Marketing Secrets & Tips by A R Carroll

Marketing Secrets & Tips
Marketing Secrets & Tips#1 "Best Website Building Software & It's Free!" By A R Carroll Why spend thousands of dollars to have a "Webmaster" build you a fancy, cumbersome and unprofitable website! Expensive, time-consuming, time-wasting, slow-loading flashy graphics do nothing but aggravate the savvy Internet web surfer & shopper! Keep your website simple. Use fonts & colors that are pleasant to the eye. Make navigation around your site easy! Make sure all of your links work properly. Keep banner ads to a minimum. Don't crowd your site with dozens of affiliate or associate programs. You don't need to spend $200, $300, $400 or more on a hard-to-use web page building software program, which comes with a 300 page manual! The best, easiest to use, yet feature-rich program you can use to build your website is Trellix Web, and it's Free! You can access this powerful webpage building software at http://www.Trellix.com .This program offers everything that those expensive programs offer, plus publishing to free webhosts such as http://www.Tripod.com or http://www.Fortunecity.com . Marketing Secrets & Tips #2 "Top Ten Free Web Hosts" Fact: Internet traffic is growing at an enormous rate, doubling every 100 days or so! Nearly everyone in the United States has access to the Internet, either at home, work, school, or in their public libraries. Even poor countries like China and India have countless number of Internet websites. Fact: Many huge Internet companies are in the RED losing millions per year. Big companies like http://www.Priceline.com and hundreds of others received billions from their stock IPO's, but they can't seem to turn a profit! Yet thousands of small home-based Internet enterprises are profitable! How can this be, you may ask! The Internet can be a great place to showcase your mail order products & services. A great place to acquire thousands of new leads, prospects, potential customers, and ultimately new buyers of your mail order products! But, first you'll have to learn the unique methods of truly experienced Internet entrepreneurs! Why pay $9.95, $19.95, $29.95 per month or more for website hosting when you can have your website hosted by a reliable free Webhost! Here are our Top 10 Free Webhosts that you can use to host your mail order & Internet enterprises: http://www.Tripod.com http://www.Fortunecity.com http://www.Bizland.com http://www.Webjump.com http://www.Netfirms.com http://www.Hypermart.com http://www.Prohosting.com http://www.Freeservers.com http://www.Homestead.com http://www.Freewebsites.com These free webhosts offer free webserver hard-drive space from 5 megabytes up to 100 megabytes or more. Many offer e-commerce enabled websites, free email, free web page building software, etc!

Marketing Secrets & Tips #3 "Accept Credit Cards with No Merchant Account & No Monthly Fees!"

Whether you sell via mail order and/or on the Internet, accepting credit card orders could increase your sales by as much as 400%! Don't waste your time and money with "traditional" credit card processing firms, they charge all kinds of fees: application fees, monthly statement fees, Internet gateway fees, processing fees, software fees, equipment fees, etc! For the home-based mail order or Internet business, the least expensive and easiest to use credit-card processing is through a Internet-based processor. There are many to choose from, here are two of the best we have come across: http://www.Paypal.com , and http://www.Epay.propay.com . If you need an "on-line shopping cart" system with credit card processing then you can check out http://www.CCNow.com . All three of these processors feature very little red tape, no sign up fees, no startup fees, no monthly fees, and no complex computer experience to use them!

Marketing Secrets & Tips#4 "Free Website Promotion & Increased "Hits" Here are actual methods used by successful mail order & Internet entrepreneurs to improve their website's search engine position & thus increase "hits" or visits to their websites, which correlates to improved product sales & profits! http://www.Yahoo.com http://www.AOL.com http://www.Excite.com http://www.Webcrawler.com http://www.Altavista.com are examples of Internet search engines and portals. 80% - 90% of Internet traffic to a website is usually derived from these major search engines and portals. http://www.ZeoliteDepot.com a website selling natural volcanic zeolite mineral based household odor elimination products, was consistently coming up number 80, 90, even 100 on AOL's Search engine until the website's owner started using http://www.Worldsubmitter.com a free website promotion & search engine placement improving services. Now when a web surfer types the word "zeolite" into AOL's search box http://www.ZeoliteDepot.com comes up in the top ten every time, and usually in the first or second position! Don't forget if your website doesn't come up in the first 2 or 3 pages (the top 10, 20, or 30 on a keyword search on the major search engine) then the websites that do (your competitors) will be getting all of your potential customers! Some other methods of free Internet advertising & promotion are the Internet FFA sites (free for all pages & sites), free link pages, free "add url" pages, and the use of free classified ads such as http://classifieds.yahoo.com (Yahoo lets you place up to 10 free ads). There are other more complicated Internet marketing techniques used by flourishing Internet companies such as: organic marketing, text-links, word-of-mouse marketing, high-traffic site linking, e-zines, etc. Information regarding these techniques can be found by typing the corresponding words into any Internet search engine.

About the Author

A. R. Carroll, Writer/Successful Business Owner Please visit his Websites: www.NationalBookSales.com and www.ZeoliteDepot.com