If you're a carefree, Bohemian poet with joie de vivre, you might choose to make your home in the Paris neighborhood. On Geocities my pages are personal, but I also use them as a promotion tool by showcasing my work and inviting others to e-mail me for private consultation. Both Freeyellow and SuccessMagazine welcome commercial advertising and they offer five free pages, and assistance with designing your pages. Since setting up cyber shop in May of this year, word has spread through the writer community and in my local community. And although I still advertise locally, my biggest contacts have been through the Internet.
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