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Originally Posted by MsHiss  If 'green cleaning' is unique in your area, try writing and sending out a news release to any news papers in the area, especially any freebies. Take your flyers or cards (vista print is wicked cheap!) to the farmers market, high end liquor stores, gourmet or natural foods stores. Check local libraries for bulletin boards. SOme libraries will let you speak and will advertise the speaking engagement for you, so you could talk for 45 minutes about why green cleaning is important and give a few tips and hand your cards out to attendees. (This how we found our yoga instructor!) You can also tuck your cards in to books at the library that your clients are likely to read, natural living, etc.. Good luck!!
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If you have a community newspaper, see if you could get an article written about green cleaning or write a press release announcing your new business. Community newspapers are usually very small and don't have tons of staff writing articles. They love it when people submit content to them. Don't forget a nice action shot of you and your green cleaning
You have lots of great ideas offered by pp.
As for client referrals - offer your current clients a free cleaning if they refer a new client who uses you twice or three times or whatever helps you break even.
Also, if you have a local chamber of commerce, check and see how much it is to join. I know you don't have the funds to spend. If you join and network at a few of their events, I can almost guarantee you'll get your membership fee back within the first six months if you network, do follow up calls and send out follow up promotion post cards to them. Good luck!
