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Maybe Women Should Run the Web!

5 Innovative Internet Marketing Strategies To Advertise Your Website
There are two different groups of online marketers.

First group: those who are making .....
We all know that the idea of business on the web came on with a

roar and now lies whimpering and licking its wounds in the

safety of the shadows. Who was the enemy? Who or what was it

that clawed and scraped the potential of online business so

brutally that early enthusiasts are now seen as foolish, wild-

eyed dreamers? What brought down an idea that was bigger and

more powerful than a raging beast at full roar?



The Greed Monster. Greed and fear always do this to us.



Greed drives the spammers that clog the in-boxes of even the

most casual email user. They promise instant gratification of

our every desire -- financial or erotic. Just send your money.



Greed drove the venture capitalists that dumped huge amounts of

cash into poorly conceived ideas for internet businesses. Early

VC losses can be directly tied to the greed factor in investing.

"Gimme your money and fast!"



Greed drives the multi-level marketing programs that quickly

sprouted wings online as more promises of instant wealth were

strewn across the web. "Just send your money, hurry while there

is still time to get in on the ground floor!"



Greed drove the corporate behemoths to launch "web initiatives"

so they might beat their competition online. "Hurry before our

competition kills us and drains our profits!" But to what end?



So now that we know the enemy. What do we do to vanquish him? I

Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Beauty Of A Clean Cut Website
Dont knock it; Keep It Simple, Stupid is a great rule to live by. Nobody likes a website to .....
use the masculine here because it evokes the warrior image.

Maybe the failure is in applying traditional male attributes to

the web. Power, fighting, hunting and killing don't work on the

web. What does work?



Co-operation, community building, helpfulness and sharing. All

attributes that are applied most often to women and are seen as

feminine qualities.



7 Great Web Site Promotion Strategies
You might have an attractive web site with great products,
but your site will .....
We may be better off seeing this medium as a feminine one. When

looking for valid business models online, just take a look at

what works and who is making it work.



Membership models proliferate online where sites seek our

opinions and want us to "join in." Most successful web sites

encourage visitor participation and feedback in discussion

forums.



Ebay asks for ratings of active sellers from the buyers of their

products. The highest ratings earn more business. Amazon

publishes reader reviews of purchased books and encourages you

to "Be the first to review this book!" People read those reviews

and appreciate them.



Personalization and community building are incorporated into all

of the major portals. Discussion forums are available at every

one of the major online publishers. The web encourages

communication and sharing of knowledge - not hoarding, hiding

and greedily seeking to outsmart the consumer.

Submit Your WebSite: Add Your URL To Web Directories & Search Engines
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America Online pioneered in community building and was rewarded

with rapid growth and customer loyalty. I believe they have lost

their way now as greed leads them to keep a fence around their

technology, refusing to allow their AIM instant messaging system

to be accessed by non-members.



Greed, exclusion, proprietary systems and monopolistic

megacorporations are giving way to community, inclusion, open

source code and peer-to-peer sharing and swapping of

information. As long as old ideas are applied to the web it will

go nowhere. Napster was killed by the monster.



Online content providers are talking "Digital Rights Management"

and seeking ways to "monetize content", which simply means

monopolizing information. Scarcity doesn't work online.

Community building, cooperation and being helpful, open, giving

and sharing does work.



Businesses that work those traditionally feminine ideas into

their online vision will be the winners on the web.







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