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I Want To Advertise My Home Business For Free

By: Jason Szova

There are a thousand ways to advertise your home business for free and many will be staring you right in the face and you will never have realized! Have you ever seen someone leave a tip with a business cared? What about that interesting basket of chocolate goodies you may see from time to time sitting on the counter at a diner, dry-cleaners or hotel with an invitation to leave your information in exchange for participating in a competition to win it?

Simple truth is we could go on and on so here are the top five tips for getting free advertising for your home based business.

At number 1, we have the free ad portals available on the internet and there are hundreds of different sites you can use. One of the most popular and completely free, is Craigslist (www.craigslist.com) where you can register easily and quickly with just an email address. You're then free to advertise your business 24-7 across the country and around the globe. Once you master Craigslist, move on and try www.usfreeads.com and use a search engine to find similar free advertising sites for you to put yourself up on.

Second top tip; shout about yourself and what you do. There is no sense in hiding yourself and your business and if you think someone else is going to go wild over what you do and the services you provide, think again. Developing a referral network and networking itself are skills that if you don't have you need to practice and learn. Word-of-mouth is free advertising and produces excellent business results so make sure everyone you know is made fully aware of what you do and that you are looking for business and customers. Not only will you generate sales from your own circle, but you will generate referrals from people you do not even know and this is the key to building a prosperous business.

Tip #3; with free internet advertising sites that operate as classified ad forums, you do not get the opportunity to network with others. Try www.directmatches.com and you will find this and many other sites exist for business to business and customer networking as these sites link buyers and suppliers directly together and also provide forums for helping potential customers and business owners seek each other out. More involved than simply placing a few classified ads and needs an investment of your time, but well worth the effort.

Now if you are feeling really adventurous, why not try setting up your own blog. Blogging is a simple and easy way to get your business noticed on the web and is completely free and simple to set up though you will need to invest some time and effort to come to grips with the tools that make blogging so successful. In addition to blogging on sites such as Wordpress and Blogger (simply google them to find them) you can also use social media sites such as MySpace, Facebook and many others to get yourself noticed and once you have mastered one you are pretty much set for using all of these sites.

Finally at number 5, we have issuing a press release for your local newspapers. You may think that issuing a press release is only for the very important or big companies to do; not at all! Newspapers have a never ending demand for stories and information to fill up their paper with and launching your home based business or offering a new service or joining a trade association are all worthy of a press release to your local paper. There are rules you should follow, but you can find these quickly and easily by using a search engine; at the very least you will learn some valuable experience in summarizing what you do and at best, get yourself a free spot in the press.

The best tip of all with free advertising is simply to try anything and everything. We've given you five tips but there are many, many more and if one thing doesn't work, move and try something else but always try as you aren't parting with a dime!

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