40 Ways to Promote your Business, Website or Blog

1.Pick a good name

2.Define your main purpose

3.Find your niche

4.Create a logo or get someone else to do it

5.Hand out your business cards and tell others about your products or services

6.Take a good picture of yourself and display it

7.Create a cd, dvd, or video on youtube

8.Write your biography or personal description

9.Get a sign on your location or a grab button on your website or blog

10.Take more pictures and display them

11.Build a mailing list on or offline

12.Join social networks and participate

13.Post ads that fit your budget

14.Open a paypal account or join another online merchant that allows you to take credit cards

15.Show your appreciation

16.Offer free stuff

17.Have a contest

18.Post comments and reviews

19. Sponsor someone else. Be a guest writer on someone else's website or blog

20.Do a free workshop or seminar

21.Define your target market

22.Offer your services free temporarily

23.Follow a theme, or celebrate a holiday

24.Write a press release and distribute it to the media

25.Write articles and participate in discussion groups

26.Publish a special report and give it away to customers who join your mailing list or refer a friend to you

27.Write a book

28.Order the T-shirt. Get your logo or slogan on a t-shirt, mugs, pens, etc. and give them away

29.Swap links with others or swap referrals--you refer me, I refer you...
30.Offer your skills to someone else as consultant or a mentor

31.Start your own discussion group

32.Create a newsletter

33.Ask for referrals

34.Get a celebrity spokesperson--doesn't have to be a major celebrity

35.Set up an autoresponder so that when someone emails you they get a message back automatically with your special offer

36.Create a flyer and post your info on a bulletin board

37.Write an awesome sales letter

38.Create a radio show

39. Write a winning classified ad and post it everywhere you can

40.Give away a coupon