Internet
Marketing for Small Businesses
Of all the various
subjects within the vast area of Internet marketing for small businesses
the most important, both in terms of genre specific specialisation and
in terms of difficulty in understanding and mastering, is search engine
optimization. That is why there is a separate section on SEO; it would
just make this section too big! So this section will cover some of the
other main subject areas as well as search engine optimization training.
To learn more about
Internet marketing download our ebook.
Internet
Marketing and Ezine Advertising
Ezine advertising
is one of the best means in Internet marketing to get your message through
to relevant, highly-targeted audiences. Ezines are electronic magazines
- that just means that they're just glorified emailed newsletters. Although
this takes a fair bit of practice and experimentation, ezine advertising
is potentially one of the best and most profitable forms of Internet
marketing to promote your business online. Learn more from our new
ebook.
A direct email campaign
from a reputable list broker can be useful, if slightly more expensive.
There are companies on the Web that specialize in building permission-based
email lists, targeted to each subscriber's area of interest. This is
true 'opt-in', unlike the endless stream of spam email that implores
you to purchase '30 million addresses for only $99!' True opt-in lists
are not cheap by any means, but they have the potential to yield great
results because they are targeted. To learn more download
our Internet marketing ebook.
Ebooks
Instead of a free
subscription to a newsletter or ezine you can offer visitors to your
website - these are potential clients and customers - a free ebook,
in your quest for Internet marketing for small businesses. An ebook
is an electronic book that can be downloaded in seconds just like any
file. There are several ebook-building applications, which basically
allow you to build and "publish" any number of ebooks. Probably
the best thought of is eBook Pro. It allows you to "publish"
information on the Internet and incorporates a number of self-automated
features so you don't have to worry about the selling aspect too much.
It also builds its own database, and has an "anti-burglary"
feature which means that other people cannot steal the HTML coding for
your product or service. Click
here to find out more about eBook Pro. Alternatively you might want
to look at eBook Generator, which is what was used to create an earlier
version of the ebook that can be downloaded from this website.
Learn more about
ebooks here.
Website Automation
and Tracking
A small but highly
useful facility is the ability to track the number of visitors to your
website. You web hosting company will probably provide you with tracking
as a matter of course, but if it doesn't, and if you don't want to spend
the money to buy web tracking software, then sign up for a free tracker.
Just type in "stats tracker" into any search engine and select
a one of many free versions.
FastStats Analyzer
is also recommended; it's a stand-alone solution that takes data from
your web server in real time and can analyse literally hundreds of web
pages on your site and then returns graphic visitor behaviour. Click
here for more details of the free 30 day trial.
Learn more about
website automation and tracking here.
Articles
and Press Releases for the Internet
A newsworthy press
release could generate lots of free publicity for your business. Invest
some of your marketing funds in educating yourself how to generate publicity;
a good source of information is the website at PRProfits.
Have a look at a software product called Press Release-O-Matic for a
good source of automating your press release production. This costs
$34.95, and also provides a useful HTML coding facility for press releases
to be published to the Web.
Articles, press
releases and e-zines are highly useful marketing tools, but submission
and announcements of new articles and ezines can be tedious and time
consuming. An excellent tool for automating this task is Ezine Announcer.
Click here for further details.

For more information
about articles and press releases click here.