E-Marketing Using Only Free Resources

Ill be the first to admit it; I am a cheap skate. I am not as bad as many I meet, but if theres a legal, ethical way to get it for cheaper or free of price , I am there. I love Walmart. I get all of my clothes there. I love buying used cars - no car payments. I bought a nice house in the country for only $55,000 dollars - no house payments.

When it comes to advertising over the internet, I love FREE. But there are some free of price branding techniques out there that leave more to be desired. In this article, I am going to show you some of the best ways Ive found over the decades on selling your merchandise or accomadation over the internet for free of price , with no spamming, and doing it ethically.

There are five techniques that Id like to show you. They are:

1.-Message board signatures

2.-Hit surfing

3.-Safe lists

4.-E-zines

5.-Search engines

MESSAGE BOARD SIGNATURES

Go to a search engine, such as http://www.google.com , and do a search for communication boards. Youll want to search for communication boards that are commonly business related, and/or directly related to your accomadation or product.

Then, generate a list of the URLs to at least a couple dozen message boards, and read over the board rules for each board. At least once a week, post relavent responses and/or new threads on each of these message boards, and at the bottom of your posts, leave a signature. Youre signature could either be your title , followed by your email address or webpage, or it could be a one line advertisement , followed by your url or electronic mail .

HIT SURFING

This is a costless e-branding method that many people believe are a waste of time, however I do not. But I have a system. ;-) Heres how to do it:

1.-First, sign up for a costless account with each of the following URLs:

http:/ rafficg.com/index.php?member=genuineprofit

http://www.hitpulse.com/jsp/index.jsp?ref=genuineprofit

http://www.webmasterquest.com/join.php?ref=genuineprofit

http://www.hitharvester.com/referral.asp?ref=genuineprofit

http://www.nomorehits.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi?referrer=prayzgod

http://www.clicksilo.com/referrals/info.asp?Agent=genuineprofit

http://www.iloveclicks.com/signup.asp?referrer=25244

http://www.webmastertools4u.com/cgi-bin/c4hjoin.cgi?ref=gprof

2.-Then, open up 8 separate browser windows on your computer (Ctrl + N).

3.-Go to the first window, wait until the 30 seconds have counted down, then click the next hyperlink. While that ones counting down, click the next backlink on the next window when its ready, then move on to your third browser window, etc. When you see a webpage that interests you, by all means, stop and take a look at it, thats why many people have their pages on these programs, and its why you have your code there.

I usually only spend about 15 minutes a day doing this. However I met someone over the internet who suggests spending 60 minutes a day doing it. I tried it, and you understand what? I didnt get any more sign ups on my webpage from doing it for 60 minutes than I do when I do it for 15.

Sure, most of the other hit surfers will not even glance at your page. But some will, and those are the all the people youre trying to reach. Give hit surfing a try, and see how it works out for your page.

SAFE LISTS

Safe lists are electronic mail clubs on the internet, where evey subscriber has opted in to receive emails from other members of that group. You can electronic mail thousands upon thousands of everybody each week, or maybe even each day, spam free of price , via safe lists. Just go to http://www.google.com , and do a search for "electronic mail safe list" and youll find lots of safe lists that you may use.

E-ZINES

E-Zine stands for electronic magazine. And you understand what? There are thousands upon thousands of e-zines out there. Just do a search on http://www.google.com for "business ezine", and you will find lots of results. Look over the e-zine sites, and when you find one youd like to advertise in, submit your advertisement .

SEARCH ENGINES

There are lots of ways to get sizeably workable rankings on search engines. Unfortunatly, many of those ways are via cheating - hiding code to get higher rankings, various gateway pages with different meta tags, etc. However, those who are ethical and truthful will find that theyll get better rankings, if they follow the wonderful advice at http://www.selfpromotion.com . The advice is free, easy to follow, and really works. Give it a whirl.

CONCLUSION

Give the above suggestions a try. Track all your selling efforts, and find out what works for your page, and what doesnt. Then put more focus on whats working, and less to no focus on whats not.