Dear Carmen: What you need, besides just a few ideas for inexpensive
advertising, is a marketing plan! You need to spend some time doing research
to create a plan to make your business be seen and heard, and successful!
There are some excellent resources on the web about how to create a
marketing plan, and the types of things you should include in it. Running a
business without a plan is like living without goals and dreams! Go directly
to your favorite search engine and look up marketing plan and get that going!
There are also some excellent books that I recommend, to help you with no-
or low-cost marketing:
1)
The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook by Jay Levison & Seth Godin
2)
How to Promote your Home Business by John McLain
3)
Shameless Marketing for Brazen Hussies
by Marilyn Ross (my personal
favorite)
I'd love to tell you there is one sure way that would work for you to
inexpensively advertising/market your business...but, it takes so many
variations of different things to really see a difference in your efforts.
Business cards left everywhere you go, magnetic signs on your automobile, free
message boards online, volunteering your products and services in your
community....the list goes on and on!
Please, for your success, prepare (or hire someone) a marketing plan. It
really makes marketing your business as easy as putting one foot in front of
the other! Best to you,
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Tammy Harrison is a successful
home-based working mom for over five years. She holds a degree from Mizzou in
Consumer Economics. Her business focuses on Marketing and Creativity for
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