A great way to promote your business is to give a class. You can create a workshop or class and give it at a local community center. You could also give a presentation to an existing class.
PDXforSale.com – Portland Area Classifieds
PDXforsale.com is a site providing free classifieds. You can include a link to your site in your ad making it a way not only to possibly get some good traffic, but also to increase your search engine visibility.
Get Feedback
You can use a simple free online poll to track how well people like your site. I’ve found a company called 4Q. I’ve looked over what they offer and will test it with my new Justin’s Web Design site when I have it completed. You can get more information here.
Featured Client Contest
Run a contest among clients with the winner receiving a featured spot on your website, and/or in your newsletter. Not only is this a clever way to keep in contact with your clients, the winner will be more likely to send you some referrals.
This is a great prize for to use as insentive for people signing up for your newsletter. I might do this myself.
More Shirt Ideas
You can also give away T-shirts with your URL on them. If it fits your company, give away T-Shirts in childrens sizes, and make them blue and pink. You don’t want to give away the T-shirts for no reason, you want to people to wear them. Striking Graphics has a printer that actually prints on fabric. This tool allows them to sell with no min. order.
Wear Your Business Name
On more than one occasion I’ve had a complete stranger come up to me and ask me for a business card. No, they weren’t psychic. They new what I did because I was wearing a shirt with my logo and slogan on it. One of my clients, Striking Graphics, did my shirts and I highly recommend them.
Organize a Meeting
A powerful way to position yourself as an expert as well as get in front of more potential clients, is to organize a regular meeting. This could be a networking meeting, a learning seminar, or just a fun get together of people with a similar interest.
The site Meetup.com will streamline this and even hook you up with people already looking for a group in your area.
Residual Income
I found this great article about residual income. Take a look and see what you think.
Social Networking Sites
I found a website that posted a list of 50 different social networking sites. These sites represent an easy and cheap (usually free) way to get more buzz about your business. Click here to see the list.
By the way, social networking sites are sites like Facebook.com and MySpace.com.
BrownBook.net – Free Business Directory
Here’s another place where you can post a business listing. One of the best parts of this site is that it allows you to tag your business listing with related keywords. This should be of great help to the search engines.