2 Simple Ways of Getting Free Traffic

Are you just starting out in internet marketing and have a limited or no marketing budget? If so, this article is written just for you. There are numerous methods of free marketing out there but I have chosen 11 that I have, and continue to use to bring me free traffic. So what are they?

Drop Cards

These are just small business cards, well in so much they’re business card size but along the top they have a heading (your business opportunity) and underneath this a URL. Some examples of headings could be ‘tired of trading time for money?’ or ‘this proven business could bring you an extra $10,000 each month’ or ‘Do you want to work from home?’

Drop Flyers

Exact same concept as the cards but written on an A5 size paper. This allows you further opportunity to expand on the headings you used in the drop cards and use further questions similar to you have on your card but a lot more of them. You could also include what is termed ‘a call to action’ i.e. visit this website to download FREE marketing coaching videos or refer to an eBook you may have purchased and want to give to your prospects (visitors).

Where to promote

The list is endless as to where you could promote your cards or flyers. Some places that readily spring to mind are:

• The MallCoffee ShopsSeminars
• Health ClubsSalonsWindshields
• CollegesNeighbourhood Gas Stations
• BowlingDance classesChurches

These 2 methods go totally against all the other free advertising methods that others talk about online. At work you could drop them around different work areas, lunch rooms or anywhere you think people may venture into and could by chance stumble across your drop card or flyer.

This is back to the grass roots of marketing. Before the internet came out, this was how people advertised; there wasn’t the luxury of social networking sites, internet forums or ezines you could submit articles to.

For example, if you were putting a drop flyer in your local Mall, you may want to have a heading like ‘do you want to make some more money so you can buy some more clothes?’ or something along those lines. Try and make your flyer relevant to where you’re promoting.

Promoting on windshields is an effective method I used. I paid some young adults $10 each and they placed flyers on every windshield in the parking lot of a number of large shopping complexes. As a disclaimer here, I agreed with their parents beforehand and I transported them around.

Bandit signs are another good way of promotion. This is the signs you often see when sitting at a stop light and there is a sign stuck in the ground somewhere often displaying some form of political message. You could put up one of those with your website and a call to action.

You can get all sorts of signs like these made for free or for a very low fee. If you go onto Google and type in vista print there are a number of sites that will come up promoting many free advertising banners etc.