What are the free Marketing techniques?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by psrinivas, Jan 1, 2009.

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    What are the free Marketing techniques?
     
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  2. GuardianAngel

    GuardianAngel Active Member

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    Article marketing is a free technique. You need to make a good article about our site, and submit them to article directories. If done properly, you can get visitors to your site and have buyers or customers.

    Other techniques would be submitting ads to free online classified ads, or joining social networks.
     
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  3. Romek

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    Also YouTube videos with information about your site, link exchange, free directories submission...
     
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    Depending on what you're marketing, I've found that Yahoo Answers can provide a great FREE marketing channel for a wide variety products/services. If you're dealing with a somewhat popular issue, then you can answer Yahoo Answers questions all day, leave your link in the resource box, and not only get your name out there, but also drive targeted traffic from it. Trust me, it works!
     
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    There are numerous free marketing techniques, that you can implement in your strategy, but not all of them will work properly in every case. Give us some more details about your business model, your goals, niche and so on and we can be much more specific with the advices we can give you.

    Generally speaking the most powerful "marketing technique" is branding in my opinion. Building a strong brand will benefit your business much more than any other type of marketing. In the internet environment you can brand your business using the social media websites, blogging and interacting with customers by using forums and again social sites.

    For now you can just start a corporate blog, but don't just put some boring PR articles there - put something of value to your customers. Write interesting, engaging and valuable articles in your niche, interact with the other bloggers, start to participate in the niche communities, than the traffic (and customers) will start to flow. You just have to be patient and to follow your goals.

    Sorry if I'm speaking too generally. As I have said do pride us with some specific information about what do you want to achieve, what is your niche and target market and I'll try to give you much more specific advice.
     
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    The link in your sig is an example of free marketing technique .. :)
     
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    Article marketing, blog commenting, social bookmarking, blog posting, forum posting, classified posting, safelists, traffic exchanges, ffa, email marketing.... thats all for now i think..
     
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    There are many Free Marketing Techniques in both Search Engine Marketing and Viral Marketing Strategies. Find the requested Free Marketing Techniques as stated below:

    Free Search Engine Marketing Techniques:

    1. Social Bookmarking
    2. Directory Submissions
    3. Forum Commenting
    4. Blog Commenting
    5. Article Submissions
    6. Press Releases
    7. Video Submissions
    8. Ethical Link Building

    Viral Marketing Techniques:

    1. Face Book
    2. MySpace
    3. Digg
    4. Reddit
    5. Mixx
    6. LinkedIn
    7. Propeller
    8. Stumble Upon

    Hope the above provided info would be of help. If you would like to know more about the related topics, visit Articles page in Prominere Seo Services.
     
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  10. ragusivan

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    1. Article Marketing - submit articles to top article directories
    like EzineArticles, ArticlesBase, GoArticles, SearchWarp etc.

    2. Web 2.0 Marketing - create tons of squidoo lens, hubpages,
    zimbio, xomba and all these pages. Google love them.

    3. PPC - use Adwords or other smaller PPC advertising to drive
    traffic

    4. Blogging - create WordPress or Blogger blogs to promote the
    products. Blog regularly and traffic will come rushing in.

    5. List Promotion - promote your affiliate link to your list. Send
    them a promotion. Adding your bonuses help to make your offer
    attractive.

    6. Forum Marketing - Go to the top IM forums like
    DigitalPoint and WarriorForums. Promote your affiliate link in your
    signature.

    7. Classified Ads - Place an ad at top classified ads websites like
    Craigslist, BackPage, EPage, USFreeads, etc.

    Courtesy: http://www.webmoneyjournal.com
     
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    Subject: what are the free marketing techniques
     
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    Free Markeding ideas:

    Blog Comments
    Video Markeding - Youtube, Myspace etc.
    Forum Comments

    Mario
     
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    Those last few are very good. I use Digg.com also.
     
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    One comment, I know you meant techniques that require no cash outlay but....NOTHING IS FREE!

    If you work 20 hours a week on so called "FREE" techniques, you need to look at the monetary return for that time compared to an hourly rate at a regular job.

    The reality is that most people (especially on this forum) would make more money taking on a part-time job but IM is sexier and they can also be "lazy" with less consequence than a job.
     
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    There are two ways of Internet Marketing. They are PPC (pay per click) and the free promotions which require lots of patience, hard work and analytical mind.

    Here are some tips of free promotional activities where one can really make use and boost the traffic to his/her site. These activities are quite common between webmasters to attract traffic to their site. These are some of my tips which I learned through my experience.

    1. Social Bookmarking: You can bookmark your website or blog on various social bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon, Digg, Squidoo, Del.icio.us ,Propeller etc. If you Friend circle on Social Networking sites like Orkut and Facebook this can help you bring huge traffic. Participating in such communities is also proved great resource of traffic to your site.

    2. Forum submission: Participating on various related Forums & webmaster’s forum can really attract the visitors provided your post is exciting, something different and unique. Don’t forget to add signatures if that forum allows you to add that.

    3. Directory Submission Links submitted in one way link directories can bring along some visitors to your site apart from back links building.

    4. Submit Your site to CSS Galleries There are 100’s of sites which do list websites with good designs right on their home page on a daily basis, so showcase your website & get the traffic.

    5. Press release sites & article sites One of the very old and powerful way to get the targeted traffic, quality links and limelight.

    6. PHP & CGI Scripts Directory If you have any website that offers web tool or service then you can submit your scripts to these Scripts Directories.

    7. Video Sharing Websites Share your videos with web community because videos speak out more than text. Hundred’s of sites are there & if you post your video to at least 30 of them, then huge traffic will be coming your way.

    8. Tutorial Websites Lots of benefits like incoming links, traffic, and reputation building in your niche community. All these things will result in higher revenues & better opportunities for your website.

    9. Ebook submission sites Let the potential buyers find you by submitting your content to these websites.

    10. Link Exchange: Links at your partner sites can bring visitors on your website & it will boost your PR too if they are coming from good PR sites.

    Don’t hesitate to face the world, let the people feel you presence, announce yourself. Just spread your word. Above mentioned Tips can increase number of new and repeat visitors on your website with noticeable figures…

    Regards
     
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    Seconded...
     
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    You can't go wrong with a well timed publicity stunt
     
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    Well....there are several free marketing techniques; it all depends what you are marketing and who you are marketing to. The best free way to market, I think, is through article marketing. Article marketing is quite simple and can be done quickly. But, the articles must have some sort of reading value in order to be effective. PLR articles can be used, but I HIGHLY recommend that you rewrite the articles to make it unique. The search engines can pick out articles that are used all over the internet and will simply ignore them. So make sure that you make the articles stick out as being highly informative and that they are unique compared to other articles that are used on the internet.
     
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    free will take your time... just that in my mind... :)
     
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    Yep. Time is money
     
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