Ten Breakthrough Marketing Ideas

1. Create a directory of web sites on a specific
topic. Give people the option of adding the
directory to their web site by linking to it. Put
your business advertisement at the top of the
director's home page. This technique will get lots
of people to linkto your web site and give you
free advertising.

2. Do you have a product or service that doesn't
sell good? Offer it as a free bonus for someone
else's product or service. Get free advertising by
placing your web site or business ad on the
product or in the product package.

3. Trade autoresponder ads with other businesses.
If both of you send out information with auto-
responders just exchange a small classified ad
to put at the bottom or top of each other's
autoresponder message.

4. Start a free tip line. Offer a free daily, weekly,
or monthly tip recorded on your voice mail. The
tips should be related to your business. Include
your ad for your web site or business at the
beginning or end of your message.

5. Exchange content with other web sites and
ezines. You could trade articles, top ten lists, etc.
Both parties could include a resource box at the
end of the content.

6. Offer to insert ads into your product package
for other businesses. Just ask, in return that they
do the same for your business. You should only
trade insert ads with businesses that have the
same target audience.

7. Offer a free daily class in your web site's chat
room. The class should be related to the subject
of your business or web site. This will get people
to visit your web site everyday.

8. Do you have a product that doesn't sell good?
Offer it as a free bonus for another businesses
product or service. You'll get free advertising by
placing your web site or business ad on the free
bonus.

9. Place different emotional response ads for the
same product or service all over your web site.
One ad may hit their hot button to buy more than
another ad.

10. Publish your e-zine in e-book format. You
could offer a larger number of articles per issue.
It also allows you to include graphics with your
ezine.Your advertising revenue would increase
because you could charge businesses for large
color ads.