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.

Victor Dawson asked:


Right from the time the Internet stepped into our lives, online marketing has been bandied around as a magic mantra– the wonder key to fortune. And all for good reason. An array of websites, ranging from magazines to live theatre performances are available to an audience ranging across a variety of profiles on the information superhighway.

But you have got to realize this-people and firms who have actually earned a fortune, a killing quickly (I won’t say overnight), have relied not only on online marketing efforts but also on their offline promotions. In fact, it ’s strange but true– many of them do not have an online presence at all.

Websites are springing up on the world wide web every moment of our existence. There are businesses and money-making programs at evry other nook and corner– millions of web addresses are competing for the attention of the eyeballs. Indeed, it is a plus, it definitely helps if your business is on the Net.

The Internet has brought in several turnkey methods into the way we go about operating our businesses. There are many who are yearning to have their place, their corner, on the Internet. But they do not know how to break into the huge net. They are waiting for someone to guide them by the hand. Reach out to this audience.

And once you resolve to tap this goldmine of a market, remember– You are preparing to bypass all that fierce competition on the Internet flashing a plethora of businesses, each one being as good or as bad as the other!

So, remember- those business flyers, postcards and letters may sound a bit old-fashioned, but ineffective they certainly are not. For the ads on paper get an attention that is comparatively less divided, as compared to those on the Internet, wherein you have ads rushing in from all sides.