Your “NEW” community

The “WWW” is now your new neighborhood!
Here is how it works: Imagine you move into a new neighborhood and you open a new bookstore. You want to establish a community presence to sell your books and to get known.

So you begin to circulate and promote yourself by joining a networking group. Slowly but surely you start meeting people.

You patronize some of the stores for your personal needs, like the local market, the bank and others. As you go along, you invite people over to visit and take a look at what you are offering.

People you meet along the way will come and visit your bookstore and send over some of their friends if they like what you sell.

The web works in a similar way — when you put up a website or a blog, you have now moved into the new community. You invite people to visit your “store” by submitting your blog to social web engines like Digg, del.icio.os, Google, Yahoo and also creating a profile in MySpace.

Then you send out emails to all your friends and tell them where you are and what you are doing.

You will also join online networking groups that will introduce to other online web owners.

You will ask your new friends to refer you and offer them an incentive. These will be your affiliates.

Once you have created a little “buzz” for yourself, you now want some of the pages that you link to, to link back to you. That would be the equivalent of your friends and your vendors in the neighborhood. In return for your patronage they will recommend you if they know you and like you.

Eventually you will get visitors and to come and see you and send their friends over to visit and buy.

The beauty of the online community is that there is ample room for everyone, to name a few: stay at home moms, teachers, lawyers, writers, nannys, returning war vets with injuries, the hard of hearing, nurses, doctors and anyone you can think of that has information they want to exchange and share in the “NEW” community.

So, welcome everybody!!!!

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