I stumbled across some excellent tips on how to be a better bootstrapper - finding a way to pay for small business or entrepreneur expenses as inexpensively as possible, or not at all. Especially in today’s economy, these tips could go a long way towards keeping you in business for at least one more day until things turn around. Credit Noobpreneur for these tips.

These tips cover everything from using credit cards with business rewards points associated to staying on top of credit card balance transfer opportunities to avoid high interest rates. You can also become an expert at finding a way to do everything cheaper than you had done before, even when it comes to your marketing materials. Don’t forget to negotiate everything and outsource additional work to freelancers or virtual assistants to save on personnel costs.

Ok so here are a few more pointers:

1) Focus on getting PR for your business. Although free PR is difficult to come by, good PR doesn’t take much investment at all. Creativity, time and persistence are truly the only investment it takes to get good PR. Don’t waste another moment and download the PR Toolkit to learn how to get more PR to get more exposure for your business.

2) Join social media networks like Twitter and Facebook, which are excellent places to meet other professionals who can share ideas. More importantly they’re an excellent place to do marketing on the cheap and build great buzz for your company and products - even on a local level.

3) Start your own blog. Take advantage of Bluehost to get online, GoDaddy to get a domain, and Wordpress to get started! Blogs are a great and inexpensive way to build a community for your customers, as well as a destination to drive traffic through email marketing and online marketing.

Additional resources:

Noobpreneur blog post for bootstrapping tips

Local Marketing Strategies

Social Media For Small Business