101 Free and Inexpensive Marketing Ideas
by Heather Jacobson
Busting the myth that marketing has to be expensive!
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Does Your Thank You Page Redirect Potential Profits?
Marketing Your Info Product...Frugally
Do You Have Entrepreneurial Spirit?
The Top 5 Misconceptions About Working From Home
Your Business Is No Different Than Your Garden
Properly Panning a Product Launch
What Do You Mean You Don't Have Anything to Write About?
Is There Too Much "noise" In Your Message?
The Way To Your Customers' Wallets is Through Articles
What Goes Around Comes Around...in Business Too!
When Is the Best Time To Email?
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There's a buzz floating around the internet about a new web design software called XSitePro. Its target market? Affiliate marketers.
While I dabble in affiliate marketing, it's not my main focus, so at first glance, I didn't think this program would be for me, however, my nine year old was working on developing his own site and I didn't have the time to do the site for him nor did I have time to sit there and teach him the basics of FrontPage. He's nine. I never thought this idea he had would come to fruition, but here he came with not only research, but excitement.
I looked in to ways that he could build a site on his own. I once used a really great sitebuilder through InterntBasedFamily.com however; the monthly fee was on the pricy side – more than I wanted to invest in my nine year's old venture. For all I know, this site idea could be like last year's wrestling. He was all geared up about it so I went out and invested all this money in a singlet, shoes, and head gear, and he never finished the season. It just wasn't his thing and now we have all this wrestling gear that we'll never use again.
I went back to look at XSitePro. I watched the 7 minute video and the program looked easy enough to use. I like the fact that you could use their templates or build your own. I liked that if you wanted to change the layout of the page, you did it in one place and it changed all your pages for you.
I downloaded the free trial and told Matthew to check it out. I printed out the users' manual that included easy, step-by-step instructions and screen shots and let him play. Sure he had questions, but in the end, he had a nine page website built just by going through the tutorial. What's even better? He had nine optimized pages. He doesn't know about targeted keywords, but I can help him with that later on. ;)
XSitePro is a very simple program to use. To add an article page, simply click on “Add Article” and a box pops up where you add your title, description, resource box, and any other additional information you have, click okay, copy and paste your article and voila! You have an article page. XSitePro even indexes them on your main page and automatically creates a site map for you as well.
The same is true for product pages – very simple forms to fill out and the page is created for you. No html or design skills required.
Matthew can even add Google Adsense to his pages with out copying and pasting code. He simply right clicks, selects “insert Google AdSense”, chooses the color scheme and size of his ads and hits okay.
After I saw how easy it was to use, and knowing that I could put this program to use if his online venture falls by the way side, I invested in XSitePro. Matthew works on his site every night and I tinkered with it and I put up a 45 page content based site in 3 hours.
There are two groups of people that I recommend XsitePro to: affiliate marketers and those who have little web design experience but would like to set up a site of their own. It's half the cost of Dreamweaver and ten times easier to use. The best feature of this program? It comes with a 365 day money back guarantee. You have a whole year to decide if you've made a wise investment. I didn't need a year, only a few hours and now I'm XSited about the future things I can do with this program.
And let's be honest…if a nine year old can operate XSitePro, so can you!
About the Author:
Heather Jacobson doesn't pay for marketing if she doesn't have to and uses the power of article marketing to elevate her business. Discover how she does it and claim 10 free marketing tips at http://www.10freetips.com
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