Learn that promoting your website through message & discussion boards, forums & lists and by publishing articles, will help you promote your business effectively.

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These environments allow you to share information, interact and give advice to a number of people at one time. Including your Signature File will let others know about your website and your business.

Where to find them:

YahooGroups

Topica

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Forums and Lists

Forums and lists are online "groups" where you sign up to become a member. Membership is free and you can develop an entire network of customers through your participation. Most forums give you the option of receiving the list messages as they come in, or in a digest. With the digest option, you will receive all of the messages generated by the group at the end of the day.

Where to find them:

Raging Bull: financial.. business and wall street discussion; owned by Lycos

VirtualTourist.com: interact with other travelers, thousands of members

WebMD Message Boards

YahooGroups

Topica

Google Groups

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Articles

Writing your own articles and publishing them both on and off the internet is an excellent method of advertising your business. A variety of venues are always seeking quality content and within your articles you may embed references to your business, products and services.

Places to publish your articles:

About.com: Writers Exchange 

About.com: Self publishing tips and information resources.

Child Fun

Creative Homemaking

Ezine Articles

Healing Well

The Opinion 

Netterweb