The web is a very exciting place with hundreds of millions of people from around the globe searching the web every day, making it the world’s biggest marketplace for businesses like yours. The question is whether they find your business’ website? Putting your business online is like having a really big grand opening and people from all over the world can drop by, shop, and buy.

A good way to get noticed online is to occupy a bit of virtual real estate with a company website which can be anything you need it to be! From a simple presentation website to an art gallery with an invitation to visit the real thing, an online store or catalog lets your (potential) customers browse through your product line and buy online, Your website can also be a resource to educate and inform.

Whether you operate a bricks and mortar store or office, having a business online is an opportunity to tell customers about your business, products and services. If done right, your sales can go through the virtual roof!

Of course, having a website is not the only way to promote your business online. Consider directories or review sites where customers research and critique products and businesses online. These sites let people share experiences and rate your products or services with others interested in buying.

You can also sell products on popular sites like Amazon or eBay. These sites are like the super warehouse stores with giant market places where you can sell some or all of your products. Best of all is it doesn’t matter whether your business is large or small. Everyone gets to have a piece of the giant pie.

Now you have a website, your products are on review sites, and you’re selling on giant market places, what else can you do? How about creating a social profile for your business and start engaging with current customers and new ones. This will give you an opportunity to really see what customers think about you, your products and your business. You can also provide exclusive social media offers to your social network contacts.

It all begins with starting a website! Especially in these times, start taking advantage of the new stages of the web and engage in the digital era. Don’t be left behind!

Hope this article was helpful. If you have a question, or need to update or setup a new website, please feel free to contact me by going to http://www.andreeandassociates.com. I’ll be more than happy to answer your questions and give you a free consultation for your online business.

Google +1 button, the way I’ve come to understand it is that is basically a rating function for google, although the Google explains it is that it will be a way for your friends to recommend a website to you. Now I’m not saying it will affect search results, but it will most likely affect a user’s decision on were and were not to go when they see the +1 button on search results. YES! The +1 button will be displayed on Google search results so you better hurry and implement the +1 button in to your website if you don’t want to be left behind. Like I said before Google has not announced that it will affect search results, but I’m pretty sure that it will affect users decision of whether to click or not click your link and go to your website. Why? well it’s because each time a users see’s the +1 button in a search result, the user will automatically identify it and know that the website has been recommended, so the user will most likely click on a URL that has a recommendation again clicking on a URL that doesn’t.

How to integrate in to your website?
To integrate Google +1 in to WordPress if you have a WordPress enabled site only, simply login to your WordPress administrator control panel, after login go to your plugins section, click on the add new button next to the title and in the search box that appears around the middle of the site type “google +1” and click search plugins, you’ll most likely get a couple different results, I would recommend you install the one called “Google +1 Button” it’s very easy to use and it’s actually the one I have installed in my blog.

If you have a Joomla enabled website or an HTML based site then I would suggest you contact your webmaster or go to http://www.andreeandassociates.com for a FREE quote. It’s a pretty simple and very rapid process to do, and it’s also a pretty low cost mod to do, with a possible huge return on investment.

One of the most frequent questions that people ask me and often find amazing is: How are you making money on the internet? Believe it or not this is something really simple once you master the process. It’s basically about two simple things.

1.- Have the right product for your market at a great CRAZY competitive price.
2.- Bring the right traffic to your website.

You’re probably wondering about how to get the right products, and that’s actually pretty easy too, like many other business people you don’t have to build/maintain your own products, you can either sell other great products out there or you can just refer customers to other people and let them worry about customer service, billing and other. This is mostly called affiliate marketing or referrals. There are many great affiliate programs out on the internet for you to sign up and get great commissions on it, it just like selling an insurance policy, but easier!

Today I’m going to introduce you to selling domain names on the internet or right in your office. We at DomainCarts.com have a great domain name reseller plan that allows you to sell domain names either to your existing customers and acquire new ones.

What is a domain? A domain name is the name of your website for example: “DomainCarts.com” that would be our domain name.

Like other reseller plans there is a low annual fee of $69 dollars for the basic plan and $169 for the PRO plan. Both reseller plans enable you to sell domain names, as well as other products such as web hosting, virtual and dedicated servers, email services and a wide variety of technology services that most business already use in the present day.

Our basic reseller plans enables you to buy domain names from us at really low prices and sell them to your customer at the price you think it’s best, under you own BRAND, we have the best buy rates, support & value on the internet, and the best of all is that you never have to worry about customer support, we’ll do it all for you!

In fact you’ll even get your own online business portal for you to input orders or sell online.

Our PRO reseller plan enables you to get lower and better buy rates enabling you to earn more revenue and put more money in to your pockets!

There are no deposits, advances or revenue sharing, you set your prices, you decide your profits, and like I said before it features a pre-build fully customizable website, hosted in our world class data center.
We also handle billing and customer support, you just sit back, relax! And wait for your commission to be deposited on your bank account!

And we’ll even give you $100 dollars of Google adwords credit for you to jump start your online business.
Don’t want to sell online? Don’t worry offer domain names to your existing customers! Who wouldn’t want to own their personal name on the internet? I know I own it!

Think about it when a customer enters your business and you’re selling your products to that customer why not offer their name.com, or their businessname.com for an extra $10 to $30 dollars? I mean its extra money for your pocket!

And the best of it is that you’ll be getting money on AUTO PILOT to your bank account every time that he/she renews the domain name, and you don’t have to do anything! Just close the first sale, and we’ll do the rest, we’ll even call your customer in your behalf to welcome him/her and explain or clear any dudes he/she may have.

To start earning money online from your home or business on auto pilot and to learn more details about how to resell domain names visit the following link: http://www.domaincart.com/domain-name-reseller-plan.html

And this is the way I personally make money on the internet, even during recession times!

Hope they work for you, the way they have work for my company and different clients.

1.- Event Coverage: this is simple try attending events that are related to your customer niche. Basically narrow your audience, target groups of people that have interests in certain things for example, Off-roading, insurance, lawyers, computer consultants, car racing, chamber of commerce meetings, or just business oriented groups. You can also narrow by county, city, state or country depending on your advertising budged.

So for example if you are targeting people in the car racing area you would need to participate in a car show, be a racing team sponsor, or just attend a local car racing event. Take pictures and notes and publish them on your website so people can browse the pictures and comment on them.

It’s very important to let people in the event know that you will be posting a review and pictures on your website. Also print some flyers and hand them over to help people remember your website address, if available create a special offer, something like “Browse the event pictures on our website after X or Y date and get 15% discount on any product” will do the trick.

2.- Graphic and web design: graphic and website design is a must, both your website and graphics need to be simple and to the point remember the old say “Keep it Simple Stupid”, no need for a really complex site or graphic. Get to the point! And deliver the right message to your customers. I know we’ve been doing a site re-design at DomainCarts.com for a while now and believe me the results are going incredible, each time we grow or change the website our traffic grows and grows.

3.- Leveraging Social Networks: there are many social networks and bookmarking sites out there, it’s not just facebook, twitter or linked in. There’s also Digg.com, Storyfollower.com, reddit.com, newsvine.com, delicious.com, buzzy.com and many, many more.

Post your links to as many social networks and bookmarking sites as possible, many of these sites will require you to create a FREE account with them, but hey let me tell you, it requires some time but the juice is worth the squeeze.

4.- Blogging and blog comments: Blogging is always a good method to bring extra traffic to your website, the problem with blogging is that many website owners don’t have the time or they just don’t know what to blog about when in fact it’s pretty easy, write about what you know or like, for example; I have a client that owns a cleaning company and they serve customers in the greater San Diego area, we  currently maintain their website www.powercleanusa.com where we post blog articles about cleaning tips, these are then publish on social media sites and clicked by fans, followers, and also crawled by search engines.

5.- Offer something incredible: This is simple! Make people an offer they can’t miss, something like “Buy a domain name online and get 10% discount on all orders of $50 or more! At http://domaincarts.com/50w10off.htm” or “Quote your car insurance online at http://sameday-insurance.com and start saving money now!”

Similar or same offers can drive tremendous traffic to your website without too much effort and will get you results over time. The point is to get potential customers interested in visiting your website.

6.- Lead magnets: Basically a lead magnet is a special offer made for one purpose only, for example if you were in the need to build an email list you would them develop a graphic that could read “Signup for our newsletter and receive an instant 15% discount on any car insurance”, you would then print this as a poster and or a big banner an put it in your office entrance right by the door so every customer can read it and know what it’s about. Additionally let every customer know about this special offer that you have.

You don’t have to use a lead magnet to build your email list only, you can also use magnets to drive customers to your website but you would then change the advertising line a bit, a simple wording change can work! “Visit our website and receive an instant 15% discount on any car insurance when you quote online”

7.- Free classifieds: I know what you’re thinking! Really FREE classifieds!!! Well yes! There are many sites out there that offer free classified services, some examples would be: freeclassifieds.com, classifiedsforfree.com, craigslist.com and other services. This is great specially because it’s free advertising and you also get a back link to your site totally free.

8.- Search Engine Optimization: SEO the way I’ve come to understand it, it’s easy but it does require a lot of ongoing hard work and constant website content updates, it’s not just putting keywords on the website, it’s a lot more than that and my recommendation is that you should hire a professional to do this work for you. The whole idea about SEO it’s a simple basic concept: to focus your webpage content on the specific product or niche you’re trying to sell or go for. You can read more in detail about SEO in this blog.

9.- Search Engine Submitting: This is pretty simple, if you want to get your website listed in Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines around the world. It is not required for you to submit your website, most if not all search bots will find your website in time, but this could take months if not years, so it’s always good to submit it and let search engines know that you exist!  There are many SEO companies or webmasters that will submit your site to search engines around the world for a small cost giving you the opportunity to be a little more prominent in search engine results, good SEO companies are usually around $29 to $69 per year or per submission. It’s always good to submit your site at least once a year. If you would like more information on this subject you can always visit our site at:

http://www.andreeandassociates.com/search-engine-submission.html

10.- Press Releases: Publicity is always good right! And press releases is a good form of publicity on the internet, it’s a form of spreading the word and letting everyone know what NEW thing/product/service/event you have in your company/business. Every time you submit a press release on the internet you get hundreds of back links to your site that generate more and more traffic to your website and we all know traffic equals cash! In addition once search engines crawl these links, your site becomes more popular on the internet and helps you with site ranking and other details. If you’ppy to answer your questions.d like more information on writing a press release you can always contact the LAAA expert writer Don Lukenbill at wordsmith_works@yahoo.com, if you already have the press release and would like internet submission you can contact me directly by clicking here.

If you would like more information on this or any other internet subjects please don’t hesitate to contact me here, I’ll be more than ha

So let’s get started. Apart from text messages there’s also other ways of advertising to mobile users, cost per click ads by Google Adwords, Yahoo Ads, Microsoft Adcenter and many other ad networks are also a great way of advertising to mobile users and there’s also ways to advertise completely for FREE using Google.

Google has many, many applications that you can use completely FREE, such applications like Google Places will help your customers find your business on Google Maps, after all remember millions of people search Google maps every day all over the world, you can use Google places to create a FREE listing and when potential customers search maps for local information or directions, they’ll find your business, your address, hours of operation, photos of your store front or products, it’s easy, FREE and you don’t need a website.

The sign up process is pretty easy, simply go to (http://places.google.com/business), if you already have a Google account such as a Gmail or other Google account you can just login and start using the application, if not click the (Sign up Now) link and follow the process, it’s pretty easy and it’s free! You’ll have to confirm your business information via your phone number or via a letter that Google will send to your business address. I have many clients that have gotten new customers through local search campaigns and believe me! It’s worth it. As always if you need any help on this or other internet subjects don’t hesitate to contact me via email, FB, Linked In or directly on this website.

Now here’s my list of 5 suggestions for your social media experience:

1. – Don’t wait for customers to come to you! Go and get them!!! A simple private message introducing your self’s and your business will make the trick for the first contact.

2. – Engage with others: update your status daily, talk to other users, provide tips and tools, answer questions, and upload and download pictures and videos relevant to your business.

3. – Take advantage of groups: Network and join conversations, have in mind that if a group has 2,000 users then you have 2,000 potential customers.

4. – Consistently create and distribute content that is important to you, your business and your followers, friends or customers.

5. – Notifications: Try and stay connected at least during your work hours, email, text messages, via mobile web, or using a PC, it doesn’t matter how! Just be there!

The answer is so simple that I bet you’ve already guessed! Three words: Technology, Technology, Technology. In January, many people were shocked to hear about the 7 point earthquake that hit Haiti, a few weeks later, there was an earthquake in Chile. Later on, a  3.7 hit Mexicali, Mexico. In all areas, many buildings came down, phone lines and cell phones were dead, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured. How did word get out? What was the only communication from the disaster areas? The Internet!

News programs, newspapers, and other media were getting their information from Twitter and Facebook!  In between watching news accounts, it came to me: Are Twitter and Facebook faster than normal news media? What’s happening to normal media? Is it becoming obsolete? What’s the next big thing?

We know we’re on the fast track, but are you in the race or in the stands?

New news accounts from Haiti, Chile, Mexico, and other hot spots have proven that Twitter and Facebook are faster than “conventional” or “traditional” media for getting the word out. And it’s happening right now… at this very moment.

Are you using these technologies to advertise and make more business or are you just letting them pass by while you stay behind? What are you and/or your company doing to take advantage of this super FREEWAY of information?

Enrolling in social media and internet marketing in the corporate world is as important as having a phone line and it’s easy! Think about this: If you have a phone line people / clients call you and you get to sell your products. It’s the same for social media. If you have a profile, people contact you and buy from you. If you don’t, you just don’t exist!

If you want to know more, or are in need of new internet marketing technologies, feel free to contact me through the LAAA or directly using the contact page in this website.

So I started my first website and as months passed I was only spending money without making any! Wow that was frustrating! I was paying expensive ads in blogs, street advertising, and other media. And well it was working out, but the results I was getting weren’t the best. So I began my search for more effective ways of Internet Marketing.

Internet Marketing is also referred to as web marketing, online marketing, or e-Marketing and it’s basically everything that has to do with the marketing of products and/or services over the internet.

Effective ways of internet marketing varies upon your business or product that you are selling, will be selling, or plan on selling.

While I’m sure there are many ways of internet marketing strategies, below is a list of effective internet marketing that has gotten me the best results.

1.- Social media also called Social networking sites, sites such as Facebook, Twitter, My space and other.
2.- Effectively researched website keywords in websites
3.- Search engine marketing SEM (CPC, PPC, PPI, etc.)
4.- Search engine optimization SEO
5.- Banner ads on specific targeted websites
6.- E-mail Marketing (very important)

I can tell you that out of these six marketing strategies what has given me the best results has been social media sites. I hope this information has been useful and don’t forget to comment and ask questions, I wil be more than happy to assist you.