Keeping up with or staying ahead of the competition can be a challenge at the best of times for your online home based business, and sometimes you need to resort to offline marketing techniques to help you stay near the top. Here are 5 very effective more traditional offline marketing methods to help you succeed online:
1. One great way to get your website in the public eye and keep it there is by advertising on public transportation. Millions of commuters take trains, subways, buses and taxicabs on a daily basis to get to and from work and by placing a strategically located advertisement on the vehicle itself or at the waiting area you can attract new traffic to your web page. Your ad should be colorful and attention getting so you can attract the eye of the bored traveler who’s looking around to pass the time until they arrive.
2. Depending on what you’re selling producing product catalogs regularly can be a very effective marketing tactic. The trick here is to keep them updated and fresh by adding new merchandise on a regular basis that your target market are looking for and need so you can keep them interested. This is also a great venue for introducing new special promotions and discounts to your current customers and your prospective clients.
3. One technique you can incorporate into your offline marketing strategy from your online promotional efforts for your home business is embedding an ad in an article in a popular magazine or periodical targeted towards your niche. You can hire a writer for one of these publications to mention your website and business in an editorial related to your market.
4. Create an arrangement with a high profile public figure to wear your brand with your website address or your logo printed on it. This could be a t-shirt or a baseball cap or a golf shirt. Fans of this personality will want to check out your products because of the indirect endorsement by this person.
5. You can sponsor events which are targeted towards people who would be interested in using your products. Charitable functions are a tremendous avenue for this promotional technique because you benefit in two ways.
You not only expose your product to your target market but you also increase the integrity and public profile of your business by helping raise money for charitable organizations.
By incorporating offline marketing with your online strategy you will be exposing your brand and your website to both public domains which can only increase the amount of targeted traffic to your home business website to help you stay neck and neck your competition.