• 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
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (445 ratings)

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Free Marketing

By: Jim Cockrum
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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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

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"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)

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Wow! This book is Packed!

I have been through dozens of these how-to business books and most of them are excellent, some are not. This book is already my favorite. The level of knowledge and range of information offered in this one book could really fill several books. Very entertaining, full of ideas and tips for any entrepreneur. I will listen to this book several times and learn something new every time. AAA+++

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Great Information, but you need to make notes

This book is full of very useful information, but don't try to read it on your commute. There's just to may things that go past as your just listening. I need to just be at home, maybe with a pen and paper or at the computer with this book. I listen to a lot of audio books with my hour and a half commute each day and I started to listen to this one on that commute, but decided it';s best to leave this one fore a time when I can really listen.

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Awesome. Period.

What did you love best about Free Marketing?

It constantly answers the question for me,

What did you like best about this story?

Everything. Its packed with great info and unselfish attitude.

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Solid, actionable advice

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I found Jim's book to be helpful and inspiring. It gave me several pointers which allowed me to get started right away.

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Thought it was going to be just another ,,,,,,

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

Yes, it turned out this book had a lot to offer

Who was your favorite character and why?

Many marketing tips I had just simply never thought of

Have you listened to any of Sean Pratt’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Never heard before

Any additional comments?

Started off with the mention of God, and I thought I had bought another sermon disguised as a book, but it lasted only a minute and got down to business. I do not often find value in many business related books, but this for me was an exception. Added bonus, was also narrated well.

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An Absolute Must Have in Your Library!

Where does Free Marketing rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Top 5!

What did you like best about this story?

The clear way all important points are emphasized!

What about Sean Pratt’s performance did you like?

Very Very Good!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Stop!! Listen to this before U start your Business!

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Fantastic Book! Will always reference this for the rest of my life!

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Delivers on its promise with 1 important exception

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Maybe. The material in the Audible book goes by so fast. I was encouraged when the Author said he listed resources on his website. Several busted links on that site but only a few resources and great deal of pressure to sign up for paid content. That's not what the book teaches. I like it when the added material pdf is delivered by Audible with the download. Not this time.

Would you be willing to try another book from Jim Cockrum? Why or why not?

Not an Audible edition. Maybe a Kindle version. With the Audible edition, you would need to sit a take notes. Audible books are books on the go.

Which character – as performed by Sean Pratt – was your favorite?

This is non fiction. I've listened to a number of Sean's narrations and his style grows on you.

Was Free Marketing worth the listening time?

Yes, but now that I've visited a number of the author's websites, I'm not sure he practices what he teaches.

Any additional comments?

Lately, I've been working with web marketing in the online real estate arena. I've learned that I don't like high pressure sales techniques there. In listening to this book, I was hearing that you build a relationship and trust with a potential customer without high pressure. The author teaches you to offer valued material for free and when you do sell something have an incredible money back offer. That's not high pressure. I like that message. As with all books, you always learn something. Sometimes it is what the author teaches and sometimes it is what you believed before you read the book. In this case, it was a little of both.

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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.

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Meerly ok

Jim has a few good points here, but in the methods he presents are a bit to cold and unpersonal. I'm sure this will appeal to some but even if I could make some money from this, I'm pretty sure I would go for something else.

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Excellent Book For Business Owners

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

valuable marketing ideas

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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.

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