Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Online And Offline Business Promotion

By April Kerr

Advertising plays a very important part in any business. We all know that if you do not advertise, you will not make it. Now, if you are running an online business, you might think that you have it easier than the persons running offline businesses. You have it way wrong. In fact, business advertising offline is far simpler.

Now, the sort of marketing you do, does not need to depend on where you business is based, and by that we imply online or offline. If you are online, you do not just require to advertise online, and if you are offline you do not just need to advertise offline. In fact, it will be in your best interest if you used both avenues to advertising your online or offline business.

If you start a shop on a busy street corner, say you are the luckiest person in the world and you just came across the busiest street corner the history of street corners. Now, you set up your business and off you go. Odds are that folks will come in as soon as you put your "now open" sign in the window. There may be no need for you to do any sort of business advertising.

When you advertise offline you will simply use one or two top resources in your area and you might only have one other shop as competition. If you want to make a stand with your business advertising, you can easily do this when you are offline.

Say you are the luckiest business man in the world (and no your name is not Bill Gates, or Richard Branson), and you score a diamond of a location to set up your store - it is on the busiest corner in the world.

This means that you will not need to do a lot of advertising. Now, in the marketing arena, you will find that just about anything you do is advertising, even putting up a "we're open" sign is advertising. Well, it is, you are advertising that you are open -makes sense. So, on that busy street, as soon as you put up that sign, you will almost certainly get people coming in, which is just perfect.

In saying that, that is not the same for the online people, due to the fact that there are now windows that you can hang "we're open" signs in. The best we're open sign that you have, is called SEO, or search engine optimization - so if you want more traffic to your site, do proper SEO for your site.

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