Thread: Ways to Promote your Local Business for Free??

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1)Google Local: If you don’t already have one Create an account on Google Local. Enter your company name, address, phone number and website. Verify the information with a postacard or telephone call. In a few weeks you will help you get a map listing for your company name or industry and town.
2)Google Coupons: Coupons are a great way to bring new customers into your business or remind old customers that you’re still around. Google has a free coupon tool that puts your coupon on relevant local searches.
3)Google Base: Google base is part of Google’s one box service. Google uses it to try giving the most appropriate answer from different data sources. If you are selling products you can upload feeds automatically into Google Base and often get preferential placement. You can also upload your business, or special event.
4)Yahoo Local: Yahoo local is a directory organized by category and geographic location. You can get a basic listing in Yahoo Local for free. People searching for your business or industry can find your listing
5)Get Reviews: An integral part of the Yahoo Local listings are reviews. Ask your good customers to write reviews for you on Yahoo local. Businesses with higher ratings will get preferential listings.
6)Press Releases: Doing something newsworthy? If you are you can always submit a press release for free at PRLeap.com. Be sure to check out their tips like 25 Action Words for Writing a Newsworthy Headline and Why Localizing a Press Release to a ZIP Code and City Matters.

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local business marketing depends on market behaviour.if most people do not have access to the internet I think local optimization will not works.alternatively.traditioanl brochure or radio advertising will works better

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Your small business needs to get found online, period, end of report. What are you doing to make sure that happens? Are you thinking about how folks looking for your product or service would be searching online or are you thinking like you? Are you making sure your site is sexy to Google? This is essential in getting found online. Once you have your site all gussied up for Google are you submitting your business to off site locations and directories that maybe SEO better than you do? Have you taken time to create content that leverages you as an expert? Check out this great article with resources that I found online today.
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1)Start a Twitter account with your business name as the "username" and your first and last names as the "name".
2)If your business has a website, post it. If not, post your business phone number and/or email so that potential customers can get in touch with you. Also post a photo of your business, logo, or even yourself.
3)Find Twitter users in your area. How do you do this? One way is by clicking on the "Find People" tab at the top of any Twitter page. Enter the name of your city or area in the "Who are you looking for" box. You should get a ton of responses with users in your area.. "follow" these people and a good number of them will follow you back.
4)Another way to find followers in your area is to click on the username of some of the people you follow and see if any of their "followers" also live in your area.
5)The best way to find potential customers in your area is to use the search bar in the middle of the Twitter page. You can enter your city name and click the search button.
6)Advertise your business! After you've acquired a few hundred or so followers (this should only take a few days) start sending tweets about your business. Offer specials and incentives. If you have a website - promote that. To keep track of how well Twitter is working for you, you may want to offer a special discount to any customer who found you on Twitter.

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1. Start a free blog. You can do this at one of several places, but blogger.com and wordpress.com are the best. You are an expert in your business which is why you started it in the first place. Your blog name should be something that your target customer usually would enter in a search engine.
2. What are the most common questions your customers ask you? Create a video response to your questions and post it on video sites such as YouTube.com.
3. Create a Squidoo Lens at squidoo.com that talks about your products in your area. Make sure that it links back to your blog. Add your video on squidoo and your blog by embedding your YouTube video.
4. Add your sites to blog search engines like Google Blog Search and to ping tools such as pingomatic.com and pingoat.com
5. Bookmark your blog and any interesting post that you make to social bookmarking sites such as digg.com, mixx.com, propeller.com, del.icio.us. You can get an entire list at socialmarker.com Repeat the process as often as you like and soon you will start seeing traffic on your blog. Make sure you interact with people through comment boxes. Use your blog in your e-mail signature and in response to other related blogs if you make any comments

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