I prefer video marketing. Youtube is become the number two search engine, and with that kind of exposure, it is pretty much a requirement to have videos pushing your products. If you want to learn how to make videos for the web, check out my blog.

These comments are all great. For video marketing, you can use third-parties to help create professional quality video (like . You can also get started with homemade videos — the Flip camera and Creative Vado cameras do a decent job, for video marketing that doesn't need to be professional quality. As a previous poster pointed out, YouTube is becoming a major search channel and so it's a great way to promote.

I'm pretty negative on podcasting, I think the cost/benefit isn't there and the mass audiences are not there (for most promotional purposes). If your business is based on entertainment / educational content to begin with and a podcast fits your content type, then it may be more useful.

Using the above internet marketing methods wil generate traffic and back links to your site.

The combination of them all is great

Banner advertising is difficult to profit from. Better to focus on SEO. Plus, learning how to add anchor text that generates traffic to your backlinking structure.

Screen videoing is powerful also. Just get a free program for recording your videos ( use atnotes freeware to add a url to appear at the bottom of the videos ). Youtube gets lots of hits.

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