More Tips to Promote Your Small Store Online

Last Saturday, I gave a presentation to retail store owners who are interested in using the Internet to bring more traffic to their brick-and-mortar locations, even without having a Web site.

As a follow up to that talk, I have some additional resource to share. Read how other small retailers grow their local stores using online methods and try your hand at some of the online networking sites below.

"Small Merchants Gain Large Presence on Web" (New York Times, 12/3/07)

"E-COMMERCE REPORT: Retailer's Shortcut From Desktop to Store" (New York Times, 9/24/07)

How Small Players Can Win Big Online (E-Commerce Times, 4/1/02)

Mom & Pop on the Web (CNN, 12/4/00)

Additional free places you can promote your store online:

MySpace.com (new outreach to small business)

Yelp.com

Squidoo.com