3 Cost-Efficient Marketing Ideas for Small Business

If you have a small business, say a home-based business, and you want to make grow then proper marketing is the key. Don’t be intimidated with the term marketing because it does not only involve TV commercials and radio plugs.

You can promote your business using different marketing ideas for small business like joining holiday bazaars in your area or simply giving out flyers. Promoting your business involves money but it does not necessarily mean spending thousands of dollars for one or two advertisements. Here are some great yet cost-efficient marketing ideas for small business that you can use.

1. Create a company website

If you want to reach out to as many customers as you want then build a company website. It does not have to be fancy. A simple, detailed and professional-looking website is enough to present your business to a wider range of potential buyers or customers. There are lots of sites that offer free websites, you can sign up and make one for your company. Creating free websites, however, has some disadvantages because it imposes some restrictions.

Make Your Own Flippa site

Your website will show other links or banners which will divert the attention of your potential customers. They may click on those links and banners and be redirected to a different site. The best thing to do this is to have your own domain and hire someone to make a user-friendly website. In this case, you can manage or update your website anytime.

2. Do some Search Engine Optimization

Once you have your website, invest on its optimization. SEO allows search engines to index your website and display it whenever someone searches for something that you offer. In case, you don’t know anything about SEO, there are local marketing companies that can do the job for you. Just search for a company that offers the best SEO packages. You see, marketing ideas for small business are similar to those huge corporations. The only difference is that big companies have huge marketing budget while small-scale business have limited funds. So, to remedy this issue, proper marketing plan and strategies must be employed.

Rank 1 in Google, Guaranteed!

3. Write reviews or press release

One of those marketing ideas for small business that you can do yourself is to write reviews or press release articles. Make reviews on your products and services and post them on free review sites or directories. You can also write press release and submit it to free press release directories. Doing either of these will not cost you anything since you will be the one to make the contents and submission is also free of charge.

These marketing ideas for small business can be done along with your other promotional campaigns. Try not to spend so much on traditional marketing methods like advertisements on television, radio or newspapers because these are costly and will only last for a short period of time, unless you have the budget to pay for its air time and publication.

FREE Marketing Tools - Are They Really Free?

A few days ago I was browsing aimlessly on the net and I came across a website about building a profitable Internet business.

And the weird (and CRAZY) thing is, this site is giving away $488 worth of valuable Internet Marketing products for FREE! Here is the link FREE Marketing Tools

Yep, all of them as a complimentary GIFT to you.

With this gift, you'll discover and learn how to build a CONSISTENT four figure per month online business FAST.

Just look at this Video Tutorial

(...notice the word CONSISTENT and FAST is in caps lock?)

I say consistent because a lot of the times (almost every time actually) all the Internet Marketing "gurus" claim that you can earn a four or five figure income with their methods.

But what they don't tell you is that with their methods, your income will NOT be CONSISTENT.

Why?

Well because these "guru" methods are usually short-lived and temporary, meaning you can't earn consistent monthly income.

Sure you may be able to earn 10k in 1 day.

But how long does it last?

Can you still earn 10k in 1 day one month later?

UNLIKELY!

Take a look at the CRAZY product launch that's happening every single day with the "how I went from zero to 100k per month in just 14 days just by working 2 hours per day" yadda yadda claim…

Yes every single day.

Don't believe me?

Check your email and you'll know what I mean…

Every day you receive numerous sales pitch emails promising you the "next big thing" that if you don't immediately buy, you'll definitely fail in your online business venture bla bla bla…

Next day you receive another email from the SAME marketer, this time offering a different "next big thing" that is supposed to be the best discovery since slice bread.

A few days later this SAME marketer pitches you again on a different product by another marketer and the cycle goes on and on…

Sounds familiar?

And when I say FAST, I don't mean you can build a four figure per month business instantly.

Fast and instant is VERY different!

Instant is very deceiving.

When you say "instant" you almost think that the income you're going to get is very easy to generate without any hard work at all…

(…apart from clicking a few buttons on your mouse)

This is definitely NOT the case here!

When I say "FAST", I mean you learning from the mistakes that other honest Internet marketers have experienced before, and therefore cut short your learning curve so that you can achieve a four figure per month online income much FASTER than if you were to figure out everything for yourself.

Make sense?

Anyway, do you still remember the website I told you at the start of this email?

The one that's giving away $488 worth of Internet Marketing products for FREE?

Well, since this is time-sensitive, I suggest you better claim your FREE GIFTS NOW before it's too late.

Free Ebooks On Jobs To Do At Home

I have received few messages on my Facebook account, asking me for references on various jobs to do at home. To make it official, those who want FREE Ebooks or references about legit online jobs or work at home opportunities, just leave a comment on any of my posts using your email. In your comment please mention the subject matter you are interested in like blogging, freelance writing, virtual assistant etc.

If you do not wish to post your email, just say so and I will not post it. Don't worry as I personally moderate your comments.

Alternatively, you can browse here and choose your FREE Ebooks

To our success!

Earn with PLR

I have read lots of articles about earning from PLR, and I must say that they are TRUE. In fact, due to my curiosity I bought a PLR pack and did some changes. Guess what? I was able to sell it for $45. It may not be that much but the point is, You Can Make Money from PLR products.

Here are some of the best sources of PLR products.

www.downloadplrproducts.com

Massive collection of Private Label Right & Master Resell Rights Products

This is where I bought my first PLR pack, and I swear they have the best collection of PLR products.

EasyPLR.com by Nicole Dean

I just recently bought a pack of PLR articles, and they are of high quality.

If you want to create an ebook or just have some articles ready for your website and blogs, getting a PLR pack for your niche is a practical solution. Just make sure to edit them so they will be unique.

How to Get The Most Out Of Something FREE

I have recently found this program from a friend who has been into Affiliate Marketing, and I thought it will be great to share it to other aspiring marketers, freelance workers and everyone who love FREEBIES.

This is called Free Monthly Websites

In my opinion, Free Monthly Websites is one of those programs that some of you are familiar with - free sites to use for your online business. When I say FREE, I mean it's TOTALLY FREE OF CHARGE. Anyway, I will now show you how you can get the most of it and why Free Monthly Websites is such great tool to help you earn extra income stream to your existing online business.

You can sign up for your Free Monthly Websites here.

The 3 main categories to take advantage of:

1, Selling eBooks

2, Writing articles

3, Affiliate promotions

Okay, when you first login and download your free website, follow the tutorials to help you get your website onto your webspace. You are presented with a very nice well designed Adsense website.

What can you do with this free website? Well to be honest the free website has duplicate contents, so you can rule out getting to the top of the search engine rankings. You must edit them to make them unique, but do not lose the thought of the contents.

The premier websites are a different kettle of fish all together but I will get to those in a moment.

So, you have option 1 ‘Selling eBooks’

If you sell eBooks especially PLR (private Label Content) conversions, you will find Free Monthly Websites have a rather large verity of websites that correspond with a lot of the PLR out there (if you are a premier member you get a bonus PLR eBook). All you need to do is upload your eBook to a convenient location on your webspace and place a few corresponding links inside your PLR eBook.

The next category is the option number 2. This is even easier. I know most of you will at some point, or do write articles and submit them to various article directories. So, why not try writing an article about one of the subjects related to Free Monthly Websites? Submit your articles to these directories and link them to your blog or webpage where you have your affiliate links or Adsense. Of course, another income stream will start. Here are some of the best article directories that you may consider:

http://www.articledashboard.com/

http://www.articlebasement.com/

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://www.goarticles.com/

The third option is a little different. Here, you can earn by using your Free Monthly Websites affiliate link to promote the website and earn a potential $98.50 per referral. You can put your link in the websites provided for you or in the eBooks you sell. You may also place them in the articles you write and publish online. This can generate a missive earnings income of $98.50.

So, through your website, your eBooks and your articles in the article directories, you will be well on your way to earning great income from an Absolutely FREE Resource.

So, here's a link for you:

http://www.freemonthlywebsites2.com

I hope that all of us will be earning great income before this year ends.

Until next time. Ciao!

SocialSpark - More Than Just A Social Network

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

Because of my current busy schedule with my freelance writing jobs, I had no time to update this humble blog. But just today, I received an email from IZEA. At first I thought it was just one of those spam messages which I often receive after signing up on sites that I found interesting. So, because of my curiosity, I clicked on the image of Social Spark and redirected me to its homepage.

Well, upon seeing the homepage, I thought it is just one of those social network sites which I signed up during the time I worked as a virtual assistant for an Australian client. But, as I get more curious, I clicked the "advertisers" and the "publishers" tabs on the navigation bar. After reading the contents of these tabs, I started to become interested and eager to find out how I can sign up on SocialSpark. So, I clicked on the "publishers" tab and signed up as a blogger.

So, before you sign up, make sure that you have an existing blog. However, there are other options such as Tweeters and Mobilers. So, on the right side (you are facing the monitor of your computer) you will see the form that you need to fill up. Well, I put my username, my email address, my password and the URL of my blog, then I just click create account. After signing up, I just put in some required details in my SocialSpark account, and I start navigating the site.

The site is user-friendly. I mean, it is easy to navigate and learn the different components of the site. The contents are straightforward. It informs the readers or the visitors that they can earn and monetize their blogs and Tweeter accounts. There are a lot of earning opportunities, especially for bloggers like me because there are so many advertisers looking for bloggers who are willing to write something about their site. What I really love about this is the fact that advertisers are willing to pay good amount for a quality review. But of course, you just can't write anything you want unless you have read and understood the site's Code of Ethics.This means that everything that you'll write in your blog is 100% true and transparent. Your post must also be search engine friendly and it must show your genuine opinion about the topic, whether it is a product, a company or a service.

I love the fact that SocialSpark allows me to say or write anything I want. Not to mention the earning potential that I can have just by doing what I love to do - writing!

So, for those bloggers who want to express their real opinions on anything, SocialSpark is for you. You will have tons of things to write about and lots of earning opportunities posted in the marketplace section.

To learn more about Sponsored Post and Tweets, Sign up for SocialSpark. Come on, there is nothing to lose because registration is absolutely free!

Reasons Why I Prefer Work At Home Jobs

Since 2007, I started working as a part-time web content writer, blogger and a virtual assistant. I must say that I do enjoy working at home because I can work at my own pace. I can choose the projects I want and I don’t mind working in my pajamas.

There are numerous reasons why you should consider working at home instead of working in an eight to five routine in the office. In the corporate world, you have a lot of strict rules to follow in terms of corporate discipline such as attendance and uniform. Another factor that I love about working at home is that I don’t have to race every morning so I won’t get caught in the traffic. Now that I work full time freelance writer, I am able to experience the following benefits:

Financial Reward

There is a lot of work at home jobs available for every skill. For instance, you have good writing skills; why not apply as an academic or web content writer? This will surely bring you good income since all websites need good and quality contents. When you work at home, you will certainly notice that your financial status has improved a lot. Initially, the earnings may not be that much but think about the savings you can get from your travel expenses. As soon as you get more clients, you will definitely get more profit from your writing skills.

Flexible Time

This benefit makes work at home jobs attractive especially to housewives. There are actually many home-based and freelance jobs in the internet. You may choose from data entry jobs, blogging, virtual assistance and filling up of surveys. These jobs will allow you to allocate your time accordingly since they don’t require so much of your time. In my case, being a home-based writer gives me more time with my family, and do things that I enjoy – writing!

No Supervisor

When work at home, you will be your own boss. You designate which task or work at home jobs to accept, and you work at your own pace. There is so much freedom you have if you choose to work at home. Let say, you choose to take a work at home blogging. Here you can select which blog you are comfortable writing about yet no one imposes the task or forced you to do it. Everything will be under your control.

More Options

The best thing about work at home jobs is that you have the freedom to select the type of work you are willing to do, and do it at your convenient time. If you want to work for only four hours a day, or have the weekends off, you are free to do so. There is plenty of work at home jobs available via the internet. In fact, signing-up in Odesk or LimeExchange.com can help you find tens of home-based jobs.

Work at home jobs can be financially rewarding and a stress-free career. The options are endless for you to find your dream job online. A degree is not necessary in finding your desired home-based jobs. All you need to have are: basic knowledge on computer, proper time management and your ability to complete the task without constant supervision.