You can even offer advertising to other, non-competing, businesses as a way of sharing the costs. It always amazes me how people tend to overlook this simple question. If you ask it, you may be pleasantly surprised at the responses. There are needs your customers have right now that you could help them fill, building your business in the process. Use classified ads.
Classifieds are a powerful, inexpensive method of reaching new customers.
A well written classified can do wonders for your business. They are also a great way to test an idea before you commit to a larger ad budget. Many highly successful businesses have been built using the lowly classified. Form a Mastermind group. A powerful strategy, first defined by Napoleon Hill in his classic book, Think and Grow Rich, the mastermind group is simply a group of like-minded people who meet on a regular basis to help each other succeed.