Sales and Marketing

RE: Internet Advertising

drivetraffic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:46:51 GMT

This is a great article, but it is limiting. Those means of advertising are great if you have the budget. It always makes since for a small business to advertise online. There are a vast amount of options available to get your business visible in the online marketplace and compete with larger companies. Pay Per Click with Google, Yahoo, and MSN are the fastest ways, but not the only ways. Many just cost you your time, but are great if you have no budget. There are so many ways to advertise your business online that the one's covered here just touch the surface. One of my small businesses is thriving during this time, when others are struggling in the same industry, just because I know online advertising techniques they don't. Because of this, I created an ebook course to show any small business owner how to use the internet to market their small businesses. You can visit us online at http://www.drivetrafficforless.com

RE: Internet Advertising

solidcactus — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:25:51 GMT

This is a great article. My best advice to those just starting out - Start with Google Ad Words and Yahoo Search Marketing. ALWAYS make sure you are tracking conversions with the tracking code provided to you, and don't spend more money than you can afford. Set daily budgets.
Joe P.
http://www.solidcactus.com

RE: Internet Advertising

whalerick — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:34:36 GMT

Nice summary of the whole thing I'm weighing my options in more use of the internet in my business advertising and this article helped.

RE: Internet Advertising

bigcloudmedia — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:25:14 GMT

Great words of wisdom.

As owner of a web-design company, Big Cloud Media (bigcloudmedia.com), I have seen a trend for small business to go to pay-per-click advertising before most of the other things.

Another way for small businesses to utilize the internet is create a fun or useful online environment for people (many business create their own blogs, forums or social networking sites) and charge other companies to advertise there. Granted, building up the necessary number of hits to that site to attract advertisers may take some work, but ultimately if done right, it could be a big boost to business.

Utilizing the internet for marketing and advertising purposes is an effective and low-cost way to get your business name in the minds of your customers. Its the way to go and it works.

Thanks for the post. I totally agree.

Koji Flowers
Big Cloud Media
www.bigcloudmedia.com
"We don't just build websites, we open doors"

RE: Internet Advertising

nuSenO — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:46:06 GMT

our website goes live next Monday 12/1/09. Based on our web designer it will take months before our keywords will come up on its own with SEO. Starting next week we will be going after the pay per click option through google, with the idea that this will drive some traffic to our site.

Thanks

RE: Internet Advertising

TopSavingsNet — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:26:21 GMT

Great article SBOCTeam. One unmentioned online advertising source is PPC in relation to search engines, however, the PPC is an abbreviation for Pay Per Call. It is used much like a contextual Google/Yahoo SM advertisement however there is not the incentive to click but rather the incentive to call a toll free number which is forwarded to a business number. I know Google has been playing around with this, but another company Ignenio is now coming to the forefront of this industry and was recently acquired by AT&T.

Basically what I am saying, is newer actions now include phone calls when advertising online. I know, it isn't heard of much but it is growing and is backed by some major local directories.