Ten Low-Cost Ways to Promote Business

Business promotion is to running a successful business. The first axiom of business promotion is that you have to do this consciously. You can't rely on other people to do it for you, no matter how great your product or service is. The second axiom of business promotion is that like every other aspect of your business, it's a budgeted activity. But business promotion doesn't have to be expensive. Here are ten inexpensive ways to promote your business.
1) Use every outgoing piece of paper, and every electronic document as business promotion.
 You have business cards, but you also put out a lot of other documents in the course of doing business. Check these to make sure you're using their promotional possibilities to full advantage.
2) Writing articles on topics related to your business expertise is an excellent business promotion technique.
Well-written articles can provide free advertising and build positive word-of-mouth. As the goal is to promote your business, ideally you'd like it to appear in a publication that your target audience will be reading.
3) Sending out press releases is another great way to get some free business promotion.
The press release has to actually contain information that is newsworthy, and be engaging enough to get people's interest.
4) If you're an Internet user, spend some of your online time on business promotion.
Posting messages in forums is a great way to make your business known to people you would otherwise be unable to contact.Getting people interested in your business and perhaps attracting new customers works best if you choose forums that are business-related or directly related to your business's product or service.
5) Use buddy marketing to promote your business.
For example, if you send out brochures, you could include a leaflet and/or business card of another business, which had agreed to do the same for you. This gives you the chance to reach a whole new pool of potential customers.
6) Give out freebies as business promotion.
Besides using freebies as business promotions, you can also use them regularly as customer rewards. For example, I recently had a picture framed; the framer had attached a free picture hanger to the painting's wire, with a small card thanking me for my patronage.
7) Promote your business on a talk show
8) Promote your business by giving a seminar or presentation.
9) Use your vehicle to promote your business.
Mobile business promotion isn't just for white delivery vans. Think of all the people who see your vehicle will attract towrd your business.
10) Promote your business through your lesiure activities.

Everyone wants to promote his/her business after seeing this article i share it with you all because it tell us very easy and low cast ways to promote our business. Nowadays there are alot of talk shows so if we anyone tell about his/her business on it every one will aware about the business and can ask queries about the product.Paste the ful name and motive of your company on every outgoing document so whoever read the envelop will get know about the company.

reference: http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/marketing/a/bizpromotion.htm