Business is hard to conduct on your own. A good list of contacts can help you drive your website. For this invest some time into talking with some people that have similar interests as you do. Use MSN, AIM, or Yahoo Messenger or anything of the sort to talk regularly with your friends.

Keep getting more friends. Talk with them when you have time. Chat around a bit. Friends are always great to have.

Here are some ways that having a big friends list can help you with your website.

1. Each friend is a person that can help you spread the word of your website. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising because it is free & it really works.

2. Some of them might know people that help you in different areas of your site.

3. Friends are quick to tell people information. When they hear something that they think is important they quickly like to tell people about it.

4. You might find friends that have quite the bit of time. (Like I have) You might find that if you ask nicely they will do some free work for you.

#1 . I find is the best reason to keep some friends in your contact list. They will drive your brand fast.

A nice little tip that you should keep is don’t treat your friends like they are pawns in your website scemes. It all comes down to morals. Friends are nice to have when you want to grow your website business, but don’t forget that they are doing what they are doing because they regard you as a friend.