If you are working on starting your own small business, one of the biggest issues you are most likely facing is financing. Regardless of what kind of business you are starting, it takes money to make the transition from a dream to an actual business. Although there are different ways to obtain funds for your new business venture (such as angel investors or venture capitalist financing), at one point or another, the majority of small businesses requirea loan from a bank to keep them alive and growing.

In a perfect world, any small business owner with a great idea and strong work ethic would be able to obtain a loan to help their business. Unfortunately, the reality is that it takes more than these two elements for a small business to receive a loan. Because banks are always concerned about minimizing the amount of risk involved in making a loan (especially given the current economic climate), they take multiple factors into account when they are determining whether or not to approve a loan for a small business owner.
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In case you are not familiar with the term guerrilla marketing, it is a term that refers to marketing your business with tactics that don’t require a large budget. The term guerrilla marketing was introduced in 1984 by author Jay Conrad Levinson, and over the last two decades, the popularity and methods of guerrilla marketing have grown rapidly. One of the main reasons that guerrilla marketing has gained so much popularity among small business owners is the emergence of the Internet. Thanks to the power of the Internet, guerrilla marketing is now more powerful than ever.

Although there are a wide variety of offline guerrilla marketing techniques that can be very useful in promoting your business, today I want to focus solely on a handful of online guerrilla marketing techniques. To give you the best return on the time you invest, I’ve compiled a list of the four best online guerrilla marketing techniques. Regardless of the products or services your business offers, by taking advantage of the following techniques, you will be able to attract new customers and increase your sales.
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