A Friendly piece of advice

website-submit.org · 04-12-2007, 09:18 PM

Evening all.

Just thought I'd post to give you a bit of advice on something that has worked wonders for me with our website.

First off, I'd read all these tips that said to advertise your site/business locally and thought nothing of it.

Recently though, we have done various things, advertised in a local monthly newspaper that gets delivered to 15,000 homes in our town(cost approx £28 about $56) we put a couple of small ads in local free weekly papers (cost approx £10-£15 per month ($20-30).

We then spoke to a friend who was running a stand at a local fair, he offered to put our business cards and leaflets out.

Since this has happened (in the space of about 2-3 weeks) we have took 6 orders totalling approx £2500 - £3000 worth of business and are in discussions with a fairly large local company to design and develop there website!

Anyway, just wanted to share and let people know that advertising locally DOES help, we were stuck in a smog trying to get all internet based work through search engines etc, but this has really shocked us into viewing the wider/closer picture!

I would recommend you trying - hope it helps!

Mark

CWT36 · 04-12-2007, 10:10 PM

Thanks Mark. Good advice.

dessign · 05-04-2007, 08:39 PM

Thanks for the info.

login · 05-08-2007, 02:26 PM

Thank you. This kind of advertising are sometimes under estimated. If you know the audience of a news paper, why not try it.

hasan_889 · 05-08-2007, 04:52 PM

thanks for the advice ...

13million · 05-08-2007, 09:58 PM

Thank you for that advice, that was nice of you to share about your success. I will use that. And GOOD for YOU about your business, I love to hear success stories. I hope you continue to do well over this entire year.

olkin · 05-10-2007, 07:22 AM

Congrats! Go on with your business!

coolguy27 · 05-10-2007, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by website-submit.org

Evening all.

Just thought I'd post to give you a bit of advice on something that has worked wonders for me with our website.

First off, I'd read all these tips that said to advertise your site/business locally and thought nothing of it.

Recently though, we have done various things, advertised in a local monthly newspaper that gets delivered to 15,000 homes in our town(cost approx £28 about $56) we put a couple of small ads in local free weekly papers (cost approx £10-£15 per month ($20-30).

We then spoke to a friend who was running a stand at a local fair, he offered to put our business cards and leaflets out.

Since this has happened (in the space of about 2-3 weeks) we have took 6 orders totalling approx £2500 - £3000 worth of business and are in discussions with a fairly large local company to design and develop there website!

Anyway, just wanted to share and let people know that advertising locally DOES help, we were stuck in a smog trying to get all internet based work through search engines etc, but this has really shocked us into viewing the wider/closer picture!

I would recommend you trying - hope it helps!

Mark

Good work my friend... Thanks for the tips and advice... Informative one...

mikey1090 · 05-10-2007, 05:52 PM

well done

i always wondered about local ads, offline.

depends on your site/products.

04-12-2007, 09:18 PM	#1
website-submit.org Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: England Posts: 127	A Friendly piece of advice Evening all. Just thought I'd post to give you a bit of advice on something that has worked wonders for me with our website. First off, I'd read all these tips that said to advertise your site/business locally and thought nothing of it. Recently though, we have done various things, advertised in a local monthly newspaper that gets delivered to 15,000 homes in our town(cost approx £28 about $56) we put a couple of small ads in local free weekly papers (cost approx £10-£15 per month ($20-30). We then spoke to a friend who was running a stand at a local fair, he offered to put our business cards and leaflets out. Since this has happened (in the space of about 2-3 weeks) we have took 6 orders totalling approx £2500 - £3000 worth of business and are in discussions with a fairly large local company to design and develop there website! Anyway, just wanted to share and let people know that advertising locally DOES help, we were stuck in a smog trying to get all internet based work through search engines etc, but this has really shocked us into viewing the wider/closer picture! I would recommend you trying - hope it helps! Mark __________________ Cheap Parcel Delivery \| Feed The Yak And He Will Score \| Cheap Next Day Parcel Delivery

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