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Online Marketing on a Budget















Marketing is one of the single most important things you need to do to succeed in the business world.  The problem?  It can use a lot of cash to make it work.  For an entrepreneur just getting started, marketing budgets can often be practically non-existent.
Fortunately, the age of the Internet has made it easier to run a full-scale marketing campaign with very little cost up front.  Here we’ve put together a list of ways you can utilize online marketing resources, often for free.  Yep, FREE!
Online Review Sites


Making sure your business is listed on online review sites is important. Not just for traffic and product sales, but for ensuring your online reputation stays positive.  The following sites are some of the most influential review sites out there.



Google My Business Page: Setting up a page here will get your business on Google Search, Maps and Google+, as well as allow customers to review your business. Local business reviews usually receive high rankings in the search results, giving you some great, and free results real estate.


 Yelp:  Since it’s the biggest online
review site, creating a Yelp listing is definitely worth it. It gets you in front of the site’s more than 140 million monthly users and, it’s free.








Yahoo: Yahoo offers local businesses the option to get a basic business listing in its directory.  Listings are incorporated with other of their products like reviews, maps, and events.  And yes, it’s free.
Social Media Marketing
Industry Groups:  Choose two or three groups in your business’ industry on Facebook and LinkedIn.  By offering advice and support, you help establish yourself as an expert in your field.  You can even take it a step further and create your own groups.  Eventually, these outlets will build your reputation and drive sales.
Facebook:  If you haven’t already signed up with social media platform, Facebook is probably one of the best places to start.  Since its inception, Facebook has been in the fore front of social media advancements and has developed and perfected a number of tools for small businesses.
Twitter:  This platform has proven to be a powerful, platform for immediate information.  By studying and following people in your industry or expertise, you will quickly learn, some dos and don’ts figure out the best way to use it, then set up your own feed and start to Tweet.
LinkedIn:  The fastest growing and most influential professional platform online, LinkedIn has done for Professional Media what Facebook did for Social Media.  Set up an account to meet, engage and, connect with other professionals about jobs, careers, and branding
YouTube:  Visual marketing, especially in the form of video,  is still at the top when it comes marketing. With You Tube, this form is now more accessible.  Use it to tell a story, showcase your personality, or demonstrate a product without having to pay for ad time on TV.  You can be as casual or formal as you want, as long as you are ready to be on camera.


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Monitor Brand Mentions:  It’s now easier to keep up with what’s happening.  Using a social listening tool like Social Mention to monitor and contribute to conversations happening in your industry will help you stay current on trends without having to spend every hour surfing postings.
Blogging:  In addition to your own blog, find other blogs and websites within your industry and create Guest posts.  Comment thoughtfully on blogs and then leave your website URL in the appropriate field, just be sure to use your real name or business name, not keyword-rich anchor text. Noticing others will get you noticed as well.
Installing a free social sharing plugin on your blog, like Share Buttons, makes it easy for your readers to share your posts and increase your audience.
Other Ways to Get Yourself Noticed
Hold free webinars on your site:  If you’ve researched this prospect before but decided it would be too expensive, consider some of these alternatives.  WordPress has a webinar plugin called WebinarIgnition, with a one-time cost of $97 for unlimited webinars with unlimited attendees.  Or, you can utilize your Facebook account and do a Facebook Live event.
Join Forums and Answer Questions:  These days there are multiple forums out there for just about anything.  Take the time to make meaningful contributions to conversions by providing real assistance to those posting the questions.  This will get the attention of other readers and make them more inclined find out more about you.  You can get started on sites like Quora, where real people are looking for answers to questions. Search the site for relevant questions you can answer intelligently.
HARO (Help A Reporter Out):  Sign up and get free PR by responding to relevant media queries.  This will turn into free mentions and links in publications like Huffington Post, Forbes more.
eBooks: Anyone can be an author and publish now.  Whether it’s about business or, choosing the best wine, you can create an eBook simply and for free. Just input your content into chapters using MS Word.  Add some images and links, edit, review and spell check.  Then save it as a PDF and you have an eBook. Post it on your website, blog or offer it in exchange for a person’s email address, aiding you in growing your email database.
By now you may be experiencing the feeling that the room is spinning out of control, knowing that there are so many options out there that you can implement.
Not to worry.  Look at the list and narrow it down to 2-3 options you are really excited about.  Once you have them under your belt, move on to a few more.
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