Free Marketing

101 Low and No-Cost Ways to Grow Your Business, Online and Off

By: Jim Cockrum

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

You used to need a big ad budget to get your message across. Not anymore! Thanks primarily to the Internet, a world of free and inexpensive tactics exists for spreading the word about your business. Free Marketing delivers more than one hundred marketing ideas to help small business owners and marketers generate new revenue—with little or no marketing budget. Using both Internet-based and creative offline ideas, you'll discover ways to turn your top customers into your unpaid sales force, get your competitors to help you promote your new products, and build a foundation for your business. Free Marketing offers simple, actionable advice to help you:

• Use your expert knowledge to create compelling content that attracts customers and enhances your credibility
• Create a "squeeze page," the most powerful one-page website you'll ever build.
• Create the 24 marketing videos you need to grow sales
• Implement a proven method to use eBay for publicity (which the author used to earn $30,000 and tons of free publicity off just one auction)
• Develop efficient online marketing habits that generate leads and boost your SEO
• Address smart phone trends with a strategic mobile marketing plan
• Don't let your marketing budget limit you anymore

Free Marketing proves that the most powerful marketing strategies can also be the cheapest.

©2011 Jim Cockrum (P)2011 Gildan Media Corp

Critic reviews

"Jim Cockrum's book is a megaphone for anyone who wants to get the word out about their business!" (Dave Ramsey, New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host)

Good Content, Sleep-inducing audio.

Any additional comments?

-Note to Mr Cockrum: I know you hired this reader because his voice has an authoritative tone to it, but it comes off as snobby when the subject matter is more practical application and not groundbreaking in nature. I've heard your voice on the audios in your websites before, and I feel as though the readers of your books would benefit much more if you hire a narrator that matches your own lively tempo and personality. -

The information is great. The author proves that if we put these strategies into practice we'll reap great reward. I've finished the book and I know that I'll listen a few more times to pick up the things I missed. I'm just reluctant to do so while driving as I managed to doze off while listening to it in my office a few times, coffee in hand.

My advice to others: Buy the paper copy if you can. But if you do most of your "reading" while driving, get this. It is worth the $, either way. I would only recommend you increase the narrator speed to 1.5x. Safety first. ;)

Excellent place to start

Any additional comments?

For anyone who is new to this world of online business, this is a great place to start and I got a lot out of it thanks. A bit repetitive as he will often give you a bit of information on a topic then come back to it a few times with a slightly expanded version. Overall worth the money!

Great book!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes I would recommend this book! It filled with a lot of great information and tips and tricks!

Very informative information.

This is a great tool for the self marketing person. Allowed me to understand proper etiquette. I innocently didn't know you couldn't introduce yourself to a business through email. I guess the diet pill industry and the SEO so called experts have ruined it for the sincere online business owner. I will definitely have to listen again to write down every suggested link offered that will benefit.

Great for those Ready to Take Action

Some great ideas. Especially if you are ready to take action and start implementing. Even if you aren't, it will get you juices thinking about the possibilities.

Excellent Book For Business Owners

If you could sum up Free Marketing in three words, what would they be?

valuable marketing ideas

Any additional comments?

This is an excellent audio book, full of specific ideas that can be utilized and implemented quickly and for little or no cost. The content is current and the ideas are relevant to how to grow your business and attract new clients. I've bought numerous audio books over the years, and many are either short on details or after awhile become boring. This book kept my interest and had so many good ideas, that I went back and listened to it again. I told one of my friend's about the book, and he called me shortly after purchasing the book, full of excitement about the content and the ideas he had learned from the book.If you need more customers or want to find a low cost way to promote your services in today's competitive environment, buy this audio book and listen to it now.

Fantastic

Like other reviewers on here, I'm not even halfway through this book and have already generated so many new business ideas that I had to pause and recommend it. If you own a business GET THIS BOOK.

Get To The Point

What did you like best about Free Marketing? What did you like least?

I liked the title...thats what caught by attention but the author spends WAY too much time tooting his own horn and not enough time PROVIDING TOOLS... is this an autobiography or a book on how to market for free? Get to the point..the entire introduction and preface are already filled with accolades and examples of success..But so is part 1... Okay we get it..you know your stuff..now TELL us the stuff. -Im returning this book.

Helpful information

What did you love best about Free Marketing?

One of the most helpful business books that I have ever read. Will be buying copies for my employees! Thanks for an amazing reference book.

Better than I expected!

I set more bookmarks in this book than I have ever set before! There were so many golden nuggets and so many useful links, that I was more than satisfied within the first few chapters. I plan on listening to it again and again.