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[Gladiator]

Promote FreeLunchRoom!

A lot of people have felt lost on how to get started getting people to FreeLunchRoom whether it be from their community or elsewhere online. Here's a list of tools and some material which you can use to promote your FLR referral link which can be found here.

First we'll start with getting referrals online. Many go first to traffic or link exchanges, but their impact is very minimal. You can definitely use them and see what you get, but you'll want to focus your effort elsewhere to maximize your exposure.

What ultimately brings in traffic is a lot of sources linked to your site (quality of sites links to your site matters as well). Search engines look at this factor for site ranking and frequency of the site to show up with minimal keywords. What I mean by that is, the more popular a site becomes (due to high traffic source and many links to them from other sites), the few keywords that need to be inputted for the site to show up higher on the list. For example: when you type in 'free lunch room' into Google, FreeLunchRoom shows up at the top since we have an extensive community with lots of content and links from other sites and you don't see many results for school cafeteria lunch rooms. As FLR becomes more popular and linked around the web, FreeLunchroom starts popping up at the top of the search engines when only 'free' or 'freebies' are typed into the search engine rather than 'free lunch room'.

Blogs are becoming one of the greater voices for people to express their ideas and promote what they're doing. This is very easy way to start a web page and be able to publish everything that you're doing. What makes it even easier is that there are a ton of sites that set it up for you and all you have to do is enter information. Two sites which will do that for you are www.blogger.com and WordPress.com Get a Free Blog Here. From either of these sites you just have to sign up and right away you can start posting all of the information you want to be promoting. This includes your FLR referral link and information you want to share involving freebies. I've had people ask me, "What do I do after post my FLR referral link and post about freebies". Keep posting and lots of it. What I mean by that is, load up your blog with lots of content. This can be from your day to day activities, proof pictures of how much you made that day (or in past) to freebie tutorials and explaining how people can make money using FLR. The more content you have the better off you are.

If you have your own website and you have the know-how to get going with that, then that's great. Keep updating your content and create an extensive knowledge base of information. Again I'll emphasize, once you set up a link to FLR, the better off both sites will be.

Social media sites are another great way to get the word out. This can be from Facebook to MySpace. While self promotion on these sites are limited, you can still create an informational page where interest can be generated and you can have those people contact you directly about FLR. You may already been on many of these sites and have lots of contacts that may be interested in finding out more once you post information up about FLR.

The second place you can advertise is within your community (yes, real life!). Everyone has those bulletin boards in numerous place in their community from the grocery store to playgrounds. These would be great places to post fliers promoting your FLR referral link (please make sure to get permission to post them).

Now when you're posting information, fliers or banners, you'll want to use some common sense on how you do it. A few factors you'll want to consider are: the number of people that will be able to view it, the audience that will be viewing it, and where you place it. Targeting large or densely populated locations are going to be ideal for placing a banner or flier. An example would be on a college campus (where you can get upwards of a 30,000 person audience in a small area) would maximize the number of people viewing it per flier posted. You can get creative and find locations within your community which will garner this exposure. Then I'm sure follows the most asked question, "how do I explain freebies to people?" Keep it simple. Typically the more detail you try to go in, the more confusing the explanation is going to be. The best one sentence explanation you can give: You can make money trying out sponsored products and services.

This is only a small list of things you can do to promote your FLR referral link and I know there are people that have found ways that go beyond what this starter guide has explained.

Here's some banners, logos and a sample flier you can use to create a visual link to FLR. Feel free to use these banners and logos on your website or blog.









Gamermatt has made a few more than fit the more convention banner sizes: http://www.freelunchroom.com/board/b...r-banners.html

You can embed your FLR referral link in those banners using Gamermatt's link setup.

I'm not a Photoshop expert so I'll try my hand at making a few more.

I'll be making the flier soon so stay tuned for that to come and I'll post it here for you to print out and distribute.

[CouldBFree]

Thank you for this very valuable information. I hope to have my site up and ready to be made public very soon so watch out ya'll!!! A new age of freebie training /trading is about to hit the scene any day now!

[enrichingclei]

cool! thanks for the info :-) definitely I'll do that one :-)

[K-Fabulous]

Thanks for the info and the banners Glad. Very useful!

[Lois5669]

Excellent information here, Glad! Thanks for giving us some more logos and banners too. I've seen so many questions lately about this topic so I'm really glad you took the time to give some details on the "how" and "where" of it all.

[Lauryn99]

Hey this is great. Exactly what I was looking for, I know that some just don't know where to begin and that will help them a lot! I just finished a banner myself and can't wait to get all of the started!! Thanks for the info.

[aries07]

This is great info, thanks for sharing!!!

[7irishgirls]

Thanks Glad.
Great information.

[pratapa]

Good to hear these Glad!! I have a blog which fetched me few refs, but now maybe its time for me to update the content and add few banners as well. Hope to get lots of refs here soon:-)

[silvervixen]

I missed this! Thanks for posting this great information and encouraging people to get out there and promote. I'll make use of some of those banners myself on my blog and my website.

We definitely need this. The more our members get out there and promote the forum, the more traffic we will have and the better off we will all be!

Silvervixen