Best Ways to Advertise Your Local Business for Free

There are several ways a business can advertise for free locally. These techniques can save you money, but will require a little leg work, typing skills, and being able to talk friends and family into promoting your business. Oh did I mention these techniques take time.

One way I see a lot of small companies doing is putting business Car door magnets on their vehicles. Before this was practiced mainly by the big businesses, and small companies have caught on to this technique. You can put a sign on your car, your spouse's car, and every family and friend member that will let you tack on your company name to their vehicle. Not only can you get advertisement everywhere you and any one that has the advertisement on their vehicle go but it's free, you may even be able to write it off on your taxes.

Yard signs are something you and your kids or friends can do on a Friday evening while watching a good movie and relaxing. You can make this a fun event and use other people's creativity to draw attention to your company. These signs can be placed in anyone's yard that will allow you too for free. You will want to place these signs in high traffic areas, and places where major events take place, like parks, shopping mall areas, and places where people hold religious events. Yard signs are an easy way to draw wanted traffic to your local company for fee.

Google Maps is one way I advertised my business Mytees2. I created a profile, put up pictures of my t-shirt company's work, and I have received a lot of traffic as well as calls from people that have seen my profile on Google Maps. The process takes all but 15 minutes to set up and watch the calls come rolling in. Google allows you to do this for free, and will walk you through the easy process.

Another free site is Craigslist, you can advertise your business and the things you sell by putting up a listing. The listing last about 7 days, but you can put up several at one time drawing major inquires to your company, and once the ad comes down you can put up another one. The one thing I like about Craigslist is that they do not charge you when you sell an item. The bad part about them is you have to watch out who you are doing business with. I haven't experienced any of the shady business that may be on these types of sites, but I have had great success selling items on Craigslist. The advertisement is so easy and fast, before you are able to get off your computer someone will be asking you about the items you are selling.

Social Blogs are the hottest tools companies use to place free ads about their company, one site in particular is Twitter, they have a local button you can click to see tweets in your local town. How easy is it to punch in your city and have all the people in your city that you can follow and have them follow you back. Once they are a friend everything you advertise they will see, and all this traffic will come to your business for free, it will just take time and patience.

One other great place to get free advertisement is Facebook, I just posted a picture of a t-shirt I did for a friend in my business profile and it sends that message to all my contacts on Facebook. The whole thing is free, and it gives me weekly stats on who is joining my group, the gender of that individual and the age group they belong too. Facebook is a great place to advertise for free, and get the needed traffic to your company or site.