Advertise Your Home Business

Do you advertise your home business?  It’s commonplace for brick and mortar businesses to advertise their products and services.  We’ve all seen or heard those ads on TV, radio or in print publications such as newspapers and magazines.  By doing this, they are building brand and company recognition, which is an essential step in business growth.  Few home business owners feel the need to go to such lengths, but guess which type of company typically writes up more sales in a year. 

If you hope to expand your enterprise, you must spread the word and advertise your home business as much and as best as you can.  Never mind the low or no budget argument.  There are ways to advertise that don’t cost you anything but your time.

Free classifieds are a great example of a no cost method of increasing exposure. When you use free classifieds, your ad is reaching a huge area. They are also terrific because they are FREE. That price tag fits everybody’s advertising budget.

The following sites are good ones to start on. You may notice that Craig’s List is missing. While it’s a good resource, everyone already knows about it. These are lesser known, and will save you the time as you won’t have to hunt for them.

*The site names are linked, so just click on them to visit the websites and check them out.

USFreeads– Contrary to what the name would have you believe, USFreeads services many countries around globe.

Placing an ad is free, but if you’d like to ad a photo, there is a charge.

It’s worthwhile to check out the tips offered on the site. They are meant to help you write compelling ads that result in conversions.

Free4uclassifieds – Free4uclassifieds is free to post an ad, and also to upload a photo.

If you’d like to call more attention to your ad, there is a $2.00 fee for highlighting. There are links to resources on this site, as well.

So far though, this site is only for Canadians and Americans.

Highland Classifieds – This one is easy to use, and remains free as long as you just want to place a text ad.  Highland Classifieds will send you regular reports of the activity for your ad, letting you know how many hits you got, how many times it was displayed, and when it is due to expire.  Renewing is super easy, you just click the ‘repost’ link in the email they send you.

As you can see by the above examples, there really are places for you to advertise your home business that don’t have to cost you anything. Try them, even if only for a few months, although the longer the better. You may have to hone your copywriting skills to really grab the reader’s attention, but there are resources available to help you, or you can hire a writer to do it, but that takes the ‘free’ out of it. Besides, you can do it.

Advertise your home business, and watch your sales climb!