Jim Connolly writes about the 3 ways he does free marketing to get business: his newsletter, website or his blog. I would mention that this is not free. It takes an incredible amount of time, energy, effort and research to maintain all three sources. On average, it takes me about 3 hours to write an intelligent, researched blog post. A little more for an article on 500 words. So when you say free marketing methods, I say, it still costs you something — time. And time is money. So is it really free?