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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Any Free Marketing Ideas Out There?

By Steven Suchar


There are a large amount of free marketing ideas for getting your business noticed on the internet and some are also handy for getting those necessary backlinks to your site.

With over 100,000 websites on the web, your site is a raindrop in a sea, so finding some free marketing ideas is a good way of boosting your rankings, accelerating traffic and getting more sales.

If you're really an entrepreneur, working many dull hours to make your business a big hit, likelihood is you are one of the many millions of folks doing it on a shoe string budget. Luckily, there are a few ways to get yourself out there and noticed, but you have to be creative.

Get yourself out into the community, that doesn't suggest banging on doors either. By doing two hours of community volunteering, you may meet a large amount of new folks, to whom you can give business cards, with your Internet address printed on them. Don't bore people to death about your business, once you have become friendly with people, they will probably ask what you do and you can tell them about your business at an appropriate time.

Online marketing groups abound in the social networking world. Join some and see which you like the best, with the most active partakers, pose questions and share your knowledge with others.

Blogs are an excellent method to have interaction with folks, you'll find appropriate blogs by simply doing a Google search. Again, find the ones that have the most active participation and stay on topic. Don't just go in there and pitch your business, you will not get many responses, but by providing helpful information to others, you'll become an accepted part of that blog's community. Make sure they seem to be a do follow blog as well, that way you can embed your web address every time you post or answer a query. Share free marketing ideas on your blog if that makes sense.

If you have made a list, through an opt-in form on your site, you could offer incentives to your subscribers. Free is usually good in these eventualities and ensure what you give away is applicable and has a value. That way your subscribers may forward the info onto their buddies, thus bringing you an increased customer list.

Offer a discount if you can, to existing clients who introduce others to your products, sort of like beginning your own network marketing group.

Keep your website Google friendly by adding educational info in the form of articles regularly. If you do not have a blog attached to your website, add one. If you use WordPress, it is possible to download plugins like Comment Luv, which is a structure of blogs that reward people who post, with backlinks to their sites. Always add fresh, valuable content like free marketing ideas.

Offer link exchanges with other relevant enterprises, only the ones who do not contradict with you. Backlinks are important in Google's eyes, they're like votes of confidence and will pull you up thru the rankings and collect you more traffic.

These are merely a few free marketing ideas, there are plenty more.




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