How To Effectively Advertise Your Home Business Online

Let the market know you're out there

You may be wondering....Ok, now I have a home business but I have no idea how to go about advertising it. Well, there are a lot of different ways to advertise some are free and others will cost you money. Many times the free advertising methods can work but may take more of your time. Then again, there are some advertising programs that you could pay money for and never see any real results.

It can be very confusing and frustrating and some times the new home business owner will get overwhelmed and just quit saying that a home business does not work. It's not that a home business does not work it is just that you do have to work at it. Many times you will see someone advertising a great new home business that you can make all sorts of money and you don not have to work. That is not true. You MUST work at it. If you do then you will start to see results. Keep at it and you will be successful.

Okay, here are some free advertising methods:

Manual traffic surf site

A manual traffic surf site allows you to promote your business online in exchange for surfing other websites. These sites can take some time but is well worth the effort. You can join for free and if you invest the time to click they CAN work

Safe-lists

Safe-lists are a great tool for generating awareness and promoting your business. To increase results without having to join a lot of safe-lists your best bet is to join some of the top lists that are credit based. Members must open your email to click to get credit in order to send their email ad. Downfall: it takes time to click and build up your credits to be able to send often. Positive note: usually there is no cost involved. Good for those with more time than money.

Classified ad sites

These can work and are usually free to post. Stick with top sites like Craigslist. Use (at) instead of @ and (dot)com instead of .com when placing your email so that spambots cannot harvest your email address resulting in a flood of emails that are spam instead of actual interested people

All of the above advertising methods will usually have an upgrading option that you will have to pay for. These can get you better results faster but the cost can add up. Use common sense and track your ads. If you are not seeing results don't keep throwing good money after bad.

If you get nothing more out of reading this article then remember this. It is important to track your ads so that when you advertise your home business you are only spending time on ads and advertising mediums that will actually work.