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Hello

Can anyone suggest ways of marketing with no budget?

I have the social sites, building backlinks etc but I need to get my sites name known to a mass market without spending any money

Even though I have 2700 pages indexed I seem to be getting very little organic traffic since I stopped paying for PPC, with all the algoritym changes is there a way to get high visibility?

Running a business takes so much time I cannot sit typing 8 hours  a day to add to blogs and I am running out of ideas

Any help or mad ideas would be greatly appreciated

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SEO And Social Media marketing are your best option you can learn nearly everything if you do proper research about it

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SEO
Social Media & Online Communities / Forums
Classified Ads (Craigslist, Backpage, Kijiji, Gumtree, OLX, Oodle)
Cold Email / Cold Calling
Local Networking
eBay & Amazon - trust me, it's worth it despite the fees!
Shopping Comparison Sites like TheFind (free)
 

As you grow these avenues, put 50% of your profits into marketing so you can grow your business fast.  

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I tin the only bit of marketing you can do without a budget  is social media. Or SEO on your own if you know it. Else word of mouth is still the best and most trusted though it is under rated these days.

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emailing prospects is free, even with MailChimp  if your list is smaller than 2,000 and you are sending less than 12,000 emails a month.

The cost will come in buying the contact data if you don't have it already. You might be able to go the public library and scan/photocopy the stuff out the business directories they have in there.

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Volunteer

One great way to get your name, product or service in front of a lot of people is to volunteer. “It’s good for the community and it’s good for business,” says Carrie Kingsbury, owner of Promiseland Art, a Pennsylvania-based mural company. She just painted the stage set for a middle school play as a way to participate in the community, as well as get her business name out there.

 

Network

Join your local chamber of commerce and attend its business card exchanges and other events. The chamber or another local business group may offer deals in advertising because the group places collective ads as a way to stretch individual business ad dollars.

 

Generate Buzz

If you want to generate media buzz centering on your business, consider holding a promotional event to highlight a new product or service. If your business isn’t introducing a new product, try holding a promotional event around a “holiday.” For example, Rita’s Italian Ice celebrates the first day of spring each year by giving away a free sample water ice. Submit your promotion to the local news media.

 

Be an Expert

Share your expertise with your clients through videos and webinars offered on your company’s website. Shooting a video doesn’t have to be expensive; using today’s technology, almost anyone can do it for free. That said, watch out for quality. You’re using this video as a tool to show off your expertise and experience in the industry to gain customers, and you want it to reflect your best self.

 

Target Your Dollars

It goes without saying that you want to get the most from every marketing dollar spent. However, to make those dollars count, you want to make sure you’re targeting the right audience. Concentrate your efforts on a geographical location that works best for you, and determine who your customers are—these are your key market segments.”

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Marketing with no budget means giving your time or being good at talking your friends in helping you out. There are many greeat advices already mentioned, yes, consider all the free social media sites (while they are that), and just be as creative aspossible. If you already own a site, make sure to regularl update your blog with valuable info and promote the posts, Google tends toreward quality content. You can also promote your bsiness by printing a set of business cars that will cost little, and marcharound the area where you are located. A card can find you an investor, a client, a partner. These days, it is not so much about the marketing budget, as much as about your ability to understand the tendencies of attention.

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Have you ever thought of hiring an unpaid marketing intern? If you live near a college, it would be fairly simple to find one. They could do online marketing activities like making infographics, handle your social media, create linking opportunities. You would, of course, have to invest the time to search for a person and train them, but it wouldn't take any extra cash.

 

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I have been having some traction within my BNI meeting.  If you don't know, its a business network group, meeting once a week.  you can expand on that using their power teams.  

 

Also try businessleads.com.  I havn't used it, but i saw that you can pledge dollars for what you wil pay for an introduction to an sales opportunity.   

 

did you not see a value to your PPC campaigns?  

 

 

 

Ralph

FinishLineCapital.com

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I think Emailing is one of the best options here. It takes no cost. And you can directly Present your business in the hand of its required audience. Just draft a promotional mail that contains the details about your business, products or services. Make it attractive but simple and send it to all your targeted audiences. This will help you to generate good leads.

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