How do I sell my online business?

[Maria]

Janet,
Before you decide to throw in the towel, there are some really easy ways to begin to market yourself online and increase your awareness and traffic. (Once you have done this, you will have a more valuable business and new contacts to find an interested buyer if you decide to proceed.)

1) Are you using Social Media? Set up a Twitter and a Facebook business page for your business. Knowing that you do not have a lot of time, you can use a social media tool like, HootSuite to then schedule your updates for a whole week or month at a time. Make sure to place your FaceBook and Twitter links onto your homepage as well. You could even offer the first 50 people that "like" your page get a discount coupon. You can use these "channels" to send out specials, new products pictures or links.

2)Questions and Answers and Forums. Once a month go into some of the parenting sites like : Babycenter or The Bump and weigh in on the forums in helpful ways. Be careful not to be salesy, but to truely be helpful. You will be spreading your brand and your site location to a prefect target audience for you.

Good Luck. If you want more free advice, feel free to go to http://www.thrivehive.com.