Let's get started with this important subject in any Internet Marketing venture: Website Promotion. If you have a new website, it is important to get your word out.

Here are some tips for you:

1) Find a marketer or friend who has an interest in your business's niche. Offer compensation for posting useful comments on blogs and including a signature file that points back to your website. This will not only improve your search engine rankings, but it will also drive targeted traffic to your site - especially if the comments made are on target and useful.

2) Give your current customers a powerful reasonfor promoting your business. For example, you could give them a report for free and allow them to resell it. Of course, somewhere in the report, you will want to include some form of upselling mechanism, such as a link back to your site or a link to one of your landing pages for a related product.

3) If you send out customer support emails or emails to joint venture partners on regular basis, you should always put a sales page or opt-in page link in all of your emails. While the amount of sales you may get from this is minimal, you will still pick up some sales that you otherwise never would have seen.

4) Setup joint venture partnerships with other businesses that are in the same industry as you. You can do this by searching for other big sites in your niche and contact them. If there is a need to, you can use a customer service contact number to find out how you can talk to the owner. Make sure you tell your partner precisely what working with you will entail in terms of actions and benefits.

5) You may want to consider purchasing a software that is needed to create a social network similar to Myspace, but for your specific niche. Creating and maintaining such a site will help you get your current customers to participate in the growth of your business. More friends joining the network is always a bonus for them, so they will promote it without your even asking.

6) This is the MOST IMPORTANT point: Create an affiliate program and find partners to help promote your product in exchange for commission. One easy way to setup and administer an affiliate program is through Clickbank, which handles all of the checks and data recording for you. You may want to check out other programs like PayDotCom.com or QuickPayPro.com. As an alternative, you may want to host your own affiliate script. Some recommended script would includ IDevAffiliate or PostAffiliatePro.

Begin testing this idea right away and I believe that you will get a huge amount of targeted, buying traffic to your website!