Online Internet AdvertisingFind your portal. Once you have discovered what it is you want to do with your home-business, surf the Internet and find websites that fit your topic. Look around the website and see how they market themselves. Online ads and banners to click? Affliate programs? Do they offer a newsletter? Your best marketing tool is your website. Streamline it with easy to use navagational tools, make it attractive to the eye without going overboard in graphics. Your text should be simple and direct. Get to the point quickly because people do not wish to waste a lot of time. The Internet is vast, if you can't keep their attention, they will move on to another site that does. Avoid the self-made get-rich-quick schemes that tell you that you will make a million dollars once you buy the book, tape or download the software. There are a lot of scammers out there and the Internet abounds with them, so be careful how you proceed. Join a forum for entrepreneurs and read the archives and talk to the people there. Sitepoint is a good forum to join as well. Market your website through Search Engine Optimization. If you find this work to be to tedious for you, you can always hire a company that will do this for you. |