Many work at home entrepreneurs work very hard at getting their business noticed. Whether you are a direct sales mom or a freelance writer, an affiliate or web designer you must promote your business/products daily.
Advertising is given very high importance. A few questions might arise in your mind before investing in advertising:
o What are the best channels for advertising?
o What is the importance of creativity?
o How to maximize returns from ad spending?
You don't have to spend alot of money advertising your site/business. To start out you can do a yahoo or google search on free classified ad sites, work at home forums, biz op forums, parenting forums etc. Yahoo groups also has hundreds of work at home and biz op groups where you can advertise for free.
You can do link exchanges with other moms or offer your services to someone for free advertising.
There are also several other ways to advertise that you can do at low cost.
I am going to show you every possible way to advertise and you will gain more business, customers, sign ups and clicks.
EMAIL MARKETING -
Email marketing is, as the name suggests, the use of email in marketing communications.
You can use newsletters as a way to send emails to a large group of people or you can use email marketing companies.
Here are the top Email Marketing Companies that I use:
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Before you start your email campaigns make sure to set up seperate email accounts. You will also need leads/customers for your newsletters or email campaigns.
If you don't already have a customer base, I would suggest do a yahoo search for free email leads, or you can even purchase bulk packages.
Also, each email marketing company has a sign up box for you to gain more customers.
Put the sign up boxes on all your websites and advertise it on free forums.
So, that was one way to advertise. The next best way to advertise is thru classified sites.
You can do a Yahoo search for free classifieds or you can sign up at the places listed below. Make sure to set up a seperate email account for you ads.
CLASSIFIED GIANTS - POST FREE ADS
Those are my top three but you can find dozens more just by doing a search.
So, this should get you started and keep you busy!
In my next article I will continue to help you find more ways to advertise.
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