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In this new business television show, two of our digitial marketing experts David Meerman Scott and Peter Shankman the use of cutting edge digital marketing techniques in the ultimate sales arena – the US Presidential Election. Says Scott, “One of the things thats been so interesting to me over the last couple of years is focusing on the marketing aspects of the US Presidential Election…. and its been fascinating to watch the differences in the ways that the two candidates and the two …

PATRICIA

Lee Chadwick, communiGator participates in an industry B2B debate on whether digital marketing is taking over from more traditional methods.

CANDICE

www.marketingmerge.com When building a network marketing or home-based business, nothing is more important than generating leads for your business. Many network marketers (as well as online affiliate marketers) generate their own leads by using a lead capture page provided by a system. That’s a great place to start. But don’t stop there. There are advantages to using certain systems and their lead capture or sales pages to generate leads and perhaps income, while building your primary …

TOMMYE

Our top 9 tips for successful digital marketing. By Tim Martin, 2 Sticks Digital Marketing, Melbourne, Australia.

PRESTON

Today, there are many ways to increase web traffic to your website. Some of them bring more traffic to your site, but some don’t. Here are 10 of effective ways that can make your pages experience a traffic explosion.

1. Trading links with other web sites that related to the subject of your web site can bring you more web site traffic. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc. Moreover, a lot of banner exchanges offer free banner impressions just for signing up. Here are just a few banner exchanges website that offer free banner impressions:

http://www.purelybannerz.co.uk

http://www.linkswap.co.uk/

http://www.click4click.com/

You will find banner exchanges that offer free banner impressions more if you do a search for “banner exchange” on any search engine.

If you don’t have a banner for your web site you can create one for free at:

http://www.addesigner.com/

2. Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they’ll be reminded to revisit your web site. They’ll see your product ad more than just once which will increase your orders.

P.S If you want to start building a list but have no auto responder for capturing leads, you can get a very cheap auto responder here:

http://www.aweber.com

3. Form an online community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community they will regularly return to communicate with others.

4. Write articles and submit them to e-zines, web sites and magazines that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article. Here are the best places to submit your articles:

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.ideamarketers.com

http://www.contentdesk.com

You can also use Article Marketer which is a paid service and I recommend using it to save you time. Just click below for more information.

http://www.articlemarketer.com

If you don’t want to write article by yourself, you could outsource article writing for around $5 per article at these sites:

http://www.rentacoder.com

http://www.elance.com

5. Give away an electronic freebie with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This’ll increase your ad exposure and increase web traffic to your web site at the same time.

6. Combine your products or services into one big package deal with other businesses offerings. You could share a web site and advertise the package deal; which means double more web site traffic.

7. Submit your freebie to the online directories that list your particular item or service for free. If you’re offering a free e-zine, submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet.

8. Participate on message boards. Post answers to other people’s questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file at the end of all your postings.

9. Exchange classified or sponsor ads with other free e-zine publishers. If there is a huge subscriber difference between e-zines, one can run more ads to make up for it.

10. Post your ad on free advertising areas on the internet. You can post it on free classified ad sites, free for all links sites, newsgroups that allow ads, free yellow page directories, etc.

MEI