by Christine Lynch

Created on: February 12, 2010

Internet marketing has become one of the fastest ways to promote business. Whether you’re a writer and you’re promoting to get page views or you have a service of some kind and looking for clients                           

Social Networks – of course there are hundreds more out there and probably will even be   new ones before this article is published. I am just going to list the top 3 that I use so you can get an idea if you want more you can always do a search just type in social networks and you will get thousands. Here are my top 3.   Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace each one of these site has forums and/or groups that you can join plus an area that is known as marketplace this area is very useful if you have a service or product and you want to get clients. Twitter has an area that you can blog in you have to have a blogger account for this it’s really simple to get one 

Forums- there are thousands of these around you can do a search to get a more accurate listing you might want to add something specific like i.e. parenting forums. Forums are excellent way to get page views for articles. The best approach in using these forums is to chat a little make a couple of friendly posts then you might add something like I’ve written an article you might be interested in and then post the link to it.

Online stores/auction- again there are hundreds if not thousands of these as well. One of the most popular ones is eBay you set up you store and then list it also joining in on some of the forums is another good way to get noticed. There are several forums on eBay just click on community and you can go to the forums you have to be a member of eBay though to be able to be on the forums

 Classifieds – one of the most popular is crag list this works really well if you are offering some kind of service or product to sell. This is one of the fastest ways to get recognized by thousands.  It’s a free service and all you have to do is sign up for an account

 Blogging- blogging is very popular now days; you can use blogging to promote page views for articles or to promote any other business.  Using a blog tool such as blogger or word press is a really good way to get traciffic as these blogs have a lot of bloggers and you can read some of their blogs and introduce yourself to other

Marketing doesn’t have to be a scary word and it doesn’t have to be a hard thing to do at all. Once you learn a few secrets and tips it can in fact become something very easy to do and use.  I do 2 part-time business that I start on my own. I write articles, plus I make my own line of jewelry I use all of the tools I explained above and I manage to make a descent income. What I normally do is I usually spend about 2 hours a day working writing my articles and filling orders for my jewelry, then I might spend anywhere from an 1 to 2 hours a day marketing everything.

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