BusinessAccent.com: Man, mind, marketing, money and manners » price http://businessaccent.com Find articles, tips, stories and free resources on business, management, ethics, accounting, marketing, and online money profit making success. Thu, 27 May 2010 04:30:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Forty free marketing techniques for small businesses http://businessaccent.com/2009/06/16/forty-free-marketing-techniques-for-small-businesses/ http://businessaccent.com/2009/06/16/forty-free-marketing-techniques-for-small-businesses/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:45:19 +0000 Admin http://businessaccent.com/?p=801 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 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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