Work from home jobs: marketing methods to expand business
Now you have chosen what to do for home business, arranged your home office and determined the product or service to offer. What is next? Sitting and waiting for customers to trickle in and for money to start flowing is one thing. The result can be different if you try to market your product.
There are several simple marketing methods to promote your business, including:
Word of mouth. One of the cheapest, most effective and easiest ways to represent your skills and mastery is by word of mouth. You can use a certain opportunity, why not a party, to announce what you are up to to the people that you know. You can find a humorous way to do that and say that you will appreciate if they place your advertisement in a foreign country every time they chance to visit it.
Internet advertisement. Another way of getting yourself in the spotlight is through various advertising Internet sites. If you are a freelancer, go to one of freelancing resources, form a resume (they usually have some aid for it) and leave it there for a potential employer to find and contact you.
Free branded samples. One of the marketing methods that are welcome by potential customers. If you are a freelancer, you can be helpful and do your first job at a discount. Or you can use a two-week trial period for your product. Or, you put your URL on the stationary that you give out or leave in coffee shops or local day centers.
Classified ads in local titles. You should not skip this opportunity, most local newspapers and magazines have a special section reserved for ‘home-business opportunities’ where you can advertise your business. Contact the editor and tell him/her that you have a home-biz running, you can jump into a limelight of a feature article or be in ‘a guest column’.
There are other ways to market and advertise yourself and they are limited only by your imagination.
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