If you run an internet-based business (from home or from a proper office), you will have already experience the deluge of advice related to website promotion and internet marketing. To be sure, Internet marketing is more or less nothing more than website promotion because everything begins and ends with people visiting your website. The sure shot ways to promote your business can tend to be perpetually off-target if you do not go about your marketing efforts the right way.
The number of websites offering free sure shot ways to promote your business are, well, too many. The advice they offer can be so confusing when looked upon as a whole that many internet business owners are left unable to decide whom to follow.
The ones you already know of (the heavily advertised ones) are search engines, pay-per-click advertising, link and banner exchange, bulk traffic purchase, and email or viral marketing.
Here are some of the lesser-known sure shot ways to promote your business that work equally well but need more hard work than just a few clicks.
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