Promoting Your Business Without Spending Any Money
This topic was suggested by Denise Grier from my topic submission exercise post and I thought it a great topic to share tips with everyone in this area 
Here’s some real facts, many people who start business online have little or no money to start with. So how do can you generate huge amounts of traffic to your blog within spending any money?
Well I started with no money and in this blog post I am going to share with you guys some tips on how you can promote your business without spending any money.
Blog Commenting
This is one my favourites ways to drive traffic to my blog was through commenting in other popular blogs within the same niche. Do take note, I mentioned it have to be within the same niche or the traffic that comes from that blog will not be targeted
The strategy behind blog commenting is not to comment just a simple comment in the blog you are targeting but you would want to give more added value to the blogger’s blog. You can do so by commenting valuable comments and give more tips with regards to the article he has written.
In that way, you not only contribute to the blogger’s blog but also bring value to his blog and readers who read your comments will have a high chance of visiting your blog just to check how great you are
Forum Marketing
It has been my favourite marketing tactic until today since I started and this tactic is real simple and only takes minutes a day All you need to do is first of all find 1 or 2 related niche forums within your market and start posting discussion topics in there everyday.
By doing that, you not only network with people in that forum but also have a chance to advertise your blog through the signature box in the forum.
The most effective method I have tried is most question based discussion within the forum threads to generate more replies within the forum so that your discussion is being picked up by people in the forums to view. The more views there are, the higher chances they will see your signature to generate massive traffic from it
A Must Have Secret Weapon That Hardly Anyone Bothers To Try And It’s FREE
I think I am just crazy to expose this marketing tactic to you guys but hey what the heck 
If you make more traffic from this one method alone I bet you will come back for more to learn from this blog So what’s this big secret all about? Well it’s actually right in front of you everyday when you load my blog
Just right above this blog, you will see an opt-in box that says you get a free “Blogger’s Handbook” and after you fill up the form it actually emails you my free handbook and also telling you that you have rights to give away this book to others for free.
If you actually open up my handbook and read it, you will realized the free handbook is actually a marketing tool I use to get others to promote my blog by giving away my handbook for free Already more then thousands and thousands of people have downloaded it and it’s driving really lots of referral traffic just from one free book itself
Just imagine, one person download my hand book and read it and forward it to his friend ( which does happen really often ). That one friend may refer another 10 friends who are interested in making money online and will pass on this ebook on and on to others. In the long run, this book just get spread all over the internet creating a viral effect To track how effective the tool can you be, you may want to put in tracking links in the ebook to see the number of referrals you get from the free handbook
Hiya Alvin! I posted comment here a while ago, and I see my comment is still not showing. Are there any moderation issues I should be cognisant of? I really like your blog and would like to continue engaging you and the other commenters!
OK, now my comment is showing straight away! Weird! Anyways, I was mentioning the fact that although these processes don’t necessarily involve money, there is the time factor that has to be taken into consideration. Time is money after all, and you can only squeeze so much into a day!
Not really a controversial issue but thanks for sharing your thoughts. It’s perfectly possible since the internet allows everyone to be boss of their own business. There are lots of ways actually but I’m telling you, internet business is 95% failure rate. If you don’t want to be part of that statistic be sure to follow accordingly.
very helpful to beginners
I would like to refer forum marketing to promote a business. According to me it is good process to engage your target visitors. From my experience forum marketing work better then blogging.
Nice post Alvin.
Your ebook was one of the first blogging books I read.
Forum marketing is something I haven’t really tried yet. I am a member of Darren Rowse’s problogger.com community but haven’t really spent much time in there yet. Been a bit of a lurker there actually but have made some great a friends on it.
What forums do you visit and use Alvin for forum marketing?
I often visit Warrior Forum
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