marketing help?

Question

ok i have started my own accounting business and i would like to know some suggestions on how to get more clients for free, i have told family and friends to spread the word i have a web site whatelse can i do for FREE

this is serious please do not add inappriate material or you will be reported

Answer 1

A few free resources – check out the sources box for links:

1) Create a blog pertaining to your field

2) Use Yahoo! Local & Yahoo! Groups – Be sure to read the TOS for each one!

3) Write articles pertaining to your field and/or expertise.

4) Advertise on Craiglist

Also, consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to advertise on other's sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are paid a commission.

I listed a few handy sites & articles relating to marketing, promotion & advertising. Here are some book titles that are relevant:

* 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America's Most Innovative Small Companies by Sam Decker
* Off The Wall Marketing Ideas: Jumpstart Your Sales without Busting Your Budget by Nancy Michaels, Debbi J. Karpowicz
* Guerrilla Marketing for Free: Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits by Jay Conrad Levinson
* Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide: Over 1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof by James Stephenson

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 2

Write to every business reporter that works at a weekly newspaper (those site around langer and have more loyal readers) in a fifty mile radius from where you live. Approach them as a student and explore your idea with them. It makes them feel valuable and they may become great word-of-mouth advertisers for you, and they do want to work at a daily newspaper and are keen to get ahead. Finally, go to Craig's List (the local eBay) and sell/barter your services there. The get the best reporter to tell your story.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

get your company on yahoo local, make shure your website comes up if you search for it. Example- if i where to type in accountants in (your city) would your website come up?

If not email me back I will help write some meta tags for your site so that search engines find you>

Well it's not 100% free, but print up business cards and flyers and pass arround. you can get these made up pretty cheap or print them your self,

I would get a proffesional looking card made.

visit www.iprint.com it will cost about 20 bucks for about 250 professional looking cards with no other ads on it.

good Word of mouth takes for ever to spread, bad however spreads much faster

good luck

Answer 5

Place ads in your local newspapers - not just the times, but in local jounal type papers.

Go around your hood, and offer your services. Drop off your business cards with cookies, candies, or whatnots so that people will remember to call you for your services.

Join a local women entrepreneur club/group. They will typically meet once or twice a month for breakfast. It would be great for you to start to network that way.

Also, there are business leaders groups that have regular breakfast/lunch meetings.

Good luck!!!

Answer 6

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