As a home based business owner I am a firm believer that the best type of marketing is always free marketing. You don’t have to spend a ton of money on newspaper ads or commercials on the local radio station to have a huge amount of leads for you home based business every single month. In fact, you can get all the leads you want without spending any money on marketing at all.
The internet is the best invention of all time for the home based business owner because it allows you to market like a pro without breaking the bank.
If you’re new to internet marketing let me start at the very beginning. The first thing you’ll need to successfully market your opportunity online is a website. Many home based businesses offer websites to their business owners. However, it is most effective if you use a website you make yourself. It doesn’t have to be flashy or complicated just a simple site. But here is the key, it has to capture a name and email address.
You’ve probably heard the phrase “the money is in the list” right? Well it’s true. By capturing your prospects name and email address when they visit your site you will have the opportunity to market to them for days, weeks and months to come.
If you don’t capture their information you run the risk of losing their business forever. So don’t make that mistake.
Once you have your website set up it’s all about marketing that website online. You can have the greatest website in the world but if nobody knows about it it doesn’t do you any good right?
A good place marketing your website is on a social networking site like Myspace.com.
Myspace is extremely popular with teenagers and young adults but many, many home based business owners benefit from it as well. Myspace is simply a great place to meet people and best of all it’s absolutely free to use so you can’t lose. Even if you make a mistake or two in the beginning it’s not like you’ve wasted any money. Just correct it and move on.
Forums are another great place to market your business online. Simply do a google search for “home based business forum” or “mlm forum” and you’ll find a ton of them! Forums are a great place to meet people who want to work from home as network with people who already do, and just like Myspace forum marketing is free!
Video marketing is also extremely popular right now and sites like Youtube.com make it super easy. Just shoot a simple video and upload it for free on Youtube. There are also lots and lots of other video websites out there so you get lots of traffic out of just one or two videos.
Another great form of online marketing is article marketing. (Hey you’re reading an article right now so I guess it works!)
Article directories are free to post on and you don’t have to be an established author or an English major to benefit from it.
Finally, if you really want to get as many people to check out your website as possible you can’t go wrong with free advertising sites like Craigslist.com or Backpage.com these sites are free to post on and will get you a ton of visits to your website. Just remember that unlike posting an ad in the newspaper you’ll need to post on online advertising sites several times a week to get the most out of it.
Free online marketing is an awesome thing. Do your research and learn how to get the most out of the different techniques that I’ve talked about in this article and you’ll be generating more prospects than you can handle!
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