Are you trying to come up with creative ways to market your online business? Have you tapped into your friends and family to market your online business? Your friends and family are one of your best free marketing resources. This article will show you how to get your friends and family helping you market your online business.
*How can they help?
Make a list of your friends and family, under each name record what they can do to help promote your online business. Do they have facebook, MySpace, or Twitter? Do they send out a bunch of emails to their friends? Are they in a sales position where they talk to people all day? There are many ways your friends and family can help you promote your online business. If they are on a social networking site they can put a banner or link up for your online business. If they send out emails or talk to people every day you can give them a free offer or service to hand out as a gift to their friends or customers that will link them to your online business.
*Spread the excitement.
Inform your friends and family of your online business. Tell them what your business is about and ask them if they would be willing to help you promote it. Explain to them how you are currently marketing your online business and ask them if you can send them an email or sit down and talk with them about it.
*Send your email or talk with your friends and family.
Use your list to plan out how each one of your close friends and family can help you. Remember making it a benefit or easy for them will greatly help your cause. When you email or talk to them let them know how they can help you. Offer to put the links on their web sites or social networking pages for them. It may take a little time to get the referral furnace burning, but once it kicks in you will be hot with prospective customers.
*The untapped resource.
If you do not currently have your friends and family promoting your online business for you, you need too. Your friends and family like you and may even hold you in high regard. They will want to help you promote your online business to help you out. You need to make it easy for them and maybe even offer them a bonus or dinner for every referral that converts to a sale.
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