Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2009

Self Promotion Offline Tip #23

Have you ever seen sign wavers? I'm sure you have probably every day that you step outside and go somewhere. Sign wavers are cheap and are one of the most effective tools you have in terms of advertising. You might laugh at sign wavers but they really do bring in the money. I know this for a fact because I have worked at Liberty Tax Service and 95% of the customers only knew of Liberty because of the sign wavers. If the sign wavers weren't there then business would be a bust for such a large franchise.

Of course, not all of us can afford a sign waver so what else can you do to advertise your business and bring in the money? The answer to your prayers are giant magnets with your advertisement on it. You can slap one on your car and advertise your business while you run your errands, pick up your kids, go to school, etc. It's cheap and it's effective. You can place them on all of your cars so whenever your wife, husband, kids, parents, friends, relatives, go somewhere it would be free advertisement for you.

#23. Get a low cost outdoor banner printed up with your business information on it. You can usually get them done for $55 or less depending on who makes it.

You can have these outdoor banners displayed at outdoor music/concert events, outdoor childrens sporting events, outdoor adult sport events, outdoor neighborhood block parties, outdoor community events, carnivals, fairs, etc.

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Dabbs cashing out on Rocketbills

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Self Promotion Offline Tip #22

Finding freebies is nice but finding awesome deals is also as nice! One of my favorite website to go to on a daily basis is most definately Woot because they always offer a new Woot item every night at exactly 10 PM PST and only charge a flat shipping of only 5 dollars! You can buy a 50 inch HD and have it shipped to your door for only 5 bucks! It doesn't get any better than that! The Woot items are usually always better than most deals anywhere on the internet but sometimes they're not so remember to compare prices elsewhere before you decide to buy anything. Every now and then, you can buy their signature mystery item also known as a Bag of Crap. What's inside? You would have to buy one to find out.

#22. Small Home Town Newspapers! I don't get too good of a response when I do big newspaper city ads, however... when I target small town newspapers I usually get a great response. I even had them let me place an ad on their wedding and engagement announcements page which I advertised the Bridal Gift Registry.

So if you are going to do any type of newspaper advertising, inquire about getting your ads on specific pages in the newspaper that targets the group of people most likely to buy from you.

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Egyptianruin with a whooping $1,000 from Givafree