It seems today everybody thinks if they throw up a website business will come. I hate to burst your bubble but online marketing isn't that simple. There is a lot of work and preparation that goes into building a complete online marketing plan. Not only that there is major maintenance work to keep your site at the top.
For those do it yourselfer's I did put together a free advertising booklet on ways to get local business advertising for free. Here is a short video:
You can visit Here to Get the free Local Business Advertising booklet, checklist and list of ways to advertise your local business for free.
This will help you Ignite your local marketing but keep in mind this is less than a 1/10th of what you need to be doing to be found online.
In this guide we will try to answer:
What is local advertising?
How do I market my small business?
Where should I advertise my small business?
Where can I advertise my business for free?
If after reviewing the guide if you have any questions please contact us. We will be glad to answer questions or if you find the work a little to over whelming and would rather spend your time on your business and not learning the marketing business we do offer packages to help out with completing this project.
Ignited Local marketing takes many steps:
This is one of the first steps to getting your small business out there.
And you can't complain about price because it's free. Why do we offer this for free? After you see the steps involved in this small portion of online marketing we are hoping you would rather be doing other things with your time and hire us :-)
Getting these directories setup and done correctly will take a couple of weeks to a month of your extra time. But they are very valuable to your business.
Here is a partial checklist of what you need:
Business Information Checklist for
Online Local Directories Submission
Online Local Directories Submission
Below is a list of things you will need to have from each business before you start submitting them to the online directories.
- Business name
- User name for the directory
- Business owner’s name
- Salutation
- Job title
- Year established
- Country/Region
- Street address
- City
- Directions/landmarks/cross streets
- State
- ZIP code
- Is the business inside another location, such as another business?
- Main business phone number
- Additional phone numbers, such as the business owner’s cell number (for contact and verification purposes)
- Extensions for phone numbers, if there are any
- Fax number
- Website address
That is a start to the information you will need to complete the 19 different ways to get free advertising.
