How to advertise your business
Yellow Pages
List your business for free under http://listings.yellowpages.com/
Get listed and get noticed on the YELLOWPAGES.COM Network, which provides exposure to more than 125 million monthly searches
Yahoo! Local
List your business for free under http://listings.local.yahoo.com/basic.php
With your free business listing on Yahoo! Local you can:
- Display your address, phone number, and web site URL
- Put your business in up to 5 categories
- List products, services, brands, and more
Google Local Business Center
Go to the Google Local Business Center. List your business for free.
Local customers already search Google for the products and services you offer. Create a business listing to be sure they find you.
Create your own Yahoo Website
For a cost of $10 to $12 per month, you can create your own website on Yahoo.
You can get your own domain name here too for $9.95 for the first year.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
Free (or low cost) sales websites:
http://www.officelive.com/en-us/free-website/
Make a website fast and easy.
No hidden fees. No technical skills needed.
Everything you need to take your business online:
Free website hosting
Free templates and easy to use tools
Free email accounts
Free online support
http://www.tripleclicks.com/register.php
Sell items you no longer need for cash…or for any product or service in the TripleClicks store. Use TripleClicks as your online garage sale to clean out your closets, attic and garage! TripleClicks makes it easy and inexpensive to sell dozens or even hundreds of miscellaneous items.
https://www.etsy.com/register.php
Want to be an Etsy seller? There’s one more step after you confirm your email. Also note that your username above will also be the name of your shop, and your shop will be at http://username.etsy.com. Usernames cannot be changed.
Social Networking Sites
Go to http://micro2enterprise.ning.com and “Sign Up”. You’ll get your own web page for free that is connected to all the other microenterprises owners that sign up.
Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php and create your own business page for free!
Create you own web space. It can be a blog but offers more than that. WordPress.com has a feature called “pages” which allows you to easily create web pages. For example, you could add an “about me” page with your biography, and a link to that page would be automatically added to your sidebar. You can even create an entire web site using pages on WordPress.com, with a custom home page and your blog as one of the sub-pages.
Post your business on MySpace Classifieds: http://www.classifieds.myspace.com/
Internet Marketing for Business Owners: http://www.internetmarketingforbusinessowners.com/
Please send your ideas and additions to this list to rirvine@hopenetwork.org
or just leave a comment below.
