Home based business question??
what are some ways to promote my home based business for free or low cost? any ideas please help.
Low cost, through Yahoo, you can purchase your own domain and website for around $10 per month, which includes the webhosting and up to 200 emails.
You can print up mini flyers (about 8 to a page) and distribute them in parking lots…you know, those flyers that you hate to have under your wiper blades. At least 10% will look at them. Of that 10%, another 10% will actually be interested in your business.
Act as if: I learned this in Gorilla PR – You are your business’ best asset and primary advertising. Sell yourself and your business to everyone you meet. "Hello, my name is _____. My company _______________________. Have you heard of it?" Follow up with a business card, and get theirs if you can. Sell your business to everyone you meet! Grocery store, school, PTA is a good way!
Another way is word of mouth. It is a powerful thing. Give your customers that little personal touch and ask if they are satisfied with their service, if they would please share your name and/or business card with their friends and collegues.
Purchase simple magets that stick to the side of your car doors to advertise your business. You will be amazed how many calls you will get in rush hour traffic. I had mine on the back of my vehicle, and received many calls from individuals behind me.
Get your name out there! Best wishes for success!!
try any affiliate program or google adsense
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Low cost, through Yahoo, you can purchase your own domain and website for around $10 per month, which includes the webhosting and up to 200 emails.
You can print up mini flyers (about 8 to a page) and distribute them in parking lots…you know, those flyers that you hate to have under your wiper blades. At least 10% will look at them. Of that 10%, another 10% will actually be interested in your business.
Act as if: I learned this in Gorilla PR – You are your business’ best asset and primary advertising. Sell yourself and your business to everyone you meet. "Hello, my name is _____. My company _______________________. Have you heard of it?" Follow up with a business card, and get theirs if you can. Sell your business to everyone you meet! Grocery store, school, PTA is a good way!
Another way is word of mouth. It is a powerful thing. Give your customers that little personal touch and ask if they are satisfied with their service, if they would please share your name and/or business card with their friends and collegues.
Purchase simple magets that stick to the side of your car doors to advertise your business. You will be amazed how many calls you will get in rush hour traffic. I had mine on the back of my vehicle, and received many calls from individuals behind me.
Get your name out there! Best wishes for success!!
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It depends where your potential customers are. Is it a service that has to be done in person? If so, use flyers, and join lots of organizations so you can network. Get a magnetic sign for your car.
If it’s a product that you could ship, launch a classy-looking website. I started mine on a freebie server and then upgraded as the money started coming in. Use Google adwords and Ebay to get your reputation going, and then after that you can just go with the website.
Either way, you’re going to have to give a few away to generate testimonials and get people talking about it.
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well, if you want to promote online your business, see here for some suggestions
http://www.webeki.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=6&Itemid=52
Good luck
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Hi,
I am also doing a home based business. I am using the internet technology to help me widen my market share. Flyers are fine, I did it too, but it takes a lot of your time.
check out this website – http://www.tradetitans.com
You can post 100 product catalogues to promote your products or services. Market widen not only locally but also global. Let me know if you want to know more.
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I can think of two low-cost ways to advertise your business, which I currently use myself.
1) Internet Groups: Join a few Internet groups that are related to your type of business. Then write bloggs or small articles related the product or services you promote. Make sure you have a strong signature containing either your website address or your e-mail address. And by all means, be passionate on what your are writing about…people will know whether or not you truly believe in your chosen product or service.
2) Submit Articles to Directories: Write articles on subjects related to your chosen product or service and submit them to various directories. As with the blogs & small articles, make sure you are passionate about your chosen subject & always have a strong signature containing either your website address or your e-mail address. If just one webmaster picks up your article, your exposure doubles.
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Here are some good places to advertise for your business and they are free.
http://www.directmatches.com/LASTBOSS
http://www.safelister.com/pg.cgi/LASTBOSS/index.html
http://www.herculist.com/members/index.cgi?LASTBOSS
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It depends on the type of products you offer. I have a pet-related business, so casual personal contacts work best for me. You need to identify your target market and be places that they are too.
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Hi Carrie,
I have a home biz too, the best way to promote it is free Internet or paid advertising in your local magazines.
Type in your browser "Free URL submission" if you have a website, you can submit to about 40 sites for free.
Also bumper stickers work, zazzle.com has them cheap.
Business cards, vista print, they are free you only pay shipping, about $4 or $5 for 250 cards.
You can also type free classifieds or ads…..and search, it takes time but works. Always make sure that you believe in your business, otherwise nobody will believe you. You have to market a good product or opportunity to work. If you have it, try that and hope it works!
Oh, also Linkreferral but it takes time too. I have a yahoo group for promoting honest businesses:
Subscribe:
workfromhomehonest-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
The best of luck to you with your biz!
Mariana
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The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?… and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using such "generic" queries will not be able to discover your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website, in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the Internet audience and their incoming setup. For example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages take too long to load up and therefore analog users will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users for maximum marketability, then select analog users since 80% of most resident users are still analog Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the "Description" which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – "Keywords" are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.
Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query "pizza downtown los angeles." It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where "Pizza Next Door" is ranked. It’s in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door’s high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo’s publication guidelines.
Good luck!
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