Use Offline Marketing To Enhance Your Online Efforts
December 11, 2008 by Reba
Filed under Blog, Goal Setting, Hot Topics
Table of contents for Increase Profits 2009
- 10 Ways To Increase Profits In Your Online Business In 2009
- Learn And Use A New Online Marketing Technique
- Start Outsourcing To Increase Profits In Your Online Business
- Start Using Video Marketing To Increase Profits in 2009
- Use Offline Marketing To Enhance Your Online Efforts
- Add A New Niche To Your Business And Add A New Income Stream
This is Day 5 of 10 of my tips to help you increase your online business profits in 2009.
By making just a few changes in the ways you handle a few little things each day, you can grow your business and increase your profits substantially.
Stay tuned over the next ten days and I will share ten important ideas that can help you increase your business and grow your profits in 2009.
Day 5 -
USE OFF-LINE MARKETING TO ENHANCE YOUR ONLINE EFFORTS
This is a method a friend of mine is using with great success and I’m a bit surprised at how well it’s actually working. And it will work for MANY online niches. Some that should work well are:
- Make Money Online Opportunities
- Work from Home
- Weight Loss
- Travel
- Health/Fitness
- Beauty
There are quite a number of ways you can market offline for your online business. One very basic way is to have business cards made with your website address (URL) printed nice and big on the card. Leaving these business cards in the appropriate places (provided you have permission) works wonders!
For example, if you have a website that is in the ‘make money online’ niche, the best places to leave your business cards would be next to things that have to do with money. Next to the scratch-off lottery tickets at a convenience store or gas station is an excellent place to put a stack of cards that says “Make Money Online, Work From Home” or something related and more specific, such as “Earn $500 from Home!” and of course have your website URL nice and bold.
This can generate a lot of website traffic that you may NEVER have gotten if you hadn’t put business cards in these key places. The weight loss niche is also a hot one. You can leave business cards at ice cream shops, burger places, gyms, spas, gas stations, convenient stores, etc. and get a great response as well.
Besides business cards there are: Flyers, Car Magnets, Signs, Newspaper Ads, Television or Radio Ads (can get a little expensive, but can also produce excellent results). Getting a local radio station to mention your URL and a brief description or sales pitch for your site can get you a lot of business and be very much worth a couple thousand dollars.
You can get as creative as you want with offline promotions. You can do direct mailing. You can also put little signs in the ground where there’s a lot of traffic (similar to the campaigning signs you see around everywhere, only yours will advertise your site). It is important not to break any city, county or federal rules and laws with these marketing efforts so always do your research as to what is allowed and what isn’t.
Tomorrow – Day 6
ADD A NEW NICHE TO YOUR BUSINESS AND ADD A NEW INCOME STREAM
Cheers!
Reba
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Offline marketing is a good way to generate leads. Most likely, your online competitors are not even thinking about this technique, so you can hog up all the leads. However, I’d still keep my focus more so online using video marketing and sites like Adwido because it’s much more economical and easier to implement.
I appreciate your effort and the quality of the information you provide. I certainly will follow these recommendations!
these niche work fine with me.
i have also put my business cards to cafe airport
thanks for your tips…
Thanks for day 5 tips. We need to try to get offline advertising with minimum cost and efficient to our marketing stratrgy
Thanks for the info!!!
Offline marketing that supports online activity – now taht’s a good idea
This article serves as a guide in promoting website offline, thanks for posting. By the way, we must understand that all customers exist and always will exist in the physical world and therefore can be reached much better from the physical world. Therefore, never ever overlook about the offline promotion of your website. Your success or failure could depend on it.
I like postcard marketing but it can be expensive to keep up with.. especially since stamps seem to be going up yearly.