Advertising

Craigslist & Gumtree

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Everyone wants to sell something or another. With the Internet it has become much easier to find places that you can sell a product and not have to pay to advertise it locally in a newspaper.

With sites like Craigslist and Gumtree you can now post your ad for free and sell whatever you want. Those sites make it easy for you to select a location and put your ad and then sit back and wait for someone to email you or call you. Millions of people visit those ads on a monthly basis and are becoming every more popular. So if you have items that have been laying around forever and you just don’t know what to do with them now you have a place to sell them.

Also, if you are a small business and hampered with advertising rates you need to also utilize Craigslist and Gumtree to post about your business services and what you can provide for others. Posting is still free and still seen by millions.

Of course there are ways to make all of these postings even easier now than before with software programs such as EzAdSuite and EZGumTreePoster . With these programs you can setup your advertising campaigns and not have to deal with the manual way of posting.

Don’t miss out on the free ways to sell items and to advertise your services. They are out there and it’s just a matter of utilizing them.

Daniel Hand is the publisher of Computer Repair Business Lessons Learned. http://www.computerrepairbusiness.net

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BestWebsite.com Reveals the Essential 9

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The BestWebsite® Essential 9™ from internet entrepreneur Nelson Bates' new book, Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites, reveals the nine most important things you can do right now to make your website a remarkable success.

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) October 18, 2007 — The BestWebsite® Essential 9™ from internet entrepreneur Nelson Bates' new book Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites, reveals the nine most important things you can do right now to make your website a remarkable success.

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1. "Create a Remarkable Website: It is far cheaper to build a remarkable website than it is to advertise an average one. Come up with a remarkable aspect for your product, service, business etc. then incorporate it into your website." Give people a reason to talk about your website and they will do your promotion for you. (20-40hrs, $500 varies widely)

2. Proper Keyword Research: Use WordTracker and Google Suggest to properly select the right keywords and begin search engine optimization on your website. (10-15hrs, $59)

3. Setup a Free Squidoo.com Page: This is an excellent way to boost your search engine rankings by creating links from your Squidoo page, back to your website. It is also an excellent way to generate valuable traffic from the Squidoo community. (2-5hrs, Free)

4. Create Articles that Provide Useful Information: Start by creating three or four articles that provide useful information related to your product or service. Then post them on your website and target the keywords you selected earlier. (5-10hrs, Free)

5. Digg, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon your Articles: Use these free services to let the world know about your articles. These services also provide a dramatic boost in your search rankings. (2-4hrs, Free)

6. Purchase a Yahoo Directory Listing: This is a great way to get a link from the #1 website in the world to your website. A Yahoo employee reviews your website, categorizes it and then places a link to you. Both Yahoo and Google check if you have this link and boost your search engine rankings. (1hr, $299/yr)

7. Press Release with PRWeb and Majon: This is a fantastic way to be able to choose keywords in your press release that are posted on their top ranked websites that link back to yours. Not only do they significantly enhance your search engine rankings, they also announce your business and products to the media. (3-5hrs, $308)

8. Laser Targeted Purchased Advertising: Find top websites in your industry and purchase advertising from them. This may be one of the best methods for gaining substantial traffic. Not only do you get traffic from the websites you advertise on, but also drastically increase your search engine rankings because important websites in your industry are linking to you. (20hrs research, $100 and up)

9. Google Analytics and Yahoo Search Submit: The more the search engines know about you the better. Don't make them guess. By installing Google Analytics on your web pages and submitting your website to Yahoo Search Submit, you let them gain valuable knowledge about your website and in turn, they will rank you better! (5-10hrs, Google Free, Yahoo $59/yr)

Approximate total time and money spent low end — 68 hours, $1,325
Approximate total time and money spent high end — 110 hours, $3,525+

The Essential 9™ is from the book Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites. Visit us at www.BestWebsite.com for a free copy while supplies last.

For interviews, please contact Nelson Bates directly at 407-855-7112.

You're welcome to reprint The Essential 9™ Most Profitable Website Strategies wherever you'd like, please cite BestWebsite.com as the source

New eWORDofMOUTH Service Makes it Easier for Businesses to Acquire and Retain Customers

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Innovative eWORDofMOUTH system combines the power of word-of-mouth marketing with the Internet to drive continuous traffic to users’ Websites. eWORDofMOUTH gives online companies an easy, cost-effective method for acquiring and retaining customers, as well as increasing sales.

Rancho Mirage, CA (PRWEB) October 2, 2007 — ANTON Publishing Inc. is excited to introduce a unique new marketing tool designed to help companies generate more online traffic, customers and sales — www.eWORDofMOUTH.com. The revolutionary Website merges the benefits of word-of-mouth advertising with Internet technology in a powerful way.

“With eWORDofMOUTH, an online company can simply plug in a complete viral customer acquisition and retention service that works transparently to increase their customer base exponentially—while retaining and rewarding their existing customers,” said ANTON Publishing President, Trevor Shanski.

  eWORDofMOUTH gives online companies a cost-effective alternative for driving a steady stream of qualified traffic to their Website. Not only does eWORDofMOUTH create an ongoing flow of potential customers for users, but it goes a step further. It attracts motivated prospects who are pre-sold on the user’s brand by a referral from a friend or family member—which provides important advantages for users. According to research, referred customers spend more money on each purchase, buy more often, are more loyal and refer others more frequently. They also have greater trust for the referred company and its recommendations, and negotiate on price less. eWORDofMOUTH is ideal for e-tailers, membership Websites, offline retailers and direct marketing companies, and nonprofit organizations.

Here’s how eWORDofMOUTH works: Users simply integrate eWORDofMOUTH into their Website or checkout process and wait for referrals and customers to be added to their database. Users pay only when a new customer is added to the database; referrals are added at no charge.

Users of eWORDofMOUTH can also have existing customer and prospect lists imported to their database as part of the initial setup process. Regardless how listings are added, eWORDofMOUTH helps companies keep in constant contact with customers to enhance their retention efforts. The system offers regular text or graphical broadcast emails that can be targeted specifically to customers, their referrals, or both groups combined. Behind the scenes, eWORDofMOUTH carefully tracks all emails, link clicks, referrals and conversion rates to provide users with quantified results. Additionally, eWORDofMOUTH offers various programs to compensate online and offline partners who refer its service to other businesses.

eWORDofMOUTH leverages the online community’s penchant for social networking. People love to express their opinion online through forums, surveys, voting, and product and Website reviews. eWORDofMOUTH capitalizes on this trend by enabling Web users to recommend products and services that they value to their associates.

Although eWORDofMOUTH is new on the Internet scene, Shanski is no novice to online retailing and Internet marketing. In 1996, he founded ANTON Publishing, a small Canadian publisher of the best-selling trade paperback series Loving Your Long Distance Relationship. Incredibly, the self-published series has sold more than 50,000 copies to date. Soon after publishing the Loving series, ANTON Publishing migrated to the Web with a successful e-commerce book Website. Today, eWORDofMOUTH expands on Trevor and Shelley Shanski’s more than 30 years of online and offline business experience. Shelley, Vice President of ANTON Publishing, is the creative force behind eWORDofMOUTH, and plays a key role in developing marketing initiatives for the company.

To learn more about eWORDofMOUTH, contact Trevor Shanski directly at (760) 200-7013. For a detailed demonstration of eWORDofMOUTH, please visit www.eWORDofMOUTH.com.

About ANTON Publishing Inc.
ANTON Publishing Inc. is a full-service Internet marketing and business consulting company based in Palm Springs, Calif. A privately-held firm, ANTON Publishing is the copyright and trademark holder of the proprietary Web-based eWORDofMOUTH system. Its mission is to become the leading developer of Web-based customer referral, rewards, and retention systems for both Internet and land-based companies.

Contact:
Trevor Shanski, President
ANTON Publishing Inc.
(760) 200-7013
tshanski @ ewordofmouth.com
www.eWORDofMOUTH.com