advertise business? phone book does not come out till Aug 2010?
the new phone book does not come out till Aug 2010. What are some good places to advertise a new business before then?
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local newspaper ads, grocery store bulletin board, Craigs list
radiostations will work, television, newspaper,and buy sell and trade books
Before then, or anyway? The phone book isn’t the greatest way to advertise if you are serious about having a successful business. It relies very much on someone knowing your name & what you do, in addition to them thinking you are better than your competition.
You need to set up a website as a first step…you can even do this for free if money is an issue. Go to http://www.WordPress.com & they will host your website for free if you don’t need a particular domain name. If you want a specific domain name (ie. http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com) then you can buy that & assign it to your WordPress site for about $9/year.
It’s not difficult - I’m not a computer geek & am teaching myself about these things & was able to set up my own site only last week.
Check out http://www.HowToLearnBusiness.co.uk
Then you can write articles & leave your webpage link for people who are interested. Additionally you can take a really simple video talking about your business on your digital camera, upload it onto YouTube & add a link to your website for more information.
Indeed, if your customers are happy with the service or products you supply, then ask if they would mind if you took a short video of them saying how pleased they are that they have done business with you & post that on YouTube.
You can advertise on Google with a pay per click (PPC) advert & you can limit how much you want to spend per day.
If you have a little more money, you can buy a software package called Lead Evolution that finds people on line that are looking for your service. Then after you have vetted the selection, you can write an email with a link to your site or some details of who you are & what your business is & with one click of a button, you can email them all.
Go to http://www.HowToLearnBusiness.co.uk & look down the blogs & there is a link to their site there.
I am a complete novice at this & so last week went on a 4 day seminar to learn how to market my business on the internet - it is the main medium with over $550 billion being spent on line last year. Even if you have nothing to sell on line & are advertising an off line business, people go on line for information so you need to have a presence on the web to point them to you.
The seminar was run by World Internet Summit & was such a valuable seminar to go to…I knew next to nothing & was a bit psyched out by the whole thing until I listened to these guys. I was so impressed that I have put a link up on my new site too
http://www.HowToLearnBusiness.co.uk
Good luck!!!
Try voice broadcasting