How to Get Free Advertising?

The opportunities for getting free advertising for your products or services are limited only by your own imagination and energies. The opportunities to get advertising free offline and online are so many. You could find them by entering this terms on any search engine to look for it. But, does this really require any effort?

The first sequent of this article is at the Ezine Acts Advertising and the sequences continue through to the Ezine Acts Business Publicity and some other pages on the Ezine Act's Network about this specific topic to answer the question ad get you the insights of some things you should do better than looking for free publicity.

However, the page has some insights for advertising that you could get, or operate free with more spotted ideas to work it, if it really makes sense to you. The insights are well connected to the Ezine Act's Business Strategies Cat, because you may need only some goods strategies to build your business right and then get the audience to do the business publicity part for you.

This could happen only through some methods we highlight on Free Advertising and other relevant pages.

As, advertising itself is part of the business promotion, so there are so many proven ways of promote your own objectives without cost that it literally boggles the mind just to think of listing them, as you could learn through Communities Marketing.

Instead of Looking for Free Advertising Do the Following!

One way is to write an article relative to your particular expertise and submit it to all of the publications you find popular offline and online and especially to some media dealing in the dissemination of related information, as explained on Free Radio Advertising.

In other words, become your own publicity and sales promotions writer. Get the word out; establish yourself as an expert in your field, and "tag-along" everything you write with a quick note listing your address for a catalog, dealership opportunity, or more information.

Engage in the media article writing and write effective articles that respond to the concern of your interest. But, this concern should interest other people too… the audience.

Another really good way to get free advertising is by becoming a guest on as many of the radio and television talk shows or interview type programs as possible.

Actually, this is much easier to bring about than most people realize. Write a letter to the producer of these programs, then follow up with an in-person visit or telephone call.

Your initial contact should emphasize that your product or service would be of interest to the listeners or viewers of the program - perhaps even saving them time or money. This will get you free radio advertising.

However, if you are only intended to get just free advertising, then you'll find other ways in your location. Other ways of getting free or very inexpensive exposure include the posting of advertising circulars on all the free bulletin boards in your area, especially the coin-operated laundries, grocery stores, and beauty and barber shops.

Don't discount the idea of handing out circulars to all the shoppers in busy shopping centers and malls, especially on weekends. You can also enlist the aid of the middle school students in your area to hand out circulars door-to-door. See Classified Ads and Freebie Ad Magazines for more insights.

Some of the more routine methods of free advertising include having a promotional ad relative to your product or service printed on the front or back of your envelopes at the time you have them printed with your return address.

More Insights on Free Advertising!

Be sure to check all the publications that carry the kind of free advertising you need, as explained at Free Online Business Advertisement.

Many mail order publications just getting started offer unusually low rates to first-time advertisers; a free-of-charge insertion of your ad when you pay for an order to run three issues or more; or special seasonal ad space at greatly reduced rates.

And there are a number of publications that will give you Per Inquiry (PI) space - an arrangement where all orders come in to the publication, they take a commission from each order, and then forward the orders on to you for fulfillment.

Many publications will give you a contract for "stand-by" space. In this arrangement you send them your ad, and they hold it until they have unsold space, and then at a price that's always one-third or less than the regular price for the space you need, insert your ad. Along these lines, be sure to check in with the suburban and neighborhood newspapers.

If you send out or publish any kind of catalog or ad sheet, get in touch with all the other publishers and inquire about the possibilities of free advertising through exchange advertising. They run your ad in their publication in exchange for your running an ad for them of comparable size in yours.

Finally, there's nothing in the world that beats the low cost and tremendous exposure you get when you advertise a free offer. See Free Press Releases, Marketing Ideas, Personal Sport Scorecards and Shopping Center Papers.

Simply run an ad offering a free report of interest to most people - a simple one-page report with a "tag-line" inviting the readers to send money for more information, with a full page advertisement for your book or other product on the backside.

Ask for a self-addressed stamped envelope, and depending on the appeal of your report and the circulation of the publication in which your ad appears, you could easily be inundated with responses!

The trick here, of course, is to convert all of these responses, or a large percentage of them, into sales. You may find yourself not wanting even to write any sales letter.

This is done via the "tag-line," which issues an invitation to the reader to send for more information, and the full page ad on the back of the report, and the other offers you include with the complete package you send back to them. See how to Write Compelling Advertisement.

As mentioned at the beginning of this report about free advertising, it's just a matter of unleashing your imagination. Do that, and you have a powerful force working for you that can help you reach your goals through good free advertising plans to monetize your business.

Get more business ideas about free advertising below using some useful media. You can use it for your own business advertising, or build a business of free advertising through this media.

All that you'll need are the best all in one place tools along with good business planning including sufficient business math with the free advertising tips at the last section of this page.

Producing Restaurant Placemats as an Advertising Medium!

The concept is simple: Give free paper placemats to restaurants in your area with either a prominent color ad or their menu in the middle, and two-inch by two-inch ads around the edge.

These ads will make so much profit for you that if you run up against a stubborn restaurant owner, you can even pay him or her to take your placemats and come out way ahead. They'd be a fool to refuse!

The first step in to contact printers in your area and find out what kind of blank or ready-made paper placemats they can either print or have printed for you.

Get a quote on at least 5,000, including at least two-color printing. Compare your quotes and find the printer that will do the best job for the best price. Make sure this is a printer that will work with you on the layout of the placemats, if this is new to you.

Once you have your printing costs, which will be your primary costs, you can figure out how much profit can be made. Your profit will depend, in part, on how many ads you can put around the perimeter of the placemat.

For example, if the placemat is 11 x 15, you can put a total of 20 ads around the sheet, leaving a one inch margin around the edge for the printer.

Divide the printing cost, together with your other estimated costs (phone, postage, travel) by the number of ads, and you have your cost per ad.

For example, suppose your estimated expenses will be $600. Divide that by 20 ads and you have $30. This is how much each ad contributes to covering the cost of the placemat.

Now, figure a target profit margin. In my area, an ad that will be seen by 5,000 people over an extended period of time could go for $90. This would be a $1,200 profit!

Now, make a list of restaurants that would be likely prospects for this service. The best prospects will be locally-owned family-oriented restaurants that are visited by residents of the area. Small, family-owned, restaurants will be your best bet.

GETTING THE RESTAURANTS:

Offer to provide the restaurant 5,000 free paper placemats with either a large color ad or a color menu printed in the middle of the placemat. Local advertisers will be featured in small ads around the outside.

When you say the words "5,000 free paper placemats," you probably won't even have to go any further! If the owner's a hard case, offer to pay them to take your placemats! Offer $50 and 5,000 placemats. This breaks down more barriers than you can imagine!

If the restaurant owner has a pre-made ad or menu available, this can be reduced or enlarged by your printer to fit the center area of the placemat. Be sure the restaurant's section dominates the placemat.

Now, contact businesses that are in the immediate area surrounding the restaurant. Good prospects will be video stores, dry cleaners, grocery stores, book stores, any business that is frequented by families.

Tell them that you have an advertising opportunity which will put their name and offer in front of 5,000 people for an extended period of time.

Contact as many possible advertisers as you can. The more you contact, the more ads you'll sell. If your prices are competitive and you deliver honest facts, you should have an easy time selling the placemat ads.

Now, take the ads to your printer and layout the placemat. Put the restaurant's ad/menu in the center, and the other ads around the perimeter. Have the printer print the requested quantity, and deliver them to the restaurant. It's that simple!

This whole process can be done easily in less than a month. But, even if it takes you a month, the example above cleared $1,200 profit (or $1,150, if you actually had to pay the $50).

Once you've done your first one or two and know what you're doing, you will find that you can run more than one at a time. If you run four placemats per month, you could clear over $55,000 per year!

This is just an example, and your profits could be higher or lower, depending on your area. See How to Get Money Fast and Instant Cash for other insights on this.

But, it should be fairly obvious that this can be an easy-to-run, profitable business that you can start part-time and quickly move into a full-time business, guided by the CTPM mantra and the Choose It Process, as explained on the Ezine Acts Business!

Free Advertising Maps!

They call advertising maps the road to big profits. Maps serve a purpose. People use them for directions. They trust them and depend on them to get them where they want to go.

It tells them where the local attractions are, and other places if interest, particularly among tourists - the people who use maps the most. See Discount Cards for other methods to use with this.

Considering the credibility and the power of maps as a printed medium, it takes an entrepreneur 2 seconds to realize that there's money in maps… as an advertising vehicle.

You can design your city map to be as large as 28" x 40" which can be printed by commercial print houses with large format presses. Or you can use the 11"x 17" format and bring it to your neighborhood quick printer.

THE MAP

What you're going to make a map of is as critical as deciding about how you're going to do it. These are the two questions that will make the foundation of your business.

Big cities are very seldom a great market for City Maps. However, if you break them apart and make maps for selected business districts, even down to selected neighborhoods, the taking is plenty.

Focus on dense retail districts. Target those with neighboring restaurant rows, historical spots or other tourist attractions.

Purchase reprint rights of already existing maps as this would prove significantly easier and more cost efficient than producing one yourself.

"Cartoon" maps may be visually entertaining, but they are seldom useful. You will probably attract more advertisers if you can equate your advertising rates with potential use. See discount cards, for more details on using such cards.

Advertisers position advertising blocks on the outer edge of the map area. Depending of the size of your map and the paper you plan to print it on, you can have as many or as few "blocks" to offer for advertising.

Encourage your advertisers to buy more than 1 block of advertising. This will not only make your map look more exclusive, but it will also make your selling task much easier.

How to Choose (Free Advertising Something) or the (Reverse) as a Niche?

* Want to build free advertising on a website?

Be creative to craft free advertising stand alone theme with additional word to this 2-word term to get it focused on a theme of its own.
See whether it has values, or not through the Choose It tool, so as to determine whether to choose it with the 2-word term, or not.
Search that word and get the data to study it and get some more ideas from it to inspire you to craft a new innovational business theme.

Your theme, (free advertising something), or (something free advertising) could be perfect to write insightful articles about it. The innovation here is on that "something" you want to give it a name. You should craft it well and make it exceptional.

While doing that, researching and studying, you will find many names of "something" to make it a business term to add to the 2-word term of free advertising. But, there is electronic with technical process to do this, as explained at Site Build It.

You should have all in one place tools, to search, research, collect data, study it, focus on one OF THE TERMS YOU GET ABOUT "SOMETHING" to choose it right, get inspired through the article writing to analyze and optimize your articles and then build the (free advertising something) a website that gets the clicks and the money in.

To write about it, which is a process that has many supportive data within the tools, you only need to write original articles of at least 600 word count for each of the relevant terms of your (something free advertising) assisted by the CTPM Process.

This is the way to optimizing a website and getting free website traffic to your home based business, which is about (free advertising something) and then (yes, only then) monetize your site and…

That way as you see here and through the Ezine Acts Optimization, you go to large scale businesses with your small business, or some well-connected narrow niches. to dominate the area of advertising with your own new insights on your theme focused content website.

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This kind of free advertising connecting with other businesses is intended to help you carry wise business marketing, as explained on the Ezine Acts Biz Marketing (site map 15 A), with its extension into Ezine Acts Newsletters (site map 15 E), WBM (site map 15 D), Wise Biz Marketing (site map 15C) and Wise Biz Newsletter (site map 15 B).

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Paid Advertising on TV Channels!

See paid and free advertising on TVs, which makes TV channels just commercial channels and destroy the values of serious TVs, as used to be in the old golden days at iwatchbestv.com.

That is paid advertising to fund most of the TV channels. But, they do it extensively in unacceptable manner in sequence of ads, even every 5 minutes of a TV movie, or a TV series. Each sequence includes up to 5-8 advertising, which makes TVs nowadays very silly.

They have rights to fund and get the required return on investment. But, they should not do it extensively in this manner, or they will lose their audience.

However, as mentioned above you could find many ways to get free advertising to your business through the TV channels in your area. Just follow the guidance outlined above and enjoy free publicity.

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