Offline Marketing ~ Part 2: Craft fairs and bizaars

Written by Kara Kelso


Continued from page 1

Now you are ready to attend your bizaar! Make sure you table is neat, and if possible tidy up in between customers. You want those looking to pick up items and look them over, but they do tend to set things back out of place. Just a few more tips while atrepparttar bizaar:

~ Welcome everyone that comes to your table...don't forget to smile! ~ Stand, don't sit, if possible ~ Set out a unique item (even if you don't think it will sell it will catch your visitor's attention!) ~ Offer everyone that walks by a catalog, sample, coupon, business card, and entry to your drawing

Afterrepparttar 124927 show comesrepparttar 124928 real hard work. Now that you have allrepparttar 124929 contacts fromrepparttar 124930 drawing, you can start following up with them a few weeks later. If you offered samples, ask them what they thought of them and if they have had a chance to look atrepparttar 124931 catalog. Remember that following up isrepparttar 124932 most important part!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the author: Kara Kelso is a work at home mom of two, and the co-owner of MHMM Ezine, which is an informational newsletter just for moms in business. Recieve business tips, parenting tips, and more when you subscribe at: http://www.momsezine.com/mhmm.html


How To Stop Your Site Disappearing Into The Void

Written by Ofa Morgan


Continued from page 1

"Wake Up Surfers" (and lo and behold, I did wake up!), "Attention Hi*t Exchange Surfers!" and "Are You Still Having Fun Clicking?"

2) Be original

It seems that every other page being promoted inrepparttar hit exchanges is an affiliate site. Unless its for a relatively new program orrepparttar 124926 program has a variety of sites you can choose to promote, people are going to get weary of seeingrepparttar 124927 same pages over and over and over again.

Whilst repetition is important so that people become aware of a product or service, over saturation can soundrepparttar 124928 death knell for your promotion activities.

If you're an affiliate, you need to create your own page, with your own take onrepparttar 124929 benefits ofrepparttar 124930 program, product or service you're promoting. Write your own recommendation and if possible, add on a freebie as an incentive for people to join through YOUR link.

Or offer a free gift in exchange for people's email addresses and then follow up with your product/program recommendations.

3) Be short & sweet

Shout outrepparttar 124931 largest benefit of what you're promoting as soon as possible because unless your copy is particularly engrossing, most surfers won't hang around long enough to read it all.

Remember, you've only got 30 seconds max for your site to be viewed and WIIFM is very much in full swing! The next page andrepparttar 124932 guarantee of another visitor back to a surfer's site all beckon.

But if you absolutely can not do with out long web copy, then you need to give them a reason to remember your site, to bookmark it and to come back later.

This may sound a bit "new agey", but here's a final tip. The obvious reason why people use traffic exchanges is to get visitors to see their sites, but this stems from a deeper motivation.

Everyone who promotes their pages inrepparttar 124933 business related categories of hit exchanges is most likely doing so because they want to earn a living online and fulfil a dream of working for themselves.

When you think about it in this way, you can't help but feel a kind of kinship or bond withrepparttar 124934 owners ofrepparttar 124935 sites that you see as you surf. So wish them well as you look at their sites and visualise people looking at your pages with interest. By doing this you'll be increasingrepparttar 124936 success of your campaigns and on a more practical note, don't forget to give yourself regular breaks!



--------------------------------------------------------------- Ofa Morgan is the owner of Blue Moon Offers, a site where you can submit your articles, get free content and win a great prize for your "rant 'n' rave". Find out how at: http://www.bluemoonoffers.com. She's also a hit exchange enthusiast and for more details on one of the top traffic exchanges, visit: http://www.bluemoonoffers.com/wmq.html


    <Back to Page 1
 
ImproveHomeLife.com © 2005
Terms of Use