How to market your business? It needs your continual effort. You need keep learning and practicing to find out where your real customers are and how to target them effectively. How in other words, how can let other people find your business? It should be a long term plan and investment. You should consider it as your job, your business. You need take care of it. If you respect your business and work on it with your effort, you will be rewarded eventually.

So where to begin? Here are some tried and true tips that will help you market your website with confidence. You can begin marketing your website when:

- Your website content is complete. This includes your website text, products you want to sell, the correct title, descriptions, and hidden keywords.

- You are ready for your first customer. You need test it by yourself before send your website to public. Make sure all links are working, the order form is ready. Testing everything you can think of. – You have a clear knowledge of the product(s) or service(s) you want to sell online. You need understand your product very well. Please remember: content is the King. When most people think about marketing, they think of advertising.

Don’t fall into that trap. Marketing also encompasses your design, your page copy. According to MediaMetrix, 75% of all repeat visitors come back to a site due to the site’s content. It is vital that the content be good, compelling, new, and free. Offer some valuable freebies so your visitor will come back to visit your site.

Tip 1. Prepare to Collect Email Put an form on your website to let visitors to subscribe to your mailing list. You can initially offer them a free ebook or a valuable report. Then you follow up with them using the auto response system. You can start to sending out your own newsletter weekly or bi-weekly to your opt-in prospects. They have option to remove themselves from your list if they are not interested in it. Even you do not have a website, you can still collect opt-in people’s email address by advertising your eZine with your auto response email address.

Tip 2. Use Pay-Per-Click Services Set up an account with a pay-per-click (PPC) service, such as Overture. Pay-per-click means you pay for every visitor that comes to your site through the service provider. You post an advertising on the sites. If visitor clicks your advertising, you will be charged. At very beginning, it is recommended that starting from small, like pay $0.05 or $0.10 per click. You need time to test which key word is better and which advertising works out. The Overture network includes big names like Yahoo!, MSN, AltaVista, Lyocs, HotBot, Netscape, Dogpile, Metacrawler, and Go.com.

Tip 3. Submit Your Site to Your Search Engines Once your website is ready, submit your site to major search engines. Please make sure not to submit your site too often to those big search engine companies. They will ban your site out if you submit the site frequently. They will eventually include your site in their index. For small search engines, you can use some automatic software or service to submit your sites since there are thousands there.

Tip 4. Create Your Signature File A signature file is a short message that goes out at the bottom of each message. It contains your name, your contact, like your email address, your website if you have one. Then add a brief description for the product you want to promote. You can create a signature file at the end of your email. You can create a signature template file in the “mail preference” area, or some other area depending on what kind of email service you have. Make sure to keep it down to 4-5 lines with 65 characters wide. Save it to your local hard disk. You may use this short signature file for your future articles’ resource box.

Tip 5. Submit Articles to eZines

Starting to write articles, then submit it to eZines. You can reach thousands of peoples with your products and service for FREE.

How it works? If you are familiar with some area, like gardening, cooking, or how to use a specific software… just think of any topic people may have interest in, then write it. Make sure there is some good value in it so people will like to read it through. Once you finish it, just go ahead to contact some eZine editors with a short cover letter. Tell them you have an article which is valuable to their eZine readers and wish to post it.

At the end of each eZine, there is a resource box. You can put your signature file you create or some other kind of contact information. People will know you from there or may contact you if they are interested in your topic and want to learn from you more.

Tip 6. Increase Your Link Popularity Link popularity, or the number of quality websites that provide a link to your website, is a vital part of your online marketing campaign. If you have a business, check some website which offers the products which will benefit to your customers. Like if you own a website builder, you are looking for the business who can provide the graphics, free business cards, etc.. Once you find a site with good content, then you contact the website owner. Tell him you want to swap the links. It will take some time and effort to do, but the reward will be big.

Quality link popularity can not only get you listed in the major search engines without you ever having submitted your website, but it will help your website move up in the search engine result rankings as well. Tip 7. Start Your Own Newsletters If you want to build relationship with your client, or really want to make money online, a good newsletter will help you. You can send out your newsletter weekly, bi-weekly. Do not send out once a month since the time span is too long, people may forget you.

Writing a newsletter may be hard at the beginning. But once you start, you will realize you can do it, and do it successfully. Of course, you need learn a lot of materials, and write the valuable information to your people. Gradually you will build up the good relationship with you. Down the road, they will join into your business.

Tip 8. Build a Daily Marketing Routine Market your website daily, even if it’s just for 15 minutes. Get into a daily routine–even if it is only for 15 minutes. Doing so will increase your traffic, your customer loyalty, your sales, and your profits. It will pay big dividends months or years from now. Daily promotion activities include:

- Email. Responding to customer’s e-mail in a timely manner. If this is overlooked, you could lose hard-won customers. Many Internet businesses have earned and kept business based on their ability to respond quickly to customer email. Customers appreciate a timely response.

- Update Your Site. Keeping your site fresh with new content is vital, even if you are selling product. By expanding your content you are not only giving new content for your customers to read, but you are also expanding the number of pages listed in the search engines, which will increase your chances of appearing in the top of the search results. Search engine likes fresh contents. – Link Popularity. By contacting sites on a daily basis, your link popularity will increase, and if you do it right, your Link Reputation will increase as well.

- Write Articles. Writing an articles or prepare a newsletter. Contact eZine editors for submission. Keep learning new information and marketing strategies, apply the latest technology into the marketing campaign.

If you apply the above 8 methods, you will gradually build up customer base. In the long term, you will have a successful business.

When it comes to marketing your business on the internet, it’s easy to get confused in regards to conflicting information from a lot of people who have a business on the internet. Some people will say free marketing online doesn’t work, and then will go on to say that pay per click advertising is ineffective.

Or you may hear somebody say that submitting your articles to the article directories are useless, and that you shouldn’t post your articles on article directories. If that’s the case, then why do article directories exist, and what is the point of calling it an “article” directory if it’s not a good place to place your articles on?

Plus, some of the major article marketers say that you should definitely submit to article directories because you can get lot of traffic, and then some people will say that you shouldn’t be using article marketing to get traffic – it’s pointless. These are the typical notions circulating on the internet right now, but you have to have a keen mind and wise insight to see past the clutter and confusion, and stick with a marketing plan that can get you the website traffic that you need to succeed online.

Now when you’re going about getting traffic to your website, you will want to put yourself on a daily marketing plan. This should consist of the things that you should do to get more website traffic day-after-day-after-day. Some strategies work well, while others are just simply obsolete.

You will want to use the traffic strategies that are proven to work, and that you can actually make a living off of. Create a traffic “roadmap” that will guide you on your way to get more traffic. One day you can do forum marketing and article marketing. The next day you could do SEO marketing and video marketing.

Another day you can do social marketing that includes Twitter and Facebook as a main part of your campaign. Another day you could start your own affiliate program with Clickbank and Paydotcom, and then create an “affiliate sign up page” that is all geared towards getting new affiliates, and have them promoting your product for you.

With this weekly marketing plan, you’ll be seeing new traffic sooner rather than later. The more you implement these traffic strategies, the more targeted hits your website will get, and more than likely… the more sales you will get. It’s all about staying consistent with your marketing efforts and marketing in a way that gets your message across effectively.

For some people, getting traffic is easy. But for others, getting traffic is something that is hard to do and is terrifying. They would rather hide behind pay per click advertising and hope that their business takes off with their $50 advertising budget. If you want your pay per click advertising campaign to take off, you need about $5,000 to get started.

Use these tips for getting traffic as a way to get more sales and profits on a daily basis.

Good luck with using these tips to earn more money right away.

Strategies for marketing with social media are fairly common. Unfortunately, high quality strategies are few and far between. As an author an online marketer, I have every reason to use leverage in my daily marketing activity. Well-meaning contractors abound on crowd sourcing sites such as Fiverr, but their tactics often leave something to be desired. Some can even hurt your business.

If you’re looking for leverage in your social marketing efforts, there are a few steps you can take that will dramatically improve your efforts without impacting your schedule.

The first thing to do is get a Posterous.com account. Posterous is great – it’s free and extremely powerful. Your account comes with a hosted blog, which is always a plus. But the reason to use Posterous is that it is the ultimate in social media marketing leverage. You can create blog posts by email and distribute them to your entire network of Web 2.0 properties. This includes other blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and a complete array of top social networking sites.

If you don’t have an account, you can set one up yourself. There’s no need to hire a contractor or have your assistant get you through this. In fact, handing off this task would take longer than doing it yourself. It’s really easy to do, and it’s quick.

Choose a user name that relates to your business or area of expertise. This user name will be the name of your Posterous blog, the URL for that blog, and the email address you use for posting content remotely to your blog.

For example, let’s just say I have a blog called Marketing Power. I don’t really, but let’s say that I do. The fictitious URL for that blog on Posterous would likely be something such as <a target=”_new” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://marketing-power.posterous.com”>http://marketing-power.posterous.com</a>. The fictitious email address would be <a href=”mailto:[email protected]”>[email protected]</a>. Do you see how your user name gives you leverage here? The next time you want to dispense advice to a customer or client by email, simply cc them. Address the email itself to your Posterous account, and will post to your blog. Now you’ve got a marketing asset that you can refer to in the future again and again, as well as backlinks and eyeballs on your intellectual property.

The next thing to leverage when marketing with social media is to link your Posterous account to your other social networks such as Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. This creates a feed to these social sites, and your content will automatically be published, posted and tweeted.

Here’s what that looks like. If I send an email to my Posterous blog from my regular email account, my email will post as content on the blog. The subject line will serve as the article title. Everything I write in the email will be posted, including photos, so it’s important to include only the material I want to publish. The content is then re-posted on my other social sites that I’ve linked to my Posterous account.

The thing is, once I’ve taken the 3 minutes to get set up on Posterous, working this way doesn’t take any extra time at all. The only thing I’ve changed in my work flow is the addressee on the email. I’ve moved my client’s email address to the cc line. See? Leverage.

You can have more than one “space” on your Posterous account. In addition to Mind Power, I have spaces for Leadership and Success, Local Business Tips, and Wordcraft. These all correspond with the topics of my published books and audios, currently selling on the top online retail sites. Using Posterous allows me to publicize my work and help more people.

Give a little consideration to how you’d like to use this social marketing strategy for your own efforts. If you’re planning to do marketing with social media, there is magic in using this strategy. Google loves to see open-ended link wheels with high quality content. If each of your web 2.0 properties is tightly focused on a specific topic, adding content regularly will only help your ranking in the search engines. Adding a touch of leverage will help your social marketing process run smoothly – and get your content noticed.