I just started a small business selling carpet spot remover that my family carpet cleaning business made. What's the best way to advertise? What are some target market ideas?

One of the cheapest ways to identify your target market is to use Google Adwords to get direct response leads and Facebook Ads to mine demographic information about your ideal audience. Is there an angle to your product that makes it stand out? Perhaps it’s eco-friendly and you could write a guest-blog post on a high traffic blog targeting ‘mommy bloggers’.

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