Wednesday, February 2, 2011

7 Free Ways to Promote Oneself or Business

  1. Facebook has a variety of self promotion outlets. Communities, groups, and pages all lend there hand to self promotion aspects that can be used for free.
  2. Linkedin is a site similar to facebook but focuses more on the actual business aspect of a social networking site. With LinkedIn, combined with other outlets will allow for optimal use of free self promotion.
  3. deviantART and other personal portfolio type sites is a way to skyrocket the presentation of works done. Plus there are contests provided all the time that have great prizes for winners.
  4. Blogging is a great way to provide regular informational updates on how one is doing, this could easily be translated over into a business aspect to provide clients, and potential clients, with updated information about the business.
  5. Twitter is an alright means of giving off information about a business. The only problem is that the messages are supposed to be confined to short, text message length, posts.
  6. Accepting internships are an amazing way to create a name for oneself, at the same time as building more items for ones portfolio.
  7. This option may not be free, but it would surly be cheep. Create an ad with materials available and promote oneself by placing them in locations where someone who might be looking for one with certain skills might look.

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