Archive for May, 2009

Free Website Promotion…Why Not?

Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?

Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.

How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?

1. Enlist your website.

Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.

Just don’t forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.

2. Know your forums.

One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.

3. Write a press release.

Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!

4. Be friendly online.

Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.

5. Write an article.

Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.

6. Just let the whole world know about your site.

What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!

7. Make a banner ad.

Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!

8. Take up a free website promotion course online.

Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But don’t you know that you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further? Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters.

When you make a website, you need not pay anything to promote it. You just read it — there is such a thing as free website promotion!

Running an Internet marketing business isn’t easy.

One of the biggest reasons why people fail to achieve success in Internet marketing is because they are not very proactive people.

What does it mean to be a proactive person? People who are willing to get their hands dirty while trying to overcome the learning curve.

One of the main reasons why 95% of the people fail to achieve success in Internet marketing is because they fail to start their first website.

I’m not kidding. People fear change. They don’t like the technical aspect of starting a website. The biggest problem with many Internet marketing wannabes (and I can say, at least a majority of them who are not tech savvy) is that they are willing to spend so much money buying E-books, going to seminars and even motivation programs but they are not willing to sit down and get their first website running!

If you talk to them about starting a website, they will probably think it is a good idea. They will talk all day about what a good idea it is, buy more e-books, attend more seminars and maybe even promote a few affiliate programs on the forums but at the end of the day, they are still trying to start their first site after 2 years!

Some may say that they should get all the information first, research the market, find their hot niches and even attend a few more seminars… but at the end of the day, if you don’t start a site, nothing gets done and you will NEVER progress to the next level until you ‘break the ice’!

Starting a site is not difficult. There is more than enough information on the net on where to get a good domain name, hosting for your site, what content to put up there and so on.

You don’t even need to spend time creating content because there are many private label rights products out there that you can use as your own content and brand your own name there.

But at the end of the day, starting your first website is the key to breaking the ice.

Many a times, it is the fear of failure that holds us back. We don’t want to try new things because we are afraid of failure. And Internet marketing, to many people out there, involves people venturing into the world of the unknown.

However, without sufficient ‘failure’, there is no way to move forward. In other words, you must learn to fail enough before you can move on to the next step.

So if you really want to get a breakthrough in your Internet marketing business, make sure you get off your butt and start getting your first site ready TODAY, not tomorrow, not later, but now!

Travel with Zero Dollars (2): Religious Traveling

If you are a Christian or a Catholic (or consider converting to the faith), you may feel as though your life of servitude to God maybe something of a shackle preventing you from doing the things you really want to do in life like traveling.

This is not the right thinking – after all the bible says ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened to you.

If you have a passion for traveling, you might be surprised. God might grant you your wish. All you need to do is get on your knees and pray.

In any religious establishment, there will always be missionaries. People who are dedicated to bring the good news of salvation and the love of Jesus Christ to people of all walks of life overseas.

If you like sharing the gospel with foreigners and you absolutely love traveling even though you don’t have the money to do so, then it could be a calling from God. You might be one of his servants He has prepared and He has a mission for you. You might fit in into one of His grand schemes and before you know it, you will be migrating to a different place for a year or so to conduct church planting work.

While you are at church, make sure you build relationships with the pastor/priest and deacons. This process might take years or months depending on your involvement with the local church.

The most important thing of all is to make sure that your church will be able to support you for your journey. When churches send their people on mission trips, you have to make sure you have ample support or else you will be forced to work and support yourself.

There are many places around the world where the gospel or the good news of Jesus Christ has yet to reach the ears of unbelievers. Especially in Asian countries like Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam. These are places worth visiting as well.

Of course make sure that your primary aim is God’s work and not going there for leisure. It is just a side benefit but if you are faithful to God, he will bless you and you will have your prayers answered. You just have to take the initiative and serve Him first.

Some people love holidays, others find them to be worse than chores. They dread the idea of planning one, gathering all the travelers, paying for accommodation, reading maps and going on a journey.

But that is because they haven’t gone for a truly enjoyable one, and that is why they dread the idea.

Let’s change the scenario a bit, shall we?

Imagine a holiday… a REAL holiday without alarm clocks, tight schedules and squeezing on a dinky little tour bus with tons of people beside you. Imagine going on a holiday where you don’t have to line up for hours just to get a ticket into a fun fare or the latest Harry Potter movie. You don’t have to jump into another rat race now, don’t we?

The purpose of going on a holiday is to get away from stress, not to create more.

The key is to be spontaneous about fun during your holiday. You can go on a holiday totally unplanned and yet have fun at the same time.

So how can one have fun with holidays? By eliminating the worries of money!

You see, there are many ways you can have a holiday without stressing about it too much. Say for example, if you choose a job that allows you plenty of time to travel, you won’t even need to come out with a single cent for it.

A flight stewardess gets all the privilege of flying everywhere and visiting many different countries at the same time. The only drawback is that you won’t get to see your family often (neither can you bring them along).

Of course you can also join companies that give you lots of incentives such as annual traveling. The key is to leave all the planning and money issues to them and the enjoyment to ourselves!

Basically, it is up to you.

Depending on how you choose your vacation – something like a hike up a mountain path or driving up to a suburb hanging around a farmland, all these are just some suggestions on how you can have a great time without spending money at all!

Hey, even spending a day camping near some park is also a great holiday depending on how you want it to be.

The choices are up to you as long as you don’t expect too much from your holiday – just be spontaneous and seize the day!