Free Marketing Tips for Your Online Home Business

Making money online in a home based business can be both a lot of fun and very profitable. Before you get started you'll want to have some ideas of how you are going to market your new business. These are some basic ideas of how to market using some no cost and low cost methods.

You will be able to find several places online where you can place free classified ads. If you Google "free online classified ads" you'll be surprised how many you'll find. A word of caution, follow the guidelines of each site or you'll lose the opportunity to continue with them.

Personal contact marketing is very effective. I'm not suggesting that you call everyone you know and tell them about your new venture and how you know that this is just the right opportunity for them. As you go about your day just listen to what people are saying about their job, the boss, or the commute. Hand them a business card and suggest that you might be able to assist them. Let them contact you, if they don't, its cost you nothing more than a business card and a small amount of time.

You can also place business cards on car doors. Place them on the driver's side door above the door handle. Use a simple message which will catch someone's eye in a hurry, for example, "Work from Home, Have Free Time, call 1 (800) 234 5678". You'll want to go to shopping malls or very large office complexes and distribute a large number at one time.

Road side signs will also get attention. These are the signs that you see during election time. If you Google lawn signs you'll find them for as little as $1.00 each if you purchase 100. These can be very effective if placed at busy intersections. Use a simple, easy to read message like "Make Money Working at Home, 1 987 654 3210."

Newspapers are relatively low cost if you consider the number of people you reach per dollar invested. One drawback is you may not be targeting your market. Choose newspapers with a mid sized circulation, below 200,000, and select a good income area.

Magazines can be very good if you target your market effectively. Keep in mind that magazines will have a lag time between when you place the order and when the next issue is printed, this can be anywhere from 35 to 45 days. An advantage of magazines is that they stay around forever, you might get a call six months or a year from now from an ad placed today.

I hope these free marketing tips will be helpful to you. I will be covering more ideas in future articles. I wish you much success and happiness.

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