Affiliate since: 07/22/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vincent's 9 other Ask SC answers

This is a very good and important question.

Online Social Media has become an incredibly powerful force in today's world, and, if used correctly, can be used to reach thousands of people with one's advertising and marketing, however, the rules they impose can be very frustrating and even negatively impact your efforts.

There are several other options available to advertise online, but you must plan ahead and be prepared to use them. The following are some of my recommendations:

1) Safelists - Safelists are a result of the CAN-SPAM Act enacted by the FCC in 2013 to protect consumers from "Unwanted Commercial Electronic Mail". What this means is that consumers "opt-in" to receive commercial electronic mail voluntarily, and, by viewing other people's ads, receive credits to send their ads to others that have joined. Memberships range from 500 - 10,000.

2) Traffic Exchanges - Similar to Safelists, Traffic Exchanges actually present one's ads to "opt-in" members in REAL time. View Ratios vary among different Exchanges, however, one is guaranteed their ads will be viewed. Memberships range from 1,000 - 1,000,000.

3) Online Classifieds - BEWARE of Craigslist! It is NOT amenable to affiliate ads of any type. However, there are many legitimate Online Classified sites that will allow one to advertise their business, especially in your local area. Most are easy to set up, similar to a newspaper ad.

In summary, most of the advertising avenues I've suggested are free to join and use. Upgrading comes at a cost, but that is optional, depending on your budget.

I hope this helps and good luck in your advertising endeavors.
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This is a very good and important question.

Online Social Media has become an incredibly powerful force in today's world, and, if used correctly, can be used to reach thousands of people with one's advertising and marketing, however, the rules they impose can be very frustrating and even negatively impact your efforts.

There are several other options available to advertise online, but you must plan ahead and be prepared to use them. The following are some of my recommendations:

1)
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 301 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

When you’re thinking to advertise your SFI business, you need to take into account your time and resources. You want to make the most of your marketing dollars and effort to get your best possible ways to advertise your SFI business outside social media.

Being clear about your time and resources, here are ways to advertise your SFI business outside of online social media:

- Advertise using the Internet.

There are many different forms of (what can be defined as) internet advertising (which is fast growing/newly emerging), notably:

1. Your own SFI website/blog – a virtual brochure about your SFI business which includes your SFI/TC gateways.

2. Extending your own website functionality to enable direct communication via email or newsletter, podcast, etc., to prospects who have opted in to receive such contact/materials from you.

3. Adverts on other websites (notably Google's Adwords scheme, although there are hundreds of other big providers/agencies) - which may be anything from tiny text links and contextual links in related materials, to big video banners or audio ads - all of which can be targeted with great precision, (assuming you know your targeting criteria..)

4. Links and entries of your SFI company's details on Internet directories and listings websites (for example Yell.com, and specialist industry news/listings websites)

5. The promotion of SFI/TC products/services via websites such as Amazon. Think of the YCD program.

6. Blogs that you can write about your SFI opportunity, TC/products/services/etc - on the major blogging websites, and/or on industry/consumer/lifestyle-specific websites.

7. Articles (editorials or advertorials) and other online materials that you can post or have published on other websites.

8. Videos and clips that you can upload to websites such as Youtube and Vimeo promoting your SFI business.

Potential of Internet advertising:

Internet advertising generally enables a lot of testing and fine-tuning (of targeting of message, 'keywords', and audience). It's also very 'scalable' and adaptable - you can start small and increase the activity/spend/budgets, and change it in many ways, as you learn what works best. Origination and set-up time and costs are generally much less than for conventional design and print advertising methods. Also, lots of internet advertising costs only your time. You can use the banner/text ads available from the Marketing center or create with SFI approval interesting helpful materials, or simply a few interesting words on a very consistent enduring basis, then you can build a useful relevant following of potential prospects, and in doing so, a reputation and awareness for your SFI business and brand too.

It is one of the best ways of advertising your SFI business outside social media, which cost less/reasonable, yet effective in targeting and of high response rate.

- Other low cost advertising ideas, which with a little imagination and selective effort can be developed into a very effective local advertising campaign, which can produce a continuous supply of new business:

1. Posters in windows and on notice boards, and in staff rooms of local businesses.

2. A promotional stall at a local car-boot market or county show.

3. A stall or leafleting presence at a local relevant gathering or event.

4. Using SFI business cards/X cards in dispensers where local people sit and wait or queue or gather, for example: doctors, dentists, vets, church rooms, tourist information office, outpatients departments, library, nurseries, mini-cab offices, forces and services sites (e.g., police, ambulance, etc), launderettes, post offices, newsagents, hairdressers, takeaways, cafes and bars, hotels, pubs and restaurants, golf clubs clinics, leisure centres, etc.

5. Perhaps you can write a regular column relating to your specialism in the local free newspaper or parish magazine as way to get notice and build your brand.

6. Door-to-door SFI Grow A Second Income Postcards distribution through the postal service or other suitable service. (This is a particular effective method if your neighbours are potential prospects, and especially relevant for SFI business owners targeting locals.)

7. Attending local networking/business events – an opportunity to network and exchange business cards with other business owners.

8. Advertise your SFI business in your local trade directories - typically monthly publications distributed to the local community.

- Networking and clubs.

Using networking methods to develop contacts and introductions is an especially cost-effective marketing method for finding your. A variety of networking opportunities exist in all sectors and regions, including trades associations, chambers of commerce and trade, networking websites, societies, clubs, breakfasts, lunches, events, and anywhere that potential prospects and influencers gather, and the systems within which they communicate and socialise. Use your imagination. Always be prepared to speak to others enthusiastically about your business - the world is full of prospects.



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When you’re thinking to advertise your SFI business, you need to take into account your time and resources. You want to make the most of your marketing dollars and effort to get your best possible ways to advertise your SFI business outside social media.

Being clear about your time and resources, here are ways to advertise your SFI business outside of online social media:

- Advertise using the Internet.

There are many different forms of (what can be defined as)
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Affiliate since: 07/03/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Gilbert's 79 other Ask SC answers

What are some of the best ways to advertise my business OUTSIDE of online social media?

I think there is great potential for SFI to help those in our local community and this is the area in which I wish to focus my advertising. And here I am talking about both Affiliate and ECA advertising.

And, obviously I wish to concentrate on FREE advertising. So anywhere where I can make personal contact with someone is my first aim. May I suggest you try the following: -

1. Select a person from your “warm” market. Prepare how you wish to promote SFI to them. Then make contact – ring them up and arrange a meeting. Then explain to them your very good, well thought out plan of how SFI could help them. Listen to their response and reply honestly and openly. Make sure you give them your experience. Show them what you are doing and how it is working.

2. Select a small business in your area and approach them about becoming an ECA. You may first request if you could sell one or more of their products through your own SFI website. And once you can prove to them that SFI WILL bring in more business ask them to sign up as an ECA themselves.

3. Look for any signs of a “depressed” market in your local community. By this I mean – people who are unemployed (like me); people who are being retrenched; people who are reaching retirement; AND businesses that are looking to expand; maybe an artist or crafts person, or hobbyist.

4. People might want to stay where they are but there is no local employment.

5. People want to improve their life/work balance and live in a “nice” place, away from a busy, expensive city. Speak to these people about SFI and how it will help them to do this.

6. I also wish to advertise on notice boards, most of which are free, and in the community newspaper (which is not free but has a larger coverage). Just something short, inviting them to contact me if they are interested in starting their own business.

If you sit down and think about it, and look around your local community, you will find that there are heaps of opportunities to advertise SFI.

But I also think online advertising is the way to start. And once you have some results from that, that proves SFI is a “winner”, you can start advertising SFI in your local community. People do want to see success before they will commit.

I should warn you though that just because you have recruited someone you know into your SFI team it does not necessary mean that they will commit to SFI. I have found that sometimes the person may decide that they do not wish to continue in SFI, or maybe they are not prepared to do the work that is necessary to be successful and they STOP. But don’t despair and NEVER GIVE UP. As you become more successful they may change their minds and other people will want to join your team.

I hope I have given you some ideas.

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What are some of the best ways to advertise my business OUTSIDE of online social media?

I think there is great potential for SFI to help those in our local community and this is the area in which I wish to focus my advertising. And here I am talking about both Affiliate and ECA advertising.

And, obviously I wish to concentrate on FREE advertising. So anywhere where I can make personal contact with someone is my first aim. May I suggest you try the following: -

1. Select
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Outside of social media, opportunities for advertise our SFI businesses are many, both offline and online. As access to internet is reaching every corner of the world, it is only fair to foresee the continued growth of online advertising resources.

The most effective form of online advertising is driving traffic to a content made up of a website, a blog or a video. It can also serve a purpose of creating attendance to a webinar, building a prospects list or simply to a gateway.

Generally speaking, we have three sets of online advertising resources outside of social media.

The first set of such online advertising resources is within SFI. With the S-Builder co-op, affiliates without any experience can still start to promote their businesses and help their team members do so by setting up their own advertising co-op.
https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/TLCoop

It is also possible to set an advertising co-op outside of SFI, provided that SFI communication guidelines and rules with other affiliates are fully respected and upheld.

The second set of advertising resources outside of social media is made up of of those that are not linked to specific advertising and traffic sites. They include:

- Blog and Forum commenting: By adding relevant information to a blog, making suggestions and asking pertinent questions, we can create interest among other readers who will check us and get to know what we are about. It is an excellent way to start generating organic traffic to our website or personal blog;

-Free and paid Classified advertising: Classified Ads have moved from offline print to online publishing. They are still very effective in finding customers for products and services as well as prospects for business opportunities;

- Search Engine Optimization (SEO): It is fair to say that there is a whole subject matter about "improving the ranking" in search engines such as Google, MSN's Bing, Yahoo , Baidu, Yandex and others. It may require some preliminary training;

- YouTube, Atom, Blip.Tv, Big Think, Min and other video sharing sites: video content has proven to be very effective in advertising. It is a very cost effective substitution to TV advertising. It can even be entirely free;

- Email marketing is still one of the top Affiliate message delivery systems. It is used to build lists of prospects or match customers to products and services. Linked to autoresponders, it is an efficient selling as well as a sponsoring tool.

The third set uses existing advertising and traffic sites. In most cases they are free to join but require accumulating or buying credits to bring viewers to our own offers. They include the following types of sites:
- Paid-to-Click sites (PTC);
- Revenue Sharing sites;
- Safelists and Traffic Exchange sites; and
- Viral Marketing sites.
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Outside of social media, opportunities for advertise our SFI businesses are many, both offline and online. As access to internet is reaching every corner of the world, it is only fair to foresee the continued growth of online advertising resources.

The most effective form of online advertising is driving traffic to a content made up of a website, a blog or a video. It can also serve a purpose of creating attendance to a webinar, building a prospects list or simply to a gateway.

Generally
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Affiliate since: 04/24/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sameer's 74 other Ask SC answers

Hello Andrea

Social Media are a latest aids for promoting any business. If we need to go out of Social Media, we have to resort to the old method of advertising as the have stood the test during the good old days.

1. The first thing comes to my mind is advertising your all SFI business Ads through Safe Lists. Safe Lists are the means where you agree to read Ads of other members in exchange for sending your Ads to them. Safe Lists can be free or paid.

2. In paid system, the top method is Solo Ads, where you need not read the mails of other members but your Ads is sent out to thousands of members on various Safe List with just one click.

3. Then comes the Traffic Exchange Programs like Traffic Swarm, Easy Hits4U, Traffic Era, Soating4Traffic, HitSafari, TopHits4U, ILoveHits, Traffic-Splash, Tezak Traffic Power, Hit2Hit etc. There are dozens of Traffic Exchanges.

4. You can take 5-6 Traffic Exchanges in a day and change the set of your Traffic Exchanges for each day. Like this, you can cover literally all of the Traffic Exchange website over a period of one week.

5. You can make blogs and post SFI, TC, EZ Games, Price Benders or ECA banners on them. Also you can post updates from SFI News and good posts from the Forum on your blogs.

6. You can get some Flyers printed for your SFI and TC business and paste these fliers on electric poles, walls of Restaurants, Gates of departmental Stores, bakeries etc.

7. You can print your visiting cards with your name, telephone and SFI/TC gateway and handover to people after a short introduction about what you do.

8. Visit various shop, like Electrical Stores, Painting Frame Makers, Handicraft & art material Shops, Mobile selling shops, Computers and Peripherals and distribute them your ECA brochures to encourage them to sell online.

9. There are dozens of methods to advertise outside the online Social Media, just take a mug of coffee, put on your thing cap and start imagining where else you can pronote.



Hope it helps

Have a nice day
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Hello Andrea

Social Media are a latest aids for promoting any business. If we need to go out of Social Media, we have to resort to the old method of advertising as the have stood the test during the good old days.

1. The first thing comes to my mind is advertising your all SFI business Ads through Safe Lists. Safe Lists are the means where you agree to read Ads of other members in exchange for sending your Ads to them. Safe Lists can be free or paid.

2. In paid
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Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

On the Internet you have lots of websites for advertising, by this I am leaving out Social media.

I recommend reading the internet income lessons so you can learn about free advertising in the online Classifieds. One of these lessons is called " A Small Guide to Free Advertising", you will learn the importance of traffic flow in order to know the right timing to place your ads. This guide also teaches you about searching for classifieds websites in the search engines by typing the right keywords etc....

SEO: Search Engine Optimization is best used if you have your own website or blog, so I also suggest you read the Internet Income lessons to learn about submitting your websites to search engines.

Traffic Exchange: In this I would create a rotator for my gateways and I would also create a landing page with an opt in so you can collect emails and then you can advertise to prospects via email using an auto Responder such as Trafficwave.

Pay Per Click: Clixsense, Probux, LegacyClix among others allow you to advertise by having your website show on the Clix grid or view ads. You can use your SFI commissions to invest on this kind of advertising because thousands of users will make money per click or win $10.00 on the grid game so save up a little money for this.

Banner Ads: Post these on websites where prospects are looking to work from home, I know this because this is how I found SFI and signed up. Look for websites in the search engines for places where you can post your banners such as Banners and Bucks or Banner Bluster etc...

Free Pinging sites: This is to add your website to online directories.

I gave you a few online methods but for offline methods visit the marketing center and check out the Internet income lessons for more ideas on free advertising.





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On the Internet you have lots of websites for advertising, by this I am leaving out Social media.

I recommend reading the internet income lessons so you can learn about free advertising in the online Classifieds. One of these lessons is called " A Small Guide to Free Advertising", you will learn the importance of traffic flow in order to know the right timing to place your ads. This guide also teaches you about searching for classifieds websites in the search engines by typing
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Affiliate since: 07/08/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ufuomaoghene's 238 other Ask SC answers

Good day Andrea,

SFI has indeed given us alot of marketing tips in advertising our businesses asides via social media which would attract affiliates Internationally, we need to consider options outside social media.

Some of ways we can advertise our business could be through:-

1. By word of mouth to friends, family members and relations. To me, this has proved the best and active PSAs are greateras there is one one contact.

2. Advertising through paid and free sites.

3. Through your personal website or blog.

4. Through safelist where you allow them to advertise on your site and likewise, they allow you to advertise on their site.

5. Distributing flyers at car wash. Laundry marts, super markets etc for them to either become ECAs or PSAs if its an individual that has taken interest.

6. Organising seminars to introduce your SFI business to prospects and your exising downlines that are resident in your country.

7. Through Newspaper or Radio Advertisement having in mind that information of product should be well detailed, benefits stated, contact numbers and website that woud be on both the radio jingle and Newspaper address.

8. Making your SFI x cards available at all times as we can meet our prospects anywhere.

9. We can also advertise our SFI through traffic exchanges like Traffic Swarm, Hits 4 u etc.

Andre, SFI has given us places to advertise as such, we need to maximise all options for us to communicate to our downline to duplicate your actions.

All the best
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Good day Andrea,

SFI has indeed given us alot of marketing tips in advertising our businesses asides via social media which would attract affiliates Internationally, we need to consider options outside social media.

Some of ways we can advertise our business could be through:-

1. By word of mouth to friends, family members and relations. To me, this has proved the best and active PSAs are greateras there is one one contact.

2. Advertising through paid
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Aina's 157 other Ask SC answers

There are so many ways to advertise and advertising definitely can be done offline, and online being the most popular. Again, your financial standing and the willingness to spend play the major role in deciding which way you want to advertise.

Some ideas for offline and ‘outside’ the social media medium for advertisement would be:

1) Via communication: be it by letters, e-mail marketing or distribution of flyers and your business card – make sure you include your URL on your letterhead, in your signatures, on your flyers & business card, wherever you potential contacts are likely to see it. Not to forget your website address as well.

If you distribute physical catalogue or you provide it on your e-commerce site, in addition to your toll free number, put your website address on the bottom of every page of your catalogue so your customers will have easy access to your online store/e-commerce site.

2) If you have a physical shop and you have an employee, make them wear uniforms, again put your website and URL on them so every customers sees a walking advertisement of your website. If you have no physical shop, order some SFI T-Shirts & caps (not limited to just these two) and start wearing/using them. Make sure you have enough business card to give away too.

3) ECAs giving away promotional items like mugs, keychains, umbrellas, t-shirts - print & include your URL, in a way it’s a daily reminder and a good way to get people to visit your website.

4) Yellow Pages – the old way of finding what we want fast. People still search for products or specific company via Yellow Pages.

Back to online marketing, a few ways that can be considered are:

5) SEM or Search Engine Marketing - using this method will require you to pay in order to have your ‘text’ ad appear when prospects/customers do their search for certain keywords.

6) Launch a promotional campaign - you can offer anyone who register on your site or subscribe to your e-newsletters within a certain time frame, the chance to win a free gift(s) like e-book or Gift Certificate. Find a way to link it to PriceBenders ‘Your Choice Dropshipping’ program for Gift Certificate, if possible.

There are so many more ways like link exchange, traffic exchange, by joining discussion groups, forums, viral marketing, classified advertising, online auction sites etc. You just need to spend some time planning on which way you want to do it.

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There are so many ways to advertise and advertising definitely can be done offline, and online being the most popular. Again, your financial standing and the willingness to spend play the major role in deciding which way you want to advertise.

Some ideas for offline and ‘outside’ the social media medium for advertisement would be:

1) Via communication: be it by letters, e-mail marketing or distribution of flyers and your business card – make sure you include your URL
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Affiliate since: 06/05/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Abe's 168 other Ask SC answers

It is good to get an idea and to gain a broader knowledge but never shy
Away from advertising online social media as long as you have the access
And the means to it, because the time is changing and almost everything is
digital Including our major marketing and shopping outlets.

Now Coming back to your questions, you can advertise your business in
Many traditional ways, like news papers, magazines, word of mouth, handing
Out business cards. We used to print or copy pamphlets and stick it on car
Wind shields and those are outdated and illegal in most places because of
Littering problem, but if it is legal in your area you can do that also.
You can have a gathering party for people you know and they know, also
can hand out business cards or pamphlets around restaurants, super markets
shopping Malls. Colleges, high school were the age requirement permitted.
You can find many other ways like this by being creative.

Always factor your time, the amount of time and money you will spend,
And figure out how many prospect you will attract in traditional ways verses if
you do it Involving social media advertising, Nothing wrong by going either
Direction But the main thing is where you can be more comfortable and more
productive to gain quality prospects.
You can do one of the two , or a combination of both.

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It is good to get an idea and to gain a broader knowledge but never shy
Away from advertising online social media as long as you have the access
And the means to it, because the time is changing and almost everything is
digital Including our major marketing and shopping outlets.

Now Coming back to your questions, you can advertise your business in
Many traditional ways, like news papers, magazines, word of mouth, handing
Out business cards. We used to print or
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 586 | Read Sule's 287 other Ask SC answers

There are very many ways to advertise your business outside of online social media and many of these ways are as easy to use and as cheap as social media if not cheaper. The following are some of the ways which readily come to mind allowing you to keep it simple and cheap but at the same time giving your business effective exposure in terms of advertising.

1. You can put your website on notepads, pens, newsletters, bumper stickers, coffee cups, etc, etc

2. You can use well designed and crafted Flyers which you can slip into the center pages of newspapers with some agreements with the vendors.

3. Of course, good old Business cards are still very effective ways to advertise your business.

4. You can use classifieds in your local newspaper.

5. You can mail out well-worded and crafted postcards.

6. You can leave flyers/posters in your local library, supermarkets, drug stores, Laundromats and such like places which many people frequent.

7. You can use welcome baby cards for hospitals and baby gifts for newborns in the hospital with your business tags as labels.

8. You can also purchase cheap seed packets, put a tag on them with your website and give to farmers and horticulturists.

9. You can use good old word-of-mouth to advertise your business to friends, family and anyone you get acquainted with.

10. You can use well-branded Buttons and Lapel pins.

11. You can brad ballpoint pens to hand out with a short advertisement and your URL.


12. You can create an information type handout that briefly explains your business.

13. When you go to a garage or yard sale, request permission to leave a few of your flyers there.

14. You can put your Business Card in all outgoing mail including anything that has a postage paid envelope.

15. You can use Car magnets to advertise your business.

16. You can use local magazines, newspapers, community newsletters, etc with very wide local readership to promote your business.

17. You can leave your Business Cards in restrooms at restaurants or on cork boards around grocery stores.

18. You can set up a free giveaway box in any store that will give you permission.

19. You can buy a personalized stamp and put your ad on it. Use it to stamp the back of any envelopes that you mail.

20. If you receive a junk mail with the postage paid envelopes, just send a flyer back to the company and use their return envelope.

21. You can advertise on personalized T-shirts and baseball caps.

22. You can make up Gift basket raffles for Church bazaars, concerts at your local community hall, or any town function carefully leaving your flyers/business cards in the baskets.

23. You can put flyers on car windshields in the parking lot at your kids sporting events, local gyms and stadiums.

24. You can leave a business card with your tip for your waiter/waitress in your local restaurant.

25. You can ask for permission in your local fast food takeout to post a flyer in their window.

26. You can create a post it stack of your business cards with a glue stick and then post them at pay phones.

27. You can leave business cards by the change machine in the mall arcade or at the ATM machine.

28. You can advertise your business in the sun visor of your car using vinyl letters.

The above list is by means exhaustive since there are very many ways you can promote your business offline. You can use your own imagination and ingenuity to improve on it based on your culture and where you live. Just find a way to think outside the box on this issue and you’ll be Ok.

I do hope this answers your question. Best wishes!!!


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There are very many ways to advertise your business outside of online social media and many of these ways are as easy to use and as cheap as social media if not cheaper. The following are some of the ways which readily come to mind allowing you to keep it simple and cheap but at the same time giving your business effective exposure in terms of advertising.

1. You can put your website on notepads, pens, newsletters, bumper stickers, coffee cups, etc, etc

2. You can use well
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