10 free ways to promote yourself or your business

1.) Maintain a website. If you are a graphic designer, your name can be thrown around conversations if you do a good job on the website.

2) Create a blog. Most blog sites are free and they are not that difficult. When you want to post something up on it, you can put up pictures of your product and talk about your next project.

3) Create a Portfolio. All the work that you have done, keep it a make a portfolio, so you can go and show clients and other people. If you have made a cool website, then you can take screen shots of your website. 

4) Participate in volunteer work. Think of volunteer work as a internship to showcase what you can do. The more you volunteer, the more your name will be known and clients will recognize you.

5) Create a relationship with your customers. If you have followers or customers that likes you work, you can use them to you advantage. If you fix the problems or make better products, your followers will pass the word.

6) Social Networking. It will help you to build a strong foundation on what people are looking for. When you set up a social networking profile, you can interact with your followers.

7) Design or get business cards. Just hand these to everyone that you see and anyone that will take them. This can be effective.

8) Make some news. Try to get a advertisement in the newspaper or other sources for information or you can leave your information in the newspaper. Then you can give them a brief description of what you do.

9) Go out and teach or talk about what you do. Ask around and see who needs a speaker on something. Ask them can you talk about what you do. It won't hurt to ask and who knows you can gets some results.

10) Ask for feedback. Do not be scared, use the feedback as a motivation to do better on the product or use it to satisfy your customers. That's what it is all about anyway right.