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Are you still a brick and mortar business owner who doesn’t have any kind of online presence? Then this post is for you. In case you are an experienced internet marketer then please don’t read further as this post is mainly for the business owners who are still new to the online world.

What follows next are the few basic tips which will help you in building online presence for your small business.

Get a website and blog –Okay. This is the basic one so I won’t spend more time on this point. The only tip which I will like to share is to hire a professional web designer who can design an elegant and beautiful website for your business. Since the visual appearance of your website may influence the decision of your potential customers, it is very important to have a decent and easy-to-use website.

Join social media websites – Social media websites enjoyed a tremendous growth in 2009 and will continue to grow in 2010. According to a study about the impact of social media websites on consumer behavior, more than 50 percent of online consumer takes their decision on the basis of information they get from these social media websites. Create a profile on all social media websites and communities where your target audience spends their time and try to develop your relations with them. More is the number of social media websites you join; the easier it will be for your consumers to find you.

Get listed in popular business directories – Get yourself listed in local business directories like Google local business results, Yahoo local business listings. Also search for the other local business organizations websites or directories which are related to your niche and get your self listed in them.

Distribute few Press releases – Once you’ve launched the website and get yourself listed in free business directories. Write some press releases about the launch of your new website and submit them to free press releases sites. If you have any contacts in local newspapers agency then use them and see if they can help you in getting some exposure.

Add some useful content on your website – Write six-seven unique and useful articles about your industry and publish them on your own website. Send those article links to the bloggers who write about your niche, your friends, current clients, family and request them to promote them. Also you can submit those articles to few of the popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Mixx where it can attract some traffic.

Set Google Alerts – Go to google.com/alerts and set alerts for your company name and keywords related to your niche. Google will send you an email notification every time someone mentions your company name or the keywords you have set in your Google alerts account. Monitor all the conversations related to you and participate wherever required.

These are the six easy tips which according to me every business owner should follow for building a basic online presence for their small business. Do you have some additional tips then feel free to share them in the comments.

Rajkumar Jonalla is working for Fortepromo promotional products which create high quality promotional flash drives for IT companies that help them to promote their brand in the market.

Here is some information I have found valuable. I hope you will as well.
Someone once said:

“The fast eat the slow.”

I agree. But I’d like to take it one step further and add…

“The smart eat the dumb.”

Case in point:

If you’re still trying to get traffic to your site like it’s 2009, you seriously need to get up to speed.

The game has changed and what used to work, doesn’t work anymore.

Google, Yahoo, and Bing are all getting smarter.  They’re shutting down people left and right, wiping out online empires overnight.

It’s sorta like the story of the 3 little pigs.  If the way you generate traffic is made of straw and sticks it’s going to get blown down.

So how do you build a website that will stand the test of time?

Nowadays it takes two things.

The first is unique content.

The second thing is something you’ve probably heard of, but never taken seriously.

What’s more, this second thing comprises the very fabric of the Internet — it’s how the Internet was originally
spun, and doing it gets you the real deal traffic and respect for your site.

If you do it right.

(doing it wrong can be equally bad news)

Enough beating around the bush.

You can find out exactly what it is in this short video. Click and watch.

Why spend time and money driving traffic when you can just siphon it to your site?

Watch this video to see how. Click and watch.

Recently I decided to read the books by Og Mandino that received so much acclaim. The Greatest Salesman in the World has 10 scrolls that tell one how to become the greatest salesman in the world, simple and not so easy tasks to accomplish success. The scrolls are filled with inspirational and motivational ideas to practice through the day to help make the necessary changes to achieve success.

The first scroll instructs you to live in love, greet each moment in love, never gossip, never feed hate or anger. Empty your life of those things that do not serve the higher purpose and brings only love. When you speak badly of someone you feed the negative energy in your life. Like attracts like.

This is not easy when you are use to speaking about all the things wrong in your life, how bad you feel, how tired you are, the aches and pains, the guy who cut you off in traffic, all those nagging thoughts and emotions that make you feel tired and ill. Negative emotions are defeating and one of the primary reasons why no one succeeds.

This is the greatest secret in the world, fill your life with love. Stop complaining and speak only on the successes of your day. Even when they do not feel like successes, make them accomplishments. Greet each little task with love. You will find an abundance of energy, it is amazing.

Give it a try, read the book, then go back and start practicing the scrolls according to the instructions.

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Please let me know how you are doing. I would love to hear your success stories.

Are you planning to start your own business from scratch then you should think about buying an existing business instead of starting your own business? But one would ask that why he/she should prefer buying somebody else business than starting their own. In this article I am going to decide few advantages which you can get from buying a business.

The biggest advantage you would get is you don’t need to start from scratch. The most difficult part in a business is to take it off the ground and that work would be already done for you. All the basic work like creating initial plans, models and other legal work would be already done for you and you can easily skip this first step and focus on other important phases of business.

The another advantage of buying an existing well maintained business is that you would get an existing customer base which would generate immediate cash flow which won’t be possible if you buy a business from scratch. You could easily earn profits from the first month itself. It would also avoid an undetermined period which every new business face to find new customers.

You can save lot of money which you had to spend for advertising in new business and establishing it as a brand. On the other hand people would already know about the existing business and it would highly reduce your advertising budgets.

Normally when you buy a business you inherit all the assets of business with it which was established by previous owner and saves your lot of time. In addition you would get fully trained and talented workforce with the business who knows completely about the industry. So you don’t have to spend any money in hiring employees and giving them proper training.

The last but the most important advantage of buying a well founded business is that it has a lot of scope of expansion. You can directly focus on its expansion and use your innovation to add new customers to it and take it to new heights.

Andrew R. Cagnetta, CEO of Transworld Business brokers which provide business broker services worldwide and specializes in buying and selling of businesses.

From the Google Webmaster Central blog:

Inbound links are links from pages on external sites linking back to your site. Inbound links can bring new users to your site, and when the links are merit-based and freely-volunteered as an editorial choice, they’re also one of the positive signals to Google about your site’s importance.

Inbound links are very important for building your site’s credibility, but how do you get them?  Before you go joining some spam-centric link exchange scheme, let me share with you a great way to get high quality inbound links. 

Write for them.

Bloggers are always (always) on the lookout for high quality content.  For a busy solopreneur or small business owner, finding new and fresh content to maintain a blog can be a real challenge.  If you can provide relevant and timely content for their blogs, they’ll gladly provide a link back to your website or blog.

Where do you find the opportunities to write for other bloggers?  There are several content exchange sites.  I personally like BloggerLinkup.com.  It’s straightforward, user-friendly, and easy to remember (an email is sent to you each morning with the latest opportunities).

When you write for other blogs, keep a few things in mind.

• Only write for blogs that are relevant to your target audience. For example, if you target men in their 50s, then it’s probably not a good idea to post on a work-at-home mom site.
• Try to write about something that is relevant to your target audience. Again, if you’re not aiming to reach your ideal client or customer, then your time would be better spent doing something else.
  
• Find a way to provide helpful and meaningful content. If you can provide something that really helps the blogger (by really helping his/her readers), then you may get an invitation to post to that person’s site again.
  
• Don’t save your best stuff for your own site. Use that content to capture the attention of new readers.  If you don’t make an impression (and how better to do that than with high quality content?), then they won’t make the effort to visit your site.
• Remember that it’s not just about the traffic; it’s also about the links. Although it might be tempting to try to only write for established sites with large amounts of readers and traffic, don’t ignore the little guys (who might be big guys very soon – WebWorkerDaily, for instance, started just three years ago and is a very prominent blog today).  You’ll benefit from “growing up with them,” and you’ll get the inbound links.

Write for outside blogs on a regular basis.  With each new post, you get a new inbound link that’s both relevant and focused.  Keep at it and watch your page-rank steadily increase.  Good luck with your writing!

RESOURCE BOX:  Amber Riviere is a web designer with BrownBugProject.com.  You can follow her work through her blog and through her newsletter, Inside Brown’s Brain.

Marketing a business at all is a difficult feat, let alone in times like these.  In my own business, I’ve had to get creative, work much harder, and learn to rely on my strengths rather than my marketing budget.

In times past, I might have focused more on actually having a marketing budget.  Today, that’s a secondary concern.  What I mean is, in the past, I would have focused more on whether or not I was allocating enough of my revenue toward a marketing budget and then if I was effectively using that budget to market my business.

What’s more important now, though, is using what I do have in my possession to keep my name in front of people – and as many people as possible.  In times like these, I’m cutting every financial corner I can, including where my marketing budget is concerned, so I’m using other assets to support my lead generation efforts.

For me, writing has always been my “bread and butter” lead source, and fortunately, it’s free!

My clients have always found me through articles and posts I’ve made online, so my focus is writing and posting as much as possible on a daily basis.  Here’s my plan in a nutshell.

My plan is heavy (very heavy) on writing.  It’s not easy, for sure, but it’s free, and it works.  The key is to be consistent.  If you post often enough and make sure to stay in front of your ideal clients or customers, they will find you.

Author Bio:  Amber Riviere is a web designer with BrownBugProject.com.  You can follow her work through her blog and through her newsletter, Inside Brown’s Brain.