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Now that you have a home business, what do you do now? You need to advertise and expose your business to as many people as possible! Here are some QUICK suggestions & things you can do to advertise your business! Alot of them are FREE are very low cost!
#1 Use FREE email Signature Tags and attach them to every email you send!
#2 Register your website business on Every FREE search engine you can find (first) and then start targeting the pay per click search engines.
#3 Register your website with Online Shopping Directories.
#4 Register your website with Online Classified Ads if you are going to do any recruiting!
#5 In your spare time, go to other peoples personal websites and sign their Guest Book, make sure you include the info so they can find your website too!
#6 Contact other webmasters and offer to exhange banners with them! If you do a online E-Zine or Newsletter swap banners with others and place them in your online newsletter and have them do the same!
#7 Run a Contest on your site for Newsletter Members ONLY and then list your contest at all the FREE Contest & Sweepstakes Web pages!
#8 List your website home business with online yellow page directories.
#9 Do a Online Bi-monthly or monthly Email Newsletter! After you get your local customer base built up you can consider doing a print version for those with NON-Computer Access! This will keep customers informed of NEW Product Introductions, Sales & Promotions, Hostess Specials Etc. This will entice customers to purchase & hold parties more frequently!
#10 Sponsor Online Contests! Donate a Prize or Gift Certificate! This will help get your alot of Business Exposure! If you do online sponsoring, make sure you pick HIGH Traffic Websites!
#11 Network with other Consultants and find out what works for them and share your ideas with them too!
#12 If you are into recruiting, place online classified ads every where! You can also place ads online at your local newspaper, tv stations and radio stations websites! Dont forget to also place a classified ad in your local print version newspapers too!
#13 Contact local TV stations & radio stations and offer to donate a Prize Package or Gift Certificate for one of their numerous contests that they are always holding! Most of them have ONLINE Contests for their listeners & readers!
#14 Write your Website URL & email addy on every piece of mail leaving your home, including the bills! Either get return address labels with it printed on or handwrite it! Do you know how many hands touch once piece of mail? GREAT FREE advertising for you!
#15 Update your personal Business Website as much as possible! People who regularly visit our website dont want to see the same thing over & over! Make sure you include detailed ordering & payment information along with contact information on your WELCOME or MAIN page! People dont want to guess at these things! Also offer as many payment acceptance forms as possible! Dont limit yourself to CREDIT CARDS only as alot of people these days are trying to NOT use them and others are afraid to use them on the internet!
#16. Write some short articles and donate them to online newsletters & ezines! You can write articles on any subject such as: hobbies, crafts, cooking & recipes, time management, parenting, children, scrapbooking, etc!
Most importantly is to be patient! If you work hard in promoting your business your Business will Florish!
Shelly Hill
Tupperware Online Manager
http://my.tupperware.com/Ravish30
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Shelly Hill
Sr Executive Tupperware Manager
http://my.tupperware.com/Ravish30
http://www.shellyskitchen.com/
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