I was sitting here wondering how do I get local or even national media attention without spending an arm and a leg and after a little investigation online I may have come up with a few great overlooked ideas that people overlook. When you're on a limited or zero Marketing budget you're forced to get creative on ways to get noticed on and offline. Here are a few tricks I learned today that may work for you as well.

1. Go on Twitter and find reporters and respond to their comments and build a relationship with them.

2. Compliment one of their good stories

3. Don't try to sell them on the spot.

4. Find local and national reporters on the site called Muck Rack.

5. Write a cool blog about one of their stories and e-mail it to them.

6.Join their blog and comment.

7. Hang out where they hang out, like boring City Council Meetings and strike up a conversation.

8. Sign up on Help A Reporter.com sometimes they're looking for experts to comment.

9. Ask them if they’d mind if you added them to your email list. Then provide them with education-based content marketing to sell them on doing a story about your business.

This is one of a series of my media Marketing. I get a lot of these ideas from one of my favorite sources on Copyblogger.

If you'd like some free digital Marketing software and e-books you may want to check out one of my favorite sites by Lisa Simpking@:

http://goo.gl/EjOJ5