Steps to Online Business Success - Promote your business and products To promote your business you can use free and paid traffic methods.
I will list the basic traffic methods underneath.
Search engines Obvious but not to be forgotten is to send your web address to the big search engines: Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Articles Articles are a great way for promoting your business.
What makes articles so useful is that even articles you wrote three years ago can still give you traffic today.
Use catchy and interesting titles to lure people into reading your article.
Forums Search for forums related to your niche and help to answer questions from others.
It's a very good way to build a customer relationship and eventually you can give them a link to your website.
Social Network Sites Social communities are great places to look for new costumers.
Most Internet users spent more than an hour a day on social activities.
The best way to promote your product is to make a link to your opt-in page on your profile page.
Join Facebook, Twitter and MySpace if you haven't already.
Video Promotion Creating a video can cost you more time than writing a promotion, but if you do it right it is much more effective.
With visuals and audio you can show your product in much more means.
Google is good integrated with YouTube so there is a greater chance that someone finds your video than finding your article.
If you decide on starting with advertising I would advice you to start on Facebook.
Facebook has a very direct marketing on finding the right customers for your niche.
You can also use Google AdWords.
When you start to use paid traffic test every practice.
Do one at the time so you can measure the effect of it.