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The 3 Best Ways Automate Your Home Business Marketing

Home business marketing is something every new business owner struggles with when they first start out. How much money should you spend? Where should you spend your money? How can you compensate for a lack of advertising budget?

These are all good questions that those of us who promote a home business must address. Let’s go over three ways you can effectively automate online home business marketing so you can spend time doing other things in your business.

1. Pay per click. When you do a Google search you have seen ads that go across the top of a page and down the right hand side. These advertisers are billed by Google whenever someone clicks on that ad.

You have probably also seen Google ads on Internet marketers websites. Whenever somebody clicks on that ad the Internet marketer is also built by Google. The same thing is true for Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines.

The primary advantage to ppc advertising is how quickly you can begin promoting your own business. Once your campaign is set up you are only billed whenever somebody clicks on an ad.

The good thing about this is you control how much money you want to spend. You can also make adjustments to your ppc campaign to make it work more effectively.

2. Article marketing. This encompasses three things today. You can write and submit articles online directories, do blogging, and also do video marketing.

The key is to automate as much of this is possible so you do not have to spend all day writing articles. If you have a little bit of money to spend you can hire a freelance writer to write articles for you.

You can also outsource the submissions by finding people to do the work for you. A good website for that is Fiverr.com. Odesk.com is another good source of finding outsourced workers you can hirer.

3. SEO. Targeting specific keyword phrases is possibly the best way to automate your home business marketing. Once you consistently rank on Google, Yahoo, and Bing for the primary keywords related to your business you will consistently get traffic even when you do not work.

Of course the hard part is to find the key words, and then put in the effort to get your website to rank for them. This is a skill that many Internet marketers have learned how to do.

Others prefer to hire an SEO specialist who can help them develop a broad reaching list of keywords to rank for. I like to use Traffic Travis to build a good keyword list. It is free to download.

These are three of the best ways to automate your home business marketing. Combining paid and free advertising is a smart way to make money online and automate as much of the marketing as you can.