7 Simple Ways to Market Your Business For FREE!

Posted on July 26, 2007
Filed Under Making Money Online |

Advertising and marketing are vital to your growing your business. After all, even if you have a great product, without customers your business will fail. Even though advertising can be expensive, there are many ways to promote your business or website for free. Here are a few ideas to help you get free exposure to help you increase traffic and profits.

1. Online Classifieds:
Posting on classified ad sites is a good place to start promoting your online business. This method of advertising will take some time because it takes a lot of work. To keep you ad visible, you will need to continually submit and resubmit your ad to these sites. For the best return, you have to create an eye catching advertisement. Make your Ad stand out above the rest by thinking of a creative title that will entice potential customers. Not everyone will get the same results with free classified advertising.

Ten popular classified advertising sites:

2. E-zine Ads:A lot of online ezines give away free ads to new subscribers of their ezines. Since the ezines have been requested by their subscribers , this is another good place to start”

Here are some E-ZINES listed:

3. Start Writing Articles: Writing articles for distribution a great FREE method for sending traffic to your site. Writing articles gives you the opportunity to write about something you know and makes you an ‘expert’ in your niche. Not only will you gain exposure, but you will also gain trust with your customer base. Writing free articles will give you free advertising in your resource box. A lot of people are looking for new content for their ezines, or newsletters , so getting published will provide free advertising.

Your probably thinking that you don’t know how to write, or your not sure what to write about. Each article that you write will help you improve your skills, so don’t be shy. Start with an idea and 4 to 5 supporting ideas then build an outline. Pre-write your article and then perfect it by rewriting it.

Here are some great sites to help you brush up your writing skills:

4. Let people know about your site: Word of mouth can be a great free advertising tool. Basically, once people visit your site and find it useful, they will tell their friends about it. The more people that are exposed to your site, the more people will let others know about your site. How do you tell people about your site? Include your URL on everything from business cards to stationary. See if your local supermarket or fitness center has a community bulletin board and tack on your business cards. Other places to leave your business cards are: local stores , banks , restaurants ,etc.

5. Print Fliers: Print out some fliers advertising your business. Post these fliers at shopping centers , grocery stores , laundry mats , local colleges , apartment complexes , car window , etc. There are so many places where you can put fliers , you just need to be creative.

6 Collect Links: The more websites that link to your page, the more search engine traffic you will get. Reciprocal linking is when a webmaster searches for a site that is similar to theirs. The webmaster contacts the site and requests that they add a link to his/her web page. In exchange, the webmaster promises to place a reciprocal link on his/her web page.

While this method of linking has proved successful in the past, experts now believe one way links are far more effective than reciprocal links. In other words, the more sites that link to you the better. This method of advertising can get you listed in major Search Engines and give you a good web site ranking.

7. Signatures: Add your URL to your “Signature” in your E-mail, forum profile, and blogs. Simply add your URL and a simple description about your site.

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7 Simple Ways to Market Your Business For FREE!

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