Ad swaps have been re-introduced from the offline world of advertising to the online realm of Internet marketing and with tremendous success. Ad swaps have been a function of offline marketing for years and have been adopted by marketers on the web to help them build their email list and increase their website traffic and sales.

This business agreement involves two enterprises, with the same niche topics, agreeing to publish an ad from each others websites with the intention of increasing the size of their email list. The basic idea involves agreeing to promote each others advertisement with the hope their own email list numbers will increase because they will be attracting people to their Internet enterprise who already have an interest in their niche market.

To make this technique work for your online home based business you need to seek out the right Internet ventures who have similar subscribers as yours and who are interested in adding new members to their list. Another key to being successful with this Internet marketing technique is to approach more webmasters, as your list size increases, in order to form similar ad swap agreements.

The more of these affiliations you’ve arranged the more subscribers you will attract to your list and the more members you have the easier it will be to arrange other swaps in the future. Persistence and consistency are also two key ingredients to any successful campaign.

Some Internet marketers are very protective of their email lists and may not be too receptive to your offer; however you shouldn’t let this dissuade you from approaching others because there are many Internet business owners looking for these types of arrangements.

There are several advantages for your online home business to be garnered from ad swaps including increased exposure for your website and your products and the resulting additional sales as well as, the main objective, which is an increase in the number of people who have signed up to your list.

When deciding to employ this tactic you need to take the size of your current list into account. This is particularly important if you have a small membership because you should then approach business owners who have a similar number of subscribers. Internet marketers who have a list numbering in the thousands aren’t about to do business with someone who has a directory of 100 prospects.

One other important factor you need to take into consideration is to ensure the Internet marketers you approach aren’t in direct competition with your online venture. Each of your products needs to be complementary but not competing for customers.

Ad swaps, when approached correctly, can produce major benefits for both parties involved. This arrangement can increase your website and product exposure, boost your sales and  accomplish your original goal of increasing the size your online home business’s email list.



Source by Bob Withers