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Choose a Community that's right for you.

Choose from hundreds of topics, everything from scrapbooking to gardening.  Our discussion rooms are a great place to get advice, express ideas, debate and make friends.

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Create a Community of Your Own.

If you don't see a topic that interests you, feel free to create your own.  We'll provide you with everything you need:  strategies, tips and tutorials on how to grow and promote your new online community.  Communities come in many different forms.  Some are created simply for the purpose of people with similar interests to visit and share ideas.  Others have a more specific purpose in mind, such as a workshop on scrapbooking.  Communities are basically online discussion rooms centered around a specific topic, such as jazz music or parenting teens or gardening.  These discussion rooms can be created online and operate 365 days a year or they can be created for more short term use, such as a workshop or seminar.

Click Here to submit for consideration the creation of your own community, workshop or seminar for Free.

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Plan an Event.

Discussion rooms are a great way to hold small seminars or conferences or workshops.  Bring in a guest expert and let them answer questions on certain pre-specified date. Nothing creates a bond better than helping your new potential customer.  Online seminars and/or workshops are the Internet's equivalent to a booth at a trade show.  Of course, the best workshop in the world will fizzle and fail IF not promoted.  We can help promote your online event (pending approval) and guide visitors to your event's online location.  Click Here to submit for consideration the promotion of your online event.

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My TrafficBuilder provides you with Seven powerful marketing tools in the eMarketer's toolkit.

1. Targeted Sketch Profile Ads     

Designed to tickle or tease the reader into clicking on text to find out more about a particular subject.  Very effective at reaching an audience looking for information.  Learn more ...

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2. ImageBuilder Profile Publicity  

Designed to position you as an Expert on a particular subject, this type of marketing is perfect for helping you carve a niche in a specific market.  All editorial submissions can be posted online for free, although if you want a convenient link to your web site placed within the article (or before or after it), a small fee will be applied.  
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Qualified Lead Generation enables site owners to target permission-based lists for re-marketing. By creating lists of consumers who have expressed an interest in a particular topic or product and have explained a particular need, site owners empower themselves with the ability to communicate more effectively with potential customers and dramatically increase the possibility of closing  immediate sales while building ongoing relationships with prospective customers.   Learn more ...

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4. byRequest Pop-Ups

byRequest Pop-Ups absolutely do not pop-up unless the consumer has actually clicked-on (thereby requested) the particular information that appears in the requested pop-up.  This approach respects the consumer's space and interests rather than rudely intruding (usually interrupting their viewing or reading experience) and getting in their face.  Learn more ...

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5. Educational Demonstrations

If you have a product or service that has a bit of a learning curve and requires educating the potential customer, then this marketing tool is something you'll definitely want to consider.  Learn more ...

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Let's say you want to provide potential customers a Free Newsletter, but you don't have one.  Our newsletter templates make the task of creating your own unbelievably easy.  Choose from available geographical categories.  Complete with graphics and content already in place, all you have to do is plug your content into the designated areas and presto! instant newsletter.  Learn more ...

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7. Identity Builder

Imagine building your site's identity by being included within a free e-Book or Screen Saver or Desktop Theme or within a multitude of other Free Download possibilities (puzzles, downloadable stationary designs, recipes, jokes, cartoons, iron-on designs for t-shirts, e-cards).  Learn more ...

How We Charge for Our Services

There are 5 different options available:
  • Free -- that's right, many of our marketing services are absolutely FREE when you cross-promote us.
  • Flat Fee -- for example, a PowerPage Kiosk costs only $99 per year.
  • Pay-per-Click -- only pay for visitors who actually click on your ad.
  • Pay-per-Lead -- only pay for interested, qualified potential customers.
  • Pay-per-Sale -- only pay for actual purchases.

Learn more ...

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Become a WebScout:

Become an online leader and guide readers to web site's you discover ...

Each NSO WebScout is especially selected based on their passion for a particular subject, knowledge of that subject, writing skills and willingness to help others.

NSO WebScouts write easy-to-read informative articles that appear in NextStopOnline’s Explore Online (as well as on participating sites in our network), plus they search the net for the best sites relating to their subject of interest.

Our Scouts do more than just write articles. They provide an invaluable service to the public by sharing not only their knowledge and resources, but their perspective and insight into a particular topic. They help guide others, providing direction, encouragement, resources and experience.

Our Scouts are real people - just like you. Some are stay-at-home-moms, while others are educators. Some are professionals, while others are students. Some have invested years perfecting their mastery of a particular skill, such as carpentry or knitting. Others have spent years researching a particular subject and now can share that knowledge as no other can.

One thing is for certain: they’re real.

Their passion for a particular subject is real. Their knowledge of that subject is real. And their desire to help others is real.

Click Here to apply to be a NSO WebScout.

 

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Become an Expert

Remember, your greatest strength is you, your concern, your knowledge.  That’s what your customers are buying.  Otherwise, they could just go to the bigger competitor and purchase from one of their hired hands, right?

The bottom-line is that the Internet consumer is a well-educated, savvy purchaser who is using the Internet as a research tool.  He or she is not looking at banner ads (in fact, click-thru rates on banners has sunk to an all-time low of just 1 percent).  Internet consumers don’t have to click on banners.  They can ignore them and focus on what they’re really looking for … information to make an informed decision.    

What this means for the average web site owner is that a greater emphasis should be placed on providing valuable information for potential customers and positioning yourself as a helpful expert in their mind.

What this means is that your greatest strength is you … your knowledge, your expertise, your willingness to truly help your potential customer by guiding them to the right answers.  The savvy Internet buyer is not responding to glitter and hype.  They are responding to helpful information, to good old-fashioned customer service. 

They will respond to you if you make yourself available.  ExampleRates.  Order.

If you are interested in learning more about this concept, click here.

 

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Submit your story:

If you have an article that you think would interest our readers, feel free to submit it to us for review.  If accepted you could end up getting free publicity for your web site or organization either in the Explore Online or Explore! Newsletter.

Click Here to submit a story for consideration.

 

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Suggest a site:

If you happened across a really unique and interesting site that you think our readers would enjoy, please feel free to suggest that we review it.

Click Here to suggest a site for review.

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How to Login to your Virtual Office:

Your virtual office puts you behind the wheel of the My TrafficBuilder control panel where you have access to plethora of valuable marketing tips, articles and tutorials.  Through Knowledge Central, you can learn how to build a network of powerful resources, promote using My TrafficBuilder's eMarketer's ToolKit and/or create your own profit center by upgrading from Affiliate to Master Affiliate.

Click Here to login as an Affiliate or Master Affiliate.

 

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How to add your store to the Village Shoppes:

Imagine your potential customers strolling through a nostalgic village, along cobblestone streets, under old-fashioned gas street lights and discovering your shoppe.  ExampleRates.  Order.

Click Here to add your shop to the Village Shoppes.


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 Buy and Sell Locally (and/or nationally) with our Free Classified Listings

  • List your classified items for FREE
  • Create your own online store absolutely FREE - No limit to how many products you can display
  • Complete turn-key ecommerce solution, including shopping cart and the ability to accept credit cards.

Find Out How ... Click Here 

 

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