excluding craig's list [am on it now]?

Question

where else can i for free, promote my
business advisory firm?

i help people start, expand or I help fix their firms.

NO $ for advertising; I wanna see how else I can promote it.

Answer 1

Hi Kemperg,
Craig's List is not the only and probably not the best place to free advertise.
There another ways to promote your business than using just free classifieds.
First of all, you just lost an opportunity above to have it advertised.
Use your weblink always (but not out of the context), have it printed on businesses cards, paperwork, etc.
Split your tactics in:
Offline and online
Offline:
- Offer free consultancy for local group/entity/organization
- Seminars
- Promote your model as unique and inovator

OnLine
- Promote your URL using free foruns
- Become a specialist at Yahoo Answers
- Become a specialist at any online business forum.
- Optimize you website.
- subscribe your URL to search Engines as Google, Yahoo and MSN
- Subscribe your URL to free Directories as DMOZ

Take a look on the websites listed as sources.
Good Luck
Lucio Dias Ribeiro

Answer 2

There are several places where you can promote your business online for free.

Here are some of the more popular classified websites (beyond CL) where you can post your ads for free.

http://www.backpage.com
http://www.kijiji.com
http://expo.live.com
http://www.ClassifiedAds.com

All four have high traffic, allow you to post for free and are local centric with a global reach.

Also think beyond the classified listings. Both Yahoo and Google have local options for businesses.
http://www.google.com/local/add
http://listings.local.yahoo.com/csubmit/index.php

And so do the online yellow pages such as SuperPages.com
http://advertising.superpages.com/spweb/portals/customer.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=bp_listing_find&_nfls=false

Done right, you could set up a free business profile with Google, Yahoo or SuperPages and then promote that through the free classified sites.

All the best to you with your business!

Answer 3

Hi Kemper, try www.startupnation.com these guys started in their basement and are doing great and offer advice free , there was a article recently about them inthe det news I think the 9/2/07 edition or go to their site and of course you can always advertise through churches or local boards but best way I found is through networking, going to alot of functions and meeting people / handing out cards etc.. only about a 2% return on flyers and phone does'nt work and ads are expensive. good luck hope this helps

Answer 4

Here are the largest sites online to place free classified advertising.

http://classifieds.yahoo.com/ Alexa Rank: 1
https://www.google.com/base/
http://classifieds.myspace.com Alexa Rank: 5
http://expo.live.com/ Alexa Rank: 8
http://www.craigslist.org/ Alexa Rank: 28
http://adlandpro.com/ Alexa Rank: 1,298
http://www.backpage.com Alexa Rank: 1,876
http://www.usfreeads.com Alexa Rank: 3,121
http://www.oodle.com/ Alexa Rank: 5,501
http://www.adpost.com/ Alexa Rank: 6,906
http://www.FreeAdvertisingForum.com 12,025
http://www.sell.com/ Alexa Rank: 13,471
http://www.InetGiant.com Alexa Rank: 21,082
http://www.adquest3d.com/ Alexa Rank: 22,252
http://www.recycler.com/ Alexa Rank: 23,996
http://www.chooseyouritem.com/ Alexa Rank: 19,569
http://www.domesticsale.com/ Alexa Rank: 24,207
http://epage.com/ Alexa Rank: 24,834
http://free-advertising-blog.com/index.php Alexa Rank: 26,048
http://www.ClassifiedsForFree.com Alexa Rank: 40,792
http://postaroo.com/ Alexa Rank: 43,471
http://www.TheFlyer.com Alexa Rank: 134,577
http://www.ClassifiedAds.com Alexa Rank: 143,204

Answer 5

The greatest and best of all methond, and it's free

WORD OF MOUTH!!!

Tell other people, get people talking, pass it on.