List of Ways to Promote a Local Business Online for Free

Small, local businesses face many challenges.

Employees are strapped for time, marketing budgets are rather small and there usually isn't a dedicated person on staff that handles online marketing.

With this in mind, I put together this list of free spots on the Internet to promote a local business.

The links below take you to the correct spot on each site to add your business.

1. Google Maps
2. Yahoo Local
3. Bing Local Listing Center
4. YellowPages
5. SuperPages
6. Local.com
7. MerchantCircle
8. MagicYellow
9. YellowUSA
10. iBegin
11. DMOZ
12. Localeze
13. HotFrog
14. Yelp
15. InsiderPages
16. Squidoo

The first 15 resources provide free business listings. Squidoo allows you to create a lens, which can function as a media-rich business listing.

Use these resources to help your business gain exposure for free. All it takes is your time.

Thanks to Saeed for pointing out Microsoft Live Search and InfoUSA.

Comments

[Saeed]

Hey Julie Kane pointed me to your blog. Good post.

Two others I recommend:

Microsoft's Live search
https://llc.local.live.com/ListingCenter.aspx

InfoUSA (powers MapQuest)
http://www.infousa.com