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Are You Viral?By Denise Hall (C) 2003No, I'm not asking if you have a cold. Or if you're spreading acomputer virus.I'm talking about your business. Do you have hundreds ofvisitors to your website everyday? Are you making lots of sales?Can you afford to quit your day job?If the answer to these questions is "no" maybe you need torevamp your business plan.A fellow ezine publisher recently asked me how I get newsubscribers to my newsletter.The key is to PROMOTE, PROMOTE, PROMOTE! And when you're done,PROMOTE some more! I can't stress that enough.You don't have to be an ezine publisher to use these resources.They pertain to running any internet business. Everyone needs toget VIRAL!What exactly does that mean?It means spreading the word about your business every possibleway and everywhere you can. It means making your name and yourwebsite known to the world! There are many ways to do this.Advertising in ezines gets good results because they havetargeted audiences. Subscribers are reading the informationprovided so they can learn. They're also looking for qualitymoney-making opportunities, good advertising resources and toolsto help them with their businesses.There are many directories available to find quality newsletters and ezines. This is just a small sampling:http://ezinexchange.com/index.html?m=56364207http://www.freezineweb.com/more-directories.htmlhttp://www.ezineworld.com/index.php3?refid=1208Banner exchanges are a good way to advertise, too. We all seebanners displayed at just about every website we visit. If abanner catches our attention we click on it, don't we? Get thepoint?A banner exchange means your banner is displayed on otherwebsites in exchange for displaying their banner on yourwebsite. It's a free service.Here are a few sites that offer banner exchanges:http://freeautobot.comhttp://www.adtactics.com/index.php?ac=itsallfree2002http://QuickPayPro.com/x/qpp.cgi?adminid=1946&id=40550&pid=0This website is just FREE banners for you. No exchange isnecessary. Check it out here:http://www.unlimitedbanners.com/?a=gifts_n_things2002Many websites offer banner displays for a fee, also. If youdon't have your own website you may want to buy some bannerdisplays as an alternative since you can't display otherpeople's banners.Banners get attention, and you want attention! Here are some good sites to visit for paid banner ads:http://QuickPayPro.com/x/qpp.cgi?adminid=1946&id=40550&pid=4597http://www.autohtml.com/a.cgi?id=itsallfree2002Most duplicated websites come with banner URLs and information explaining how to use your banner for exchanges. However, if you don't have a banner for your business or newsletter, or if you'd just like to have a different one, you can make them here for free:http://www.addesigner.comDo you have a knack for writing? If so, consider writingarticles to submit to ezines. Most publishers accept guestarticles from their readers. At the end of each article you canadd a resource box containing your name, business name andwebsite URL or newsletter subscription information.Other sites to submit your articles:http://www.MakingProfit.comhttp://www.ideamarketers.comhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/articlesubmissionhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/freezinecontenthttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_ContentSubmitting your site to search engines and directories is aMUST! If you don't, you're losing potential customers becausethey can't find you!But please submit your website only once every 30 days or so. Otherwise, the search engines think you're SPAMMING them.Here is a good way to put your search engine submissions on autopilot:http://www.worldwidepromoter.com/?itsallfreeOther types of advertising include safelists, classified ads,FFA (Free For All links) pages and ad or message boards. Thiswebsite contains several suggestions:http://www.mylinksite.com ons_of_offersStartpage programs will also produce traffic to your website.They can be joined for free and you can purchase more credits if you'd like. Here are a few good ones:http://PowerFulHits.com/?ref=200http://QuietSurfer.com/?ref=1880http://freetrafficboost.com/g.o/itsallfree2002http://www.magnetichits.com/default.asp?userid=its_all_free2002Some people think startpage programs are a waste of time. But you never know who might see your website!Exchanging links with other website owners will also bringtraffic to your website. This is similar to banner exchanges butthese can be either banner or text links.Each time you visit a site or read an ezine check to see if thewebsite owner participates in link exchanges. Send them ane-mail and swap links with them.Take advantage of every opportunity you find to send feedbackand profiles to ezines that you read. Publishers normally allowa 2 or 3 line signature file with your submission.If you're an ezine publisher ad swaps are a great way to gainsubscribers and visitors to your website. Similar to linkexchanges, you simply trade ezine ads with other publishers.The internet contains millions of websites. Becoming viral means linking to as many of them as possible. The more you link to other sites, the more visitors you'll receive. This will also give you higher rankings in the search engines.In a nutshell, if you don't make your website well-known, you'll be invisible.You don't want to be invisible, do you? Of course not! Article Tags: Ezine Publisher