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Free advertising goes hand in hand with the Internet. If you search Google for the term Free Advertising you will find some 288 million results. That’s not just confusing, thats totally mind boggling.

Where do you start, and more to the point how do you figure out which ones work and which don’t. You try a few, you waste lots of time and energy and before long you stand the chance of being burned out before you even make a sale.

There is another way.

It’s the Search Sub Engine, you can list your business as many times as you wish and unlike any other free method the Search Sub Engine is also a search method used by millions of surfers everyday. People who are looking for the very product you are selling, only previously, they were unable to find you.

You list in a category or sub category that suits your business best. and all the while you are listed on the Search Sub Engine your listing will rotate towards the very top, the #1 result, ensuring that you always receive your fair share of any traffic generated.

It doesn’t take a genius to immediately see the benefits this can bestow on your business. Reaching the top position for your search criteria is very likely your #1 goal for your business.

You will definitely have been striving for this position with the search engines since day one of your business. But it’s not so easy with the search engines, and that’s simply because there are only so many top spots to fill.

It’s likely that the top spots with the search engines are constantly occupied by long established companies or those fortunate enough to have a massive advertising budget. This leaves you and your business struggling to feed off the very slim pickings and surfers that may eventually venture further out with their search and perhaps accidentally stumble across your website.

With Search Sub Engines this cannot happen. It doesn’t matter to a Search sub Engine if you have the largest advertising budget available, it wont buy any favor.

Every single listing, whether that be the fortune 500 company or the sole online trader has exactly the same opportunity to harvest their fare share of the traffic it generates. So such competition, the main competition, that for top spot, doesn’t exist.

Nor can any home page sponsored ads be purchased, or top of the page sponsored links. You wont find any adsense or other forms of distraction which might pull visitors away from your website. And no one, other than the Search Sub Engine itself is able to make use of banner ads, so everything remains as fair and as even as it can possibly be.

The Search Sub Engine offers everyone, website owners and searchers alike, something previously not available on the Internet and that is a perfectly equal opportunity for all and a free on at that.

So, it stands to reason, that you should at the very least, give it a try. And it makes sense to add it to your arsenal of reliable traffic generating tools.

Mike Collins
http://www.articlesbase.com/free-articles/accelerating-your-online-business-growth-using-the-very-latest-free-advertising-methods-122152.html

Let’s face it, when you look at it on paper, SEO is an expensive endeavor. Whether you do it yourself, use the services of a consultant, or hire someone else to do it for you, the cost can be overwhelming.

In fact, some SEO experts charge as much as $500-$1000 per hour. It is such an involved process that the price tag is understandably pretty significant. As a small business owner, you have to decide whether search engine optimization is worth the expense.

Can you afford to invest in SEO services? Can you afford not to? The key to affordable SEO is an efficient balance of necessities, time, and budget. Here are three things to consider as you decide whether SEO is right for your small business.

Necessities of SEO

Search engine optimization is a huge process, but not every component of SEO is necessary for every campaign. It’s no secret that the most fruitful campaigns utilize every type of marketing available, but doing everything doesn’t necessarily equal success. If you make sure that you’re doing the right things at the right time, then you can save time and effort while still creating a successful campaign.

Time to Invest in SEO

Time is the single most important aspect of SEO. It’s simply a time-consuming process. If you’re not spending your own time doing it then you’re paying someone else for their time. Because time is your most valuable resource, one of the most important decisions you’ll have to make is which projects you’ll take on first. Prioritizing your tasks will help you make good use of your valuable time. Tackle your top-priority tasks first and save the less-important ones for later.

As you consider your use of time, also keep in mind that SEO is part waiting game. Anytime you think about Organic search engine optimization, you have to remember that SEO results take a significant amount of time to show up online. Make sure you understand just how long it might take and how it will affect your business. Depending on the industry and the competition, better rankings take 4-6 months

SEO Budget

This is the primary factor in determining whether you’ll spend your own time doing SEO or hire someone else for the use of their time. But don’t let budget be your only consideration. Also keep in mind the value added when a professional takes care of your web optimization tasks. Determine the value added by an SEO professional by considering the quality of work and the potential of the search engine optimization work to get results for your business, however, more money doesn’t always guarantee a better product. On the other hand, remember that you often get what you pay for.

You can only determine the true cost of SEO by looking at your return on investment. Remember that the true value of search engine optimization is greater than the sum of its parts. Even a small increase in time, money, and energy invested can net huge results. By investing whatever you can, whenever you can, and wherever you can, you can potentially see a big difference in your business’s success. Reinvesting your returns can lead to even more success, and SEO suddenly doesn’t look so expensive anymore.

The Cost of Doing it Wrong (Doing it Yourself)

And while it may be tempting to do SEO yourself, small business owners should especially consider hiring an internet marketing agency or search engine optimization expert. Small businesses are already at a disadvantage when it comes to SEO simply because of size and budget.

Don’t risk putting yourself at an even greater disadvantage by doing it wrong or by inadvertently utilizing tactics that could harm your ranking or even get you banned by search engines like Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Even if you choose not to hire an SEO expert to take care of all of your optimization tasks, consider hiring a consultant to check the work you’ve done. This is a good way to keep careless mistakes from happening over and over again.

Seomul Evans
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/small-business-seo-can-you-really-afford-it-681823.html

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With the continual change of internet marketing many marketers have modified the way they sell online and have begun using “attraction marketing”. The internet has developed its own terms or language to include a new way of marketing. Of course when a new trend appears, a clever phrase or word is invented and it gets “talked up” so that we are considered hip or in the know.

Attraction marketing has become just that new trend phrase for an old idea and has re-emerged as the “hot” strategy for selling online. Attraction marketing includes a couple different processes.

The first process is pre-selling and how you do it right?

The easiest example of pre-selling is as follows: The phone book yellow pages. I can hear you saying, “WHAT?” But it is true. I bet right now you have your copy on a shelf or stuffed in a desk drawer. I also bet you never flip through it just to read the ads… but when you need it – you pull it off the shelf and look for that specific product, company or service you need. Right? Thought so.

Please realize that the phone book yellow pages did not sell you anything. You initiated the sale yourself. This just happens to be the very first part of attraction marketing ~ the customer initiates the sale. Another example would be an auto parts store. Simply put they sell auto parts but many also do auto repairs so while the customer is shopping for parts he is also shown that auto repairs are available too. So the customer has the ability to ask questions he might have concerning a needed repair. By doing this the customer is attracted to the store. Your specific area is auto parts, information is given for free, and the customer begins to show loyalty to the auto parts store. In the end this is called attraction marketing. The auto parts store does not need to do cold calls, send out fliers, or hold a special sale… the customers are simply attracted to them.

Many internet guru’s will try to lay claim to inventing attraction marketing but they are wrong. One good example to prove my point would be the local enclosed shopping mall. In the 70’s shopping malls were the neatest thing around. Soon they became a hang out place to be seen. A place to meet other people. Or a place to exercise by walking when the doctor says to walk but the weather is cold. Shopping malls encouraged these types of activities by having free concerts, offering your child’s picture with Santa and other subtle attraction marketing ideas.

With the development of the internet, like the shopping mall, it has become a place to meet to exchange views. And as the internet grew with adding graphics and interactivity, and games it began to chip away at the shopping malls place. Today’s internet browsing person goes to the internet to meet people, have fun and learn new things. With the entrance of Google the internet quickly replaced the Yellow Pages. People began searching for auto parts and repairs online and it was not long before the business owners took notice.

Businesses began using attraction marketing on the internet.

Business owners were quick to see their customer base shrinking and attributed it to the internet. It was not long before business owners began using the internet to market to a larger customer base. Soon they found that there was also loyalty and these customers came back to shop again and again when the customer was provided products and services that were easy to find.

In the end everyone uses attraction marketing to win customers and then to keep them.

To a business owner the biggest bonus is in advertising. No longer did they have to advertise in several printed publications in their local area. Now they were able to market to anyone worldwide. Attraction marketing pulls the customers to the business owners site. These customers would be more qualified because they are looking for the product the business owner is selling. This streamlines the customer base to people interested in your product or service.

Attraction marketing has become a staple to not only big business but to small business to. It is here to stay because it works!

Sandy Morris
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/what-is-all-the-talk-about-attraction-marketing-and-how-does-it-really-work-738308.html