Advertising your business can be an expensive task.
Advertising space often cost a lot of money especially those that can send a lot of traffic to your business.
Here's some good news - there are ways to get advertising for free! It will require some effort but at least you do not have to pay a single cent.
Through word of mouth The basic advertising method will be passing on the message from one person to another.
People love to share interesting things with one another.
If you are already providing a good service and products, then people will automatically spread news of your business to their friends.
Getting other business to help advertise Getting other businesses in the same field to help advertise for you can be hard indeed but it is not impossible.
As long as you are not a direct competitor, it can be very beneficial for the both of you to help each other out.
For example, if you are selling jewelleries, you can approach people who sell designer women clothing.
Write articles and publish them You can write articles about your business and publish them to article directories.
Not only does this help drive traffic to you, you can also get a very strong backlink from the directories to your own website.
Using forums Join forums related to your market and be an active community member.
Once you've gained some trust, you can add your own ad in your signature, so whenever you post, your ad will appear to everyone reading it.
By being an active and contributing member of the forum, other members will more likely click on it to go to your website.
Web 2.
0 Blogs, social networking sites and social bookmarking are some of the best ways to build traffic and backlinks to your own site.
Best of all, they're mostly free to use.
You can even start your own Facebook fan page and have your friends sign up, and get them to get their friends to sign up.