Write It and They Will Come

Write it, offer it for free on your site and they will come. Yeah right and then you woke up.

Or stay in your happy little daze, constantly check your counter 80 times a day and be the only unique visitor your site gets. Either way you are deluding yourself if you don't think marketing is the key to your success on the Internet.

So easy to say -- market your site -- but so hard to do. Especially since the Internet is so vast, where do you start?

You start by taking it one step at a time -- otherwise because of the size of the Internet, you'll go insane, get depressed because you feel like you're tap dancing in place or quit. None of these are viable choices so let's see if I can help you on your journey to success.

But first, understand this -- it takes sheer hard work, persistence and loads of time to be successful on the Internet. Marketing is an every day job because the Internet is dynamic and constantly changing. What worked yesterday, won't today.

If you have a minimal budget (read that non-existent) at your disposal, it means you must be creative in your marketing endeavors. But before you become creative, you'd better get organized or you'll still be dancing in place. This means, you build a marketing template to place links on when you go to sites.

This is simply an HTML page with headings so when you visit a site you'll need to return to next week or month, you just copy and paste the URL and put it on your template. It should be a hyperlink (i.e.