3 Super Simple Ways to Successfully Market Your Online Business

With millions of web sites on the Internet trying to make their presence felt, promoting your online business can be tough. The market is very competitive. You need to get your online business noticed by more and more people each day. Here are three super simple things that you can do to effectively promote your online business.

1. Electronic Catalog Marketing

Create a catalog of products or services in e-book or auto responder form. Give the catalog away for free to your web site visitors. Ask other web sites that are related to but are not in direct competition with your business if they would like to add their products or services to the catalog. You can then ask for a link back to your site, run your promotional ad in their e-zine or place your banner ad on their web site for a set period of time to return the favor. You could ask them to also give away the free catalog because you would already have your ad(s) in the catalog. Be sure to place your ad or sponsor ad at the top or title page of the catalog. This technique will quickly multiply your advertising.

2. Donate Your Publication

You can donate your e-mail newsletter to libraries. There are thousands of school, college and local libraries all over the United States and the world. They would definitely love your donation. Contact the library by mail, phone or e-mail. Tell them you would like to donate a free subscription of your e-mail newsletter. Ask them how they would like it sent. You can send it by mail in print form or by e-mail so they can print out the newsletter. You could also donate your books, audio tapes, videos, booklets, etc. If you have an e-book you could put it on disk or CD-ROM and donate it. Just have your business ad included in the material you donate.

3. Online Community Marketing

Create a popular online discussion board. Reward people points for every message posted on your discussion board. Let's say you reward each person 25 points for each posting. You could give them a free product or service for 500 points which would add up to 20 postings on your board from that one person. Just keep track of points for each person that posts on your message board. This could also work for e-mail discussion lists. Just post your promotional ad at the top of your discussion board page. Everyone that visits your discussion board will see your ads.