Sponsors will want to know this.

b.

 Set up a "rating center" for potential sponsors (your future 

advertisers) and have visitors vote on them. Then rank order 

your sponsors and invite them to look at your site. Ask them if 

they want to rent a banner or button.

c.

 Ask your sponsors if they want to write an article or 

participate in your "guest speaker" program.

d. 

Set up a partner form on your site and invite partners to fill 

it out. Give them a FREE POP email when they do.

e.

 Have a monthly newsletter go out to your subscribers and 

charge sponsors to be in it.

4.

 Make your site transactional (ecommerce enabled). AIT's 

ecommerce solution fills all 3 basic needs of participating in 

the network economy a presence, through our FREE Mcart; a 

secure payment transaction gateway and merchant account; 

and, instant access to thousands of customers through the AIT 

PAL program and mall. These resources are available at 

http://aitcom.net/ecommerce.htm, along with a brief tutorial on 

how this offering can be resold to your customers. Ecommerce 

is all about opportunity. A growing number of consumers are 

willing to trade in the hassles of searching for parking, going 

shoulder to shoulder with other shoppers, and dealing with 

indifferent clerks. Your web store is not bound by the 

traditional constraints of business: it's always open, it's 

accessible round the world, and you as the product or service 

provider deal directly with the customer.

Steps you can take to make your site transactional are:

a.

 Set up an Mcart shopping cart.

b. 

Get a merchant account so you can process credit cards 

online.

c.

 Use AIT s FREE secure cert and SSL encryption.

d. 

Offer discounts to repeat customers who order online with 

you.

5.

 Get your site recognized by the search engines. Rare is the