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5 Proven Ways to market your business with No money

Do you want to market your business? Marketing is essential for any business to survive. 

But the main problem is Marketing costs money. It’s easy to market yourself or your business when you have some money when you have some capital, but what if you don’t have a lot of capital?

How could you market yourself or your business with no money?

If you are also looking for some of the best ways to market yourself without money. You are at the right place. In this article, I am going to give you five ways to market without money.

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5 Proven Ways to Market your Business with No money

#1 Offer your services for free

You see when you are just getting started and when you are brand new and you don’t have a lot of credibilities,

What you need is actually proof. What you need is proof that you could do good work. What you need is proof that you could take to potential clients and say, hey, here’s my portfolio.

Here’s what I’ve done.

Here are some of the results you could expect from me.

If you don’t have that, what you need to do in the beginning

is just to get some gigs, so to prove your worth, to build up that case.

Then for other gigs in the future, you could charge, but you need to build that track record asap.

So offer the work for free.

You need to get some results for some people first.

No good to say, hey, I’m the best in the world at this.

I’m so good with what I do.

Nobody cares.

People need to see a track record first.

So offer your services in exchange for testimonials, in exchange for referrals, just for a short period.

Build a case, collect and accumulate that proof first.

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#2 Joint venture with other people

So figure in your marketplace who already has access to the customers that you want.

They’ve already spent a time and money accumulating that customer base.

How could you convince them to do a joint venture with you that you could market to their customer base?

How could you do that?

You can offer them money. You can offer them commission or maybe even an exchange of service where you provide a service for them.

In exchange, they will let you and allow you to market to their lists.

This way, you reduce the amount of risk that you have to take and you don’t need to spend any money.

Joint venture, one of my favorite strategies in marketing.

#3 Content Marketing

No different than what I am doing here. You could create content.

It could be a blog, it could be a podcast, it could be a video.

When you cannot spend money, you have to spend time.

You have to invest the time to create the content out in the marketplace.

In the beginning, you need volume.

You need a lot of quantity to cut through the noise in the marketplace.

And knowing that it is a long game, it is a slower game, but if you get started today, you would get better at it.

You will be more efficient. And before you know it, you could crank out content just like that.

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#4 Be a guest on other people’s platforms

Be a guest on other people’s blog posts. Be a guest on other people’s podcasts.

Now, in order to do this, you got to be good at what you do.

Doesn’t mean you got to be famous, but you got to be good at what you do.

You got to bring something unique to the table that they would want to give you that stage time, they want to give you that media time.

You have to be good at what you do, but there’s also a very good way because they’ve already built up a lot of trust with their audience and if you could add value to that audience

and you say, hey, you know what?

I have some expertise that I could bring to the table.

Ask me questions, and interview me.

What can I do for you?

Write an article. That’s another way for you to tap into other people’s audience.

#5 Send out a pitch video

This is one of my favorite techniques and it works all time.

You need to send out pitch videos but you need to be careful otherwise, you will be spamming people.

First, you have to identify who are your ideal clients.

So you create that list first. It could be 30,50 people.

You find out who they are, you find out what they need, you find out what problems you could solve for them and you have to make each video custom.

And you shoot a little three, four-minute video addressing to that potential prospect.

And you just send it to them. That’s it.

You just send it to them, not to pitch your services.

You offer them something worth of value upfront.

This actually works extremely well because you stand out, you let the prospect hear you, feel you.

They can see your facial expression. And if you’re not pitching, just adding value, you could make that initial contact, and from there, you establish the relationship.

They may not do business with you right now, but you have made that connection or they might refer someone to you.

So those are the five ways you can market yourself or your business with no money.

One of the most important things that you have to do if you never want to chase clients again, is to accumulate what I call social capital.

Social capital is the capital of the future. Accumulate it so you never ever have to chase clients again.

Over to you

Which all ways do you use for marketing your business with no money?

Which way did you like the most? Do share your views with me on sk@moneyexcel.com.

Shitanshu Kapadia
Shitanshu Kapadiahttp://moneyexcel.com/
Hi, I am Shitanshu founder of moneyexcel.com. I am engaged in blogging & Digital Marketing for 10 years. The purpose of this blog is to share my experience, knowledge and help people in managing money.