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Building Your Internet Presence

BY: Michele Graham
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Internet businesses are on the rise. Everyone has something or a knowledge of something that they could utilize to create an online business. If you have a product or services to sell you need website presence to promote your services. In this day and time, if you are not on the internet, you are not in business.

My son left Texas some 15 years ago and moved to Connecticut where he began his online business. He worked for various ad agencies and built websites for many companies. Eventually, he developed his own site that draws millions of visitors monthly. As far as I can tell, he does pretty well with his site http://www.biggerfish.com.

Even my 12 year-old granddaughter built a website last summer to sell her ice pack covers. We purchased her a sewing machine and she went to town, sewing ice pack covers for chiropractors in our town. She even confiscated all of my business cards and called my clients to sell them over the phone!

The internet has become the future of selling for the world. From ebay to Craig's list, selling is what everyone on the internet is doing. If you have a product or service, build a website or a blog. Add your site manually to the search engines to get yourself in the public eye. Add Adsense or one of the other online ads from MSN or Yahoo to your site. This will help in promoting your site.

When building a site, try and get a domain name that best describes your business or try and get your actual business name as your domain name. You can search to see if a certain name is available at register.com or godaddy.com. Of course, there are other sites as well that offer these services, but these are the ones I use.

If you are not computer literate, there are companies all over that will build a site for you for a price. Classifieds on the Internet are another way to promote yourself. There are many free classifieds on the internet. Search them out and use them. This is the best way to get your information out there for the world to see.

There are many sites on the internet to help you build a website. For a minimal fee, you can have a website up in an hour or so and you are on your way with your "internet" business.

Additionally, once you get your site or blog up and running, you can add content to them daily or weekly. You may want to check out the many article directories, such as this one, to write and post articles that will promote you and what you know and what you do.

With the billions of dollars spent on advertising daily, internet marketing is the least expensive to utilize. Be consistent, persistent and tenacious. Within a year, you should see the fruits of your labor, if not sooner.