Draw crowds with a celebrity

Hosting a celebrity appearance will boost interest in your online business, and it adds the celebrity's credibility to your own. Online services know this, which is why they host celebrity appearances every day. But you don't need sophisticated conferencing software to host a celebrity appearance. You can do it from an e-mail address or web site. Find a well-known expert in your business area, and ask them if they would answer questions from an audience for a specific period of time. Then, set up the "appearance" by collecting e-mail questions and then forwarding them to the celebrity, or by reading them to the celebrity over the phone. Finally, return each answer to the person who asked the question, post them on your web site, or compile the answers into a document and send it out to your virtual "audience."