Yesterday I talked about some of the different places you could set up an online store front for your small business. Today I want to follow that up with a few ways to promote your online store once you’ve set it up. I think I’ll follow up with more detail for some of these online promotion methods in the upcoming weeks. Today though I just want to give you the basics, and some of the possibilities.

Most of these methods are either very low cost or free.

Twitter~ If you have an online store, set up a Twitter account in your name, …read more

Even if your small business is all local, and all conducted offline, you should still have a website and promote your business online in today’s market. If you’re not, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity, and probably many potential customers.
Why should you promote your offline business online? I can give you several reasons why you should promote your offline business online, here are the top three in my opinion.

The biggest reason is your competition is probably already doing it. If you don’t already have an online promotion plan in place, you’re already behind because you can bet your …read more