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Promoting you business is one of the main components of being successful. If you are promoting on the web, why not make some extra cash while you are at it?

The first step is to create your own website about your business. Even if you are participating in one of the hundreds of geometric progression type businesses that are on the web these days, your own website will still come in handy. Many online opportunities give you a free website to use for marketing, but too often these sites are just replicated sites that are not liked very well by search engines. In the end, your free business website may come in handy, but not for attracting customers.

To create a site that attracts people, just make sure it has some kind of useful information on it. Two common types of sites would be a blog or a content site like mine (www.ReesieRocks.com). Make sure that your blog or content site has information on it that people can use. For example, if you sell a weight loss product, make a site about nurition. Or if you sell vacuum cleaners, make a site about the best house cleaning methods out there today.

Once you have a site created, you'll need to make sure that it has meta tags, or keywords in the HTML. This makes it so that search engines can find your site. This is very important in attracting potential prospects to your site.

Video marketing and article marketing are two of the best ways to market your site permanently and for free. Make useful videos about your site and post them to video directories such as YouTube or MetaCafe. Make sure your videos refer back to your website so that you will get free, targeted traffic from them.

Article marketing works the same way, except your write articles and submit them to article directories. Most article directories have a resource box that you can add a link to your website for referral purposes. Also, when other people are looking for content for THEIR website and choose to use your article, they must keep the resource box in tact, effectively advertising your website for free.

The best thing about article marketing and video marketing is that they are simple, free, and they last forever. Once you have posted an article or video, it stays on the web, attracting quality traffic to you forever.

Now that you have the site, and are working on getting some traffic, it's time to monetize your site. The most simple way to do this is to sign up for a free account with Google AdSense. This puts pay-per-click advertisments on your site related to whatever the content on your site is. You make a revenue every time someone clicks on one of those ads.

Another way to monetize your site is to become affiliates with companies that have products related to yours. So, for example, if you are selling a business opportunity in your blog, you might recommend a book about network marketing and make an affiliate comission from it if someone buys it by clicking on it from your website.

This is just another way to generate income on the web, while still operating your main business.