Promote others to promote yourself! Zig Ziglar said it best: “You will get everything in life that you want if you just help enough other people get what they want." That’s it! This is one of those killer best practice marketing strategies that if done genuinely and often enough, can reap you mountainous results. Okay, so let me get the obvious out of the way: before anybody will promote you, you must have quality products, services, and ultimately have a winning, positive attitude about yourself and what you do. No one wants to promote crappy products or negative, close-minded, conceited, know-it-alls. Common sense, right? Well, common sense isn’t evenly distributed so sometimes I have to clarify Now that we have that disclaimer out of the way, let me give you a few excellent examples. Online:

• Heather Stephens, creator of Clever Marketer, implemented a blog commenting tribe, which is a great community of

Have you seen the section called Trackbacks on people's blogs? Or maybe you've seen in a blog's comment section, it lists links next to people's names instead of an actual comment. I used to wonder what the heck that was. The more I visited others' blogs, the more I saw the word "trackback". Suddenly, my curiosity got the better of me and because I can't stand not knowing something, I looked it up. I had to see what I was missing out on. So what is a trackback? Susan, from 5MinutesforMom.com said it best, "A Trackback is like a remote comment." Well, lo and behold, I've learned trackbacks can be extremely useful in a number of ways.

1. For one, trackbacks can extend a conversation from one blog

Sometimes, it’s easier for us to remember to promote our businesses online, especially since we’re probably online a good portion of the day anyway. But what we tend to forget is before the World Wide Web, all we had was the physical world of business. Even with the prevalence of online promotion, I think we should also get back to our roots and work those tried and true methods that haven’t failed us yet and won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. So do you think you’ve exhausted all the ways to promote your website in the offline world? Probably not! And yes, I’m guilty of not doing more of these too so this is a reminder for me as well. This list should give us new ideas and hopefully inspires more ...

We have a proposition for you. We want to give you $50, $100, or more! For over five years, XD Web Solutions has been very grateful to those people who have referred our web design services to others. We recognize that word of mouth recommendations are one of the highest compliments any company can receive. So we’ve developed the XD Five Star Referral Program as another way of extending our thanks to you for sending new clients our way and having confidence in our abilities. All that needs to happen is this: you send a friend or colleague our way who needs a redesign of an existing site or a completely new site. If we end up taking on the project for them, we owe you a 10% referral ...

Really, it's plain and simple. However, I guess I should throw the “rules” out there. 1)     Receive 10% of web design services rendered in referred client's contract agreement only after we have received full settlement from the clients you referred to us. Payment by referred client must be received in full by XD Web Solutions before referral payout is made. 2)     There is no limit to how many people you can refer. 3)     Referrers cannot refer their own web site. 4)      All payouts are made in the US dollar and are to be paid in the form of XD’s choosing; typically PayPal or check and received by referrer following full payment made by referred client. 5)     You MUST NOT make claims/promises of features we don't provide, engage in spamming or use any unethical methods in your referral ...