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Jeffery makes some great points. A website is a great way to market your business. It's an awesome way to get exposure and will make your business look more established. Microsoft Office Live Small Business provides low cost websites with a lot of great features. Our website builder is template based so you will not have to know any code and hosting can cost as little as $15 a year. Check out some success stories at smallbusiness ... Good luck! Andy MSFT Office Live Outreach Team

by Andy

2 months ago

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Hi: You'll want to stay away from PPC (pay per click) for now but definitely invest in some online marketing. If you don't have a website, get one done. Then write a press release and have some articles written and posted. Doing direct mail offline is also effective. To reduce your costs there you could do a postcard that introduces you and your business. Provide an incentive to get in touch with you like a discount or a free report, that sort of thing. Hope this helps! Take care and good luck, Victoria R.

by Victoria R- 2 months ago

There are a lot thing that you can do to get off to the right start. A website is a must but you need to to know how your clients will search for you on the internet first ( what keywords ). And what type of web site to get ( never flash for search engine ranking ). You can get a good website with good SEO (search engine optimization) for around $500+ depending on what your budget is and how much your budget is. Some will run that much plus $150+ for continuing SEO to dominate search engine terms. Video is also a great way to promote your business and search engines love them. I would give a discount or something else for a video testimonial from your clients. Twitter is also a great place to get a good fallowing and promote your business. Don't just promote your business. Make sure to have good content and talk about yourself. Facebook and myspace are also a must. Branding is a must! Get a logo and use local listings like google local and yahoo local. A list of current customers with email/address/name etc... you need a way to get a hold of your client base. Current clients spend 67% more than new ones. Direct mail campain ....just have an offer your customer can't resist ( free/discount/buy one get one.............) this is a good start!

by jefferyjansen- 2 months ago