Top 7 Online Business Resources
If you have an online business and are looking to increase traffic to your website and therefore sales, there are some things you should be doing on a regular basis. Call them your daily or weekly online calisthenics. You should be posting articles on other sites, building your list and reaching out to them with pertinent deals and updates, staying active on forums in your niche, taking advantage of the press release resources out there, using Twitter, and making sure your email signature reflects what you are trying to accomplish. Here are our favorite resources for doing all of the above:
1. Article Submissions
EzineArticles.com – This is the best place to post your online articles. It gets the most traffic and provides the biggest marketing boost to authors.
2. Autoresponders
Aweber.com – Your best friend if you are about to embark on an email marketing campaign. They have great deliverabilty and you can schedule whatever series of autoresponder emails you like.
3. Email Signatures
WiseStamp.com – A Firefox extension that enables you to fully customize email signatures and also link in to all of your social networking sites. It’s like a business card sent with every email.
4. Forums
Big-Boards.com – A list of the most active member boards and forums on the web. Choose your niche and start making contacts!
5. Free Reports
Top7Business.com – Search this site for “free report” and you will access a great article on the subject. Learn the 7 things you need to know about writing free reports.
6. Twitter
Twitpwr.com/twitterreport – Learn some important secrets on maximizing the effect Twitter has on your business. A free report from Joel Comm.
7. Press Releases
PRWeb.com – In the world of public relations, it’s definitely all about who you know. Submitting a press release to PRWeb.com will help you to appear on over 500 websites and blogs the world over.
