Sales Tips and Marketing Strategies

Most people starting up their own business don’t have a big budget or very little to spend on their marketing efforts. But do you really need to spend a huge amount anyway? With social media playing a huge role in many companies marketing strategies it’s cut the cost of most marketing budgets.

Below are my favourite top 10 FREE marketing strategies that I use and personally can recommend. The important thing to remember is to be consistent with your marketing and to do it regularly. I would recommend doing each of the following on a weekly basis. I have seen amazing results and you can too!

1. 1. Youtube

Youtube was founded in February 2005 and now is ranked No. 4 of the top sites on the web. It has millions of people watching video’s every day so is a great way to increase your SEO (make sure you choose your key words wisely) by driving people to your website(s). Don’t be shy about networking on Youtube as well. Post comments and build up a subscription base. Youtube is a really great way to not only drive traffic to your website but also generate business.

2. Article Submission

Writing articles and submitting them to the various directories is another free and great method to bring people to your website. It also helps you become an expert within your chosen niche. There are many article directories that you can submit to, below are my favourite ones:

EzineArticles
GoArticles
WebProNews
ArticleDashboard

3. Blogging

Blogging is an excellent method that should be used as part of your online marketing plan. It is a great way for getting people connected to you and drives people to your website. By posting regularly you also raise your profile online. One of the most immediate great things about blogging is getting people to comment and seeing discussions start. This gains interest to the blog and back to your company, particularly if you do it well and consistently.

4. Twitter

Twitter would have to be the fastest growing site on the web today. It is currently ranked 13th of the most used websites on the web and is taking the internet by a storm. There are around 10,000+ new users per day signing up to join.

Twitter is best described as a micro blogging platform. You are limited to 140 characters each time you do an update, which initially, may seem a small amount. However, as you become more experienced, it’s just amazing what you can fit into 140 characters.

Twitter is one huge global chat room, but then again, it doesn’t have to be. It all depends on how many people you follow on Twitter.

I highly recommend using Twitter for business, it’s a fabulous way to drive traffic to your website as well as gain business.

5. Facebook

Facebook is the 2nd most used website on the web (after Google). It’s a social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos. It’s also a fabulous way to promote your business, drive traffic to your website and gain new business.

6. Squidoo

Squidoo is a popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create “lenses” online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest. Another great free way of promoting your business and driving traffic to your website. Check out my lens here

7. Free Classified ads

There are various websites where you can place a classified advert for free. Here are my favourites.

8. Ecademy

Ecademy is a Social Business Network founded in 1998. Ecademy enables business people to connect through online networking as well as business networking events. You are also able to post blogs, and “marketplace listings”. Ecademy is a great way to generate business together with driving people to your website. Connect with me here

9. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the world, representing 170 industries and 200 countries with over 48 million members. LinkedIn is another great online network which raises your profile online, drives people to your business and generates business. Connect with me here

10. Network

Okay the last free place is pretty obvious but often forgotten. I recently went to one of my daughter’s friend’s birthday party. I met a guy that I hadn’t seen for ages and, of course we got talking. I had no idea that he was interested in Online Marketing and when I told him about what I was doing now he was incredibly keen and wanted to know more about it. He also had a few friends who liked the opportunity. (By the way after the party we got chatting via Facebook too!) Networking amongst your friends, family, colleagues and wider circles is a huge and incredibly powerful way to get business. People buy from those they like and trust, and who better to buy from you?

Don’t forget to do simple measures to ensure that you can network wherever you go! Always take your business cards with you and don’t be afraid to talk business at social gatherings.

I hope the above tips help you. There are many more free places to promote your business, but these are just a few to get you started! It’s important to remember that effective marketing doesn’t always equal big budget.

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Implement these strategies into your article marketing routine over the next 90 days and watch your leads explode.. If you give up like most people after a few weeks or are not consistent don’t even try..Your results will accumulate causing a massive explosion in your business as you get more and more content out there.. this is true leverage..Watch each day as you submit your articles to over 200 sites.. article-marketing

1. Create one new article of 500 aE” 700 words, blog post, or piece of content a day..don’t worry about how good your writing is or the quality of your topic.. Just do it.. if your waiting for perfect, you will lose..

2. Create Variations of the article. Take an additional 30 minutes and rewrite each sentence at least 3 times to create your article. Submit it with a piece of software to over 300 article directories.. since each directory will have a unique article instead of duplicates this will increase your google rankings.

3. Point all of the article variations back to the original article in the author resource box..Google will rank you higher in the search engines with all this unique content pointing to the original..

4. Create a short, 30 second video of yourself talking about your don’t miss article. Use a video promtion service to broadcast your video to over 70 different video sites..point your link in the video resource box back to the original article.

5. And last Bookmark your original piece of content and your Youtube video, using Onlywire.com, which you see below this post. This is a free social bookmarking service which will give you additional exposure.

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Maybe you haven’t been told this but traffic doesn’t simply come to your site after you have built it. You have to direct traffic to it. There’s hundreds of ways of doing this and the more ways you use the better.

New Internet Marketers are unfortunately left out in the cold when it comes to traffic generation. Gurus inform Newbies what to do but many times, don’t inform them of the HOW, WHEN or WHERE. Sometimes, I hate to say, that is on purpose. Personally, I cannot see the sense in it as there is plenty of Internet out there to go around!

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Viral strategies in free traffic generation are a popular cost-efficient way of rousing the interest of your potential clients as well as increasing positive word of mouth. Viral marketing strategies involve the use of pictures and audiovisuals to enhance the online experience and getting free traffic to your website. Many viral strategies are as effective as paid traffic generation methods or may work even better than these said methods. Viral strategies naturally increase the number of your visitors and potential clients therefore redounding to an effective free traffic method.

So how do viral strategies work to add free traffic to your website? Many viral strategies are done by using quizzes, surveys, games and videos sent by email or embedded into your website to increase website traffic for free. A good thing about viral strategies as a free traffic method is that people who visit you online keep on coming back because of the quizzes, surveys, games and videos. What’s more, these people also tell other people about your website which is a form of generating positive word of mouth.

Articles are a non-conventional way of getting free traffic to your website. Although, it may not sound as though they could be an effective viral marketing strategy, they actually are, with proper use and ingenuity. Remember that these articles should have loads of interesting, refreshingly new and exciting content.

Effective articles in the use of viral content often discuss a point of view, a technique, a product or service offering that has not been tackled or discussed by anyone. The rules to making viral articles effective are simple. First, think of a topic that has been rarely talked about in blogs or forums. It must be something new that is written in a creative, demonstrative and conversational tone. Second, don’t leave the fine details uncovered, leave no stone unturned. Be thorough with the finer details of your topic. Write longer, more thorough and more complete articles that could be used as valuable and vital sources of information. Third, expose a secret that only a few people know about in a well-written and engaging way. Also, proofread your article. It must have an air of professionalism, precision and accuracy. Show your readers that you are scholastic in your endeavors in getting your point across. Lastly, publish the article where there’s a lot of free traffic available and link back your article to your website so that your website will get more free traffic, in turn.