Free ways to advertise your business?

Hi, I have a small business (and I am looking for free ways to advertise my business. Are there any websites available to get my product out there? any other ideas besides website to market it?

what i do:
I do Personalized Picture Videos, i put your favorite pictures together with backgrounds, words of encouragement, poems and quotes and create a one of a kind DVD creation. It is great to show at Birthdays, graduations, memorials, weddings, etc....

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1) I run a custom embroidery company and you need to create your cooperate identity. Create your logo and business name on your cooperate apparel.

2) Put the logo on your Auto

3) Make up business cards and hand them out. Every time you see someone you know hand several of them out. When you give people your business card, always give them more than one and ask them to give them to their friends/coworkers, etc.

4) The key for this kind of business is word-of-mouth. Think of some clever ways to encourage your existing clients to tell people about you. Perhaps you could start with a friend or family member to be one of your "spokesperson". I owned a convenience store for 10 years and a lot of business deals started in the checkout line by strangers. Tell everyone about you and ask if they know anyone that could use your service. Ask for a referral from an existing client

5) Start a website as a way to advertise you. Let your website work for you and your clients swap links. When making your own web site do some research on how to optimize your site so that you get a good ranking with a natural search. You do this by embedding smart key words. Your website could show your community involvement and you could have questions and answers on the site.

6) Look for websites that you can advertise for free. Advertise in the Yahoo local. Find free on-line classified web sites for your community. Typically the local chamber of commerce will offer such a service. You can advertise here for free: http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?48605
http://www.hits2u.com/?149843
http://goldbizz.localads.co.uk
http://www.koolplaz.com/
Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed
Examples are:
Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com
Google Base http://base.google.com
Classifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/...
Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/
US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/
Text Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/
Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/

7) A Yellow page ad seems to work great also.

8) Try to get your local newspaper to do a free article on your business.

9) Sponsor local sport teams or ballparks that hang up banners. There are also inexpensive ways to advertise like a local penny saver newspaper, high school yearbooks and newspapers, etc.

10) Call radio show call in and contest and always answer or make the statement with "your name and company name and you have been working hard" free radio ads are great.

11) Telemarketing When its slow in the office go down the page of the yellow pages and just call each #
Try article submission

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Av8sFy4ZrhVm6nQJuZ43aqzty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071219083105AAi2qW1&show=7#profile-info-US5pRGDvaa

One of the best and most inexpensive thing you could do is to use your vehicle(s) as a moving (or parked) billboard. Get your business name and web addresses on them so everyone can see (you'll be surprised at how many people will see it ... and it's free once you get it on). Go to http://www.greatlettering.com and design it yourself online. It's easy and cheap.

Post cards/Biz cards (like flyers) - spread them out everywhere you go. Include them (more than 1), if you don't already, with every sale you make.

You could also offer $50 bucks to people that refer you ... it will really help them keep YOUR name in the fore-front of their minds while their talking with people, then "dvd, video, etc" keywords pop up in conversation ... then bam! They giving out your name and saying "Make sure you tell them that I sent you".

Keep searching online for good sites you can buy cheap banner ads on ... or join forums that you can share you ideas (and products) on.

Good luck!

You should seriously reconsider your initial web design and not create a large opening piece of flash. The vast majority of analog dial-uppers (80% vs. 20% of DSLers) will not wait around enough for the slow download of your opening piece of flash. They will simply leave the site outright!

Instead of looking for another website to advertise your website, you should review your current SEO metatags and make some major improvements. Having the name of "index" as your <title> is meaningless.

Driving Net traffic to your website requires the placement of effective SEO metatags on your opening webpage.

We are assuming that you have the know-how to place critical SEO metatags on your opening webpage. Here's a tutorial that explains how SEO works.

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one's goods and services.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google's spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It's on the FIRST PAGE [ranked 10th]!
Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

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a free way to advertise is on here lol, other sites

myspace.com
facebook.com
many others

you already used this question to advertise your business LOL.. sounds to me like you're on top of things ;)

servicedomino.com. You also get online tools to promote your business...e.g: A review mechanism where your past customers can post your reviews

For startups and new businesses, I would recommend

http://www.angelbusinessloans.com

Try also read "Guerrilla Marketing for Free" - he list a lot of ways to do it.

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