Can you successfully market a website without spending any money?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by kcareconnections, Apr 2, 2012.

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    I believe that you can. I feel as if I have enough clients and business and I have never paid for any type of promotion. Of course, I have paid for a domain name and web hosting to set up a website but that is it. Do you think or have you had long-term success without paying for marketing?
     
    kcareconnections, Apr 2, 2012 IP
  2. JuniorW

    JuniorW Greenhorn

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    For sure. You can do SEO yourself, you can put up signs, you can spread word of mouth. Lots of different options.
     
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  3. TizzyTazzy

    TizzyTazzy Peon

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    Yes, word of mouth works wonders for almost any business at all.

    Facebook is exact proof of that.
     
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    cameronpalte Active Member

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    Of course you can do it, thats what I do. One thing you could do is like in your signature that you currently have available on this website, you can put in your website in your signature, and get some views. There are many ways to do this, and in fact its what I recommend.
     
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    Absoutly, but it may be issue of trading money in for time. If you are markeiting your site using SEO techinques, how much time does that take vs. spending a bit of money in the RIGHT area (NOT PPC) to get the word out about your site. You can always use a dirt cheap method like fiverr and get some social exposure.
     
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    RnGWriter Peon

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    You can always use article marketing and social media marketing to promote your website. If you know how to write and can employ some basic common sense, then promoting can be free and fun.
     
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    sanjay1234 Peon

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    Yes we can,
    But we need to work hard to market our website because either money or smart working is required to market our website.
     
    sanjay1234, Apr 2, 2012 IP
  8. RnGWriter

    RnGWriter Peon

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    When exactly do we "not" have to work smart?
    Intelligence and resourcefulness is important in any field but perhaps none more so than internet marketing. When we say free promotional methods, we most definitely do not mean "easy promotional methods".
     
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  9. Ayansarei

    Ayansarei Peon

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    Yeah, you can by own. There are many options with you viral marketing social media and also yo do search engine marketing yourself. No need to spend money or no need pay anyone.
     
    Ayansarei, Apr 3, 2012 IP
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    iisp.hk Active Member

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    I will not say "sucessfully" but "totally free", even you cashed in $0, you invested a great amount of TIME, or you paid staff or other guys to do the manual seo/marketing, both means $.
     
    iisp.hk, Apr 3, 2012 IP
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    siskatrisnawati68 Peon

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    you will not successful in 100%, some of them are paid. You can use facebook, twitter as free social bookmarking with more follower or fans. you will get more visitor to your site
     
    siskatrisnawati68, Apr 3, 2012 IP
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    mwwebsolutions Active Member

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    As long as you are realistic in your expectations there are a multitude of ways to grow your online presence free of charge, even helping to increase your SERP in the process.
     
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    sumeetmbi Greenhorn

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    Hello there,
    100% success mate! you (single person) can perform web-marketing, infact there are many people who market their website themselves. You can always perform social media campaign, Search Engine Optimization by yourselves. it will take time but you will get success for sure.
    Cheers!
     
    sumeetmbi, Apr 3, 2012 IP
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    It's quite possible to do this but as others said it will take time to get done. As long as you can accept that then you can be successful. The other option of course is to spend money which will save your time. Either way it's a trade off.
     
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  15. JerrickYeoh

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    Lucky you are smart that paying for a hosting and a domain which cannot looking for free if we which to use our website to generate for sales in future.
    Yes, they are lot of methods that you can do in a free way to earn big bulk of money.
    But not everyone have the knowledge or patient. That is why they rather to paid money to earn money which is faster.
     
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  16. SoftDev

    SoftDev Well-Known Member

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    yes we can do this manually, but it takes time and more effort. so better way is to automate your work with softwares.
     
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    Sure, if you're willing to spend the time necessary.
     
    sarahdb, Apr 4, 2012 IP
  18. imbusinessman

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    you can. the only drawback may be you will pay in time. I still do article marketing and it works for me.
     
    imbusinessman, Apr 4, 2012 IP
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    social networking sites are good for the free marketing of the website.
     
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    It really is possible to market a website without spending a single cent, if you do it online. Doing all the seo and social media optimization yourself can definitely save you so much marketing dollars. But the general strategy of many businesses is, once they have achieved considerable success in their initial (free) marketing efforts, they proceed to try paid advertisements (either online or offline, at times both) in order to gain wider market reach.
     
    MelanieT, May 9, 2012 IP