Advertising/Marketing - Member Tips.

The process of generating business begins with some form of marketing or advertising activity,  this can be "word of mouth",  e-mail, voip (chat or call), social network sites plus the traffic exchanges that abound online as well as safelists.  The means to communicate are many but the final result most are aiming at is the "referral" or sign-up to their business.  What most expect is for this activity to get them sign ups,  however this is an unlikely outcome and learning to accept this may take time to digest.  The process is for the raising of awareness and any sign up you achieve is a bonus.

Your sign ups are going to primarily come from your contact with someone in direct contact via Skype or another chat channel such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN or one of the many options available.

The issue of SPAM and the more deviant forms of blasting out mail to millions in the belief that this will catapult you to immeasurable wealth are a long and sad catalogue of marketing disasters,  which this is hopefully going to save you the pain of discovering with the help offered here.

There are a selection of text based Ads you can choose from and these are suitable for posting on Safelists - these are e.g Herculist,  List Joe and ListDotCom that allow you to post to a random selection of the members every so often. This can be every 24 hours or longer.  Each list has it's own terms of use and so when you register with each you can plan to send to the list accordingly.  As a Team it would therefor be useful to work together so that we are not targetting one list and appear to be putting all our "eggs" in one basket.


Traffic Exchanges come to us as either Manual or Auto,  you will find the Manual are the most useful for getting hits and building credits,  while Auto is purely for getting credits in return for site views.  Teamwork in this activity is also one that will produce better results and make your raising of site awareness a more positive exercise.  Again it's a case of bringing the site to a wider audience and aiming to put it in front of as many viewers as possible.  Connect with members and work together to maximize your efforts and ensure you are getting massive hits to your site (Team Splash Page).

YouTube is a place to bring your video collection to the viral arena,  by creating an account it affords you the means to broaden your exposure through facebook, myspace, twitter and google with single clicks.  Social networking is a must,  not just a skill you have yet to try out or learn to use with the business you want to promote.  Connecting with people is the primary means to adding people to your social circle,  once they know you and what YOU are about then you can sow seeds that in time will become a new shoot in your business "garden".

This post is simply a pointer to making your advertising work to go into more detail will be best delivered in small training groups that we can arrange at the request of members who are looking to boost the Teambuild to another phase of superior growth.

Make sure to check back here for further tips that will help you to get your Ads out to the field.