4 Easy Tips to Dramatically Increase Your Offline Business
4 Easy Tips to Dramatically Increase Your Offline Business
Many local business owners have no idea of the impact that the internet could have on their business, hence they are missing out on customers that they would love to reach.
In your local city there are most likely thousands of people searching the internet everyday, even hundreds of thousands in many cities. Many of those people would love to be your customers but they don't know that you exist because they no longer look in the phonebook to find what they're looking for, they now look on places like YouTube and Google.
Yes that's right YouTube is now being used as a search engine. It's the third most popular site in the world and there are millions of credit card carrying people who are searching it for businesses in their local area. Are you taking advantage of YouTube?
Another fantastic way to get exposure for your business is to write articles and publish them online, just like this one you're reading right now. If you can give helpful information about your type of business and put it into a few hundred words then you can publish articles online, for free in most cases. At the end of this article you'll see a link to my website where readers can go to get more information about my business, you could do the same for your business.
How about Facebook? Do you have a Facebook fan page for your business? You might be surprised to find out that there are probably hundreds and even thousands of people in your area that would love to be your customer but if your business is not on Facebook then they have no idea that you exist.
These few ideas are just the tip of the iceberg. Most of the techniques are either free or very inexpensive and pretty much all of them will give you a much better ROI than the traditional forms of advertising that are quickly losing their appeal.