Free Advertising on Craigslist
Have you ever been on the website? You can post an ad on there at no cost to you. I started posting on Craigslist a couple of weeks ago and had someone contact me about getting their website designed. One of my good friends sells mattresses around Atlanta and generates most of his business through Craigslist. I’ve also used Craigslist to advertise my personal training services as well and generated a lead. Give it a try. It only takes a few minutes to post an ad. If you do decide to post on Craigslist, just be careful. If you don’t get a good feeling from talking with them, then...
Read MoreWho links to your competitors?
One way to get links is to find out who is linking to your competitors. Recently, I just stumbled upon two backlink checkers, Backlink Watch and Link Diganosis. Backlink Watch doesn’t require you install anything, but it is loaded with advertisements. Nevertheless, it does the job and will give you the website that is linking to you along with the text used in the link. Link Diagnosis doesn’t have all of the advertisments that Backlink Watch has, but it requires that you install a plug-in for the Mozilla Firefox browser. If you don’t us Mozilla Firefox to browse the...
Read MoreGet a Yelp Business Listing
Yelp is the Facebook of online business review sites. Customers leave one to five star reviews on businesses. I go to Yelp whenever I’m researching a new business, and it’s never steered me wrong. The cream always rises to the top. I’ve used them for a variety of services from eating out to getting my car brakes done to getting a haircut. The reviews are legitimate, and suspicious reviews are filtered out. According to Crunchbase, Yelp drew in more than 50 million unique visitors last March. Wouldn’t you like to have some of that traffic? On your Yelp...
Read MoreGenerating Business with Social Networking Websites
What are social networking websites? It’s better if I point out examples rather than explain what they are. Do you happen to have a LinkedIn account? How about a MySpace account? If you don’t have either of those two accounts, what about a Facebook account? Chances are you probably have at least one of them, and if not, you’re really missing out. Social networking websites have exploded over the last few years. Facebook has more than 400 million active users with 50% of them logging in to update their status each day. Now that’s a lot of people. So...
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