Blogging and Starbucks cards... That`s what I`d do. 

1. You find people that make sense in your network to partner with in other words they share your target market and compliment your products or services.
2.  You trust them, know they are great at what they do and rave about them on a regular basis already.
3. You meet with them tell them you would like to exchange referrals regulary to help each other grow your  businesses.
4. You educate them about your ideal clients and learn about theirs.
5. You give them a stack of your business cards.
6. and you work for them the way you want them to work for you.

What could be cheaper than asking your customers to help you grow your business?

The high-value idea is to leverage word-of-mouth and referrals.  Customers are the best source of new leads and can really help close business.  You might want to look at www.BuzzHub.com which helps manage the process of building a reputation score for marketing on-line and in print.  They call it a BuzzRating.

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Brandon
De Novo Pittsburgh Chiropractic & Health
Treating Pittsburgh`s Athletes
www.denovopittsburgh.com

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C.A. Rogers, CEO
HelenaJohn.com

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Matthew Nalett
Chicago Music Promotions


http://www.chicagomusicpromotions.com

http://www.newmusicpromote.com

I am assuming the idea would be to multiply your $100.

First I would create a blog on a niche topic that I am extremely knowledgeable on. I would write on the topic every other day for at least a month. I would promote it using a social network such as twitter or facebook. I would create short concise videos with a webcam (if I had one)...I actually do have one...although not everyone does. Otherwise I would create articles and mini powerpoint presentations with embedded images to keep it interesting. I would ask a few select people in my community that are doing things complimentary to me if they want to place a small intro business ad for $10 (to be included on 50 cd`s). Then I would do a short little 250 word article on them. Alternatively, they could just submit an article for you (at no charge to them) just to keep your topics diverse...but still related.

I would then call my local Rotary clubs, chamber of commerce, professional groups and offer to do free public speaking or mini workshops on my niche topic. I would repurpose and compile all of my info that I created during the first 30 days to cater toward my target group and burn all my articles and info onto a cd (first you would have to buy the cd`s). I think a spool of 100 is about 50 buck). So that is where I would use half of my hundred bucks. Then after the event I would sell the CD`s for $1 each or something to that effect. The remainder of the 50 bucks should be used for business cards (vistaprint.com) and a door prize or two to build up the interest in attending the event.

I would use the promo CD`s to give an overview of myself and the value of information and community I would provide by doing business with me. Then I would work on building my email contact list. At which point I would invest into a contact management program like icontact.com or constant contact to stay in touch with my target market.

I am a strong advocate of article marketing, social networking and what have you but my greatest success over the past 3 years for building community and a highly targeted contact list has been in my offline and organic marketing efforts. Meeting folks face to face and writing original non-optimized content on my blog.

cheers and good luck to you.

Shonika

Once you feel you have created a buzz and you are getting positive feedback - utilize the $100 for a follow up marketing campaign.

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