Archive for August, 2011

If you want your own Product Launch Blueprint to ensure
you create a thriving online business, then check
out the latest video from Natalie Squared. Download your
free blueprint PDF and learn how to find your sweet spot.
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Watch the latest video on how to profit from your passion.
Check it out today and grab your free PDF download of
the Product Launch Blueprint too.
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Find out which women are making 6 and 7 figures online and
be inspired by their success in the latest video from Natalie
Sisson and Natalie MacNeil. Want to make sure you’re next?
Download their free Product Launch Blueprint so you can
work on creating your own lucrative launch today.
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Are you a small business owner who is looking to make people sit up and take notice of your business?    Are you just starting out and are cash strapped as far as an advertising and promotional budget goes?  Here are 10 ways in which you won’t spend a penny (well almost) and make your presence felt in the market place as well…

Email Signature

Your best and most inexpensive advertising and promotional tool is sitting in your mail box “option”.  Yes, I’m talking about your email signature, a versatile tool which is absolutely free and something every creative marketer should put to good use.  I have in fact penned an entire post on how you can use your email signature to promote your business and to know more about brand building with your email signature click here. 

Aweber

Aweber provides email marketing solutions to business owners and bloggers across a wide spectrum of products, services and industries.  Sign up for the 1 USD for a month trial to get a firsthand experience of how you can use an email marketing campaign to leverage your promotional efforts. 

Facebook

The rate at which social networking has enveloped our lives is truly amazing and Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking venture Facebook has become the measure of one’s existence on the face of the earth.  Using Facebook to engage customer interest is quick, easy and more importantly it doesn’t have to cost you anything. 

Anyone can create a Facebook page for a business, group or cause in a few easy steps, your page will be up and running.  Once you set it up all you need to do is to let people know you have a page.  To learn about how you can use Facebook to get customers interested in your business click here. 

Twitter

Twitter is your quickest route to greater visibility.  This might seem like something so obvious and needless to mention but I believe Tweeting is an art.  So Tweet right and more importantly garner support from friends and followers to retweet your tweets.  

You Tube

The magic of audio-visual messages is truly unmatched and You Tube is a great way for business owners and service providers to get their message across.  As an artist who is keen to learn the nuances of drawing and painting and as a professional who has no time to enroll for a proper class I have watched many an educative and informative video demonstration on painting techniques and  I think it’s a great place to showcase one’s expertise and works. 

Foursquare Business Page

Foursquare business pages are no longer limited to big, well established brands with the money and clout to buy Foursquare’s limited and in-demand dev resources. Business pages on Foursquare are now self-serve, just the thing you need when you are working with little or next to nothing as your advertising budget; to learn about how you can get one of these pages click here. 

Referralkey

Another professional networking site tweaked just a little bit to allow professionals and business owners to connect with each other.  The best part is that Referralkey allows you to help other people connect with each other for rewards in cash or kind.  To learn more sign up here. 

Connectture

Connectture is a great place to promote yourself provided one has the ability to write.  A platform for publishing articles on a number of topics it is “the place” to gain exposure for your expertise as a manager, business owner, consultant or writer.  I use Connectture to publish my works as a writer and someone who teaches other people how to write and I’m sure you can find a way to use this site to promote your personal brand too.

Fiverr

Fiverr is another one of those great places which connects buyers and sellers on the web with ease and efficiency.  You have to sign up to see the gamut of products and services that people have to offer.  For 5 USD many of them are a steal.  To learn about how you can use Fiverr to promote your business click here. 

Blogs

No matter how big or small your business, getting a blog makes a lot of sense.  It is your window to the outside world, your little niche in cyberspace from where you can showcase products, services, prices, announce offers and even provide consultancy.  With Blogger and WordPress setting up a site for free and one that is up and running in just a few minutes is something anyone (no matter how technically challenged) can do.  Are you game?

In the end I would say, business and by that I mean good business is not always about big budgets and huge promotional events.  It is about doing more with less and that is precisely why I came up with this post.

 I’m not saying something that is entirely unheard of here, most of you may have heard about all these options but my bid is to encourage you and show you how you can use these means to get people to notice your business.  At free and almost free these options are definitely worth a try!

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Hey Everyone

Did you see the video that I told you about
on Monday?

I hope so – I’ve been floored by how many
people have been talking about it.

But that’s not what I’m emailing you about today.
I’m actually emailing you because there’s ANOTHER
video that you should really watch.

This time it’s about overcoming internal obstacles
to success – the internal head trash that holds us
all back.

Just like the last one, it’s completely free -
not even an opt-in required. Here’s the link to go
watch it:

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=1356013

And if you haven’t seen the first one, dig around
below this video, and you should find it – it’s
really worth watching.