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Forty free marketing techniques for small businesses

June 16, 2009 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
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deskofficeMarketing fundamentally means not only product promotion. It also involves quality products, reasonable prices and good placement. All of them are directed to the satisfaction of customers, return to the investors and success of business owners and entrepreneurs. With this notion, marketing does not always mean spending money. Small business owners and entrepreneurs should realize that they can do marketing without spending any penny to achieve business and entrepreneurial success. There are tons of zero-cost marketing techniques small businesses may apply. My top forty of those techniques are the following:

1. Make a strategic planning

2. Be honest and credible

3. Have commitment

4. Make a fan page on Facebook

5. Get thousand of followers on Twitter

6. Make lots of friends in MySpace

7. Blog using Wordpress and Blogspot

8. Upload company videos in YouTube

9. Upload company images in Flickr and Photobucket

10. Emailing without spamming

11. Quality control checking

12. Offer appealing and reasonable price

13. Be friendly to your costumers

14. Always include your business in your signature

15. Word of mouth

16. Word of mouse

17. Branding and business identity

18. Be involved in your community

19. Participate online forum

20. Give free education

21. Write and publish articles

22. Public speaking

23. Smile always

24. Always greet people

25. Guarantee customer satisfaction

26. Build on the right location

27. Window display

28. Exhibit show

29. Online research

30. Offline research

31. Testimonials

32. Passion and enthusiasm

33. Analyze and study yourself

34. Analyze and study competitors

35. Make your employees happy

36. Be neat and clean

37. Be humble

38. Go to your church

39. Express peace and love

40. Believe and be faithful

So what’s your favorite free marketing technique among the list? Or maybe you have your own technique that was not included above? If you do, feel free to share it by making a comment below.

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  • StumbleUpon
  • Digg
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Facebook
  • del.icio.us
  • Propeller
  • Mixx
  • Sphinn

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  • Thanks for information
  • Hey, thanks for sharing these marketing techniques for small businesses.
    This is really a great list of ideas.
  • Great list of marketing techniques for small business. Thanks for information.
  • Great ideas. Some of them are so simple that you might not have thought of them. Marketing your business is not just about getting new people through the door/website. It is also about maintaining good relationships with potential customers and providing adequate support.
  • Great tips for small businesses, an email newsletter is really helpful for connecting you to customers.
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  • Having been blogging for quite a while, I can easily say that this is a great list of tips. All of these forty tips are equally important.
  • Hi Gooroo,

    Thanks for visiting. I just visited your blog. And it was just interesting. It's great you have started while young.
  • viclogic,

    Thank you for checking out my blog. I've always believed that the younger you start, the better your chances are atsucceeding. Then again, that's my opinion. I've bookmarked your blog...I'll be back soon! :)
  • Seh
    This is a great list of ideas. Currently I create short, catchy videos that lead viewers back to an offer on an affiliate site. I accumulate a majority of my traffic from posting my videos free to Adwido and letting them help me target specific keywords to boost targeted traffic. Affiliate marketing is definitely a real way to make money online.
  • Very Useful post. Thanks.
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    THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT WORK.

    JACKIE CHIA
  • Thanks for sharing forty free marketing tips it's all very imp for me and related to my profession
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