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4 Smart Ways to Promote your Business for Free

Here's how you can promote your business for free

By Syed BalkhiPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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4 Smart Ways to Promote your Business for Free
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One of the major goals of entrepreneurs when starting a business is to attract more leads, boost conversions, and get more profit. But doing all of this isn’t as easy and simple as it sounds.

The good news is that if you know how to promote your business properly, achieving the above goals can become a lot easier.

The problem, however, is that not every business can pay hundreds of dollars to promote their business when they have just started.

If your business is one of them, you don’t need to worry anymore. There are several easy ways to promote your business for free. This post is all about it. Here we’ll discuss some of the easy ways to do that.

If you’re interested in knowing more about it, keep reading. You’ll definitely benefit from the tips below. Now let’s get started.

1. Leverage Social Media

One of the best platforms that can help you promote your business for free is social media. So why not leverage it to get the word out? There are various ways you can do that.

But before you do that, you need to create your social media accounts. Many marketers try to use different social platforms in the hope of getting better results. But in doing so, they fail to manage even a single platform properly.

Don’t repeat that mistake. If you think you can handle one account, stick to one account unless you’re ready to manage more. This will help you focus on your social media marketing strategy better and will help you get better results.

All you have to do is to create a strategy so that you can achieve your goals easily. Have a proper posting schedule and create high-quality content regularly for your audience. Add a strong caption using your keywords to boost its visibility.

You should also not forget to use hashtags with your captions. This will ensure that your post appears in relevant search results and attracts more leads.

2. List Your Business on Google My Business

Another easy and free way to promote your business online is to get your business listed on Google My Business. It’s important to note that every buying journey starts with research. And the first place where this research starts is Google.

So getting your business listed on Google can help you appear before relevant leads and can boost your sales. You can appear in Google’s top search results in various ways.

But the easiest and most effective way to do that is to get listed on Google My Business.

Don’t forget to add images to this listing. You should also try to get your users to review it. Google favors profiles with more positive reviews. So getting a few of them can be super helpful for boosting your organic search results.

3. Get Listed on Yellow Pages

Listing your business on the yellow pages can be a helpful way to get free promotion for your company. These listings typically include your business name, address, and phone number, as well as a brief description of your products or services.

Adding your business to these listings can be a great way to attract new customers. When people are looking for a particular type of business, they will often turn to the yellow pages first.

If you are listed in the yellow pages, potential customers will be able to find you more easily and may be more likely to use your services.

4. Reach out to Social Media Influencers

You must have already heard about social media influencers and influencer marketing. These are influential figures on social media whom people love to follow.

Usually, they have a huge fan base. So many businesses collaborate with them to get their product exposed to the fan base of these influencers.

You can try doing that too. It’s a great way to promote your brand in front of a whole new set of audience.

Just remember to select an influencer from your niche. This will help their audience relate to your business and help you achieve your goals.

But most often, influencer marketing isn’t free. However, sometimes you can simply reach out to macro-influencers with a fewer fan base and do a collaboration post for free.

In return, you can offer them a backlink or anything you think can be helpful for them.

So these are some of the easy ways to promote your business for free. Do try them out and let us know if they worked for you. We would love to hear from you.

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Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi is the founder of WPBeginner, the largest free WordPress resource site. You can learn more about Syed and his portfolio of companies by following him on his social media networks.

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