Feb/100
Advertising your Website
Both methods will bring you different benefits, so I have found that a 50/50 balance to begin with is the right way to go. A clear marketing framework and budget must be set when it comes to paid advertising, and stick to it. Of course different size budgets will achieve different results but that doesn’t mean you can’t drive high traffic to your site with a modest outlay.
There are many forms of paid options you can explore. To mention a few, there are banner advertising, Google ad words, PPC and loads more. When starting out I found the following to work effectively, drive traffic to your site therefore increasing your sales revenue.
PPC (Pay Per Click) on a search engine is a good way to start out, and can be managed to within 10% of your budget. This type of advertising can be expensive, but you are able to keep track and control your money by sticking to minimum bids where keywords are concerned and entering your maximum budget on application.
Free advertising online comes in many forms. There social networking sites where you can get your name, profile and business out there for the world to see. These are great for joining groups with common interests, forums on topics relating to your business etc. Use your blog as your “hub” for all of your work relating to your website and direct people back to there to check you out. Some fantastic ways to promote whatever you are doing is by;
Article marketing: Writing fresh, quality content to assist your readers in your area of expertise. Offering your prospects valuable information is a great way to build up a relationship therefore gaining trust for when the time comes that they may need your services.
Video marketing – Do an intro video of you/your partner and post it on you tube. When people are looking you up, direct them to the video so they can meet you and get a feel of what you will be like to do business with.
If you concentrate on these methods traffic to your website will increase dramatically. A strong article/video campaign is a great asset to any marketing campaign. Of course there are heaps of different ways to advertise for free including press releases, podcasts, webcasts etc. Find what works for you and tweak it around the edges to get a well balanced marketing strategy.
These tips will provide you with an insight as to what approach I took to promote my online business. I suggest a 50/50 approach with a steady climb in paid advertising over the coming months. This worked quite fast for our online business as I’m sure it will for you.
Wishing You Success
Kelly and Andrew
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Jan/100
Using Balloons in Aerial Advertising
Advertising in the sky has become a very successful means of getting a message across to a local group of people quickly. Usually a banner is pulled behind a single engine plane over a beach or sporting event. This huge exposure of a product, service, coming event or the like means more people are likely to investigate further.
A larger version of the banner ad is a billboard ad, sometimes the size of a roadside billboard. These are also pulled behind a plane over a crowd to promote a product or political candidate. Some even pull both, a billboard with a trailing airplane banner. Others hire a helicopter to pull a banner. Though helicopters are more expensive, they have more power and can pull much larger banners and billboards.
Helium filled balloons are used by local shops or stores to attract attention. Seeing the balloon high in the sky attached to a banner and leading to the ground, people will go out of their way to find out where it goes. An even higher form of aerial advertising is by hot air balloon, or blimp. Goodyear has made blimp advertising famous, though this is very expensive and probably cost prohibitive to most companies. Others make hot air balloons with the company logo or product displayed. Perhaps you think of Remax and their use of the balloon.
Remote controlled balloons are a nice compromise, inexpensive but further off the ground than helium balloons. These balloons are heavier than air since they have to come down. Without the weight of a pilot, the balloon doesn’t need to be as large to carry the ad.
The balloon runs off the power of a small electric motor and an pusher prop. The angle of the propeller is adjusted by the remote control transmitter. When the propeller goes up, the rear of the balloon goes down and balloon rises, and vice versa. Left and right controls work the same. It resembles a slow moving model plane. If this remote controlled balloon displays an advertisement, the controller can make it pass safely over a group of people as many times as he likes, then land it at his feet.
How large are these remote controlled balloons? The size varies from about six feet to nearly twenty feet. Without the fuss of helium or hot air, launching them is safe and inexpensive. Naturally wind could cancel a flight since controlling them is very delicate.
Costs largely depend on the size of the balloon desired. One company sells six foot balloons with the ad displayed on the side for 1500 dollars. The thirteen feet costs about 4000 dollars and the seventeen feet balloon sells for about 7000 dollars. Of course, there is no expense to hire a pilot with a remote controlled balloon. Fly it as you like, and as often as you like as weather permits.
When you are ready to market your message effectively, it is time to contact a company that flies aerial banners and begin the process of getting it into the air. In no time, your well planned message will be presented to thousands of people and the impact for you will begin to be seen.
Dec/090
Impart a clear reasonable advantage in the souk with promotional goods
In today’s cutthroat world, useful advantage for businesses certainly means a lot. For the company, there is so much to think about the assorted things like the clientele and for the reward. In the good souk, unless the people know about your business this goal is nearly unachievable. Getting your brand out there in souk is critical to get noticed among the colleagues and public. Thus to help you get marked amongst the right people, promotional artefact is considered as a very valuable tool.
For every enterprise to make a significant space in the market, small or big promotional stratagem are required. Promotional products are a good choice to promote and publicize as they are cost efficient and drives notice from the people who matters the most for your trade. Some may think that it is only applicable to trade-to- company companies, but this does not hold true as trade- to- -customer industries are widely using promotional artefact as a means of sales promotions.
Receiving gifts from any business is very overwhelming for the client. They not only make use of it but also tell to their friends, family and relatives about the artefact they have received from the company. Thus your brand gets publicized to a grand number of people and get popular. You need to be diverse and also innovative in choosing the perfect promotional item so as to create a clear good advantage in the souk.
There are a large diversity of promotional items where your competitors have already used most of them. Thus for creating a distinctive personality of your brand, you need to look for an original idea. You can create a rare identity by using a simple item in a very efficient manner even if your resources for buying the promotional items is limited. There are products to suit nearly all kinds of tastes and funds types. No matter what item you may choose, your idea and appearance should be strong enough to astound your audiences.
A promotional product must ensure superior quality. For someone who gains a better worth promotional items like a metallic pen over a simple plastic pen from your enterprise, a better image is created for your business. The worth of your services is determined by the worth of your products to the clientele.
Saying that the promotional products are mainly a substitute for advertising is completely infantile, instead the promotional products are a good alternative to the promotional techniques. Free promotional gifts are loved by everyone chiefly the ones that are utility based. products like bags, desktop items, conference holders etc. are used more frequently. The embossed brand name or the logo on the promotional goods will work as a prompter of your corporation for the client. It is unfeasible to stay good in the souk if your corporation or brand is not remembered by people. In the market, the promotional products provide a clear useful advantage to your business.
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