Welcome to Free Publicity ...

The NYK forums, another free service, offers you the opportunity to partake in various finance-related challenges throughout the year and allows you to link to your own website, blog or forum in your signature. You can even set up your own challenge and, as long as it falls within our guidelines, you can round up as much extra publicity as you like. This very web page is a brand new Frugaldom challenge to see how far up the Google search I can get it before the year is out. Results will be charted here.

Very few people can say they are 100% happy with their lives. Whether it's about income, working life, homelife, business turnover or even just the price of a week's groceries, most of us like to think that there's something simple we can do to help things along without having to pay through the nose for it.

eBid may not be the best known auction site in the world but it does, in my opinion, offer the best free publicity if you take the time to set it up correctly.

Where else can you register your brand or company name, set up your own free webpage and start listing goods for sale for free? I instantly recognised the potential for this and extended that to pay for a lifetime guarantee of it being free - an oxymoron if ever I heard one!

When running a small business, we may not have the capital or turnover that allows us to set aside an advertising budget, so for a one-off payment of less than £50, I have guaranteed myself limitless free publicity opportunities, simply by maintaining my eBid account. Better still, it allows me to run up to five online stores with secure invoicing and payments, should I decide to populate these stores. Perhaps one day I will.

Protect your business name wherever and whenever you can - use the same username throughout all your free publicity campaigns, advertising, blogging and forum posting and allow others to associate your goods or services with that name.

For anyone with a website, you'll be well aware of such terms as SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and page ranking, so why not get as much free help with it as possible? Help yourself to what is readily available and then develop it from there.

Join eBid for some free publicity. Join the NYK forums for some free publicity. Get some link exchanges organised for some free publicity and then let's get this show on the road in time for the 2012 Frugaldom Challenges - Budget challenges for business, work, home and hobbies - living & working within our means still means living and working!

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No matter what you hear, read or see, the Scots are not mean. We simply try to do things in as cost-effective a way as possible. Frugal living and frugal working - it's all about knowing your bottom line and getting the most out of your hard-earned cash. As a small company, home based frelancer or self-employed entrepreneur, free publicity is never something from which you should shy.

Now you know we are hear to help you do just that - get more bang for your buck with the flavour of Scotland.

NYK Media provides original web content for individual clients and businesses.

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• Work single-mindedly to clear debts; clear the most expensive ones as quickly as possible then start getting rid of the rest - even the mortgage.
• Declutter your life, your home, your workspace - free up valuable space, generate a residual income that could pay off debt and free your mind, ready to explore all future opportunities that may arise.
• If you need to source or replace an item, don't automatically assume that it has to be brand new.