2. Network With Your Family and Friends
It is always easier to get a lead if you have some kind of connection. Ask your family and friends if they know of any small local business owners that need help with their online marketing. Again word of mouth and referrals are very powerful.
Email your family and friends - Tell them about your new business and ask for referrals.
Facebook – post a message on your facebook page that you are getting into helping local businesses with their online marketing. Ask if your friends needs help or if they know of anybody that needs help again ask for referrals.
Twitter - Send out a tweet if you have a twitter crowd following you.
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Kyle
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Local is not going anywhere and the number of potential clients out there is continuing to grow as the more conventional businesses are starting to see more and more potential in the Internet. People aren't looking in the phonebook anymore to find a local service, they are using some sort of digital device and that represents a massive opportunity for everyone here!
Great training piece!
Great training piece!
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veronica.l
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the filbert
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excellent tutorial. thanks a bunch!... going to look into the "pointofmail". I had heard of something like that before I became interested in local marketing, but didnt see the need, I do now!
veronica.l
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slayton1s
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Good stuff. My dad actually owns a Bait & Tackle shop so this local marketing stuff is useful. --> https://www.facebook.com/charlestonian.fishnhut. I'm honestly more into the online affiliate marketing end of it though right now.
veronica.l
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slayton1s
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Yeah perhaps, hah. Wal-Mart's about the only competing place with my dad, even though my dad easily sells better equipment and more cared for live bait (crickets & worms). Wal-Mart sells a lot of fishing poles from Chinese areas (where they have people put in labor jobs creating not very good poles - you get the ideal) and my dad will only sell fishing poles from the U.S. area because he knows those are the good fishing poles to use. & then of course Bass Pro Shop is probably one of the best places to go, but a lot of there prices are off the charts especially with really good fishing poles (there's not a Bass Pro Shop around here anyway).
The place I live in really isn't very big & a lot of people already know that my dad is the only business to go to if anybody wants to fish. But given there's at least 30,000 people in the immediate area, I'm sure I can do at least a little good with online sites for the local area anyway for him. On top of that, I could add in some affiliate type of guides on an online site & make some extra revenue like that along with giving important information people need to know for the immediate area (along with putting Google Adsense on some of the info pages. You know. ;) There's a lot I could do.
Thanks again for the guide.
The place I live in really isn't very big & a lot of people already know that my dad is the only business to go to if anybody wants to fish. But given there's at least 30,000 people in the immediate area, I'm sure I can do at least a little good with online sites for the local area anyway for him. On top of that, I could add in some affiliate type of guides on an online site & make some extra revenue like that along with giving important information people need to know for the immediate area (along with putting Google Adsense on some of the info pages. You know. ;) There's a lot I could do.
Thanks again for the guide.
