How To Promote Your Business With Little or No Money

by Samuel · 27 comments

Most people get confused on how they can promote their business with no money, due to one reason or the other and by so doing they feel like giving up.
Promoting your business with little or no money is not a hard thing to do, all what it need is SENSE! Yea how you can think and how you can strategize is what that matters. There are numerous ways to promote your product with little or no money but the major ones will be talked about in this post
Below are tips on how you can promote your business with little or no money.
Promotion based on commission: if you don’t have the money to promote your product, you can use this method and what I mean by promotion based on commission is that you will have to get people who will help you take your products out there and get buyers and if they make any sales, you will give them their commission based on their sales. You will have to search for them before you can get them, though these kind of people are scarce but it depends on the area you are and when you get them try to be nice to them. It will help make them strive more in other to bring sales.
Business Cards: You can also promote your business through business cards, share out your business cards to people , let them know that you exist in the business world, Promoting your business  through business cards do work  perfectly. You don’t just print a business card for the sake of it, give your business card a pro look, and let your business card speak for you.
Free Hosting Platform: Now that the internet has made almost everything easy, you can easily promote your business on the internet by using free hosting platform like wordpress or blogger, and it requires little or no programming before you can set it up. All you need is give the site a domain name, give it a nice design and create pages and in each page tell them what your business is all about, your aim etc and start promoting it.
Network: You can also promote your business through networking, go out there meet people tell them what your business is about,  meet people who are in similar business with you, chat with them so in case they get customers that needs your service they can easily direct the person to you. Networking is the key. Attend seminars, conference show your area of expertise, talk to them about your business, also try to offer to be a guest speaker on certain events, so when you feed people with informative words they will want o know you also the type of business you are doing. So try to network and don’t remain stagnant.
Social Media: You can use social media to promote your business for example you can use facebook to promote your product, create a fan page and the page should be about your business, after customizing the page start telling friends about it also invite people to join your group from there you will share with them, facts about your business etc.
Free Giveaway: People love free things; free things make them come in zillion. You can also promote your business by giving people a free taste of your business I mean a free trial, when they found out that its good they will patronize you also they will tell their friends about your business and from there your business will start growing.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Tell us about what you feel and also if you have any other ways a business can be promoted with little or no money, please feel free to comment below by using the comment section also if you love this post feel free to share it with your friends. Thanks.

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Michael September 11, 2010 at 1:40 am

Hi Samuel

Nice post, bro. The tips you offer here are all true and with passion, determination and drive anyone can promote their business on a budget. Of course having the finances to advertise, market and offer incentives helps.

Thanks for sharing

Michael
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Samuel September 11, 2010 at 5:46 am

Hi Micheal, Yea thats just the fact. Thanks for commenting. Take care :D

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Ryan Biddulph September 11, 2010 at 3:35 am

Hi Samuel,

These are solid tips for how to market on the cheap.

I love using social media to market my opportunities. It’s free, easy to use and quite fun too ;) Keep in mind that to effectively market with free methods you must be creative. As you noted with the business cards, give them a pro look. The more creative you are the more attractive you become.

Thanks for sharing your insight.

Ryan Biddulph
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Samuel September 11, 2010 at 5:51 am

Hi Ryan, i agree with you! “the more creative you are, the more attractive you become” thats just the law. Thanks a lot for the comment. Keep the good work up.

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Lye Kuek Hin September 11, 2010 at 4:39 am

Hi Samuel,

Great tips there on promoting business with little financial burden on our pockets. In facts these are the things we should make use of if we are going to promote our own products. I especially like networking and social media which can get to people wide and fast.

Thanks for sharing Samuel.
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Samuel September 11, 2010 at 5:55 am

Hi Lye, Yea networking and social media is the key! It will help break new grounds in no time. Thanks a lot for the comment. Keep the good work up. Take care.

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Robin September 11, 2010 at 6:04 pm

I started my blogging with zero investment and now i can make good returns ofcourse i am investing very little compare to the earning i get. Its not for showoff, even i have a plan to make my living completely through blogging.

Lets see.. :)
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Samuel September 12, 2010 at 6:03 am

Hi Robbin! Woo that’s cool :D don’t worry, you will get there. Thanks for the comment take care.
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Blinkky September 11, 2010 at 8:37 pm

You got good tips here. Good for newbie who wants to start making money online =)

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Samuel September 12, 2010 at 6:07 am

Hi blinkky! How you doing? Its been a long time heard from you lol. Yea you are absolutely right. Thanks for the comment. Take care.

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Bradley Nordstrom September 12, 2010 at 2:31 am

You are great poster.You would good for newbies like Blinkky said.

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Samuel September 12, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Hi Brad! Thanks for the comment! I really appreciate! :D

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Keith Davis September 12, 2010 at 7:54 am

Hi Samuel
Always interested in what can be achieved without a huge outlay.
As you say Wordpress.com is free and there are some awesome sites blogging on that platform.

Perhaps I could add… get out there and get yourself known on the blogosphere.
Get an Avatar so that visitors start to recognise you (take a look at some of the great smiles on those avatars) and then comment on blogs where you have something constructive to add to the discussion.
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Samuel September 12, 2010 at 1:45 pm

Hi Keith! Yea i agree with you man. That also will be nice. Thanks a lot for the add i really appreciate.

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Patricia@lavenderuses September 12, 2010 at 12:21 pm

Hi Samuel
I haven’t tried to monetize my blog yet but what I am doing is visiting other blogs, learning and building relationships. Then when I do my product reviews I hope I will have the trust of those visitors to my site. Also by interacting on Social Media sites like Twitter people are getting to know me and what I stand for.
I think you have some great tips there. I also have business cards that I am giving out as soon as I have products to sell.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Samuel September 12, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Hi Patricia! Yea, my advice for you is to have an audience first, i mean you should try to build a reputable relationship with your audience first also try to win their heart and if you can successfully carry out that operation anything you want to do can now follow! I bet, you will be happy with the result. Thanks for commenting and keep the good work up. Take care.

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Ben Lang September 12, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Those are some great ideas Samuel! Thanks for sharing, by the way, been reading your blog lately, great content. Hope to see you around at EpicLaunch.

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Samuel September 13, 2010 at 5:40 am

Thanks for the comment man! Yea i will lol. Take care.

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Richard Chidike | Motivatory September 13, 2010 at 9:38 pm

This is nice list of options for business promotion on tight budget. The best part is that anyone can put them to use.
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Samuel September 14, 2010 at 7:14 am

Hi Richard, yea you are right! :D thanks for the comment. Keep the good work up.

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Imran September 18, 2010 at 11:57 am

Sam What ever I read in your blog it is 100% true bro, Basically I am too following just some simple rules like comment on others blog and writing article from the debt of the heard. There is still a very long way to go in order to build the network.

This is really a nice share bro.
Thanks for sharing
Imran
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Samuel September 18, 2010 at 6:17 pm

Yea bro you are right! there’s a very long way to go! keep pushing till you get to the top! thanks a lot for your support.

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themayg September 19, 2010 at 11:44 pm

another great post sammie.i agree with imran,you have always fed us with great tips.hope you become a great blogger.keep it moving
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shashank chinchli September 28, 2010 at 12:35 am

good blog dude…
You would good for newbies like Blinkky said.:)
thanks :)
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Samuel October 1, 2010 at 8:48 am

Hi bro, thanks a lot for the comment! take care.

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Sathish @ TechieMania October 1, 2010 at 6:17 am

I think of all the points listed here, Social Media and Free give away will work in a lot better way to promote business with no money at all. Anyways, Thanks for sharing these tips.
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Samuel October 1, 2010 at 8:50 am

Yea Social media will help a lot! thanks a lot for the comment take care.

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