========================================== Business Marketing Bulletin ========================================== October 16, 2007, Issue #72 Terri Seymour, Publisher http://www.seymourproducts.com mailto:terri@seymourproducts.com © 2007 All Rights Reserved Worldwide ========================================== In This Issue ========================================== 1. Top Sponsor Ads 2. Privacy Policy 3. What's New? 4. Feedback 5. Freebies & Biz Helpers 6. Feature Ad 7. Article: 10 Easy T.raffic Boosting Tactics 8. Feature Ad 9. eCommerce Tips & Info 10. This 'n That - Little Bit of Everything! 11. Subscription Management & Contact Info ========================================== Top Sponsor Ads ========================================== Get Rich With Vitamins! Start a business in the Billion-Dollar health & wellness industry for under $30.00! $100,000 annual potential! 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You have a bigger plan option as well. http://www.icdsoft.com/?aff=terriseymour ========================================== What’s New? ========================================== Hello everyone and welcome new subscribers, If business is slowing down for you this month, don't feel alone. This is a slow time of year for many businesses. Here are some things you can do to increase your sales during a slump: http://retail.about.com/od/marketingsalespromotion/a/increase_sales.htm In the News Linux Doesn't Need to Look Like Windows http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/linux_doesnt_ne.html New Ebooks this Week: Resell Ebooks Just $1.00 Each! 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That is only .50 per ebook!! Have fun browsing and shopping through the almost 900 titles! I never realized how much fun it is to shop for ebooks until we opened up our store! ;-) NOTE: New eBooks listed above are not eligible for Weekly Subscriber Specials. Join the Seymour Products Trivia Challenge! Find the hidden trivia question and be the third person to send in the correct answer for a free feature ad in next week's issue of the Business Marketing Bulletin. Send your answer to mailto:terri@seymourproducts.com?subject=answer Congratulations to Leah Stanford for being last week's trivia challenge winner. Last week’s Q: What's the nearest galaxy to our own? Last Week’s A: Andromeda Join in the fun and try to win a free feature ad. Good luck all! If you know anyone who could benefit from this ezine, please feel free to forward them a copy in its entirety. Thank you. If you would like to advertise in the BMB, please visit: http://www.seymourproducts.com/newsletter/advertise.shtml for more information. Advertising prices are as low as $2.00. I am also looking for ad swaps from other ezine publishers. BMB goes out to 640 subscribers. ========================================== Feedback ========================================== Please send in your comments, suggestions, questions, etc to mailto:terri@seymourproducts.com?subject=feedback We appreciate all feedback, good or bad! Well Terri, it's just nice to begin somewhere and that somewhere is having YOU! I'll be more comfy in the internet. IF someone could watch over our shoulder. Terri, as I had mentioned earlier, I'll definitely read your articles. Thanks a million! Justin Wow Terri, I didn't know you live right by the town where the terrible incident happened. I am praying for everyone in that area. I was so sorry to hear about that. We are living in some serious times. It is time to return unto God!Glad to know you and your family are safe. Keep doing the great work that you do! Marguerite ========================================== Freebies & Biz Helpers ========================================== Home Business Forum Advertising is Allowed in Appropriate Category http://home-business-help.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi ****** Free Sample Business Plans to Use as Templates http://www.morebusiness.com/business-plans ****** Free Download: SeeStorm Messenger Now you can make your favorite photos alive and talk. You can bring any photo to life and make it talk absolutely for free. You can communicate with your friends and find new acquaintances using this animated image. With SeeStorm Messenger you are also able to send e-mails with living photos. http://ssm.seestorm.com/ ****** Write Better Ads - Do It Free! http://www.WriteBetterAds.com ****** Tired of paying a fortune for Microsoft programs. 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Your listings could include name, subscription instructions, publisher’s name, etc. Of course you could put your own eZine listing at the top of your directory to get extra exposure. 3) When you o.ffer a f.reebie from your site, submit it to f.reebie sites. They provide target categories which mean t.argeted t.raffic. So if you're submitting software, you could submit it to the "f.ree software" section. Just remember, some f.reebie sites want you to l.ink to their web site before they will list your f.reebie submission. 4) Make your visitors curious about your p.roduct by telling them they need to s.ign up to get into a password protected site to read the rest of the a.d. This will give your p.roduct extra perceived value because it is so well guarded. Just like a diamond in a bank vault. 5) Turn your banner a.d into a trivia question. Post the question on the banner and tell readers they can win a prize if they answer the question at your site. People love trivia because it makes them feel smart when they get the right answer. The prize is just an extra incentive for them to click on your banner. 6) Create your own web ring. You will gain highly targeted t.raffic to your web site and others will l.ink to your site because they'll want to join the ring. For example, if you were s.elling p.roducts to internet m.arketers, you would want to start an online m.arketing web ring. You would then draw your target audience. 7) Design your site so it will be worth bookmarking. Your visitors will bookmark your web site if it's full of f.ree, original content like articles, eBooks, etc. You could survey your target audience to see which web sites or what type of sites they visit a lot. Then you could place those l.inks all in one section of your web site. You could a.dvertise it as a start page. 8) Remind your visitors to p.romote your web site. Use phrases like: "R.efer Our Web Site To A Friend" or "L.ink To Our Web Site". O.ffer them incentives for r.eferrals. You could give them f.ree eBooks, reports, software and other informational p.roducts. You could also o.ffer them discounts on other p.roducts that you s.ell. 9) Allow your visitors to reprint the content on your web site. Just ask them to include your resource box and a l.ink to your site in exchange. This will turn your content into a traffic machine and the external l.inks will help increase your ranking in some search engines. 10) Include the reprint/reproduction r.ights with your p.roduct. This increases the perceived value because people can start a b.usiness and make m.oney. You can also include some of your a.dvertisements in or on the p.roduct. The more it gets res.old, the more your a.d will be seen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Sandquist is the Editor of eAuthorResources NewsLetter eAuthorResources.com Provides F.ree Assistance to Authors, Publishers and M.arketers of Electronic P.roducts. You can read past articles & subscribe to eAuthorResources NewsLetter at: http://eAuthorResources.BlogSpot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would be interested in any of my articles for reprint or reference you can see the complete list at http://www.seymourproducts.com/articles/index.shtml Feel free to use any of the articles you feel are appropriate. 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