Selling online is an excellent opportunity for those who want to start their own business without having to leave home to do so. However, many people, in some mistaken way, that starting an online venture is something easy and generates one day for the other.
The first thing you have to know is that to achieve good results with Internet sales is necessary to plan, work and strive in a lot. There are no miracles that will make you get rich without any effort.
But if you do a serious and structured job, it is very likely that you will reach your goals, such as having more time to spend with your family, being able to work while traveling, being your own boss, getting bigger profits and much more. Here you can find 4 unusual ways to promote your products for free.
Upwork
Okay now you are probably thinking, you said for free, and well yes it is just here me out have you ever been reading a blog and you see pay publicity or on Instagram and you see paid partnerships. Ads are a great way to start promoting your product, especially if you don’t have a platform to do so.
Let’s say you write an ebook, but you don’t have a blog or email list to promote it. What you can do it’s going to Upwork and post a gig based on commission. It could be something like this
Hello freelancers, I wrote a book called the art of getting sh*t done I’m currently selling it at 30usd. I am offering an amazing opportunity to collaborate together by promoting my product and for every sale of the book, you make you get 50% of the profit.
A lot of people in Upwork are professional marketers or bloggers with a platform to make this happen and that will be eager to collaborate with you.
Buzzfeed Quizzes
You have most likely heard about BuzzFeed it’s an online news platform with over 600 million readers worldwide. Even though advertising with BuzzFeed will probably cost you a few bucks, there are other ways to get around it. And it’s actually super simple and it’s through their quizzes and fun to make all you need its to create a BuzzFeed account.
Check this quiz as an example, anyone can make a quiz on BuzzFeed and you could put your book at the end as one of the results and a link to where to buy it, just don’t forget about the other book options as well.
As you can see in this photo down below is the link to where to get the book, but this can be done with any product. And did you knew that 3 out of 5 millennials use BuzzFeed, that is amazing free publicity right there
Make a youtube video and rank it
Okay so even tho this one is technically not free it might as well be because it cost just about the same as a cup of coffee and a croissant aka $5 USD.
Basically when you don’t know something you go to youtube for information, so let’s say you want to sell a diet plan, what you could do it create a video with 4 essay and cheap recipes that anyone can make and once your video is done you go to fivver and you get someone to rank your video so when someone types cheap healthy recipes your video shows up. And in the video, you can mention and add the link to your cookbook and as well add it in the comment section as a pinned message.
Do a blog tour with similar niches.
That’s what a blog tour consists of: being able to promote your novel in several blogs and, thus, reach a much wider audience.
Blog tours are organized well in advance, usually following the following steps:
1. Contact bloggers who are willing to publish content of your novel in your blog. Social networks can help us a lot with this and, of course, your blog.
2. Once the number of participants is closed, the duration of the blog tour is decided. There are those who start with this step and when they reach the number of participants they wanted, they close the registrations. Either way, there must be a post on each blog every day. That is, if a week lasts there will be seven participants and one entry in each blog every day. Usually, the duration is usually two to four weeks, but a less pretentious option could be a week.
3. The content that each blog will host is decided. It is very important not to repeat the content, seeking to offer something unique in each of them. The idea is to adapt the content to the theme and public of the blog. The bloggers themselves can help you! Some options are an interview with the author, a face to face with the characters, exclusive material, how it was made … Use the imagination!
4. Once the blog tour calendar is established, it’s time to announce it! You must specify the calendar in your blog and each blogger indicates at the end of your post where the tour follows the next day.
If you can, offer some kind of reward to bloggers. Exclusive material, some collaboration … you send!
About the author
Arabella is a freelance Parisian writer and world traveler, author of the art of getting sh*t done. A book that teaches you how to escape the 9-5, succeed in your business and join the new rich. From creating an ebook to making it on Instagram, start investing in stocks, creating a podcast to becoming a sugar baby this book has it all to help you succeed and achieve each and every single one of your goals. Start investing in your future now.
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