Promoting for Free

Who doesn't love Free.. it is like the magic word.. to get something for nothing... well nothing is for truly free.. but in this case Free equals no money... you have to do some work but it won't cost you any money. Every since I started selling online I have been meeting people who are looking for free places to put links to their shops and items they sell.. we all want to sell more and to sell more we need more people to see what we have for sale. It only takes one person seeing it.. the right person to buy it.. but often that person is buried in a pile of hundreds or thousands of other people.

Ever since I started selling handmade items online I have met a lot of people who are very supportive.. we share blog posts about each other and links to each others stuff... help spread the word as much as we can. Always seeing place mentioned that you can use to promote your shop/items/sites. That is how I found blogger, and twitter and facebook.. all of us talking about different places to share free links to our sites... how to get ourselves out there with the most coverage and the least amount of money.

On facebook I met Linda who is all about helping out small businesses and getting our links out there and sharing and supporting. She has been creating different groups and pages and websites all focused on these things. We got to be friends and I have trying to help her as much as possible in keeping these places going. Some have grown and are working good.. others have not grown and are now closed.. thing is.. she is all for trying new things and keeps trying them until she finds ones that work. Which is where the not so free part comes in. It might not cost money but there is a lot LOT of time involved in running an online site. One of the things that takes so long is finding the best places to promote your site. Linda has offered up a way to take a little bit of that time out of the equation for us. She has started a group on facebook Free Ways to Promote where we can all go and share the places we have found and see what is working for others. I decided to start a blog Promote For Free that ties into that group and we can work together to get as much info gathered up and shared as possible.

You can go through and post your link everywhere ( spamming it ) but who wants to do business with someone that is rude enough to do that. You need to find ways to get your links out there.. to the right market... in the right away so that no one is offended. Remember when you post your link you want people to want to visit.. to want to see what you offer.. and then to want to buy from you. Hopefully having a place where we can have a lot of different places offered to share on and all of us can communicate about how they work for us and give feedback.. will help us all to find the right places for our shops/sites. Some people are facebook people and some are bloggers.. some of us do both.. this has both options.

Would love to have you visit, follow, like and join. :)