<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: What are some good ways to market a small business on an even smaller budget?</title>
	<atom:link href="http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget</link>
	<description>Internet marketing for beginners</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:53:14 -0800</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: Tommy</title>
		<link>http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget/comment-page-1#comment-1506</link>
		<dc:creator>Tommy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget#comment-1506</guid>
		<description>Who is his targeted demographic?If it were my business, I would make some NICE business  cards WITH ONE SIDE INFORMATION with HOW TO CONTACT ME, MY WEBSITE AND PHONE#. The other side with the benefits of my product. Keep it positive.  Since it&#039;s truck bed-liners I am trying to sell then I would place or hand my card to everyone who owns a truck that I know. Then I would place cards on all the trucks in store parking lots. target stores with automobile parts and accessories. It is all a numbers game. The more people who see you, the more business you will get. Be prepared for a flood of business. Have quality products and bend over backwards to get  business. Ask for referral&#039;s so your customers can give possible leads. I can go on and on. but that is how to start with a small budget. If you practice POSITIVE BUSINESS- You can receive POSITIVE CASH FLOW!!! first, If he really wants his business to take off, he needs to understand there is more to success than clever marketing. CREATE A &quot;FUNNEL SYSTEM&quot; THAT WILL CONTINUE TO GROW HIS BUSINESS. this WHAT i DO FOR A LIVING. find WAYS TO MAKE THE MOST MONEY WITH LITTLE EFFORT. A true business man does not offer only one product or service. I can go on and on...8)&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;References : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who is his targeted demographic?If it were my business, I would make some NICE business  cards WITH ONE SIDE INFORMATION with HOW TO CONTACT ME, MY WEBSITE AND PHONE#. The other side with the benefits of my product. Keep it positive.  Since it&#8217;s truck bed-liners I am trying to sell then I would place or hand my card to everyone who owns a truck that I know. Then I would place cards on all the trucks in store parking lots. target stores with automobile parts and accessories. It is all a numbers game. The more people who see you, the more business you will get. Be prepared for a flood of business. Have quality products and bend over backwards to get  business. Ask for referral&#8217;s so your customers can give possible leads. I can go on and on. but that is how to start with a small budget. If you practice POSITIVE BUSINESS- You can receive POSITIVE CASH FLOW!!! first, If he really wants his business to take off, he needs to understand there is more to success than clever marketing. CREATE A &quot;FUNNEL SYSTEM&quot; THAT WILL CONTINUE TO GROW HIS BUSINESS. this WHAT i DO FOR A LIVING. find WAYS TO MAKE THE MOST MONEY WITH LITTLE EFFORT. A true business man does not offer only one product or service. I can go on and on&#8230;8)<br /><b>References : </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Enam</title>
		<link>http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget/comment-page-1#comment-1505</link>
		<dc:creator>Enam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget#comment-1505</guid>
		<description>Use free classified websites. A good list is available here &gt;&gt; http://www.enamul.info/links_classifieds.php

For help sign up here &gt;&gt; http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassifiedAdPoster&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;References : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Use free classified websites. A good list is available here &gt;&gt; <a href="http://www.enamul.info/links_classifieds.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.enamul.info/links_classifieds.php</a></p>
<p>For help sign up here &gt;&gt; <a href="http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassifiedAdPoster" rel="nofollow">http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassifiedAdPoster</a><br /><b>References : </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: S</title>
		<link>http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget/comment-page-1#comment-1504</link>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget#comment-1504</guid>
		<description>The first answer is good (didn&#039;t read the second one - too long) ... you should try something like that along with some other methods.

Anyway - 

Use your vehicle(s) as a moving (or parked) billboard. Get your business name and web addresses on them so everyone can see (you&#039;ll be surprised at how many people will see it ... and it&#039;s free once you get it on). Go to http://www.greatlettering.com and design it yourself online. It&#039;s easy and cheap.

Post cards/Biz cards (like flyers) - spread them out everywhere you go. Include them (more than 1), if you don&#039;t already, with every sale you make (leave a small stack with the person you just finish a truck liner for).

Keep searching online for good sites you can buy cheap banner ads on ... or join forums that you can share you ideas (and products) on.

Good luck!&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;References : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.greatlettering.com - custom vinyl lettering - save money by doing it yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first answer is good (didn&#8217;t read the second one &#8211; too long) &#8230; you should try something like that along with some other methods.</p>
<p>Anyway &#8211; </p>
<p>Use your vehicle(s) as a moving (or parked) billboard. Get your business name and web addresses on them so everyone can see (you&#8217;ll be surprised at how many people will see it &#8230; and it&#8217;s free once you get it on). Go to <a href="http://www.greatlettering.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.greatlettering.com</a> and design it yourself online. It&#8217;s easy and cheap.</p>
<p>Post cards/Biz cards (like flyers) &#8211; spread them out everywhere you go. Include them (more than 1), if you don&#8217;t already, with every sale you make (leave a small stack with the person you just finish a truck liner for).</p>
<p>Keep searching online for good sites you can buy cheap banner ads on &#8230; or join forums that you can share you ideas (and products) on.</p>
<p>Good luck!<br /><b>References : </b><br /><a href="http://www.greatlettering.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.greatlettering.com</a> &#8211; custom vinyl lettering &#8211; save money by doing it yourself.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: aymscorpio74</title>
		<link>http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget/comment-page-1#comment-1503</link>
		<dc:creator>aymscorpio74</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget#comment-1503</guid>
		<description>The most inexpensive way to market your business is through the marketing of yourself.  Attend networking meetings and get a professionally designed business card.  Flyers can work but you may get a lot of unwanted people.  Another inexpensive way is to get a magnetic business card decal  to put on your car.  Therefore, whereever you drive, you will be marketing your business.&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;References : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact me if you want professionally designed business cards at www.gospelgraphicsdesign.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most inexpensive way to market your business is through the marketing of yourself.  Attend networking meetings and get a professionally designed business card.  Flyers can work but you may get a lot of unwanted people.  Another inexpensive way is to get a magnetic business card decal  to put on your car.  Therefore, whereever you drive, you will be marketing your business.<br /><b>References : </b><br />Contact me if you want professionally designed business cards at <a href="http://www.gospelgraphicsdesign.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.gospelgraphicsdesign.com</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: VicSEO</title>
		<link>http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget/comment-page-1#comment-1502</link>
		<dc:creator>VicSEO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget#comment-1502</guid>
		<description>The following article assumes that you have a website which is published and up and running at this time.

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain &quot;generic&quot; keywords, then anyone using
such &quot;generic&quot; queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, &quot;Who&#039;s my end user - is he on dialup or
DSL?&quot; And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the &quot;Title&quot; metag which
should consist of no more than 60 characters separated
by commas. The &quot;Title&quot; should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the &quot;Title&quot; is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the &quot;Description&quot; which is
usually up to 41 words to form a complete paragraph which
best describes one&#039;s goods and services. It is not merely a list.

And the very last category - &quot;Keywords&quot; are also
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as &quot;spamdexed entries&quot; which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
&quot;Spamdexing&quot; when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google&#039;s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Here&#039;s an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very &quot;generic&quot; search query
&quot;sandwiches downtown los angeles,&quot; taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to &quot;LA&quot; and of course, leave
out the parentheses (&quot;). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where &quot;Nazos.net&quot;
is ranked. It&#039;s on the SECOND FRONT [ranked 15]!
Again, Nazos.net&#039;s high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google&#039;s publication guidelines.

Good luck!&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;References : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following article assumes that you have a website which is published and up and running at this time.</p>
<p>The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is<br />
to first set up a website and publish its domain name<br />
on major search directories such as Google.com,<br />
Yahoo.com [at <a href="http://www.google.com/addurl/?....." rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/addurl/?.....</a>. and<br />
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these<br />
search directories to provide them with goods and<br />
services. In a sense, these search directories are a<br />
very large Internet Yellow Pages.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage<br />
fail to contain &quot;generic&quot; keywords, then anyone using<br />
such &quot;generic&quot; queries will not be able to discover<br />
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,<br />
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.</p>
<p>You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,<br />
when observed and committed in designing of a website<br />
with placement of various critical metatags that can<br />
surely achieve a high search engine presence and<br />
increase Internet traffic to your website. These<br />
metatag strategies work well with published webpages<br />
at Google and Yahoo.</p>
<p>Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based<br />
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries<br />
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing<br />
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can<br />
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the<br />
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For<br />
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages<br />
take too long to load up and therefore analog users<br />
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the<br />
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL<br />
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So<br />
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple<br />
question, &quot;Who&#8217;s my end user &#8211; is he on dialup or<br />
DSL?&quot; And if you had to choose between these two users<br />
for maximum marketability, then select analog users<br />
since 80% of most resident users are still analog<br />
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages<br />
is best for them.</p>
<p>A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,<br />
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit<br />
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a<br />
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.</p>
<p>Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots<br />
are unable to properly classify textual material.</p>
<p>Placement of Metatags:</p>
<p>A ranking or search order does take place with Google<br />
and Yahoo and it begins with the &quot;Title&quot; metag which<br />
should consist of no more than 60 characters separated<br />
by commas. The &quot;Title&quot; should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the &quot;Title&quot; is not appropriate, unless your<br />
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.</p>
<p>The second metatag is the &quot;Description&quot; which is<br />
usually up to 41 words to form a complete paragraph which<br />
best describes one&#8217;s goods and services. It is not merely a list.</p>
<p>And the very last category &#8211; &quot;Keywords&quot; are also<br />
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural<br />
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries<br />
which could be mistaken as &quot;spamdexed entries&quot; which<br />
is defined as the loading, and submission of<br />
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.<br />
&quot;Spamdexing&quot; when discovered on a webpage and reported<br />
to Google&#8217;s spamreport.com can result in the<br />
elimination of your website from their search<br />
directory.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example of a very highly-placed website on<br />
Google.com: Begin with the very &quot;generic&quot; search query<br />
&quot;sandwiches downtown los angeles,&quot; taking note to not<br />
abbreviate Los Angeles to &quot;LA&quot; and of course, leave<br />
out the parentheses (&quot;). It will bring up some 2.4<br />
million+ search results. Check out where &quot;Nazos.net&quot;<br />
is ranked. It&#8217;s on the SECOND FRONT [ranked 15]!<br />
Again, Nazos.net&#8217;s high web presence was achieved by<br />
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags<br />
according to Google&#8217;s publication guidelines.</p>
<p>Good luck!<br /><b>References : </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Qoo Bottle</title>
		<link>http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget/comment-page-1#comment-1501</link>
		<dc:creator>Qoo Bottle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.naxxmedia.com/small-business-marketing/what-are-some-good-ways-to-market-a-small-business-on-an-even-smaller-budget#comment-1501</guid>
		<description>try distributing flyers?
it&#039;s pretty low cost to print but the distribution could come out to be significant depends on the area you want to distribute.

alternatively, advertise on direct mailer platforms

lastly, you could consider doing a direct mailer and have it mailed out by singpost to the different car dealers directly

cost of the above would range from $300 - $1000 depends on your reach actually...

cheers&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;References : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>try distributing flyers?<br />
it&#8217;s pretty low cost to print but the distribution could come out to be significant depends on the area you want to distribute.</p>
<p>alternatively, advertise on direct mailer platforms</p>
<p>lastly, you could consider doing a direct mailer and have it mailed out by singpost to the different car dealers directly</p>
<p>cost of the above would range from $300 &#8211; $1000 depends on your reach actually&#8230;</p>
<p>cheers<br /><b>References : </b></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

