Online Marketing: The Alternative to the 3 Foot Rule!

If you are involved in a home based business and you haven’t heard of the three foot rule, I’m pretty sure you’ve been living under a rock.

The three foot rule is one of the oldest and most talked about methods of marketing a home based business there is.

If you don’t know what it is it pretty much goes like this: You talk to anyone who comes within three feet of you about your home based business.

Eating at a restaurant? Tell them about your business. Riding on an elevator? Tell them about your business. At the hair salon? You guessed it…. Tell them about your business!

The three foot rule is one of those things that a lot of people talk about but I must say I doubt many people actually do. After all, would you really join a home based business if someone approached you on the orange juice aisle and started asking you if you wanted to change your life? Probably not!

The idea behind the three foot rule is if you talk to enough people surely some of them will be interested in what you’re doing and sign up. However, it rarely works out that way, and while you’re spending all your time talking to complete strangers, and most likely embarrassing yourself, you’ll probably just get discouraged and quit.

As you can probably guess, I am not a fan of the three foot rule. So how do I get people to talk to about my business? It’s simple. I advertise on the internet for free! No, I don’t spend money on pay per click (that can really eat away at your budget if you’re not careful!) or buy huge lists of leads to dump into an auto responder (been there, done that!)

I get targeted traffic to my website every single month by doing a few simple things like marketing on forums, blogging, free classified sites. I use Myspace, Facebook and article marketing sites and guess what? People are actually calling me instead of me calling them, business has never been better!

So ditch the three foot rule and start marketing in the 21^st century! I know that once you see just how great internet marketing is you’ll never bug another person in the dry cleaners again!

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