a very big challenge. Sooner or later, you will get an order that exceeds your available financing.

Now what? Do you turn the order away? Do you send it to the competition?

Purchase order financing can help you deliver on this order and make the sale, while using none (or little) of your own money. It can help you make big sales and grow your company - sometimes exponentially.

To qualify for purchase order financing, you must meet the following criteria.

1. Your business must invoice between $50K and $600K per month

2. You must sell finished goods (e.g. be a re-seller or distributor)

3. You must sell your products to other businesses or to the government

4. Your profit margins must be at least 15% (higher is better of course)

If you meet these criteria, purchase order financing can help you deliver on those big orders and help you take your company to the next level. PO financing is simple to use and easy to qualify for.

A transaction works as follows. Once you have an order in place, the financing company opens a letter of credit naming your Chinese supplier as the beneficiary. The letter of credit (or LC) guarantees payment to the supplier, provided they deliver the products correctly. This enables you to complete the transaction.

Once the order is delivered to your end client, an invoice is generated. The transaction is settled once your end client pays the invoice, usually 45 days after receiving it.

As opposed to other types of financing, PO financing is easy to qualify for and to set up. The set up time is usually a couple of weeks. As you can see, this type of financing can help you grow your company by enabling you to take large orders that in the past you would have turned away.

About Commercial Capital LLC

We provide business financing to companies. We can provide you with a letter of credit, purchase order financing, factoring and invoice factoring. For a free consultation and quote, please call Marco Terry at (866) 730 1922.

What is a joint venture?

It means when you partner with a business to do
marketing in order to share the profits.

It is an important offline marketing strategy that can
help you succeed in your internet marketing efforts.

There are many advantages of joint venturing with offline
businesses.

You could increase your target market by
reaching audiences you couldn’t advertise to before.

You could get referrals from the offline businesses
you joint venture with.

The key to joint venturing with offline businesses is to
find ones that have the same target audience. If you’re
selling business software, you wouldn’t want to joint
venture with a store that sells candy. You won’t be
very successful. You would want to joint venture with
an office supply or computer store.

Below are three possible joint venture deals you
could set up:

1. Write a tip booklet that is related to your business.
Make a deal with an offline store where they giveaway
your tip booklet to their shoppers with each purchase.
The store you pick should attract your target audience.
The store could have something free to giveaway to
attract shoppers and you could have your web site ad
in the tip booklet.

2. Design a printed flyer for your online business. The
flyer should include a description of your web site,
e-mail address, web address and any other important
information. Make a deal with an offline store to have
them include the flyer in each bag of products they sell
in exchange for free advertising on your web site.

3. Make a deal with a computer store to have them
display your web site on the computers they display
in their store in exchange for free advertising on your
web site or in your e-mail newsletter.

Once you find a targeted offline business, contact
them and present your joint venture proposal. Tell the
business owner the benefits of the joint venture. Tell
him or her why it would be a win/win situation for both
of your businesses. Give them a lot of compliments
about their business, products and services. Using all
three methods above will greater your chance of
having a profitable and successful offline joint venture.

May these internet marketing secrets help you to make a lot
of money.

Warmly,

I-key Benney, CEO

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As spring training gears up for baseball, professional ball players are practicing the skills they have developed over a lifetime to achieve perfection. These professionals are where they are today because they put in the time, energy and discipline of thousands of hours of practice. Their goal is to execute perfection during their practice sessions. Many of them practiced to perfection using video tools and special coaches to assist in their development. The commitment these individuals have made is beyond what many of us could imagine. Their practice efforts prepare them for perfection on the baseball field.

80% of Sales Professionals Stop Practicing

If practice is this important in baseball, why isn’t it like this in sales? Eighty percent of sales professionals stop practicing their sales skills once they reach a level of success they are comfortable with. Why? Most sales professionals believe they know how to handle objections and that the sales process hasn’t changed. They assume that what they have learned hasn’t changed and the success they have achieved will remain with them.

It is a good thing the professional ball players don’t think the same way or they will be replaced in the lineup. Sales professionals need to prepare for the 90 mph fast ball from clients and prospects. The landscape of business continues to shift and change with technology, trends and other factors. When sales professionals don’t practice implementing these new trends and learn what to say or how to demonstrate a solution, they lose.

A New Way of Pitching Sales is Growing

New technology for getting and reaching clients and prospects is changing the way we communicate in business. In one example, on-line ordering portals for business are growing in ways that are replacing salespeople. Pod casting is another way businesses are getting their message out and driving sales to websites. An RSS feed is another way to reach prospects or an industry with new information. However, only about 12 percent of the population knows how to use an RSS feed today. Expect this number to change quickly in the coming months.

With the growth and adoption of web meetings, streaming media including audio and video, salespeople can multiply their efforts and reach more contacts. The bottom line is that salespeople must practice and sharpen their sales skills using new technology and communication tools.

The Impact of a Multi-Media Generation

If businesses and salespeople are not practicing multi-media new sales capability, they won’t be effective. This means that if you are not developing and practicing new sales skills, you are falling behind. The internet makes it easy to learn about these new sales tools. You can join webinars, pod casts or telephone conference calls to learn more.

Consider this, professional baseball players don’t practice for just one pitch. They prepare for the fast ball, the curve ball and the sinker because they never know what the pitcher will throw at them. So, just as in baseball, every professional salesperson should practice new sales skills and be prepared for anything customers throw at them.

Steve Martinez implements sales management strategies with a focus on automating sales for printing organizations. Selling Magic teaches businesses how to automate and customizing ACT or Outlook with the best practices of sales management while integrating email marketing and technology for greater profits. http://www.sellingmagic.com

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year or so, you probably know that Google has become the king of the search engine hill. There are many reasons for this but number one in my opinion is that above all else they put value on content. Today I want to introduce you to two very powerful small business advertising options created by Google.

These two ingenious programs have all but revolutionized the way advertising is done on the web. Warning: If you are thinking…”web advertising isn’t for me, I just need a few more clients around the block”…you better read this or be prepared to have your competitors eat your lunch.

Goolge AdSense - Again content is king at Google. This program allows web site “publishers” to add some code from Google and receive “content relevant” ads on their site from other site owners. Here is an example - those ads in the box on the right of the page are delivered by Google and are matched to the content on the page. When someone surfs to the page and decides to check out one of those ads, the web site owner earns a portion of the advertising revenue that Google collects.

The key here is that if you go to a site about quilting, you will see ads about quilting and not about dog grooming. I know this sounds so obvious but Google was the first to really figure this out.

This program has worked so well that some website owners are actually building content specific sites and paying for them solely through AdSense revenue. Small business owners should consider adding this feature to pages on their site for several reasons.

I’ve already mentioned the fact that there is money to be made, but what many site owners are finding is that because Google is so respected and because the ads are highly targeted…they are no longer looked at by surfers as ads, they are looked at as content.

Some will even go as far as to say that by putting the Google ads on your site you actually better your chances of higher rankings with Google. Google flatly denies this claim and I don’t think it is true but I do know that Google AdSense ads should be on every small business owner’s site. (Google AdSense)

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Another Warning: This is somewhat complex stuff. This article is only meant to introduce you to the power of these programs. Check out Google Cash by Chris Carpenter for a deeper understanding of ways to make this work for you.

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Google AdWords - I’ve already talked about those ads you see on websites, well those ads need to come from somewhere don’t they. AdWords is Google’s program for advertisers.

Any site that wishes to participate bids for “keywords” that are relevant to their product, service, or site and then creates ads to attract hits. These ads show up on private websites, like this example, and on the right side of Google search results like this search for “Free sales letters and tools” As you can see from this Google search you received the content related sites that you searched for but you also get some related ads that are sponsored.

Now here is where Google is genius. Instead of simply subjecting surfers to any ads that anyone is willing to pay for, they actually police the ads that are running. On some pay per click programs, whoever is willing to pay to most wins. Google uses a performance model. In other words an ad that is the most relevant and therefore receives the most clicks will move ahead of an ad that may pay more but isn’t as effective. This simple philosophy is why Google has quickly dominated the PPC world.

Okay…and now the really big innovation

Regional targeting. Google recently introduced a system that allows advertisers to target certain metropolitan markets only. In other words, a remodeling contractor who only wants to do kitchen remodels in say, Denver, can bid on the keyword phrase “kitchen remodel” and only have his ads show up for people who live in and around Denver.

The implication this has for local small business owners is staggering. In the example above, our Remodeler can now tap into highly targeted web traffic for pennies per lead. In my opinion, small business owner who learn the ins and outs of this medium will dominate their markets. (Google AdWords)

Look for more on this topic in the future.

Copyright 2004 John Jantsch

About The Author

John Jantsch is a marketing consultant based in Kansas City, Mo. He writes frequently on real world small business marketing tactics and is the creator of “Duct Tape Marketing” a turn-key small business marketing system. Check out his blog at http://www.DuctTapeMarketing.com/weblog.php