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Offline Method to Promote your website or blog

Dec 20, 2009 in Internet marketing

There are a lot of ideas on how to promote your blog or website using online method.
Have you ever wonder whether you could promote your site via offline?

When I ask people how many ways can they promote their site via offline? Sadly only one or 2 ways were mentioned. Some think that they need to have a lot of money to start an offline promotion.

Actually there are many ways that you can do offline promotion methods that do not require large sum of money to promote.
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Following are some of the ways that you can use for Offline promotions
•   T-Shirt
•   Car
•   Name Cards
•   Classified Ads in Magazines & Newspapers
•   Brochures

T-Shirts
Look for your neighborhood’s shop that provide customize T-Shirt printing service.
Design and print your own T-shirts. You can give it to your family members, relatives & friends. Get as many people to wear as you can afford.

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Car
If you own a car, you can print out your website and paste it at your car’s front & back windshield.

Name Cards
Try to design your name card with attractive colors. Attend as many functions, seminars as you can especially relate to the area you are promoting. The objective is to mingle around and handout as many cards as you can.

Also if you manage to collect other people name cards, email to them within 24 hours.
Be sure to include your website in the email

Classified Ads in Magazines & Newspapers
You can also use this method to promote your website. However advertise only in Magazines or Newspapers that have specific column for your niche that you are promoting

Brochures
This is the most expensive way of offline promotion. If you are just starting out, try to print a limited copy and distribute it to your neighborhood and check out the result. This method is only suitable for some niche only. It is highly recommended to print in attractive colors combination and with pictures.

Words that capture attention
For all the promotion methods that I mention above, not only do you need to include your web link, you also need to include caption that can attract the readers. You must remember, it is this attractive caption that causes people to visit your website or blog. Promote with just your web link alone is not enough.

You can always look at websites, blogs, newspapers, magazines for sample headlines that attract your attention. Ask yourself this question. Can it be use in what I am promoting? Keep a Scrapbook with you always. In this way you can immediately jot down the ideas and save it.

Domain name
As your visitors need to manually key your web link at the browser, we must ensure that they have good experience. The recommended ways in naming a domain are:-
•   It must be relate to what you are promoting
•   Use only 3 to 4 words for your domain name.
•   Don’t use dashes, or underscores

With the ideas provided above, you can now include Offline promotions in your Internet Income journey.

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