Forty free marketing techniques for small businesses
June 16, 2009 by Victorino Q. Abrugar
Filed under Marketing
Marketing 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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