Tanbir Singh asked:


Many Internet Marketers really miss out on opportunity to grow their list because they only market to individuals online. They feel that the internet is the only way for them to market their online business. That is completely not true. The offline world is alive and they are responsive. The mail order business was around before the internet and they are still around today thriving. So if you were to balance your online marketing and offline marketing you will find that you will generate more exposure then just using one or the other. For more details visit to www.mailing-list-gold.com .In my marketing I use simple methods to reach people who I know are candidates for my products that may not be looking for information online yet. They may not even know they want what I have until they see a print add or a business card. After viewing my ad then they may think to themselves “that sounds interesting Let me take a look”.

Marketing offline in this way can give you a jump on your competition because they may only be marketing online. They are missing the prospect that is not yet looking online. So when they see your ad you are the only person they know and they are apt to go to you first.

Another benefit to marketing offline is that some of your current list may not open their email. And if you have a special promotion or a service to offer they may not get to know about it unless you were to use a method of contacting them offline. Many smart marketers do this. For instance one list that I belonged to would send out a voice blast to my phone to remind me of a conference call they were sponsoring and they would leave the message on my voice mail. Now if they would have only sent an email I would not have received it or paid attention to it. So by sending out offline marketing they filled their phone lines and received more listeners then if they would have just emailed their list.

There are many cost effective ways of using offline marketing to build your list. The simplest that has the largest reach is to run tiny classified ads that will point people to how they can get more information either for free or at a cost. For more information logon to www.build-own-list.com .A second way you can and should direct people to your site is to always have business cards with a strong headline directing people to your site with a benefit of why they should go there.

Lets not forget the importance of signage I’ve placed signs that say “Need extra income? Free report tells how go to www.” The response I get from that is incredible.

The last way I will mention is the real estate on the back of your car. Even if you drive a Mercedes Benz a tactfully small website address will get peoples attention especially if the site tells a little of what it is about in the address.

Using these techniques will drive many offline individuals online sometimes just out of curiosity. Once there it is up to you to convert them through your sales page and or squeeze page.

Clearly offline marketing is not dead, you can reach a huge segment of subscribers by meeting them offline. If you do not make an effort to marketing both offline and online you are throwing away tons of prospective subscribers and possibly even more money.

So be creative and don’t neglect the benefit that off line marketing has on your List Building endeavors.

Tanbir asked:


Many Internet Marketers really miss out on opportunity to grow their list because they only market to individuals online. They feel that the internet is the only way for them to market their online business. That is completely not true. The offline world is alive and they are responsive. The mail order business was around before the internet and they are still around today thriving. So if you were to balance your online marketing and offline marketing you will find that you will generate more exposure then just using one or the other. For more details visit to www.mailing-list-gold.com .In my marketing I use simple methods to reach people who I know are candidates for my products that may not be looking for information online yet. They may not even know they want what I have until they see a print add or a business card. After viewing my ad then they may think to themselves “that sounds interesting Let me take a look”.

Marketing offline in this way can give you a jump on your competition because they may only be marketing online. They are missing the prospect that is not yet looking online. So when they see your ad you are the only person they know and they are apt to go to you first.

Another benefit to marketing offline is that some of your current list may not open their email. And if you have a special promotion or a service to offer they may not get to know about it unless you were to use a method of contacting them offline. Many smart marketers do this. For instance one list that I belonged to would send out a voice blast to my phone to remind me of a conference call they were sponsoring and they would leave the message on my voice mail. Now if they would have only sent an email I would not have received it or paid attention to it. So by sending out offline marketing they filled their phone lines and received more listeners then if they would have just emailed their list.

There are many cost effective ways of using offline marketing to build your list. The simplest that has the largest reach is to run tiny classified ads that will point people to how they can get more information either for free or at a cost. For more information logon to www.build-own-list.com .A second way you can and should direct people to your site is to always have business cards with a strong headline directing people to your site with a benefit of why they should go there.

Lets not forget the importance of signage I’ve placed signs that say “Need extra income? Free report tells how go to www.” The response I get from that is incredible.

The last way I will mention is the real estate on the back of your car. Even if you drive a Mercedes Benz a tactfully small website address will get peoples attention especially if the site tells a little of what it is about in the address.

Using these techniques will drive many offline individuals online sometimes just out of curiosity. Once there it is up to you to convert them through your sales page and or squeeze page.

Clearly offline marketing is not dead, you can reach a huge segment of subscribers by meeting them offline. If you do not make an effort to marketing both offline and online you are throwing away tons of prospective subscribers and possibly even more money.

So be creative and don’t neglect the benefit that off line marketing has on your List Building endeavors.

Chris Rohrer asked:


With any online business today online and offline marketing plays a big key to either your business succeeding and making a lot of money, or failing and you losing a lot of money. However marketing online is not all that easy as some may make it out to be. If you jump into it to fast you can quickly lose a ton of money if you market wrong. So lets take this time to go over the correct ways of how to market and make money online.

First you will want to set up some type of marketing budget that you can follow for the month. When you do this make sure that you do not to set your budget to high, because you are just starting out so you will want to take your time and test things at first. A good marketing budget to set would be a couple hundred dollars. This will allow you to test a number of things like google awords, yahoo, and maybe even a good press release.

This moves us into the next part of how to market and make money online. You must test your ads first. Not every ad you post or submit is going to work. So make sure you test your ad to first see what kind of results you get from it. At the end of your test if you like your results you have gotten then you know this ad will work, and you can then invest more money into it.

The next most important thing to do with any marketing campaign is to track your ads. You could have the best ads in the world running, but if you are not tracking to see which ads are converting into sales you could be wasting a lot of money and not even know it! So make sure that no matter what type of ad you are running that you have a way to track it, and see if it is worth keeping or not.

Finally you will want to stay educated. There are always new ways to market online and offline. So it is very important to read up and educate yourself on these new ways of marketing. You can do this by reading messages boards, or surfing the web for new ways to market. Always remember though. Test every new marketing spot you find before you go and invest a lot of money into it.

Cathy Lindsay asked:


Utilizing these few ways of advertising offline can be very beneficial in creating more visitors to your website.  If you don’t all ready use this strategy, consider implementing it into your business.  There are many potential customers out there just waiting to visit your site.  They just don’t know it yet. 

Passing out fliers can be very effective and also very expensive to have printed.  Creating  and printing them yourself can be a tremendous cost saver.  Make sure that your fliers will capture someone’s attention and keep them reading. You want them to stay interested. You may all ready know someone who needs a little extra cash that could pass them out for you if you don’t have the time.  Maybe even a trustworthy teenager in your neighborhood.  (There are places that will pay you ten cents or so a flier.  Just to give you an idea of how to pay someone.)  A mall parking lot is a good place to go and place them on cars.  Think of all the cars that are in a parking lot that size.  People do this often and it works.  

Business cards can also be very effective.  Match them to your fliers as best you can.  Pass them out everywhere you go.  Be aware of all the people that you come in contact with on a daily basis.  Such as the gas station, grocery store, the place you get coffee in the morning, etc…  How many of these people do you talk to?  Look for the opportunity to hand them a card and tell them to read it when they get time.  You can usually find a way in even the littlest conversations.

Postcards are another method that you can use.  Again, create your own and save money.  These are a little more difficult because they have to be mailed, which means that you need names and addresses to do this.  One way to get them is right out of the phone book. There are many people who all ready use this strategy.  For bulk shipping rates check your local postal service. 

Let’s talk about good, old fashioned word of mouth.  This is the first type of marketing ever used and is still going strong. 

Did you know that for years GNC’s only form of advertising was word of mouth?  They grew to be one of the most popular vitamin chains without any other form of marketing.  (They started using other means within the last eight years.) For a business to grow like this with only word of mouth is amazing.  This is probably the most powerful type of marketing in the world.

Think brilliance when you are creating your marketing products. You want to capture someone’s attention so intensely that they must read it in its entirety.  What would capture your attention?  If the person that is reading your flier/card doesn’t need the product or service that you are offering, there’s always a chance that they know someone who does.  If they liked what they saw they will pass it on, and then that person will pass it on, and so forth.  It will start a chain reaction that won’t stop.  You will be smiling all the way to the bank wondering why you hadn’t tried this before.

Assassin Marketing asked:


Before starting up any kind of business, one must set up a plan to earn more than we spend and avoid mistakes along the way. Here are a few internet marketing mistakes that you should watch out for and avoid:

1. Making viewers wait.

Don’t regret paying more for a hostile package that could bring you to people fast. If your website is constantly down, your server is slow, your graphics take two minutes load, you can say goodbye to your potential customers.

2. Technical arrogance.

Never assume that everyone has the latest version of a program to view your site. Always have plain HTML and text versions ready for these users who do not have Macromedia’s flash installed. Also, take notes from successful sites. Outsource to a pro for SEO writing, web design, and programming to invest in a good template for your site if you’re not that confident on your technical prowess.

3. Not marketing offline.

Complement online traffic to your site by marketing offline as well, because no one is online all the time.

4. Not remaining timely.

If you want to attract customers, you need to be updated on recent and upcoming events that are relevant to your site. If you’ve got marketing materials on your site about Memorial Day special and it’s June 15th, you’re losing customers.

5. Poor linkages.

Focus on building long-term passive traffic rather than bulk traffic packages or trying traffic gimmicks. However, be very careful with whom you align yourself. Some companies operate co-registration and affiliate programs that violate the CAN-SPAM act and other rules and regulations. Check out any company that offers you anything , especially those who offer you anything that’s quick and easy.

6. Giving users the third degree.

Signing up for newsletters or making purchases should be easy for your customers. Avoid making them go through a number of links or asking too many questions before complete tasks. You loose 10-15 percent of your potential customers for each question you ask them.

7. Not using viral marketing.

Let your customers create ‘buzzwords’ for you through simple ‘forward to a friend’ links or ‘two for one offers’ or offline marketing on t-shirts and other accessories that your customers can wear. Viral marketing or ‘word of mouth’ (in offline marketing lingo) could create an exponential growth of your site’s visibility by spreading from customer to customer and then business to business.

8. Resorting to cheap gimmicks.

Some marketers resort to goofy and even phony campaigns just to gain brand exposure. These could be entertaining and even viral but sometimes those could backfire because they are irrelevant to the customers and sometimes even to your product or service. Provide something that convert to sales and not just to generate shock or surprise. Connect with your buyers in a positive way by providing products and services that are worth talking about. Associate your site with quality rather than gimmicks and you’ll have customers coming back.

9. Not collecting email addresses.

This is not the same as spamming email addresses because unlike spamming, you ask for your customer’s permission to send them your newsletters and other updates to your site. Remember that spamming could cost you because fines could be very heavy when you are found to be in violation of CAN-SPAM laws. By collection email addresses, you maintain your target audience and your potential market.

10. Mistaking Traffic for Results.

Only because a lot of people seem to be clicking on your ad doesn’t mean that they are buying. Remember that some sites actually buy traffic just to maintain top-line business. But if these people aren’t buying, how do you expect to even earn off it? Continuously paying for this traffic can be expensive. On the other hand, just because you have enough traffic, it does not also mean that your income is guaranteed for the next months to come. What you should really focus on is, how much of this traffic actually converts to sales? Everyday is a challenge to offer something that your client really needs, to persuade them that they need what you’re offering and that you are offering the best of what they need. Online customers actually know what they want, so it is up to your to tell them that what they want is what you are offering.

Allie James asked:

Online marketing is rapidly becoming one of the most popular business opportunities in the world. One of the things that most online marketer fail to realize is that even though your main focus is and should be the internet one could make a killing marketing offline. I honestly do not know why offline marketing has become a lost art but if you are serious about maximizing your true earning potential you may want to consider this still very profitable method of marketing.

Here are a few ways that you can do this:

1. Get some business cards made. No matter what you are promoting online you should have a business card. It doesn’t have to have your name and phone number on it. You can simply have a short message on it and your web address on it. You should always keep these on you because you never know when they may come in handy.

2. Use flyers. I know this seem completely old school but flyers can still be very effective. It’s all about where you put them. The first thing you need to do is make sure that you create a simple but enticing flyer that will get the attention of people. After you have your flyers all ready to get you need to think about what you are offering and where would potential buyers be.

For example: If you are marketing something to do with baseball you probably would want to go to baseball games where you will be able to leave flyers on cars chairs and even the bathroom. You don’t have to even being noticed doing this. You can distribute your flyers without bringing any attention to yourself. On the other hand if you are more of the “hey look at me” type of person you can literally pass your flyers out to people coming in or out of the game.

3. Run ads in mini merchants and newspapers. I am pretty sure that whatever you are promoting online can be promoted effectively in your local newspaper or a mini merchant or any type of offline publication that allows ads. Once again, you need to make sure your ad is catchy. Always write ads with the thought of “what would make someone go to my site”.

These are just a few simple ways that you can really increase your online sales. No one really promotes offline anymore and this is exactly why you should. I really do hope that you implement these very effective tactics to grow your online business.

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