30 Ways to Advertise Your Business

Low expenses on marketing is a dream of any business owner. Additionally, it would be perfect that such low cost measures could bring exponential effect. It is said that a skilled marketer can promote the company almost without money, however it would be difficult to imagine Coca-Cola or Nike becoming famous without financial investments at all. Luckily, big companies understand quite well the necessity of advertising and how much money it can burn. The problem often covers small businesses that may be very skeptical about “all that rubbish”. But everyone wants to have income, new clients and sells and we have prepared 30 ideas that will help to advertise your business without great loss to budgets. But if you try most of this ways and still without good result try RTB advertising platform Polus.Media  to boost your revenue

1. Meet with people. If your business is oriented for small local town, you can go to the church or local cafe, shake hands and tell about yourself – somebody will certainly come.
2. Sponsor some local events. Nobody talks about full payments, but buying t-shirts for children’s team and print your name or logo there. One more variant, you can start a campaign for ill people.
3. Ask people to recommend. If your service was good and you could do it for cheap – why not to ask about leaving feedback online or offline.
4. Keep your promises, otherwise ill name will run before your company.
5. Attend fairs, related exhibitions. You may rent a special place with your goods or just hand-out leaflets about your company.
6. Write to Google Local to tell about your company. It will cost you absolutely nothing, you will need to give your contact information about business and increase your awareness in the Internet.
7. Write to Yellow Pages. Paper version will take some money for registering, while online version requires no fee. People still study the companies there before buying.
8. Cooperate with other relative business owners. If you own a wedding dresses salon, probably your visitors will need hairdresser’s service and you can help them. The same service can be done for you.
9. Create your website. People generally look for information on the Internet, how can they find you, if you don’t exist there?
10. Write blog. You will add more keywords here and offer your visitors more quality content.
11. Be regular with your posts in the blog. People are too lazy and fussy at the same time to wait a monthly short article.
12. Invite experts to your blog. Celebrities is a good idea, but what about professionals in the area?
13. Become an expert for other blogs. The readers there will come to the playground where a post with you is published and, in case of high skills level, they will drop into your website.
14. Offer people to subscribe: once a week or a bit later you can send to the emails information about your company like sales, new services and links to new articles.
15. Join social networks. People spend so much time on Facebook, why not to reach them there?
16. Launch a competition. It may sound like: buy 10 ice-creams and exchange the bar-codes of them for a nice teddy-bear (with your logo, of course).
17. Type the address of your website on your business cards. It will help to give more understanding about your business.
18. Make videos and post them on YouTube. Make useful content, what problems your product can solve and, of course, give a link to your website.
19. Answer questions on the most popular forums. Places like Quora will always have questions to answer and a good expert will certainly draw attention.
20. Communicate with your clients – likes, reposts, especially questions – that’s all shouldn’t be left unnoticed.
21. Become a celebrity of local level – we don’t talk about Hollywood level, but you can come to radio programms, on TV and so on.
22. Do something for free. It may sound like: buy a new bestseller from John Smith and get designer’s bookmark for free (of course, information about your company should published there).
23. Offer some free advice. You business should be a place where people have their problems resolved and they are quite likely to recommend you to friends and colleagues.
24. Use your car for advertising. Magnet stickers are easy to be taken off when you don’t need them.
25. Participate in charity. Sometimes buying cups for small local school is enough to show how much you care.
26. Ask other bloggers to make review about you.
27. Create a webinar. You can invite some experts that will even increase your popularity.
28. Ask people to tell about you: if you have just opened a dentist’s, ask in your free time your neighbours whether they or somebody they know need help.
29. Offer loyalty cards for those who will come to your shop during a certain period. It is ok if people give them their friends to use for a while, you may repeat the activity after a while.
30. Organize a common event with your competitors: it can be a master class in make-up and visage. People will have some useful information, while you can give business cards, tell about your brand etc.

What would be 31st idea for you?