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Referral marketing has been around for quite some time. It has been around ever since people have been able to tell one another about products and services they enjoyed.

Once companies realized that this was a form of marketing several of them decided to make use of it by setting up networks. This form of marketing uses people who are either referred to as agents, members, distributors, dealers or affiliates to both sell. They do this simply by letting other people know about the products or services and to find new people to spread the word about the product or service. This type of marketing has been known by several names such as network marketing or multi-level marketing and most recently multi-tiered affiliate marketing.

In the past most if not all programs that employed these strategies had either a once a year fee or a monthly qualification of sales. Many usually involved the affiliate spending $25 to $100 a month or more to qualify for commissions. These type of programs are not bad and are in fact great for companies that are actually selling products or services that take a lot of work in order to offer.

Now there are new types of programs. Companies that will pay you for clicking on ads, reading emails, completing offers, filling out forms, doing surveys, finding new friends and getting page views, and responding to discussions.

There is no cost to participate in these companies unless you want to pay for a one time upgrade. Several of these companies pay on more than one level making them similar to network marketing programs.

With several of these programs it is possible to earn advertising as an option instead of cash. You could either build a group full of several active referrals and have a hundred or a few extra hundred dollars per month or you could use some of the income to join a traditional product driven network marketing company. In such a case you could be using the pay to click and other such companies as feeder programs.

Do not dismiss these small free programs as junk programs as they have a great role to play in this new era of referral marketing.

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Monday, September 08, 2008

WEBMASTER CONTACT: Keith Stieneke, PO Box 4511, Lincoln, NE 68504, 402-817-2969, http://www.marketing6s.com, webmaster@opportunityassistance.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

A New Marketing Forum Has Started

Marketing can be defined as the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service. A new marketer’s forum, the Marketing Success Forum, has just been launched by Keith Stieneke, the webmaster of Opportunity Assistance and several other blogs including Your Personal Best.

Marketing usually includes the many ways to market such as advertising, that is a public promotion of some product or service, or types of marketing. This new forum will cover many types of marketing in detail and the forum is to be largely driven by visitors to the forum.

These types of marketing include, but usually can be classified as either Internet marketing and offline marketing. Internet marketing includes email marketing, banner advertising, and various forms of website advertising. Offline advertising may include but is not limited to such methods as flyers, classified ads in print publications, direct mail, party plan selling.

Keith Stieneke’s purpose in starting the Marketing Success Forum at http://www.marketing6s.com is to have another major outlet for marketers to exchange ideas, and to find ways to build their various businesses.

Since advertising is a large part of marketing, Keith is giving the first 25 people to register at the forum a banner ad. Ads may not promote adult materials or marketing companies that are deemed questionable. Administration may deny any ad if it is deemed inappropriate.

To register at the Marketing Success Forum visit http://marketing6s.com/index.php?action=register

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Website traffic is a subject that readers of this blog are definitely interested in as it can help to build your online business. From time to time there are other blogs that I find loaded with a wealth of information that can benefit the readers of this blog.

One of the blogs that I have definitely come across that is loaded with information about how to increase your website traffic is Craig Johnson’s Website Traffic Building Tool. Craig freely offers great thought provoking ideas for building your website traffic. He also offers an ezine called Craig’s Marketing Traffic Newsletter that you can subscribe to on the front page of his blog.

Visit Craig Johnson’s Website Traffic Building Tool and subscribe today to his ezine and get a free Internet Business Survival Guide and your own SEO toolbar.

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Classified ad posting on any website is still a great way to get visitors to your website and customers for your products and services. Indeed it also works well for getting signups for one’s network marketing and affiliate programs.

One such classified advertising site that I myself am affiliated with is Web-Dawg. It is quite easy to place your ad with Web-Dawg using their submission page. Web-Dawg also offers the chance for you to get your own classified advertising site. You owe it to yourself to start getting more traffic to your websites so do so today.

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Do you know that one of the best type of leads for your business are survey leads?

Long form survey leads are ones that the person has filled out an online form regarding making additional money from home. It is a much better quality lead than a basic opt-in auto-responder lead.

Survey leads contain the name, phone, email, mailing address, IP, date stamp and 6-9 questions about making money from home.

The information contained on the data is NOT verified so it is up to what the person provided at the time they opt in. These type of leads are great for calling, voice broadcasting, postal mailing and emailing.

Here is a sample of what they would provide. It is not limited to this and may change from time to time but these questions are very consistent with what they answer.

*How much time can you devote?

*How much money do you want to make?

*When can you get started?

*How much money can you put into getting started?

*Have you ever run a home-based business before?

*Why do you want to do this?

+ more

Now there is a place where you can get these type of leads for free. That place is called Free Survey Leads. Once you sign up you can get your first 25 leads each week as a bronze member for free. Once you start referring people you can qualify for more leads each month as you advance from bronze position all the way up to diamond position in which you will have access to 400 leads per week. Why wait. Get started now by visiting FreeSurveyLeads.

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Okay, in all honesty this post is nothing more than an ad for an amazing new advertising system that I found.

One component of viral marketing of course is viral advertising. Yesterday I just joined a new system that takes major advantage of the components of viral advertising. That system is called T-2000 Ultra.

You can use their new marketing system to send over 1 million Guaranteed real visitors to their website totally free. There is absolutely no cost to you at any time. Simply sign up for their brand new, free professional marketing system, and let it go to work for you to exponentially grow the number of real visitors you get on your website. This system is also completely free.

This system can send over 1 million guaranteed REAL visitors to your site in as little as 30 days.

For more information simply visit T-2000 Ultra.

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Over the last couple of years before eBay banned people selling advertising on their bodies people sold such advertising at prices hard for the average entrepreneur to afford. Now their is a company that actually is making a business out of selling advertising on the skin of other people, that is on their hands.

A new company Handvertising USA puts a totally different spin on ‘hands-on’ advertising.

Every evening thousands of visitors gather to places of entertainment. With a stamp on their hand to enter or exit they can roam anywhere with your advertisement. This group will grow due to the smoke prohibition in public spaces. Customers will know your ad like the back of their hand. Extend the experience of your brand with Handvertising in our network of venues and events.

We offer advertisers the possibility of campaigning aimed at this target group to build brand awareness. Thanks to Handvertising USA you sit literally on the skin of your customers and don’t even have to lift a finger!!

I am not endorsing this form of advertising nor am I denying the possibility that it might bring a great many visitors for your business. If you are interested in this form of advertising or would just like to find out more information then simply visit: http://www.handvertisingusa.com