What are some of the best & most economical way to start advertising a new, small business service?
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at
8:48 pm
Have recently started a small service business & wondering the best advertising for my buck. The Pennysaver, Craig’s List, a local newspaper? Any ideas? Can’t afford much until I start making money. Thanks for any insight. I have business cards, website and brochures. Would like to get the masses in my local area quickly.
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Sure. easy enough and you can contact me for more information. Set up your marketing communications plan as you did for your business plan. Cover Awareness, Attitude and Retention areas.
Set aside 3%-5% of your gross sales for promotion.
Get listed in FREE directory services, yellow pages, join the chamber of commerce, set up a Web Launch party, do a PR announcement about your company and those are just for starters.
Congratulations and welcome to happy commerce world. Many small businesses start and continue with small budgets. So go wisely. Best of Good Fortune!
Viral marketing can be ”free” , only needs you time and effort.
Create some videos for your business service and post on youtube and other video sharing sites.
Check out this ”Young Entrepreneur Society YouTube Challenge” Share your business ideas
”Shoot a :30 second clip of yourself telling us why you are The Nex Big Thing when it comes to entrepreneurship and why we should spotlight you on our homepage.’
Details: http://www.youngentrepreneursociety.com
You can research how much local newspaper advertising will cost here: http://www.mediabids.com
The other respondents are right too – look for free directories online, write a press release and send it through free press release distribution services. There’s also a website, http://www.merchantcircle.com that has a lot of good local resources.
Promotional advertising gives you a better return on investment than nearly any other advertising media. www,jrcriderco.com Crider & Company) has details on this topic and you can also buy promotional products from them. They’re in Denver but they deal nationally.