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Glittering Treasure in the Web Jungle!
by Mike Banks Valentine
Keep your eyes peeled for glittering treasure and listen
for chirps and squeaks of wild values in the web jungle! They
are out there, the rare birds that twitter great advice and
lead you to glittering gifts and valuable jewels just to get
your attention!
The web is a vast and sometimes incomprehensible jungle that
can seem just too overwhelming and endless to understand. And
it is sometimes frightening to begin an expedition into that
threatening terrritory to find what we seek for our tiny
little businesses. But every now and then you will hear an
exotic cry from the distance that that promises to lead you
directly to what you need!
This week I have been endlessly fascinated by new and valuable
services offered from nearly every direction I turn. While
researching for a client, I stumbled across a wonderful new
service called Respond.com. They offer to connect buyers and
sellers online by acting as an intermediary to keep potential
buyers anonymous and refer those buyers to sellers registered
with Respond.com.
This is one of those win/win situations many of us so often
look for. The sellers benefit by having regular referrals
sent their way, the buyers benefit by remaining anonymous to
e-mail PR pitches and being added to yet another sales list.
Now it will soon cost sellers to be a part of this service,
but right now Respond.com is offering this service free to
online businesses while the service is in beta testing mode!
Drop by and take a look at the service and tell them you were
referred by WebSite101! We get points for that referral and
they'll offer you the same thing. Sign up and tell them we
sent you! We received over twenty referrals for our services
the day after signing up. We'll let you know if it continues
to work for us.
There are multitudes of great ideas coming online and some-
times the only way to get attention is to give away valuable
products and services to your target audience. We have done
that at WebSite101 by offering the incentive of a free custom
designed web site for signing up for our "Short Course". Many
new online services offer increasingly valuable incentives to
build their traffic and attract their target market to the site.
We were attracted to an innovative online trade and barter
service called LassoBucks.com by one of our Respond.com "buyers"
who was interested in using that service to pay for our service!
I went right over there and signed up with that company too.
I've long been an advocate of trade and barter to manage cash-
flow and belong to a couple of local organizations that provide
this service in my area. Now it's available online nationwide!
The web jungle has some real treasures along with all of those
worthless-scam gorillas and get-rich-quick-scheme snakes. When
you come across a tropical flower or two, it makes the stumble
through the jungle worthwhile! Happy hunting from WebSite101!
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Weekly Ezine emphasizing small business on the Internet
http://website101.com/arch/
e-tutorial online at: http://website101.com/shortcourse.html
By week's end you're ready expand your business to the web!
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