Say What Free Stuff – Small Business In Print

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The Pitch for Say What Free Stuff Small Business

Proposed Title: Say What Free Stuff – Small Business or Launch Your Business with Say What Free Stuff

Project Number of Pages: 150 – 200

Overview:
Say What Free Stuff (SWFS) Small Business is a resource guide for small business owners and budding entrepreneurs emphasizing free open source software, online resources, talent bartering, and crowd sourcing. SWFS Small Business explains how entrepreneurs can leverage free resources to eliminate some startup cost. In addition to the cost benefit, using these free resources allows the entrepreneur to simultaneously grow their business and promote other entrepreneurs, freelancers, and e-lancers.

The book reviews high quality free resources, upgrade options, and conversion paths to paid alternatives that accommodate business growth. The book will be a research resource, a ready-reference, and a launch pad for ideas. Entrepreneurs and business owners can use this during all phases of business development. Updates and supplements will be provided via a branded blog, website, social media sites, print edition updates, and articles in subject appropriate periodicals. The print edition of SWFS Small Business will connect print media and e-publishing, with web research, blogs, magazines/ e-zines. The book will be created and developed using free solutions, resulting in a user tested, efficient and effective guide to free essential business resources.
Competition: Many business books focus on managing cost. SWFS Small Business focuses on free, equally valuable, resources to maximize business development at every phase. SWFS Small Business differs from other business books and start-up guides because it focuses on cost elimination, so entrepreneurs can focus on their skills and talents.

Why SWFS Small Business:
Entrepreneurs are the foundation of the economic recovery, the future of full workforce employment, and a viable solution to some social concerns. Providing entrepreneurs with the resources like SWFS Small Business supports entrepreneurship, workforce employment, economic growth and social entrepreneurship. Additionally, this guide to free, high-quality business solutions supports the open source, crowd sourcing, common communities which provide these solutions. This type of resource allows entrepreneurs and small business owners to focus on their respective talents instead of searching for resources to run their business.

3 – Free Marketing Plans for Startups

Leverage the web, email, and print media to launch marketing strategies that:

• Explain – what you can do for your customer
• Answer – why you are the solution to their problem
• Outline – how you can do to make their business better

You can execute entertaining, engaging, quality web, email, and print marketing campaigns for free. And free fits every company budget. These 3-marketing plans are also easy to implement and upgradable to cost effective plans as your business expands.

Web Strategy – create a custom, professional website where customers can get information about your products and services, read testimonials and get contact information.
1 – Setup a free Google account at www.google.com
2 – Create a Google site (sites is under the More menu on the Google homepage)
3 – Choose a template that reflects for company image and message
You now have a web presence where you can direct potential customers. Google sites are included in search engines results from Google, Bing, Yahoo and others.

Email – establish a free email account with Microsoft’s Small Business Live, Yahoo or other free email service. Create a email announcing the launch of the site you created in your web strategy. Include a link to the website and a link to email you plus the telephone number.

Now that you have introduced yourself and provide multiple communication options to your clients, let’s complete the marketing cycle with a traditional marketing medium – print.

Print marketing plan – Be nice to the earth and leverage multiple electronic media forums first. One print “must have” is the infinitely powerful business card. Your business card should be informative and very professional. Limit colors to those that are part of your branding strategy. Include your website, email address and telephone number. Companies like Vista Print and Market Splash advertise promotional offers for free business cards.

Welcome to Say What?! Free Stuff

Welcome to the launch post for “Say What?! Free Stuff” a blog about free and useful stuff. This blog is for entrepreneurs, small business owners and anyone looking for resources that will make reaching your life, career, and business goals easier to attain for the low cost of FREE. Visit this blog often to post your comments, send us questions or inform us of free stuff.

Here on the SWFS Blog we believe free stuff must be useful and worth our valuable time. We believe time is money. Free stuff must allow us to create, save, do, learn or change for the better. I am on an insatiable hunt for free stuff. Here you will find out about some free stuff I found that will help you save money, plus start and run your business better and enjoy life. We will discuss an online spending tracking application, open source word processing software, and fun things to do all for FREE.

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