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“Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” may sound like something out of a science-fiction blockbuster, but in reality, they are nicknames for the two largest online shopping days of the year. Black Friday refers to the day after Thanksgiving, when shopping malls and online retailers across the globe offer special deals in hopes of drawing in hordes of turkey-filled holiday shoppers. And Cyber Monday, which is the Monday following Thanksgiving, was so dubbed due to massive internet shopping traffic which has occurred in recent years.

If you use your web site to sell products online, you don’t want to miss out on the potential rush of customers to be had in the coming days. By offering your gift items for sale on the internet, you allow buyers to shop from the comfort of home in their pajamas rather than having to go to the malls and brave crowds of mad holiday shoppers.

But what can you do at this point, only a day or two before the two biggest online shopping days of the year, to grab a portion of the online shopping frenzy to boost your web site’s traffic and increase your sales?

The quickest and easiest online promotion to launch is banner advertising. Offer a deal they just can’t refuse on your banner ad, and watch the orders come in. Marketing gurus call a deal like this a “loss leader” which is a very competitively-priced special offer in order to get customers in the door (or to your web site), where they will likely buy additional items as well.

By promoting your web site with banner ad displays on the WebSpawner.com site and network of over 4.6 million user web sites, you can put your banner in front of internet shoppers from all over the world at prices starting at only a HALF A PENNY per viewer! Purchase a campaign with a larger number of displays and reduce the price even more.

Best of all, a banner campaign is very affordable: you can put your banner ad in front of a thousand viewers for pricing starting at ONLY FIVE DOLLARS. No, really… just five bucks!

Want more exposure? Order more displays and SAVE $5, $10, $25 or more… even AS MUCH AS $150 IN SAVINGS on a large displays campaign that will put your banner in front of viewers for weeks. Any viewer who clicks your banner will automatically be taken to your web site.

Don’t have a banner ad to display? No worries; for a small fee, our designers can create an ad for you, to your instructions. Just select the option on the order form and answer a few simple questions to give our designers the info they need to create a custom banner ad just for you.

Take advantage of the thousands of daily visits to the WebSpawner network and you can increase the web traffic to YOUR WebSpawner web site. Login to your account now and click the orange Promote Your Site tab in the Member Menu of your account; then click the Banner Ad Displays icon for a secure online order form, and follow the simple instructions provided to place your order.

Don’t miss out on the biggest shopping season of the year. Help direct internet traffic to YOUR web site to make it a success!

Are you thinking of creating a web page or building your own web site, but have no idea of how to start? No need to worry… YOU CAN build your own web page in minutes, even if you are a complete beginner. You DON’T need to buy expensive software programs or spend days learning to use them, and you DON’T need to learn any complicated programming languages. In today’s post we’ll go over some of the basic info you need to help you start your own web site.

WebSpawner has been helping individuals (including beginners) create their own web pages and multi-page web sites for more than a decade, with online creation tools that are easy to use. WebSpawner’s all-in-one user-friendly system simplifies the entire process of creating and updating web pages, and also takes care of hosting your web pages online so they can be viewed by others from anywhere in the world… all of which allows you to spend more of your time doing other things you wish to do. For newcomers and experts alike, there is no faster or easier way to create an online presence. And, FREE Customer Support is available to assist you with any questions you may have.

To get started, create a FREE account by going to www.webspawner.com (just click the link). Then, click the green Sign Up Now button near the top-right… this will bring up a simple step-by-step form which you use to create your FREE web page. Don’t worry if you don’t know exactly what you want the first time through the form; you can modify your web page later as often as you like to make changes and select  additional options.

Follow the onscreen instructions to fill in the form’s steps:

1. Complete the Headline step with the title text you want to appear at the top of your web page.
2. Click the button above the Background option you like (more options will be available later if you modify the page).
3. Type in the Body Text that you want on your web page; this is the main text portion of the page.
4. If you’d like to add some links to other web sites, enter those in the Links List step, following the example provided (you can also add more links later by modifying the page).
5. Carefully enter your E-mail Address, making sure it is correct, so that WebSpawner and your web page’s visitors will be able to contact you.
6. In the Image step, click the Yes button if you have an image on your computer which you would like to place on your web page.
7. Enter an Account Name (a.k.a. User Name) which you will use to log in to your account. Your Account Name cannot be changed later, and it will appear in the web address for your web page, so choose and type it carefully. Also enter a Password which you will use to log in to your account.
8. Type the Validation Code that appears in the image under Step 8 into the small box provided.

Next, click the Test My Web Page button at the bottom of the creation form… the screen will refresh and you will be shown a test preview of your new web page. The test preview will include green buttons with the following options:

• You can click the Let’s Modify It button to access the modification form, where you can make changes and choose from additional options; or…
• You can click the View as Free Web page and View as Enhanced Web page buttons to preview your page as it will appear to viewers; or…
• You can click the I Like It button to save your changes and proceed.

When you click the I Like It button, you’ll be presented with the choice between a FREE Basic web page and an Enhanced web page account, with a side-by-side list of the features of each for easy comparison. Free Basic web pages have limited features (Headline, Body Text, and Links, with banner advertising to support the hosting of the page), while the Enhanced web page account removes the banner advertisements and unlocks additional tools so you can create a nicer website, including unlimited additional pages and unlimited image galleries. The Enhanced upgrade includes:

The Enhanced account upgrade is available for the super-low price of only $4.99, and is available to you anytime you wish, with no long-term commitments and no obligation.

Simply make your choice by clicking either the Basic or Enhanced option, and your web page will be immediately published online, available for the world to see. The screen will refresh and provide you with the web address for your new web page, as well as a button to access the Member Menu of your account.

While completing these steps completes the initial creation of your web page, you can still make changes to your web page anytime you like, as often as you like, by clicking the Modify button in the Member Menu of your account (under Step 2 near the top).

If you have selected an Enhanced account, you now have access to many additional options in the Member Menu of your account… here are a few articles to help you get started with some of the Enhanced features:

• Adding more pages to your web site
• Adding Image Galleries to your web site
• Adding an Opinion Poll to your web site
• Activating your WebMail account

Remember, if you have any questions along the way, Customer Support is available to help you 7 days a week… just click the orange ‘Customer Service’ tab in the Member Menu of your account, then click the ‘Contact Customer Support’ link. Enter your questions, and be sure to check back a short time later to receive the responses to your questions.

Another important step in creating an online presence, especially for web sites which are business-related, is to get your web site listed in search engines so it can be found online by others. Be sure to read this article to get the information you need to promote your web site online; it is the first and most important step to take to make your web site a success.