Comments on: Marketing and Advertising for Small Business? http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php Kit Miller Group | (609) 298-0745 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:58:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: TM Express™ http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php/comment-page-1#comment-588 TM Express™ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:42:59 +0000 http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php#comment-588 A few free resources – check out the sources box for links: 1) Create a blog pertaining to your field 2) Use Yahoo! Local & Yahoo! Groups – Be sure to read the TOS for each one! 3) Write articles pertaining to your field and/or expertise. 4) Advertise on Craiglist Also, consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to advertise on other's sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are paid a commission. I listed a few handy sites & articles relating to marketing, promotion & advertising. Here are some book titles that are relevant: * 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America's Most Innovative Small Companies by Sam Decker * Off The Wall Marketing Ideas: Jumpstart Your Sales without Busting Your Budget by Nancy Michaels, Debbi J. Karpowicz * Guerrilla Marketing for Free: Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits by Jay Conrad Levinson * Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide: Over 1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof by James Stephenson Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!<br><b>References : </b><br>http://www.blogger.com http://local.yahoo.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/ http://www.ezinearticles.com http://www.craigslist.org http://www.knowthis.com/ http://marketing.about.com/ Articles: http://ezinearticles.com/?Simple,-Cheap,-and-Effective-Ways-to-Increase-Website-Traffic&id=139749 – Simple, Cheap and Effective Ways to Increase Website Traffic by Jeff Flow http://ezinearticles.com/?Seven-Inexpensive-Not-Cheap-Advertising-Tactics&id=82969 – Seven Inexpensive Not Cheap Advertising Tactics by Mary Eule http://ezinearticles.com/?Marketing-Basics&id=114832 – Marketing Basics by Matt Bacak http://ezinearticles.com/?Home-Based-Business---Offline-Marketing-Strategies&id=200865 – Offline Marketing Strategies by Jeff Casmer http://ezinearticles.com/?Internet-Marketing-Basics:--What-Worked-Years-Ago-Still-Works-Today!&id=73024 – Internet Marketing Basics…by Jack Humphrey A few free resources – check out the sources box for links:

1) Create a blog pertaining to your field

2) Use Yahoo! Local & Yahoo! Groups – Be sure to read the TOS for each one!

3) Write articles pertaining to your field and/or expertise.

4) Advertise on Craiglist

Also, consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to advertise on other’s sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are paid a commission.

I listed a few handy sites & articles relating to marketing, promotion & advertising. Here are some book titles that are relevant:

* 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America’s Most Innovative Small Companies by Sam Decker
* Off The Wall Marketing Ideas: Jumpstart Your Sales without Busting Your Budget by Nancy Michaels, Debbi J. Karpowicz
* Guerrilla Marketing for Free: Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits by Jay Conrad Levinson
* Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide: Over 1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof by James Stephenson

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
References :
http://www.blogger.com
http://local.yahoo.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.craigslist.org

http://www.knowthis.com/
http://marketing.about.com/

Articles:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Simple,-Cheap,-and-Effective-Ways-to-Increase-Website-Traffic&id=139749 – Simple, Cheap and Effective Ways to Increase Website Traffic by Jeff Flow
http://ezinearticles.com/?Seven-Inexpensive-Not-Cheap-Advertising-Tactics&id=82969 – Seven Inexpensive Not Cheap Advertising Tactics by Mary Eule
http://ezinearticles.com/?Marketing-Basics&id=114832 – Marketing Basics by Matt Bacak
http://ezinearticles.com/?Home-Based-Business—Offline-Marketing-Strategies&id=200865 – Offline Marketing Strategies by Jeff Casmer
http://ezinearticles.com/?Internet-Marketing-Basics:–What-Worked-Years-Ago-Still-Works-Today!&id=73024 – Internet Marketing Basics…by Jack Humphrey

]]> By: 529s.com http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php/comment-page-1#comment-587 529s.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:12:59 +0000 http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php#comment-587 Get your jewelry website ranked number one on Google and Yahoo in their search results. That would get a lot of visitors. The best way to do that is build inbound links to your website. Most of the directories online charge a one time fee to review your site and add it to their index. Here are three of my favorites: http://www.kahmer.com http://botw.org/?uid=20578 http://www.avivadirectory.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=kahmer The more inbound links to your site, the better you will rank with Yahoo / Google / MSN. Also work on your meta tags. Here is an article on how they work: http://www.richkahmer.com/meta-tags.html<br><b>References : </b><br> Get your jewelry website ranked number one on Google and Yahoo in their search results. That would get a lot of visitors.

The best way to do that is build inbound links to your website.
Most of the directories online charge a one time fee to review your site and add it to their index. Here are three of my favorites:
http://www.kahmer.com
http://botw.org/?uid=20578
http://www.avivadirectory.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=kahmer
The more inbound links to your site, the better you will rank with Yahoo / Google / MSN.

Also work on your meta tags. Here is an
article on how they work: http://www.richkahmer.com/meta-tags.html
References :

]]> By: eric h http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php/comment-page-1#comment-586 eric h Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:59 +0000 http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php#comment-586 Go to trade shows to get retail accounts. Go to country fairs, flea markets, famer's markets to sell retail. Set up a website and use Google Adwords and Yahoo search marketing. Start an ebay store (it'll be hard, the markets there are crowded) Auction stuff on Yahoo.<br><b>References : </b><br> Go to trade shows to get retail accounts.

Go to country fairs, flea markets, famer’s markets to sell retail.

Set up a website and use Google Adwords and Yahoo search marketing.

Start an ebay store (it’ll be hard, the markets there are crowded)

Auction stuff on Yahoo.
References :

]]> By: godsgirl2travel http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php/comment-page-1#comment-585 godsgirl2travel Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:48:59 +0000 http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php#comment-585 Here are some suggestions. 1.Use your email signature file to promote your business. 2.Lend some of your jewelry to family and friends to wear. Someone seeing your products may want to order 3.Buy and inexpensive car magnet for your car. Let your car advertise your business while you are driving it or it is parked in a parking lot. 4. Leave some of your jewelry in consignment shops. 5. Check with the local high schools or other organizations who are doing fashion shows. Let them borrow your jewelry for the fashion show. 6. Attach yourself with a few people who custom make clothing. Have them feature your jewelry with their clothes for that "complete look".<br><b>References : </b><br> Here are some suggestions.
1.Use your email signature file to promote your business.
2.Lend some of your jewelry to family and friends to wear. Someone seeing your products may want to order
3.Buy and inexpensive car magnet for your car. Let your car advertise your business while you are driving it or it is parked in a parking lot.
4. Leave some of your jewelry in consignment shops.
5. Check with the local high schools or other organizations who are doing fashion shows. Let them borrow your jewelry for the fashion show.
6. Attach yourself with a few people who custom make clothing. Have them feature your jewelry with their clothes for that "complete look".
References :

]]> By: Matty http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php/comment-page-1#comment-584 Matty Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:00:59 +0000 http://www.kitmillergroup.com/marketing-and-advertising-for-small-business.php#comment-584 If you are e-commerce enabled, you might have a lot of luck using the Google AdWords program or Yahoo Sponsored Search. If you only have a physical location, but you are looking to bring in foot traffic, you may consider using Yahoo Local Sponsored Search. All three programs involve bidding on keywords to trigger your ad to appear with search results. In case you arent aware of these ads, they are the 4-line text ads on the right hand side of the search results page. Each of these programs allows you to control your costs as well as determine what terms you do and (more importantly) do not show up for. Also, you pay each time an ad is clicked as opposed to when it is shown. Read the materials carefully for each program and decide which works best for you. See Links below.<br><b>References : </b><br>https://adwords.google.com/select/targeting.html http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srch/index.php http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/local/index.php If you are e-commerce enabled, you might have a lot of luck using the Google AdWords program or Yahoo Sponsored Search.
If you only have a physical location, but you are looking to bring in foot traffic, you may consider using Yahoo Local Sponsored Search.
All three programs involve bidding on keywords to trigger your ad to appear with search results. In case you arent aware of these ads, they are the 4-line text ads on the right hand side of the search results page.
Each of these programs allows you to control your costs as well as determine what terms you do and (more importantly) do not show up for. Also, you pay each time an ad is clicked as opposed to when it is shown.

Read the materials carefully for each program and decide which works best for you. See Links below.
References :
https://adwords.google.com/select/targeting.html
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srch/index.php
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/local/index.php

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