What to do on a $0 marketing budget?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Woodcs82, Oct 3, 2007.

  1. #1
    What to do on a $0 marketing budget?

    Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Thank you,
    C
     
    Woodcs82, Oct 3, 2007 IP
  2. speedster

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    Submit to search engines, develop good content, submit to directories, tell your friends to spread the word.
     
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  3. plrqq

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    Craigslist, USFreeAds, Bum Marketing. Good luck to you! :D
     
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  4. craiger22

    craiger22 Well-Known Member

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    SEO!!! SEO is the king of all marketing. You can also try social bookmarking though.
     
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  5. homebizbuilder

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    Hi, here are a few good and FREE ways to promote your website for more backlinks and traffic:

    1. Article Marketing - submit to EzineArticles if you only have time for 1
    2. Social Bookmarking - submit to Digg, StumbleUpon, etc
    3. Forum Posting - post at related forums
    4. Web 2.0 ie Blogging, Squidoo, Hubpages etc
    5. Directory Submission
    6. Craiglist
    7. RSS Feed Submission
    8. Viral Ebook Marketing
    9. SEO

    You can pick up some powerful and effective techiques to promote your website for growing traffic and sales from my free report in my signature.


     
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  6. st.paddy8

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    i like that rss submission idea. it has been great for me in the past.
     
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    Write helpful posts on DP and keep your signature links ;)
     
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    st.paddy8 Peon

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    where are your links in your sig?
     
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  9. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    You dont have to submit to search engines any more right???? Once google spiders you are set?

    -C

    Submit to search engines, develop good content, submit to directories, tell your friends to spread the word.

    "Submit to search engines, develop good content, submit to directories, tell your friends to spread the word."
     
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  10. Skouk

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    You can try public Relation and partnerships.

    Some companies like "Google" have very good success this way :)
     
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    Do you have a Web site yet, or are you really starting from scratch? If you do have a site, you can do the following:

    * Start an informative e-zine and offer it for free to subscribers
    * Give away a free e-book or report in order to build your contact list
    * Offer informative articles about your topic of expertise right on your site

    If you don't have a site, you can still do the following:

    * Forum posting
    * Start a free blog using WordPress, Blogger, etc.
    * Write press releases and distribute them using free services
    * Give away a free e-book or report via forum or blog postings
    * Add information about your services to your signature line
    * Article marketing
    * Cold calling (free depending on your phone plan)
     
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  12. Woodcs82

    Woodcs82 Well-Known Member

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    Thank you to everyone so far, keep them coming if anyone else has anything to add.

    -C
     
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  13. Fedorpheux

    Fedorpheux Active Member

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    This may sound condescending, but I mean it seriously. Get a day job. Often it can take just a little bit of funding to distinguish a really profitable idea from an average one.
     
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    start a blog, build a myspace page, put your link in your sig where you are allowed to and post on related forums
     
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    You know, I like this idea as an old telemarketer. Using a basic script and following the law, you could make 15 to 20 contacts per hour. If you've got a great idea, you could offer to share it with them over email or you could merely share a website and hope they visit it. You could cold call right out of the phone book. It'd work for business or consumer marketing.

    It's free and you could promote anything and everything. 100 calls would probably yield 30 to 40 surveys and maybe half the people would check out your site. A good worker on this could see conversions to generate revenue of $6 to $10 an hour. I see a good outsourcing opportunity.

    I could imagine promoting an email submit over it......
    "Hi, this is Che with example.info. How ya doin' today? ... Great, we are doing a quick survey today on weight loss. Do you have a few minutes for very quick survey? ... Thanks. Have you recently started a diet? What methods have you used for dieting? How successful has the dieting been? Great thanks for you time and as a show of gratitude, we have a gift card waiting for you. Just visit example.info/survey to claim your gift card. You'll just need to put in your email and you are set. Thanks again for your time. "

    hahaha

    Or even use it to promote insurance quotes.
     
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    It depends on what skills you have,If you are a seo expert then you can rock in zero budget.
     
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    blog, press release, directory sub, search engine sub, and social bookmarks.
     
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    Promote like crazy in social bookmarking sites and most forum have signature links, try to be active and you will recieve traffic.
     
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    Try Bum Marketing.

    bummarketingmethod.com
     
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    All of the above simultaneously ;)
     
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