Become an Expert in Your Field

This is critical. You must become an expert in your area of—that’s right–expertise. Learn everything you can. Ask questions. Find out answers. No matter how good your product is, if the potential consumers of your product do not know that you are an expert, they will not buy your product.

You must learn everything you can about your field, and be willing to share it with others. Let others see that you are the expert. Write articles. Participate in online forums. Ask questions. Answer questions. If you do not know the answer to something someone asks, go find the answer. Give them solid information.

How do you learn enough to be an expert?

First, seek out all the free and public domain information that is available online.

Second, go to your local offline library and check out 10-15 books on your topic. Read them—the first few, read completely. For the rest of them, read the chapters on information not covered in the first few books.

Third, buy information online to fill in your gaps.

You see, to be perceived as an expert, you really need to be one. You cannot just answer their questions and be an expert. People can see if you are a genuine expert or if you just have some specialized information. And the only way for them to see you as a genuine expert is to be one. When you are a genuine expert, it is obvious in your speech, your tone of voice, and it is evident in your writing.

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June 30th, 2008 Leave a comment posted in Computers and Internets

Advertising Your Internet Business

Every Internet Business will need traffic in order to survive. If people do not know the existence of your website, you cannot expect to sell any product/service to people. Therefore, you need to advertise your website so as to bring in more traffic from many different channels.

There are a few ways to advertise your Internet Business. I will talk about paid advertising first. On the Internet, you will remember seeing ads that are displayed on some websites. Those are banners ads. So actually you can pay a company who offers advertising services and buy ads. In turn, the ads will advertise your product/service that you are offering. Once people click on the ads, they will be brought to your website. Or you can buy keywords to list ads, where each ad will cost from a few cents to a few dollars, e.g. is Google Adwords. Usually buying of keywords to list ads will bring targeted traffic to your site. For example, if someone searches a term “Golf” and you have bought the keyword ads from Google, your keyword ad may stand a chance to appear on the search results listing. For more information, check out http://www.google.com/ads/

You can also advertise using traditional advertising channels such as placing your URL (e.g. www.abc.com) on flyers, brochures, business cards, books, TV ads, etc.

Now I will touch on free advertising. Using free advertising channels may take more time to see results but they can definitely help you save a good tons of money if you do it correctly. Some of the channels are as followed:
a. Classified site, where you can post free classified ads on the website to promote your Internet Business.
b. Forums, post actively on forums that are related to your products/services that you are offering, and place your website URL in your signature.
c. Cross linking between sites, negotiate a deal with other related sites and see whether you can place your website URL on their site.
d. Submit articles to article submission sites and place your URL on the articles that you write.
e. Give away freebies such as e-books, and include your website URL in the freebies.
f. Word of Mouth, by physically promoting your Internet Business between people. This will automatically happen if people think that your Internet Business provides values for them.

I have shared with you some of the advertising channels that you can use. Try them out yourself and see which channels suit best for your Internet Business.

Warmest Regards,

HomeBizGears Team

I currently own a site called HomeBizGears.com, which i co-founded with 2 other guys.

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June 29th, 2008 Leave a comment posted in Computers and Internets

How To Get Free Stuff From The Internet!

Have you ever wondered how many free things you can get from the Internet? If you take a step back and looked at the situation you will realise that you can get thousands of free stuff from the Internet. These freebies can be things like free pens, free scripts, free web hosting, free memberships and subscriptions to some online sites and even free cash.

So now you know that there are lots of free stuff that you can obtain from the Internet, the only thing that you are probably thinking now is “where’s the best place to find all of these freebies.”

Well, truthfully there are many places across the Web where you can find freebies. The best places are probably specialty directories that offer free stuff. These are normally large categorized directories that contain and list a large amount of freebies that are offered by many different websites/ businesses across the World Wide Web. For example, http://www.1freebieseeking.com is a large categorized directory that offers free stuff.

So your question now is probably, “why do so many businesses give away free stuff and why are there so many of them doing this?” There are many reasons why businesses give away free stuff. One of the main reasons why businesses give away free stuff is so that they can promote their business. When these businesses give away free things, they normally imprint their business details on the free stuff. This is so they can promote their business, which will in return give their business more exposure not only from the World Wide Web, but also from the offline world.

Other than finding free stuff from using free stuff directories, you can also find free stuff from using other sites on the Web. These include individual sites that offer free stuff, but also offer other services other than free stuff. For example, you can get free reprint able articles from http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php where you can use them on your site for free.

About The Author

Jonathan White has been involved in Free Stuff on the Web for over one year now and is the Webmaster of http://www.1freebieseeking.com - a categorized free stuff directory listing well over 1000 freebies.

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June 28th, 2008 Leave a comment posted in Computers and Internets

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