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Before you select your website address or domain name ie. www.12website.com.au; stop & think how it will look in your offline advertising.
Easy to remember.
Easy to spell.
12website.com is both easy to remember & spell. affordablewebsolutions.com is not. Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, anywhere.
We are going to talk about flyers, shirts, cards - all of which people quickly scan. Buy a website address that is catchy, short, easy to spell & remember.
It makes no difference if you have an internet web site in
Brisbane, brick and mortar store on the Sunshine Coast,
or a work at home business in Caloundra or Noosa it is a
fact that none will succeed if nobody knows you're there.
Advertising is the key to success; however advertising doesn't
have to cost a fortune! Of course, the big display ads cost
advertisers many thousands of dollars, and "pay per click"
advertising on search engines can add up to big dollars very
quickly if you're not carefully targeting proper key words.
Listed below are just a few ideas that work well, and I'm
sure you'll be able to come up with additional ideas once you
start working with these.
Mini Flyers are an ultra cheap form of advertising. Mini-flyers
can be made 4, 6 or 8 to a regular sheet of paper that tells
about your home business, store or website, and would include
your business name, website address, phone number and brief
information about your business. Make copies of this page on
brightly colored paper, then cut them apart. The mini-flyers
can then be put into each of your bills as you pay them. Think
about it, the clerks who open bills all day surely get bored
with the job, so when they open your envelope and your brightly
coloured mini-flyer falls out, what do you think happens? Of
course, the clerk will pick it up and look at it. They may
also hand it around to others in the office. This one simple
addition to your bills could bring in lots of new business!
Free Ad on your Envelopes. You can either use labels, or glue
or tape one of your "mini-flyers" on the back or front of each
envelope and package you mail out. There is no way of knowing
how much "free" advertising these mini-flyers will generate -
after all, you're mailing the letters and packages anyway, so
why not take advantage of that and give your advertisement a"free ride"?
Enclose Sales Literature in all outgoing orders. If you
already have a business where you send out orders, never send
out a "naked" package! If you simply enclosed the customer's
order and receipt and mail the package, you're missing out on
one of the very best sales tools available! Any additional sales
literature you can enclose in the package (other items you offer
for sale, information on another website to visit, etc.) could
bring you extra sales. It is a well known fact that if a
customer buys from you one time, they're more likely to buy
again and again, if they are satisfied with your service and
products that they bought in the beginning.
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