How do you promote your business?

[adam fiveson]

You've been to thousands of networking meetings, guru'd with the gurus, elanced with the elancers, you've been to almost all of the online places looking to promote yourselves, right:?... It's always feast or famine right? Never consistancy.... never just a steady revenue stream you can count on?

Well, if you're at all like me... you've got a decent freelance business, you're a creative... and you have down time.

So here's the question of the day.... how do you promote yourself?

Best.

Adam

[Trish McEachern]

Take your nose away from the grindstone and connect with people through sites like this one, Facebook, or other. Reconnect with people you know. Give them a call just to say "hello"...and don't wait for the famine to hit.

Each connection you make is a step toward building your business. It might seem like a waste of time to chat with the mailman or with your second cousin's best friend's brother, but everyone knows someone who knows someone who needs work done.
That's not to say you should spend all of your spare time chatting it up. Work smartly when you do this. 'Travel' in circles that will lead you somewhere.

When the work comes your way, don't be afraid to pass it along to someone else better suited. People appreciate help in making connections and what goes around, comes around. It's all a part of networking, and it's the best way to make your network grow. When your network grows, so does your business.

[Arnie Zak]

One of the best ways to promote yourself is through the use of promotional products. In a recent study done, clients remembered a company 72% of the time more frequently when they were given a promotional product.
For exampe there is power in the branding message of a t-shirt! Industry research has shown that every time a shirt is worn in public, over 200 people can see the branding message. Now that's some bang for your marketing buck!

[Patsy]

Social networking - pure and simple. Just started Facebook ads, they are a pain but the majority of my ads have been approved. I also Twitter, Delicious, Furl, Squidoo, Propeller, go Articles, Digg, Tumbler. Twitter is good in that you can promote your latest project, you are found on other peoples lists and people check out your portfolio. Facebook you make a group of freelancers. You got the viral video idea as well, which I need bad! I love the monkey one it was funny