Five Of The Most Effective Free or Low Cost Marketing Strategies Few Know About

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Although the number of sources for free marketing of your product or opportunity is really only limited by your creativity, there are five very effective methods few know about. Your sponsor, or a good business coach/mentor, should be able to direct you to resources to get your marketing campaign up and going.

These methods assume that you have a website and/or a capture/squeeze page with a list/contact management system and autoresponder system in place. If not, they are easy to find out about and setup. Your sponsor or coach should have good information on these services and how to use them. You don't have to be a Techie to get them going. Just be determined. One step at a time. Some people do this in a few days, some in a few weeks. It doesn't really matter, as long as you get it done.

If you are totally adverse to technology, you can connect with services that provide lead capture pages, websites, and marketing services, for an initial stet up fee of less than $100, and monthly maintenance fees of less than $100 per month.

Method 1 - Free advertising sites like Craigslist.org - Easy to use. You want to advertise your lead capture page so visitors will provide their contact information. Your sponsor or coach should be able to provide you with good sources of information on generally unknown free or low cost tips showing how to optimize the use of these advertising sites.

Cost for this method is free. You can upgrade and pay for other services on these advertising sites, or sites that help you maximize results on these free advertising sites latter, if they are successful for you. You can do searches on the search engines for other similar free advertising sites.

The trade off for this method is that although free or low cost, it can be time consuming.

But if low cost is the issue, this is a great place to start! Best thing is that you can have an ad up and running today!

Method 2 - A lead capture page offering free audio or e-book with business building tips, or company or opportunity information that you provide. You can record a video yourself, or include an audio from your team's or company's websites, as allowed per your team's or company's approved policies. Make sure you read them carefully, as your company could suspend, or terminate your association if violated.

If you use e-books, you don't event need to write one if writing is a challenge for you. There are many free, or low cost sources of e-book with great content.

Cost for this method include a monthly fee of about $20.00 for your list/autoresponder service, and $10.00 annual fee to register a domain name (you can get them for less, or free if you don't mind the domain service provider placing advertisements on your site). Some domain providers even have free or low cost websites and capture pages. The trade off is that they want to place advertisements on your site. You want to avoid this if possible, and you want your capture page to have a singleness of purpose (collecting names, email addressed and phone numbers of prospects and customers), and not have distractions that draw visitors attention away from opting-in and providing their contact information.

Method 3 - Online Video Sites are one of the hottest trends on the Internet. Video sites like YouTube are exploding, and offer a great opportunity to get tons of free traffic online if you have limited funds for marketing.

There are several things you will need:

A video camera. A low cost option would be a FLIP video camera, around $150, but cheaper on sale. Additionally, it is easy to use and can automatically load your videos to YouTube.

A video editing site or program. This can be the most costly part of your low cost marketing strategy, at around $300. You can try software like Camtasia.

Your video should target a specific audience or market, contain relevant content and a good message, and have a singleness of purpose and a specific call to action. You want them to go to your capture page so you can get the contact information. Give good incentives. To see what is effective, to YouTube and look at the top videos.

Cost for this method is slightly above $300, but it is a one time expense that will keep on giving. Next month it will cost $0.

Method 4 - Press releases are a free to very low cost strategy. A press release is simply an announcement or and explanation of a service or product. Press releases can generate natural or organic traffic, based on keyword contained in the release. The search engines give rankings based on the keywords. A press release can also generate traffic from the press release submission services themselves if you provide relevant content using relevant keywords.

Press releases vary in length. They are as short as two paragraphs, and as long as between one and two pages. You insert a link to your capture page at the end of the release.

The benefits of press releases are that they are more often than not, totally free, and the work you do once to create a press release can reap benefits for a very long time. No real downsides, other than some submission services do charge small fees. Check before submitting.

Method 5 - Blogs are simply on online platform that allows individuals to publish, create, and post relevant, and even some good irrelevant, content on the internet.

Blogs are smple to set-up and getting running, and easy to maintain. You can get free traffic from the major search engines, other blogs, and social marketing websites. Visitors see blogs as much more genuine than sales letters and other advertisements, and are much more open to your content.

Blogging can be fun, because it allows you to put more of yourself in the content. You want to be relevant to your business, but you also can make posts which allow others to see the you behind the content. The strategy is to brand yourself and a leader and an expert in the field you are blogging about. Additionally, blogs are interactive, as they allow readers to comment on what you are putting out in the blogosphere.

Job, money, or life got you down, or stressed? Just Blog for a few minutes and help yourself, or others feel better about the day. Bring something of value to the table.

Never, advertise on your blog. Entertain (20%) and provide relevant content (80%). Includes your links, but never advertise. Blogs should be short, between 200 to 400 words. Write three or four blogs on a subject, and you will have an article which you can submit to article submission sites.

Anyway, have some fun with this and start building you business!

Find yourself a good coach/mentor who can provide you resources on using these methods. You can find sites that roll all of these methods into a single, easy to implement strategy. Make More Money Online - Best Online Business Opportunities - Starting a Home Based Business

You Can Do this, Without Question.

The Best Really Is Yet To Come!

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