This article will go beyond the basics of starting your first internet business. You'll be introduced to some more very useful products and services. Learn as much as you can about these and if profitable apply them to your internet business.

1) ‘Offer a Free Product’ - To get people to visit your website, sign up for your mailing list or to just make your customers happy you can offer a free product or bonus of some kind. Or give away a free product to help add value to your original product or affiliate product. Remember it always has to be valuable information and related to your product. Make sure you have links back to your website, or your affiliate sites, branded inside these free products. Then the more products you give away the more traffic you’ll generate for your website.

2) ‘Write an Article’ - One way to create a lot of links back to your site is to write an article. Just write a good article and submit it to ezines and you could have thousands of links back to your website. Give everyone permission to use your article as long as they keep it intact with your link at the bottom. And it just may spread all over the internet. Also by writing articles you will get ranked higher on the search engines because all these links will drive traffic back to your site. Now this is real free advertisement.

3) ‘Discussion Forums’ - Discussion forums are places where you can go to communicate with others about related topics. You can learn some valuable information about what people are interested in and maybe find new products to sell. If you can answer some of their questions then you can also achieve some recognition and maybe find new prospects. Be careful trying to advertise because most forums don’t allow it. But some may, so make sure you understand all the rules before self promoting. If you advertise when it’s not acceptable then you will hurt your reputation which is everything online.

4) ‘Start a Newsletter or Ezine’ - This is a good way to get a list of potential customers and establish credibility. This will be directly related to what you’re selling online so you should already know a lot about your topic. Make sure it is useful information. You can send it out weekly, monthly or whatever works best for you. Again you can put links back to your website to promote your products and your affiliate products. And to get more people to join your newsletter offer them a free product for signing up.

5) ‘Search Engines’ - Want to get free traffic? Then you will want to submit your website to search engines and try to get ranked as high as possible. The higher you get ranked the more exposure you’ll have and the more free traffic you’ll receive. About 85% of the people searching online use search engines. Do some keyword research and find good keywords that get a lot of traffic. Also try to get lots of websites linking to yours. One way is to write articles and let everyone use them on their sites.

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