Thursday, August 23, 2012

Putting Offline Marketing To Work For Your Web-Based Businesses

By Sallie Mooney


Building a profitable and successful business online has become more difficult in recent years with the large influx of people trying to do the same thing. However, since the competition is growing every single day, Internet marketers are looking for different means to promote their business. Offline marketing is proving to be a hot strategy because it is still untapped when it comes to promoting Internet products, and there is much less competition. There are huge numbers of people who do not trust the internet, but they are responsive to initial contact off the net. Assuming this is something you may want to try, what would be the best method to get started with?

You should consider the webinar, and these are extremely effective for bringing people together and communicating with them. This approach is simple, and it involves holding local seminars on your particular topic. What you will do is conduct seminars offline in which you provide high quality information that is related to your web business, or service offering. You can gain a lot of trust with this approach, and it is possible to steer it in several different directions.

Then we come to the old standard of advertising in newspapers. If you write a good ad, and are in a responsive market, then you can see some good traffic numbers from a classified ad. You can start off this way, and slowly expand towards other types of publications in your niche such as magazines and newsletters. This can be very powerful with the right market and offer, and of course it is necessary to be able to write good ad copy, etc.

People are always looking for advice, and they usually jump at any offer that reads free when it comes down to consultation. How well this will work for your business all depends on what you have to offer to people.

Never say that there is no opportunity in either offline or online marketing, and putting the two together can be powerful. Most online marketers will stay online, and that is fine for them but you need not do that, though. Carefully think this through, and then see how well it can fit with your own online business.




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