7 Unique Ways To Get FREE Advertising

1. Give Testimonials When you purchase a product or service and it exceeds your expectations e-mail the business a testimonial. Tell them in the testimonial the benefits you got from the product or service. Give them permission to publish the testimonial on the web site if they include your sig file at the end.

2. Leave A Message When you visit a web site with a discussion board leave a message. You could post a question, interesting content or a compliment about their web site. Include your signature file at the end of the message. Some discussion boards let you post your banner ad or text link.

3. Sign Guest Books When you visit a well designed web site leave a compliment on their guest book. You could give them a compliment on their content, ease of navigation, graphics etc. When you post your compliment include your sig file so other people will see it when they sign the guest book.

4. Write A Review When you visit a web site you enjoyed a lot write a review for the web site Write about the benefits you gain from the site, the web site design, interesting online services it offers etc. E-mail the review to the web site. Tell them they can publish it on their web site if they include your resource box at the end.

5. Send An E-mail To The Editor When you read a good article or enjoy a certain e-zine, e-mail a compliment to the editor. Give the editor permission to publish the compliment in their e-zine if they include your signature file at the end. The editor may post it on his or her web site.

6. Write and let people give away a report or ebook written by you. To maximize the effect, try to make the content very niche focused.

7. Offer free services to other. Spell check their site, write articles for them, create web page templates or anything else that can be done for others or given to them for free.

Kenth "The Designer" Nasstrom is the founder of The Designed Software Series. His software can be found at http://www.kndata.com and he also owns http://www.free-newslettertemplates.com as well as http://www.costa-rican-information.com

In The News:


CaymanMama.com (press release)

Online advertising up 11 percent from last year
CNET News, CA - 23 hours ago
Internet advertising revenues for the third quarter were nearly $5.9 billion, representing an 11-percent increase over the same period last year, ...
Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 '08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion MarketWatch
Online Advertising: A Glimmer of Light? E-Commerce Times
Online Advertising Nearly $5.9 Billion in the Third Quarter Seeking Alpha
InformationWeek - IT Business Edgeall 242 news articles

Ronald Pantello, Harry Sweeney, and David Wood Voted Into Medical ...
MarketWatch - 2 hours ago
NEW YORK, Nov 21, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The general membership of the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame voted to induct three new individuals at ...

Enews 2.0

TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say
New York Times, United States - 23 hours ago
The researchers used several statistical models to link obesity rates to the amount of time spent viewing fast food advertising, finding that viewing more ...
Researchers: Ban on Fast Food TV Advertising Would Reverse ... MarketWatch
Fast-food ad ban could cut child obesity: US study Reuters
Study: Banning fast-food TV ads could dent obesity The Associated Press
Los Angeles Times - Telegraph.co.ukall 487 news articles

MillerCoors switches advertising firms
Chicago Tribune, United States - 3 hours ago
MillerCoors announced Friday that its advertising agency of record will be a trio of ad shops that includes Chicago-based Draftfcb. ...
MillerCoors awards $400M account to Interpublic Crain's Chicago Business
MC Media = Draft + Initiative + Kinetic + $400M mediabistro.com
MillerCoors, top US competitor to Anheuser-Busch InBev, announces ... St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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New York Times

The Screens Issue Multiscreen Mad Men
New York Times, United States - 4 hours ago
BENJAMIN PALMER is the CEO of the Barbarian Group, an Internet advertising and marketing firm based in Boston. He helped create the ‘‘Subservient Chicken’’ ...

FROM ADVERTISING SECTION
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 3 hours ago
By Weelbase communication Obama pledges support for electric power: Two of the most urgent challenges facing the United States climate change and the ...

The Australian

Wall Street Journal Invades News York Times' Ad Turf (Update1)
Bloomberg - 5 hours ago
21 (Bloomberg) -- The Wall Street Journal is invading the New York Times' advertising turf as competition intensifies in a souring US economy. ...
The firm believer The Australian
all 4 news articles

The Wall Street Journal Eats The Times' Advertising Lunch
Wired News - 2 hours ago
By Meghan Keane November 21, 2008 | 1:50:23 PMCategories: Advertising, New York Times Milton Pedrazza, chief executive officer of Luxury Institute LLC, ...
'NYT' vs. 'WSJ' in Ad Smack-down! Editor & Publisher
all 2 news articles

Advertising pioneer George Beach to be honored
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 13 hours ago
By Jane M. Von Bergen The interview was winding down, and longtime advertising executive George Beach had begun to relax a little. ...

Sport Chalet Teams With TM Advertising
MarketWatch - Nov 20, 2008
one of the nation's premier specialty sporting retailers, today announced that it has hired TM Advertising as its first advertising agency of record. ...
Precor Selects Sport Chalet for California, Arizona and Nevada MarketWatch
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