No-Budget Internet Marketing
Just starting out with internet business? Do you lack the resources to capture the interest of established joint venture partners? Don’t have the budget for pay per click campaigns?
No problem!
Allow me to share 5 free but highly effective techniques you can use to market your enterprise on the internet.
1. Marketing with articles. Create an article relevant to the topic of your online business. See to it that this article delivers something noteworthy. Enroll the article to the established article directories on the internet, most importantly www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com. Include a resource box, which should mention something interesting about yourself or your enterprise, as well as the URL of your website. Do this at least 3 times per week. In a short period of time, you will receive direct traffic courtesy of the people who got interested about your articles, as well as indirect traffic because of a higher search engine position achieved with thek help of the countless back links you are most definite to get per article.
2. Link exchange. This is a matter of you scratching another’s back, and him scratching yours. Other internet entrepreneurs are likewise searching for advertising mileage for their enterprises. Partner up with them by guaranteeing to place their link on your web pages if they will reciprocate your kind deed.
3. Distributing press releases. Countless offline and online entities are always looking for interesting items to use. They study newswires for such pieces. You can write a hype-free, noteworthy news item about your internet business. You may state the launch of your venture, minus the hype, of course. You may announce the publication of your web pages. You may announce the launch of a new commodity, without any form of a sales pitch. Craft a press release, and enroll the same to online newswires like www.prweb.com, and in just a few hours, real world and online publications will be picking it up, driving a humongous volume of visitors to your URL.
4. Use and abuse the power of user-driven web tools. The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the users themselves are empowered to chart what’s hot and what’s not. You can exploit this to your advantage by specifically targeting social news networks (Digg.com, Reddit.com, Propeller.com), social networking websites (MySpace.com,. FaceBook.com), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon.com) and converting them into powerful vehicles for your marketing campaigns. Without a doubt, Web 2.0 websites are free to use and abuse.
5. Search engine optimization. 80% of the traffic that you will be able to win for your website will come from the search engines. And search engine traffic won’t cost you a single cent, if you can prepare your web pages to win the attention of those search engine spiders
