Tough times are upon us. Every dollar matters. All businesses are looking for effective ways to advertise.

Here are 5 FREE marketing ideas you can do NOW to make sure your survive.

1. Get your business on Google Maps. This is really a no-brainer and should have been done when your website was set up (if your designer didn't do it - maybe it's time to look for a new one). Google is the largest search engine on the planet - you want to be in it as many ways/times as you can. Do it now.

2. Get listed in the basic places. There are a few engines/directories that your business should be in. Again they are free and again they should have been done when your site was set up. For starters we suggest Yahoo Local, DMOZ (Open Directory) and Best Of The Web are a great place to start. Of course there are many more. Make sure you are CONSISTENT with your company name, keywords etc - this will help the search engines know there are several links pointing to you (the more links, generally, the better!)

3. Claim your name on the social networks. I'm  sure you have heard of Facebook, MySpace and so on - but are you using them? Your customers probably are. You need to get YOUR business name before somebody else does. They are like URL's - the good ones are all going fast. They are FREE so why not head over to the major ones and get yours now.

4. Monitor your site analytics. There is gold to be mined in the pile of statistics collected when anybody visits your site. Whether it is how they got there, the keywords they used or what pages they visited - all the information tells you something IMPORTANT. You need to act on it.

5. Schedule your FREE consultation.  Want to know what else you could be doing to drive sales UP. Call us at 888-399-2417 to schedule your no-obligation consultation. We specialize in helping business owners just like you make money from your web presence.