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 Low-Cost Ways To Promote Your Business 
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Post Low-Cost Ways To Promote Your Business
1) If you don't have a business card and business stationery, have them made up -- immediately. Your business card, letterhead and envelope tell prospective customers you are a professional who takes your business seriously.

2) Get your business card into as many hands as possible. Call your friends and relatives and tell them you have started a business. Visit them and leave a small stack of business cards to hand out to their friends.

3) Talk to all the vendors from whom you buy products or services. Give them your business card, and ask if they can use your products or service, or if they know anyone who can. If they have newsgroups where business cards are displayed (printers often do, and so do some supermarkets, hairdressers, etc.), ask if yours can be added to the board.

4) Attend meetings of professional groups, computer user groups and groups such as the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, or civic associations. Have business cards in a pocket where they are easily reachable. Every time you start to say "My name is," reach in your pocket for a business card. By the time you get to "I run a..." (type of business), your business card should be deposited in the hand of the person with whom you are speaking. Don't forget to ask what the people you speak with do, and to really listen to them. They'll be flattered by your interest, and better remember you because of it.

5) Become actively involved in 3 or 4 of these groups. That will give you more opportunity to meet possible prospects. But remember: opportunists are quickly spotted for what they are, and get little business. While you won't want to become involved in activities that require a lot of your time in very many organizations, you can -- and should -- make real contributions to all of them by offering useful ideas and help with small parts of one-time projects;


Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:30 pm
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Post Re: Low-Cost Ways To Promote Your Business
Hi

1. Upload presentations on your area of expertise to Slide Share. Do this regularly. It generates buzz and increases visibility.

2. Supercharge your blog by writing one new post a day for 45 days in a row. It’s what Chris Brogan has done (several times) and it’s made him one of the most relevant social media blogger today.

3. Create a Linked In Group around your cause or discipline. Don’t just do this do it, then put some effort into promoting it. It won’t work unless you nurture it and add relevant content just about every day.

4. Create a Facebook Group. Ditto.

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Post Re: Low-Cost Ways To Promote Your Business
Hi

Thanks for sharing this nice information. I appreciate your post. Please keep sharing more and more information . You really doing great job....

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Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:46 pm
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