Friday, March 6, 2009

Something about marketing

Do you have a local "brick and mortar" business without a website or with a website that generates little or no business? If you answered YES to this question - read on.

LocalAdLink could be just what the doctor ordered. Why be committed to advertising that you can only change once a week or once a month or once a year? Wouldn't you rather have advertising where you have the control and can change it as often as you wish?

Here is what you could be doing with a small portion of your advertising dollar. You could be reaching out to hundreds or thousands of LOCAL consumers who are looking for your products or services. This is done through geo-targeting which uses zip codes so you reach the people you are trying to reach.

You could have an internet presence even if you don't have a website. This happens because your ad becomes a mini-website and if you do have a website, you can promote it with your ad. This gives you an additional and very effective means to drive traffic to your site - both online site and physical site.

You could have an ad that you have complete and practically instant control over. This happens because once your ad is in the system, you have back office access when pretty much any and all changes take place in real time. That means if you wake up tomorrow morning and want to try a new coupon, it will be in the system as quickly as you create the coupon and put it in your ad. No more waiting days or weeks or months for changes or revisions.

You could not only advertise to your local zip codes but if you happened to have a product or service you wanted to advertise in a different area because of the season or whatever, you can do it and make it happen right now. This is done again through your back office access to your ad where you can input individual zip codes of your choosing and change them as often as you like.

One of the great things about this system is not having to sign a long term contract. You can simply participate month to month, although you can get significant discounts if you do 3 months, 6 months or 12 months at a time. The ads range from $50 to $250 depending on some choices you have and the the discounts run from 5% to 15% with occasional specials where they might have higher discounts.

It is also possible to get all of your ads at 40% to 50% discount, but that is a whole other article. The best thing to do is ask your LocalAdLink rep about bigger discounts.

One of the exceptional things about LocalAdLink is that it is applicable to virtually any business you can think of - tire store - mortgage company - insurance - furniture - golf - network marketing business - pretty much whatever you can think of where you need to advertise to get customers LocalAdLink could be your tool of choice.

LocalAdLink is a new, simple and inexpensive way for local businesses to advertise on the internet and reach out to local consumers who are likely to visit their place of business. You can use photos, videos and coupons to attract new business to your business. You have complete control over your ad and changes occur in real time once your ad is in the system. New coupons, different zip codes and other changes can happen as often as you wish enabling you to test different segments of your market. Also, in your personal back office you will find a sophisticated tracking system that will let you know where people are finding your ads, where your traffic is coming from, and complete and accurate results of how your advertising is paying off.

To see the platform in your local area go to http://www.localadlink.com

Use the search boxes to look up local businesses. Be sure to read the FAQs. You can also access the other tabs to get more information about LocalAdLink.

If you still have questions go to http://www.washburn.localadlink.net

Here you can find out information about the LocalAdLink business - how it works and how you can get involved if that is what you are looking for.