If you’re looking for ways to get more customers, there are a number of marketing techniques you can use, and here are five of the best.

1. Affiliate marketing: Promoting a web business in which affiliates are rewarded for every visitor, customer or sale provided through their efforts.
2. Article marketing: Short keyword articles promoting your business are posted, with links to your website so readers will be driven to visit your site.
3. Buzz marketing: Viral marketing techniques generate the release of personal information from consumers that can be used to create a database of prospective customers.
4. Direct marketing: Direct mail and other forms of direct marketing utilize call to action methodologies to generate sales and accurately track results.
5. Database marketing: A form of direct marketing that uses databases of customers to generate personalized communications to promote a product or service.