Getting Started Advertising Your Business
When you first start a business you need to be as prepared as if
you were starting a new job! You need to know the ins and outs
of your new business.
Before you can start advertising your business you need to know
everything there is to know about your company should you be in
direct sales.
Have you tried out the products? Believe it or not there are
people who will join a direct sales company and have never tried
their products how are you going to convince people to purchase
the products if you yourself have never tried them. A personal
testimony is always better!
The cost to join, is there a refund if someone signs up and
does not want to continue on, do you lose money if some quits
that you have brought on board, what are the advertising rules
for this company both online and offline etc.
The best way to do this is to talk to your upline, get in on
any classes or phone presentations that your company may offer.
Take notes go over the notes daily to refresh your mind on what
your company offers not only to customers but to business
builders. Do some research if you sell natural cosmetics or
aromatherapy find articles that will support what your company
sells, if you are a writer write about why natural cosmetics or
aromatherapy etc etc is better for the person the negatives of
having chemicals on someone's skin or in someone's home as in
cleaning products etc (do not use your company products etc in
the article use the resource at the bottom of the article to
place your name, company name and other contact information)
Make a note of what it costs for a website through the company.
Join any yahoo groups or presentations your company may have to
keep learning how to better promote your new business.
Make a list of questions to ask your upline and be sure to check
in with them when you have a problem.
You need to be excited about your company! In order to be
excited you need to learn everything there is to learn about
your company. Discounts you can offer, the reason the product or
service is so wonderful~you will need to think like a customer
when you are writing out ads.
What would you want to see in an ad? Who is your niche market?
Who do you plan to target with your ads? What is your
advertising budget in the beginning and how much out of your
profit do you plan on re-investing back into advertising? What
is the main topic in your marketing niche? How you can help
them? ETC.
This week I would like you to get a 3 ring notebook and some
dividers, add sections for you to brainstorm your ads before you
start advertising.
Write down how much you have to spend a month in advertising,
then make a section of sites that you see that are offering
advertising.
You will need to write down the page rank (google), how much it
costs to advertise on this site, what type of advertising they
offer. Are you going to be getting your advertising dollars
worth? How many visitors are going to the site? What is the
Alexa rating? You can find out any website Alexa rating by going
to http://www.alexa.com and typing in a websites address.
Keep this filed away for future reference!
Do you know the owner have you met them through networking on
groups? (More about networking next Monday July 25th)
Once you have this all written down, I would like you to post a
few free ads! Take a look at chapters 2 and 3 for free places to
post your ads. There is over 200 links in the Step by Step
Marketing Guide that you can post your ads for free, some
require a link back others do not please be sure to read their
rules before posting.
Save the layout of the ads in a word folder on your computer for
future reference, you will be able to tweak them later on as you
start getting more comfortable with writing your own ads. It
does take practice to write ads I know I still once in awhile
have to go back and tweak my ads because they are too long, or
they do not get to the point!
When advertising on the internet people need something to catch
their eyes! Be sure your subject line will catch their
attention, the best way to do this WOULD THIS SUBJECT LINE CATCH
YOUR EYE?
When you first start out a business you will be very busy
posting all over~! Especially since you will be on a limited
advertising budget.
I remember when Michaele McMillan and I started The Perfect
Image website we both posted all over the place, free ad links,
in forums (not ads but participated and tried to help others out
but had our business information in our signature line) some
days we were posting 4-6 hours a day! But in the end it was well
worth it! We now can post a few times a week and pay for good
advertising.
Starting out is going to be hard, it is with any business!
Don't forget to get business cards, flyers made (you can do this
with a basic Printmaster program or have someone else make up
your flyers for you) You are going to have to focus not only on
online advertising but offline advertising as well. Those reps
who do both are more successful then ones who only do one or the
other.
There are many sites that offer promotional items for businesses
take a look around at what other home based businesses offer and
see if your budget allows you to add a new promotional item a
month, be different! Try to stand out!
Offline advertising you can post flyers or leave match mint
books all over the place like at libraries, daycares, think of
where your target market is and place your advertising in those
places.