What's the best way to get big results from a small budget?

This Week's Challenge

Get big results from a small budget

My company is a small education institution with a small marketing budget to match. Our competitor, also in the same area, has lucked out with a budget that's 10 times larger than ours.

I've done the flyer routine and created a referral program in which a student gets $100 if a friend enrolls. We've sent press releases to the local media. I think I've run out of ideas that require little or no money. What other low-cost marketing strategies work well?

—Kate

The following two Web-based activities support efforts to reach your target audience without eating up your budget:

  1. Write online content

  2. Advertise with search engines

Write Online Content

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Hank Stroll (Hank@InternetVIZ.com) is publisher at InternetVIZ, a custom publisher of 24 B2B e-newsletters reaching 490,000 business executives.