Easy Ways to Promote Your Home Business

• Are you a new business owner with no customers?
• Do you work from home - and have a difficult time getting the word out about your company?
• Are you struggling to find clients and hate the idea of having to do the marketing yourself?

Look no further. You've just found 3 easy ways to promote your business.

Now, by "easy", I don't mean "effortless". Promoting your business does take effort, but with the right tools, you can have technology working for you, so you can spend more time doing what you like - instead of the marketing.

There are three websites below that essentially connect businesses with customers. These high-traffic sites attract lots of customers at the point when they are ready to buy. They can save business owners lots of time because instead of wasting time searching for new clients, business owners have buyers contacting them.

In addition to finding clients, you can build your portfolio, obtain lots of customer testimonials and improve your resume. All of these benefits can help you land more jobs when approaching potential clients outside of these sites. By the way, you can use these sites whether you offer a product or service - and you can work in almost any sort of industry.

1. MiNeeds.com
   At this site, you can register for free and create your own company profile to advertise your products/services. Subscribe to one of their monthly membership packages and receive customer leads who want you to bid on their project. You choose how many leads you are willing to receive per month and how much you want to pay for those leads.
   
   
2. MerchantCircle.com
   Sign up to list your business for free. With your account, you can create newsletters, coupons, ads and blogs to help promote your products and services even more. This can be especially helpful if you don't already have your own website.

   Get better company exposure and high-conversion customer leads by using their Leads program. Decide the amount of leads you want, the more you buy, the cheaper they are). Featured listings include Animals & Pets, Food & Dining, Health & Medical, Land & Buildings, Personal, Communication & Electronics, Legal & Financial, Lodging & Housing and Transportation & Storage.

3. OpenChime.com
   This service is free for shoppers to use, and businesses don't have to pay any money up front either. A company owner can add his or her listing to the site for free and simply pay a commission whenever a client lead is received via the OpenChime.com site.