Jude's OBA Training Site-Advertising:Part 2

Advertising 3

One can promote many ways on the internet and the suggestions below are the tip of the iceberg to help you get started. You can also advertise offline and bring people to your online business through ads in local papers, business cards, posts on billboards, tree trunks and notice boards at your community center or grocery store, and by handing out fliers.

OBA provides professional sales webpages hosted on the OBA servers. You can get started by promoting those pages. However, many OBA business owners have discovered that using the TEP marketing system works much more effectively in the long run.

The TEP marketing system is an ideal way to get started because it does so much more than just put a product for sale in front of someone's face. It offers a total marketing solution, builds leads, traffic and cash - what everyone doing business on the internet needs and wants.

Focus your advertising on building your list, maintaining an ongoing relationship with your list by offering them something of value related to your OBA business (e.g. training, free stuff, traffic generation, to name a few things).

Advertise and Promote - Just Do It!

If you are new to the internet, I suggest that you start your online promotion campaigns at Traffic Exchanges. Some people argue that the traffic exchange audience is a seller's market and that it would be better to find a buyer's market in which to advertise. I disagree. Sellers have "bought' something to sell, so they are also proven buyers. The key is to use traffic exchanges effectively.

Traffic Exchange Profits [TEP] Marketing System (To use this link you must be logged in to your OBA back office). TEP is integrated into the OBA back office. TEP is a complete traffic exchange marketing system with pre-written autoresponder messages and you can extend your TEP promotions to safelists and other marketing venues.

Once your OBA account is set up, you will see a red link on your main page, which takes you to your TEP back office. Look around. You do not have to upgrade in TEP to use it. It is a one-time $15 for the extras you get as an upgraded member.

However, to actually use the TEP system, you will have to upgrade in TrafficWave after your 30 day free trial. The TrafficWave autoresponder drives the TEP marketing system. It is $17.95 per month. Get 3 referrals and it costs you nothing.

Traffic Hoopla is included in the TEP marketing system. It is a powerful traffic exchange downline builder. Make sure your referral ID's for the traffic exchanges of which you are a member have been added to the Traffic Hoopla downline builder.

If you are on my OBA Level 1 (i.e. Jude is your direct sponsor), you can use this link to join Traffic Hoopla. Otherwise use the link in your OBA back office. Remember to replace the link in your back office with yours.

Traffic Swarm is one of the best advertising resource on the net if you learn know how to use it effectively. It has over half a million members and is well worth the time and effort. Read my TrafficSwarm Tips here.

Paid to Read, Paid To Click, Classified Ads: From time to time I buy ads and clicks in these types of sites. Most of these are free to join and if you have the time you can earn credits and use them to advertise OBA or TEP.

Forum Marketing - Most forums are free to join. This requires consistent visits and time. You must take a genuine interest in the main topic of a forum and an active interest in helping others and abide by all the forum rules.

Most forums will allow you to place a signature link, and if you are perceived as making helpful and responsible posts, your good reputation will grow and people will visit the links in your signature.

Credit Based Safelists - OBA does not permit the use of any OBA-hosted webpage in any email, not even double optin or safelist emails, so to use these, you must be able to host your own pages. However you can use your TEP.com squeeze and capture pages in double optin safelists and emails generally. Please visit the TEP page for further guidance.

You can add your OBA signature links in your emails, as long as they send visitors to your own-hosted webpages and are not linked to the OBA host server.

Social Networking Sites - You've heard about them: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Squidoo, Yuwie, LinkedIn, AdlandPro Community, Ryze, just to name a few.

Even better, if you have a special interest, whether that is sports or gardening or needlepoint, the arts, or whatever, you can add your OBA links to your profile and people who have common shared interests with you in other areas may also decide to look at your OBA business. Never directly try to sell your OBA business on such special interest sites.

Other advertising methods inlcude safelists, blogging, writing articles, text ad and banner exchanges, ppc advertising, search engine optimisation, adboards or FFA pages.

Owner's Business Center [OBC] - We have several threads at the OBC dedicated to marketing your OBA digital products sales websites, so be sure to read them.

It is best to completely master one type of marketing approach before moving on to the next one. The mistake many marketers make is to become jack of all trades but masters of none.

The TEP system focuses on traffic exchange marketing and list building. Master that first.