Okay, you have started your own home based business. You may even be making a little money. Time to take some further steps to build your business.

So you’ve created your Fiverr gig, now what? Well Fiverr gets quite a bit of traffic in itself but it definitely doesn’t hurt to get out there and promote yourself a bit. Just like any business, just because you open the doors doesn’t necessarily mean customers are going to walk right in a buy something from you.

There are those who use our abilities to move from point to point, without taking in the scenery, rarely appreciating all the beauty we’re passing through, all the ground we’re covering. I’ve certainly experienced this mode often. We just want to get there as fast as possible with ‘tunnel vision’. Then there are those who meander. Who go with the flow, employing their intuition and a heightened awareness to see what there is that could be fun, or useful, ready to leave the highway when appropriate if something’s a fit outside of our original plan. Which kind of flyer are you?

If you own a small business, you may be aware of the surge in popularity of coupons, in part because of Groupon. They send your coupon to an opt-in email list. Groupon is expensive, but it could rock your business. Another online variation is living social. The idea is that you put your city in the search and up comes coupons for your city. I don’t know what it cost to participate as a business, but it is not free. If you’d like a fresh idea that is online combined with off line marketing, this article is a quick read. It could have your coupons in front of thousands of potential customers while you get paid to do it.

Triple your Avon sales using just one of these tried and true ideas. 1) Ads – Using ads to find people interested in buying and selling Avon. One of the very best places to advertise locally is in church newsletters. We have had a lot of luck with college newspapers as well. Put together flyers and post them anywhere and everywhere that you are able to. Post free ads on freebie sites. Put your free ads all over the internet.