8 Essential Things You Should Already Be Doing To Promote Web And Blog

8 ESSENTIAL THINGS YOU SHOULD ALREADY BE DOING TO PROMOTE YOUR WEB SITE
1. Publish an E-Mail Newsletter

But why distribute an e-mailed publication instead of (or alongside) putting up a website? Think about your own web surfing habits. Do you visit new sites everyday? Do you visit sites frequently? Which sites do you frequent most often? Which sites are most interesting to you? What do those sites provide to you that is of value? These are the things to keep in mind when you go to design your own page, and/or your own e-mail publication.

When individuals visit any given web page, they might stay there for 10-20 seconds before their attention span fades away. Either their attention is drawn to something else, they click on another link which leads them away from your site, or they simply get bored. So, your first (main) page needs to have enough information to entice that user. Unless you have something worth returning for, they’re probably never going to return. Sure, they might bookmark it, they may even put a link to your site on their own web page, but the chances are slim that they’re going to keep coming back to you regularly.

However, if you can show visitors what you have to offer up front and get them to subscribe to your e mailed publication, then you’re going to have them as captive audience members until they decide to unsubscribe. You don’t have to count on them to revisit your website at all; they’re going to receive your e-zine whether or not they’re online when it arrives in their e-mailbox. Get them to join, and then send them on their merry way.

2. Offer Free E-Mail Courses

Once you write and set up an email course, it becomes an incredibly easy and effective way to promote your site and your products. An e-mail course is a short series of lessons delivered, of course, by e-mail. Interested students sign up by sending an e-mail to an autoresponder address of your choice. To set one up, you’ll need to use an autoresponder service that has follow-up message capabilities. Many autoresponders that come with basic Web-hosting packages are often of the oneshot variety. That means the autoresponder will send only one return message and that’s it. You can either ask your Web host if it offers a multiple-message option, or you can use a free online autoresponder service, such as :

GetResponse.com, http://www.getresponse.com/
SendFree, http://www.sendfree.com/
FastFacts.net, http://www.fastfacts.net/

What type of material should you offer in an e-mail course? The best source of ideas is the list of articles you have written or are thinking about writing on your area of expertise. Let’s say you’re a wedding planner and you just wrote an excellent article called Five Steps to Planning a Memorable Wedding Reception. Each step consists of at least three or four paragraphs. Instead of offering this wonderful advice as another free article, split the steps into five lessons to be delivered via an e-mail course.

To go the e-mail course route, simply insert the wedding reception planning steps into your autoresponder files and instruct the system how to deliver them. Lesson one will always be delivered instantly whenever someone sends an e-mail to ReceptionPlans@autoresponder.com (or whatever your What type of material should you offer in an e-mail course? The best source of ideas is the list of articles you have written or are thinking about writing on your area of expertise. Let’s say you’re a wedding planner and you just wrote an excellent article called Five Steps to Planning a Memorable Wedding Reception. Each step consists of at least three or four paragraphs. Instead of offering this wonderful advice as another free article, split the steps into five lessons to be delivered via an e-mail course.

To go the e-mail course route, simply insert the wedding reception planning steps into your autoresponder files and instruct the system how to deliver them. Lesson one will always be delivered instantly whenever someone sends an e-mail to ReceptionPlans@autoresponder.com (or whatever your autoresponder e-mail address is). You determine when follow-up lessons are sent. You could send one lesson every day for five days or send them every other day to spread the course out over 10 days.

If your course requires recipients to do a week of activities between lessons, you’d have the autoresponder send out messages seven days apart. The beauty of autoresponder e-mail courses is that, once they’re set up, all these messages are sent to interested people without any effort on your part.

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