Do you feel you are too busy to do your own marketing? Do you feel like in order to make effective marketing happen you have to hire someone to do it for you?

Well, you may not even recognize it but you are probably already marketing from your comfort zone.

Here are 9 quick and simple actions to can implement to make your own marketing campaign:

1. Comment on someone’s blog. You can try it here!

2. Call up a client and ask for a testimonial for your website or blog. Be sure you follow up on it and when you receive it post it right away.

3. Sit down and create a marketing plan for yourself. Block out a 1/2 hour a week on your calendar and make things start to happen.

4. Follow up an interesting call or contact with a thank you email. You can include a link to an article on your website or another website that you feel contains relevant information.

5. Check out your competitors and see what they are offering.

6. Record a quick video or audio of something that has tweaked your interest. Post it on YouTube (the video) and on your blog.

7. Join a Facebook or Twitter page. If you don’t have your own create one.

8. Install website analytics and track your funnel results.

9. Reach out to a competitor and see if they are interested in participating in a joint venture that can be marketed to both of your lists.

If you take advantage of number 3 and set out your plan, you can track your results during that 1/2 hour a week that you have set aside for yourself.

How many of these techniques have you already been using without knowing it? How many look really easy for you to implement? You never know what that chance encounter at a networking event will lead to.

Consistently using these comfortable marketing actions will lead to taking your business from blah to success!