March 28, 2009

Networking

Posted in My WAH businesses tagged advertising, blasting, business, home, links, mom, networking, urls, WAHM, work at 2:53 pm by tntwmom

So, I’m all about trying to network with other work at home mom’s and get my web sites seen by as many people as possible.

It’s not always easy to network and get traffic to your site(s).

I have a couple of my sites on  Link Referral. I do notice traffic coming in from this site! You just have to log in and visit other people’s sites to keep your site at the top where people will see it. If you don’t log in and browse sites, then yours will fall to the bottom of the list and not be seen as much.

I also do banner exchanges when possible with other work at home mom’s. As far as I know, it’s good to have your link on as many web sites as possible.

I just joined Vine Fire, I’m not sure how well it works yet though. You get money for signing up, then money for referring people, and money for visiting other’s sites. I just joined, and don’t know that they actually pay out though.

I have also joined a local mommies forum to meet local moms. I went and hung out at a mommies night in Thursday night. They were treating us to a makeover! It was AWESOME to hang out with other mommies my age and the makeover was a cool experience too!

Just from posting on the forum, I had ladies interested in Tupperware. I’ve booked one party and we’re discussing them doing a Fundraiser at that party. So I definitely recommend joining local forums and Yahoo groups to get to know others near you to meet new people and help promote your business.

Also, some ladies online like to ask for fillers. Fillers are your business cards, samples, sales fliers, etc. When they mail out packages, they make a little pack of fillers up and stick in the outgoing boxes of their products. Then when their customers receieve that package, there is a pack of fillers to look through. They may possibly order from you, or join your business (if they like what you sell and/or like your filler or sample).

Some ladies that take fillers hand them out at events they go to. So, your fillers can be picked up or shipped to a lot of places. You have to pay to ship the fillers out to these people, but hey, what’s a couple of dollars for potential sales??

I am also on several Ning networks. There are a LOT of these networks out there. You can go to the main site www.Ning.com and do a search for certain key words and find some to join.I’ve gotten sales from posting to a Ning network before.

Also, some of us have “Blast Lists” on Yahoo Instant Messenger. It’s where we add one another to our friend’s list, then blast our advertisements out. When people get these, they pass them on to their blast list. I’ve also gotten sales this way!

It’s all about HOW you network and promote your business. I’ve shared some ways I do it, if you’d like to share how you do it, please comment!

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