5 Top ways to Market when you are Broke

Hello there!

Thanks for these essential points; you just prove that you can do a lot even if you're broke! As long as you market well and do things right, all good things will follow.

Cheers and best of luck!

If you are broke then you can not afford, Hosting, Domain, Autoresponder, essential tools for running your business. As well, if you are broke then you are, or should be, trying to make some money to keep a roof over your head and food in your stomach.

So, basically this is pretty much useless information

al

Everything listed is top notch advice. Anything you could do for marketing yourself is a service you could offer others for cash. You might as well learn and get paid for doing.

I'll say it again, ANYTHING you might do for yourself is something you could do for others on freelancer.com or fiver. I used to sell advice on freelancer.com. Likely you have at least one skill to sell to 10 or 100 or 1000 people.

Brick and Mortar owners often will just need another opinion on keyword research to check on their primary website builders. 1000's have been duped into buying a "pretty" website that doesn't work for squat.

4/5 isn't bad. Better than you've been doing.

#4, submitting articles to syndication sites, at least the type of site most here would think of, is a waste of time. These sites don't show up in searches, and people don't think to themselves, "I'm going to this article dump and look for the answer to my problem."

That said, the idea of syndicating content can still be worthwhile if you think in terms of eyeballs on a website. Google has most operators of worthy sites so scared of having duplicate content that they insist on original articles. And the auto-approve sites can do you more harm than good.

Off-web outlets, like ezines, newsletters and even print outlets have no fear of duplicate content and an insatiable need for more content. Using a combination of sites like Directory of Ezines (disclaimer: I'm a life member) and references like Writer's Market or the Directory of Associations should give you enough potential syndication partners to last a lifetime.

What did you think was great?

I mean, besides the chance to bump your post count.

Youtube is the best. I proved it myself for 3+ years already. And it's free.

Your most likely to stay broke even if by chance you make some money. In order for things to change we must change first. If your broke there really is no point in starting a business!

Hi Tico,

All are super helpful for blogging on a budget.

1 add: if you are REALLY struggling financially do something part time - stock shelves, whatever - to make the $300 or so to buy a domain and hosting.

You will make those strategies noted work SO much better when you funnel visitors into a self-hosted, Wordpress blog.

Here's my thinking (and it's how almost all folks online think): if I read an awesome post from someone here on Warrior, or on FB, or thru any channel you mentioned, and I click thru to find a Blogger blog or, no blog at all, I close the page out immediately.

Disconnect time: I love the initial value marketed but figure they are not serious bloggers if they aren't paying for a domain and hosting. So the marketing efforts go for naught, and time is wasted.

Buy the domain and hosting guys. It is THE way to work your way up in the world, especially blogging-wise, because it is a trust builder second to none when it comes to establishing your credibility.

Then when you have it your free marketing methods will pay monstrous returns.

Take it from a guy who's spent very, very little on paid marketing methods over the years.

Happy Marketing

Ryan

Oddly I actually wrote a blog on this subject recently and its fast become my my popular to do. I did 20 to market your business for free and here they are:

1 Blogging - what you are reading right now is a blog and its a superb way to reach your potential clients

2 Facebook live -€Â" FBs new live function is dominating the newsfeed right now so take advantage

3€Â" Videos - whether you run them from your website, Youtube or load them the Facebook video is an ace way of talking to your crowd

4 Images - images sell, it’s that simple. Brand em up and get em out there.

5 Competitions/Give Aways - running one of these can be like waving a neon sign above your head, people like free stuff!

6 Twitter chat - running a twitter chat each week where you answers all their questions will help build trust.

7€Â" Podcasting -€Â" Get on someones podcasting, literally put yourself out there to be interviewed

8 Snapchat -€Â" If you only have time for short and snappy stuff, Snapchat is the place to be

9€Â" Linkedin -€Â" Almost everyone i know in business has and account, use it to connect with potential partnerships or clients.

10 A freebie - offering a freebie your crowd will love not only gets you their email address but begins that process of them getting to know you via newsletter

11€Â" Get great at google - pay attention to what your Google stats are telling you about your website hits, if they aren'€™t telling you the right thing, work to change that.

12 Facebook groups - there are thousands of them out there, get in the ones that are relevant and start chatting!

13€Â" Webinars - run a free webinar for people to join and learn something

14 Pitch and article to an online publication -€Â" these guys need your content more than you realise, pitch them something, you never know they might say yes!

15€Â" Testimonials - use your testimonials from your clients. People always want to know what other people think

16 Be a guest speaker -€Â" approach a company, charity or other business to offer your voice as a speaker.

17€Â" Collaborate - joining forces with another brand and seriously add punch to both businesses

18 Make it easy for people to share - take all the guess work out for people. Make everything you put online easy for people to share with their friends and family.

19€Â" Network - there€™s nothing like a bit of old school networking. Whether it’s on or offline, network your pants off

20 Send out a press release - Magazines rely on people submitting press releases to them. They are always looking for the next up and coming brand. You gotta be in it to win it people.

you guys are off topic

marketing when broke, you say.....

6. Reporter Feeding - get quoted and linked to by feeding content hungry reporters, find them here:
https://www.helpareporter.com/

http://www.sourcebottle.com/

7. Share Tribes - have others share your content, you can do that here:
Viral Content Buzz | Social Media Sharing Made Easy

SUPER IMPORTANT NOTE! never share videos on share tribes because your attention rate will drop along with your YT rankings. Just share posts and images on share tribes...

8. No Follow Target Blank Outlinks - dont be afraid to outlink to credible sources and dont be afraid to ask them to share your post, its a win/win.

Attach this beauty to the outlink target=”_blank” so that your visitor stays on your site and your site passes no authority on to the outlink's destination.

poor broke marketing at it's finest!

you have yourself a great day,
Ike Paz

I do a pretty good job marketing my e-books using Twitter, Instagram, and a Facebook fan page, which are all integrated with each other. I do also have a website, which costs money for domain renewals and hosting. But the social media promotions are free. You've just got to build up your followers by being interactive with other users on those sites.

Hi guy! thank for this sharing. But I think the fourth is nonsense, don't waste of your time with this.
Why don't you add SEO on the list? SEO is one of the best ways with low cost that should not ignore.

Ike, the tag has nothing to do with keeping people on your page. The is enough.

That nofollow tag is what the MOZblog recently described as "an, old, old, old, old school technique for preserving PageRank."

Edit: It looks like the forum software adds to the target tag automatically. The point is still valid.

These are some really good ways to get traffic if you don't have the money when you're just starting out. Time is the only requirement that you will need to set these up.

Most people will fail when trying to use these places because they don't want to invest the time needed to make them work.

Another important ingredient to making these work is "value". You've got to give your audience value so they'll keep coming back for more.

The number one rule to making money online is "give more value and you will make more money".

This is the number one rule I've learned to really making things work online.

Thank you for listing these places they are truly goldmines online if you one knows how to utilize them effectively.

I really like youtube! It's free to join and as long as you provide great content on videos - i'm not talking of a multibillion quality on you videos, just a straight to the point video where your video lives up the title you put - the people will love it and comeback to it passively!

Go with old fashion customer service! Engage with your customers to encourage them to share your business through word of mouth. If you are providing a service, ask and post their testimonials.

Ike, if I had to guess, it's a response to all the would-be link droppers with, shall we say, questionable sites.

Google (and others) may not penalize you for who links to you, but they definitely react to who you choose to link to. If I had a busy forum, I'd do the same thing.