We all know it takes money for marketing and advertising. The key to making money online or anywhere in this bad economy is through guerrilla marketing. Guerrilla marketing has the best budget. FREE!!! That’s right people it only cost’s you 0, zilch, absolutely nothing. The only thing it costs is time, energy and imagination instead of big marketing budgets. So you better get out the elbow grease because once you get done reading this it’s time to use guerrilla marketing for your business.
Now all of my guerrilla marketing efforts are online because this is where it’s free and you can reach more people this way. The internet has endless possibilities of getting your product or website or whatever it is that you’re doing out there. One of the main key factors is knowing your product, who else is selling the same product, where are they marketing and tons of RESEARCH. I would say research is the most important because it will give you access to free resources and all the other things I mentioned.
Research can take hours but costs you nothing. All you are doing is browsing the internet. I can guarantee any one who is reading is browsing for guerrilla marketing or how to make money online or viewed this from my MySpace bulletin I put out. Guess what I got your attention and it didn’t cost me anything but 15 minutes of my time to write this. See it’s already working.
Where to market
In case you didn’t know, there are thousands of free web directories, article directories, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, press release directories that you can submit your information to for FREE. Thousands of users go through those sites every day. So start submitting your website. If you don’t know where to find these resources email me directly and I will guide in the right direction. I would start by googling “list of web directories”. There are hundreds of sites that list them.
Free Websites
If you do not have money for a website, go with a service that provides you a free web builder. There are plenty of companies that will give you a free website when you buy a domain name for 6 to 10 bucks. Yeah, they are basic, but it’s a start. At least you will have something up. You can still get plenty of web traffic from this.
There are plenty of people that use MySpace for a free website. You pretty much get everything but a shopping cart. If you are good enough at MySpace you can add product for FREE using pay pal.
All you have to do is research. Just google “free website with domain name”.
MySpace and YouTube
MySpace and YouTube are both great sites to market. I’m going to use musicians for an example. You see music groups all the time on MySpace. The reason they get hundreds of thousands of visitors is from adding friends and post their videos on YouTube. Again it’s time consuming but well worth it when people are buying CD’s. You can do the same for any product. All you have to do is find your target audience.
Things to get you started
A really good book that I love is Guerrilla Marketing For Free by Jay Conrad Levinson. I think you can go to Google Books and find a FREE copy of it there.)
Create accounts at MySpace (if you don’t already have one), Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Squiddo
Create a free blog at WordPress, Blogspot (These all get ranked by Google and all the other search engines.)
Google “how to blog” and google “backlinks through blogging” (This will help you to not only to promote your website but to get other websites to link to you.)
As you can tell I’m trying to write this blog post quickly so you can get out there and start making money. I’ll keep updating this as there’s tons more information. All of this should get you started. Have fun.
SEO Steve
steve@stevedifabio.com