Free Marketing Ideas
If you are looking for free marketing ideas, emerging opportunities or useful early warnings about potential shortages, you are in the right place.
Free Marketing Ideas started out sharing practical ways to promote and grow a business without spending a fortune. We still do that, but we are increasingly interested in something even more fundamental: spotting where the demand is beginning to run ahead of supply.
Demand Hunt Live
We continually search across the UK for unusual demand, potential shortages and emerging opportunities. That could mean a product becoming difficult to find, people struggling to find a particular service, or an unusual spike in demand in a particular town, city or region.
Sometimes that creates a business opportunity. Sometimes it simply gives you the chance to get ahead of a potential shortage before everyone else does.
See the strongest current signals on Demand Hunt Live.
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Proven Methods
Many of these are the methods I used to grow my own business with NO BUDGET.
Expertise
I’ve worked in marketing for most of my career, including as a consultant.
Demand & Shortages
UK updates on unusual demand, potential shortages and emerging opportunities.
The “How To” Marketing Toolkit
When I started my business, I had no marketing budget, so I had to find ways of promoting it without spending anything (or at least very little).
I developed a low-cost marketing approach to grow my business with minimal expenditure. The toolkit and templates will show you step-by-step how to do the same.
Glenn Blackman MBA
I’m Glenn Blackman MBA, and I have spent over 25 years marketing different businesses.
I have worked with all types and sizes of organisations from well-known banks to smaller independent companies. Most recently, I have marketed my own business and built it to a point where it supports a comfortable lifestyle.
Having done this whilst spending next to nothing on advertising, other people have expressed an interest in my alternative approach to generating new customers.
Get Demand Hunt Alerts
We look for unusual evidence of real demand across the UK.
That might be a product people are suddenly struggling to get hold of, a service that is difficult to find in a particular area, a regional shortage, an emerging trend or an unusual spike in demand.
We investigate the evidence and share the most interesting findings, whether that means a potential business opportunity or something worth getting ahead of before supply becomes tighter.
We also share marketing tips and ideas.
Books I Have Written
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“An obvious expert in his field”
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Take A Look At The Latest Ideas And Demand Findings
The FMI blog covers free and low-cost marketing ideas, AI, business opportunities and the unusual demand and shortages we uncover through the Weekly Demand Hunt.
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Take our free Artificial Intelligence Recommendation Index (AIRI) assessment to discover how well your business is currently positioned to be recommended by AI systems. In around five minutes, you’ll receive an AIRI score out of 100 together with personalised recommendations showing where you can improve your helpfulness, credibility, visibility and authority.