How To Market On A Budget
Its been my experience that when you have a limited or no Marketing budget you're forced to become creative and that's a good thing. I'm always on the lookout for low or no cost Marketing and advertising that makes sense. Is there a lot of time and money wasting junk out here? You bet there is but your job is to run for the hills when you learn what you're looking at. Below is a condensed version of the tools and links I use on a regular basis. Remember, what works for me might not necessarily work for you and is not written in stone, things are moving so fast nowadays that at this reading my stuff may be obsolete. Some will be my affiliate links and some won't.
Traffic exchanges: Some are good and some are junk, my favorite traffic exchange is OZ4Hits because its automated, who has the time to get callouses on their butts sitting at their computers clicking all day? I know I don't. http://oz4hits.com/?ref=10204
Backlinking: If you're a complete newbie you may not know this but backlinks should always be in your Marketing arsenal. I use Social Monkee, its free and pretty good. http://www.socialmonkee.com/index.php?af=14614
Site Pinging: You'll always want your sites to get pinged, its another important SEO tool that's too powerful to ignore. I use Pingler, it only costs a few bucks a month and they ping your links automatically every 3 days. Your sites need to be pinned every so often. http://www.pingler.com/208.html
Local Marketing: I'm always up on local Marketing, it never ceases to amaze me how newbies expect to get ranked Nationally and completely forget getting noticed in their own neighborhoods. I use Merchant Circle for this, the Google spiders crawl the site on a regular basis because of all the fresh content and Google will give you great link love if you're connected to a popular site and contributing fresh content. http://merchantcircle.com
Fiverr: Fiverr is a site I've been using for years to get my tedious work done real cheap, a word of caution, as with anything else you have to investigate the gig and the person you want to do your work, check their ranking and if by chance you're not satisfied with anything on Fiverr they will cancel the gig and put it onto your next gig. http://fiverr.com
I wanted to keep this short and sweet as not to overwhelm any newbies who may read this but this post is chocked full of serious information. If you're new and have a hard time with some terms and or techniques just get in contact with me and I'll assist you as much as possible. I promise not to insult your intelligence by trying to sell you on any products. If you're interested in what I'm involved in, feel free to ask.