Thread: How To: Creative Marketing with $0

I thought that common sense would imply that from what i said about being on the first page - Sorry thought GTC might be a little smarter

Sooooo... Just Ignore the drama and lets get back to the main topic, shall we?

I don't think we mentioned bloggers - Getting quality ones to mention you is tough though - have any experience with this?

I also want to start looking into guest blogging - You get to do a blog post on something and in return you get a link back to your website/product which is good if it's a popular blog but also can have some beneficial SEO qualitys... What do you think?

Originally Posted by Trevor Kuntz

Second, I like to read articles and comment on them. Many Wordpress blogs allow you to leave a URL. Unlike the backlinks that you can buy on Wicked Fire and Warrior Forum, these links will most likely not disappear and are more likely to be indexed by Google.

Cool, I did not know they actually were that good for SEO.

Originally Posted by Trevor Kuntz

I enjoy such as entrepreneurship, piano, art, travel, etc. so I don't get bored.

You like Piano? Me too.

Originally Posted by Trevor Kuntz

Well for me, there are certain aspects of SEO that I enjoy more than others, and blog commenting is definitely one of them. If I can spend 10 minutes a day learning about new stuff while I'm eating breakfast, and I can post 5 comments every morning, in one month, I will have 150 links (or even if only 4 out of every 5 comments make it onto the page, 120 links) from PR2-PR6 sites that I probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Combine those links with the packages that I buy on WF and Warrior and the signatures that I have on this forum and others and I've got a pretty decent set of links coming in.

Yes, I love piano! I have been playing for 9 years now

And how much traffic does this give you on average? Or is it more something just to benefit your SEO PR/Backlink?

Originally Posted by Trevor Kuntz

Yes, I love piano! I have been playing for 9 years now

Thats great! I cant remember when I started, I was really young. One of the peices I'm learning right now:

Originally Posted by Trevor Kuntz

Lastly, you can create web 2.0 blogs very easily. There are many sites that allow you to create blogs in less than 5 minutes. I only use sites that don't require you to verify your email address. These sites include Tumblr, Weebly, Wix, Webnode, Edicy, and Yolasite. Out of these sites, Tumblr is my favorite because it allows you to publish your article on future dates, so that you can spread your articles out for months or even years, but they're all great sites to start with.

So you wouldnt recommend to use Wordpress for a blog? I just dont like how un-professional those type of sites look like.

Did a bit of research and found these:

Run a sale with a daily deal site
Obviously you cant do this with everything, but if you can, its a great way to gain some exposure.

Run a competition
Along the lines of "If you are one of the first 100 people to tweet this promotion you could win….”
Could get you great exposure if your contest idea is unique and creative and because everybody loves contests.

One Word Campaign
Use several different conventional (and unconventional) marketing techniques to get out one word, one word related to your campaign. (Many of the techniques I mention below are good ways of “getting the word out.”) First, post just the word in many different places to get people’s attention. After several days/weeks of featuring just the word, start associating a date with the word. This date would represent the day/time the meaning of the word will be revealed. By creating a mystery around the word, you capture your audience’s attention and intrigue them into learning more. Once the meaning of the word is revealed hopefully the rest of your marketing plan is sound enough to achieve the desired results.

Weird one:
Spray-painted signs. In the early 1970s "Hamp Baker says Drive with Care" was spray-painted on car hoods salvaged from crumpled automobiles, then those hoods were tied with bailing wire to barbed-wire fences along roadsides here and there. Nobody in Oklahoma knew who Hamp Baker was, but his name was soon a household word. When he later ran for public office, he won by a landslide.

This was cool:


Sidewalk Chalk
Write a message in a high-traffic sidewalk that will catch peoples attention. It will last until it rains.

High quality guest posts on relevant blogs with good traffic. Can't beat that.

Any more?

Heres what we got so far:



Spread funny images on facebook/pinterest/tumblr/twitter
Blogging
Make videos that relate to your business spread on social networks
Post on craigslist
Guerrila Twitter marketing
SEO
PR - to local news
Engage in forums
Hashtag twitter marketing
Build connections with bloggers
Guest Blog
Q+A sites (related questions to your product)
URL in forum sigs
Comment on blogs (URL included) <- more for SEO
Daily Deal Site
One Word campaign
Sidewalk Chalk
Waterbottles

Added:


Press Releases
Join and attend a meetup to network
Wikipedia - Find your niche - Link yourself
Podcasters
Exchange ad space
E-mail signature link to your startup
Social bookmarking and spreading
Reddit
Mailing List
Flyers
Publicity Stunt
Referral Incentives

Originally Posted by cashflow3000

Hey Jake -

You Tube, Facebook, Twitter <- no brainers

Craigslist <- maybe. its worth a shot

Another good "free" source for marketing is Article Marketing. Research your niche and uncover 1 - 5 key word phrases that apply to your niche. Write an article of 300 - 500 words and repeat your key word phrase 5 - 7 times within the article. Post it to goarticles, articlesbase, or similar.

Blogging. You need to have your blog set up ASAP. And for marketing purposes, if all you have is time and no money, you might as well set up several. No, I'm not kidding. There are plenty of "free blogging" websites out there. Set up a blog on each. Do not post the same content per site, but you need to get your name and concepts out there and cast a wide net.

Free marketing like the above is all good ways to build long term traffic to your site.

For a quick boost you need to take that $10 and open up a google adwords account. Look for a coupon that gives you a free $100 ad credit. Those are not really free, you need to set up a new account and they charge $10 minimum. So dont buy that bubble gum just yet. Turn your $10 into $100 worth of clicks, chose your clicks wisely, and you'll get a good boost in traffic.

Best of luck in your new business!

Absolutely cool, once you get the hype of your business going in the right places, you're good to go.

Publicity stunt is definitely going to be one were going to do for cliqflip---

Everything else we pretty much are already doing - After making this list I was thinking about making a guide of how to do each one effectively (since were doing 99% of it) - What do you think? Would it be useful

Originally Posted by cliqflip

Publicity stunt is definitely going to be one were going to do for cliqflip---

Everything else we pretty much are already doing - After making this list I was thinking about making a guide of how to do each one effectively (since were doing 99% of it) - What do you think? Would it be useful

I will be doing that too. Just so people have an example of what to do.

Giveaways can work well. Maybe offer a sample/scaled down/freebie version of your product to give them a taste. For example: MJ gives away a few chapters of TMF when you sign up for his mailing list.