Monday, July 29, 2013

The Best Advertising For A Small Business

By Ethan O. Tanner


The best advertising, whether for a small business or large, is advertising that works. The price a small business owner pays for advertising would not be an issue if the outcome of the ad was known. One of the best ways to find effective advertising is trial and error. You need to find out what works best for your business.

Should a small business proprietor have a selection of spending $1000 a month for advertisement that fetched in an assurance of at the least $2000 a month earnings, or paying $500 a month as advertisement that made $750 worth of earnings a month, there would be no wavering. The small business organization must examine what will work for them, and make an income. That savvy small business proprietor would gladly spendt $1000 monthly for the advertisement.

Small business advertising has no such guarantees however. It is not like buying a refrigerator that is guaranteed to keep the milk and eggs cold. $1000 of advertising might bring $8000 of profit, or it might bring in zero. So, what is a small business owner to do, especially if faced with a limited budget? The key here is to test different advertising methods to see what really works for your business.

The best answer is to use small business advertising that only charges the owner when and if it works. There are several ways of doing this. The primary method is called pay per click. This Internet option is available with numerous online merchant sites as well as hundreds of newspapers across the country and the globe.

Simply said, a small business agrees to compensate a specified sum of money to the publisher, or the merchant web site, for each ad that brings about a consumer coming to the small business web site. The price is normally a sum of money that the small business owner has offered upon. More and more more newspapers are offering this alternative as they scramble to keep competitive with the web such as eBay, Craigslist and other classified and marketplace sites.

Another option for pay per click and inexpensive advertising for a small business that wants to concentrate on local customers is with regional publications or some of the larger metropolitan newspapers and groups that are introducing citizen media sites. These zoned products offer a much less expensive buy because the small business advertiser is buying the local neighborhood instead of the total metropolitan circulation of the metropolitan paper.

Companies such as Your Hub, a product of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, are licensing these citizen media sites to other newspapers in other areas and those welcome small business advertising and discount the price. They also encourage citizen journalism. The small business owner can contribute articles, photos and local stories, although the paper will undoubtedly edit something too unabashedly self-serving. This is still a great way for a local entrepreneur to introduce himself or herself to the neighbors in a friendly, casual and soft sell way.




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