Be Creative - Effective Advertising Is Extremely Important
Don't be embarrassed when it comes to advertising. Sell yourself
and you will succeed. Without advertising, there is no exposure,
and without exposure, there is no business. Don't expect people
to just find your site or store and give you business.
Be creative. Money is not the only solution to getting your
business off the ground. Take advantage of all the free services
and materials to get your name out there. Submit your site to
free web directories, print out flyers and put them in people's
mail box or drop them off in malls or airports for people to
take a glimpse of your business. Make t-shirts with your company
logo and contact information and wear them around whenever you
go.
I would like to suggest something like, go write on walls for
people to look at, but that's called vandalism so please stay
away from that.
Just to give you an idea of what you can do with your
creativity. Don't just think, go act it out. Everyone has some
idea of how to advertise, but most of the time they back down
because they think it's stupid or embarrassing. Nothing is
embarrassing but rather consider it successful if you are able
to get your name out to even a single person. That one person
may talk about your company with another person, which is called
"word of mouth" advertising - most effective and credible
advertising method available. They can either talk about your
business or make fun of it; either way, more and more people are
getting to know what you are doing!
Go out there and show them what you got!