6 Best Ways to Promote Your Small Business for Free
If you have the necessary skills like education, understanding, listening and communication, this is enough to start your own business. As we all know business needs a business plan, financial contributions and advertising certainly. Today we will discuss the possible and the most effective ways to develop business.
Advertising is a very exciting and saturated direction of developing business. To save time one must be aware of several main tips, which will help in promoting your business.
1. Choose a memorable and unusual name for the business; the same concerns phone number and contact e-mail. It goes without saying that you need business cards, where you, mentioned all contacts.
2. Create your own blog or website. If you are good at this, you may do everything by yourself; otherwise you can find a competent blogger and ask to make a review of your product or service in exchange for rendering services.
3. Use social media whenever you can, meaning create a Facebook page, where you will explain the purpose and usage of your business; also try so show all the advantages. Using other social media websites you like: Google + and LinkedIn, Yahoo and MySpace, Twitter and even Instagram is a big plus.
Every little bit helps. Pages on all those sites serve as an advertisement for your business. It is vital to note that one may use the Yelp site: this is a website where consumers can review and recommend businesses. One more tip: create press releases on all those pages in social media; if they are creative and interesting, you might even get on local TV.
4. Use local media as one of the options to advertise your business. As an option, write and edit articles in local radio, magazines, newspaper; you can also take part in local events and make suggestions for your service.
5. Nevertheless, one should accept that to multiply your chances will be great to organize free seminars that reports about the business you have. That is the word-of-mouth way. Thus, the more people know about your business, the better; involve as many people as you can. You may also offer services as a charity to help different organizations; propose discounts, which are a wonderful lure for clients.
6. Moreover, you can join other beginners, who start their own business and share complementary service. This is very popular among cafés and restaurants. For instance, if you sell pastries and use complementary service, suggest buyers to visit the flower shop on the corner.
In conclusion, it’s up to everybody to decide whether you are ready to begin business and to provide it with advertising. Keep in mind that advertising will work only due to a product or service of high quality, besides this will attract more customers; that is not easy to earn a good reputation, however experience is the best teacher.
Hi Paul, great article. The one thing that I think is a tad misleading though is that you say that all of these things are free, but it takes time to do all of them. And money is time, especially when it comes to social media or writing op-ed pieces.
Hi Tracy,
I cannot speak for Paul, but I do understand your thoughts. Time is money, but if a person is in the start up phase for their new business, and their budget is tight, anything for Free to help them get the word out is a valuable tool.
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John Engle
I totally agree with what you said. Advertising is a good way to promote your business. I am using my social media accounts to promote my business.
Yes, I totally agree with what you said. I think that having a unique name will help the business be remembered easily. I also think that website can help to promote the business. I also think that making an account to social media platforms will help you to promote your business. Thanks for sharing this article.