How to promote your online business

If you have a business you want to know how to promote your business to get more traffic or customers depending on what you are offering. Here are list of things you can do to boosts and promote your website traffic
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Things You’ll Need:
Computer
Letterheads
Business cards
Emails
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Step1 *Url submission to Search Engines*
This might be the cheapest way of promoting your site, as this can be done by you with any cost. Submit your url to website such as google , msn,yahoo and other website directory. Jayde.com allows you to submit your site to many websites for free, all you needs to do it register.
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Step2 * Business cards, letterheads*
You can get letterheads and cards at very low cost from online companies who allows you to design your own cards and letterheads. All you pay is the shipping cost.

Make sure you put your url on all of these cards and letterheads so that potential visitors are likely to see it. Put your website address on many things as possible
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Step3 *Network*
Join as many online social networking group as possible. Put your url as your signature on all correspondence. Joining social networks will give you the opportunity to meet possible prospects.
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Step4 *Electronic medium*
1. Contest:Make the prize something desirable and related to your business. It could be a free gift basket of your products, for instance, or free services.

2. Allow customer to join your mailing list, where you can inform them about new products, sales and discounts.

3. Write news letters

4. Start a blog and attached your website. Talk about your products

5. Join forums

6. Send Offers to Your Visitors and Customers.

7. Ask Visitors to Bookmark Your Site.

8. Exchange Ads with Complementary Businesses.
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Step5 * Buy Ads*
You can buy pay Per Click (PPC) ads on yahoo or google. Google adwords is very good and it is not costly as you pay only if potential customers click on your link.
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Step6 * Free listings*
List your product on Google's Froogle for free, this will also increase your ranking too.

You can also sell on Ebay and other auction sites, make sure you put your website link, so that customer can visit your website.