To succeed in SFI, advertising is the key. However, as a beginner your advertising budget may be lean hence free advertising is the bail-out.
There are a number of free advertising opportunities on the internet where you can advertise your SFI biz for FREE! By familiarizing oneself with their use, one can promote any business online with zero advertising budget. These include:
1. Email Advertising
This is one of the effective ways of reaching thousands of prospective customers. Sending email to thousands of people does not necessarily make it a spam. There are opt-in-lists, where members have agreed to receive email from fellow members. You should just register with another email ID apart from your regular one to receive email campaign from others. You too can send email on a regular basis. Besides, you can build your own list from people you have interacted with before.
2. Email Provider Groups
Most Email provider have groups, where members interact with one another. Providers like yahoo, goggle, hot mail etc have groups on all subjects, business, finance, health etc. Join them free and begin to share ideas (of course with your referral gateway) with them. With yahoo group, you can even send direct message to members of the group.
3. Forums
There are millions of forum with participants from all over the world, sharing and debating on all kinds of topics. Some of them are dedicated to promoting online opportunities where you are allowed to post your link. By starting a number of new threads, you can get substantive traffic to your site.
4. Article Writing
You can write content rich articles on any subject and submit to multiple article sites. Information is the key thing. But you also need a very catchy title that makes readers click on your article and then on your link at the end of the article. Titles like:7 new ways to...Revealed, the secrets of...How to...Tips for...
5. Social Marketing
We have many social networking sites. You should join them, create a public profile, add content to your site and write blogs. You have an awesome opportunity of meeting lots of people based on interest. Besides, there are groups in these social network sites where you can freely promote your business.
6. Traffic Exchanges
You can generate traffic to your site using traffic exchanges. One important advantage of traffic exchanges is that you can get targeted traffic to your site. You will have to visit others' sites to earn credit for your own advertisement campaign.
7. Classifieds
Literally, hundreds of classifieds abound on the net. Classifieds are small, short text adverts that millions of people are reading every day. Most of these are free and thus you can be promoting scores of them at the same time. You need to post under different categories to attract visitors to your site. If the site allows, you can place different ads in the same category to attract traffic.
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To succeed in SFI, advertising is the key. However, as a beginner your advertising budget may be lean hence free advertising is the bail-out.
There are a number of free advertising opportunities on the internet where you can advertise your SFI biz for FREE! By familiarizing oneself with their use, one can promote any business online with zero advertising budget. These include:
1. Email Advertising
This is one of the effective ways of reaching thousands of prospective customers.
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