First of all let me say that having spent the past 20 years working closely with small businesses I know exactly what works when it comes to offline advertising.

What I have found today is that online businesses have a built in advantage when it comes to promoting their business offline. You already have a website also autoresponder in place to lead your prospect to. When you combine that fact along with the traditional capture methods of telephone also snail mail there is no reason any online business can't use offline methods to build their businesses also sell their products also services.

A lot of online based businesses forget about offline advertising. I know I have. It is important to combine offline also online advertising together in your marketing campaign. This will give you to a more well rounded approach to promoting as well as attract potential prospects also customers you might not otherwise get.

In all your offline advertising you want to include your web site address, e-mail or autoresponder addresses, also your phone number also mailing address. This gives you the appearance of a real bonafide business.

Another thing is to start selling products for manufacturers who offer co-op advertising for promoting their products. You can read a little more about this technique in an article I wrote titled "Why Are You Wasting Free Advertising Money?"

http://sites-plus.com/articles/article2.html

Finally you need to view offline marketing as a long term committment. I've seen businesses over also over run also ad not get the response they were looking for also quit.

This will not work offline. Or online for that matter. You need to establish a budget also stick to it. That does not mean that you can't change the ad copy if your response is marginal. It just means if you are going to run classified ads for example that you run them for a period of time also allow them to do their job.

Here are tenoffline marketing ideas. Use as many of these as possible to move your business forward.

• Classified Newspaper Ads- Place classified ads in newspapers. Local newspapers often have great advertising rates that you can take advantage of to promote your business. Here's a great source for running classified ads.
  

  
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• Put up flyers. They could be in computer stores, libraries, restaurants, car windshields, or anywhere you shop that allows flyers.
  

• Direct mail. A nice direct mail piece when done consistently over a period of time can bring tremendous exposure for your business. The biggest benefit of direct mail is it allows you to reach thousands of people at a bulk mail rate. You could not do this if you had to mail each piece individually.
  

• Buy time on local cable T.V. It is surprisingly affordable also if you commit to a block of advertising you can develop Top Of Mind Awareness. TOMA is being there when they want or need you. If you are an affiliate or in an MLM consider doing group advertising also spreading the cost out over several of you. You can have leads routed into one phone number also divied out to all advertisers or have each ad display a different phone number.
  

• Pass out your CD-ROM or diskette business cards at special events. It could be at trade shows, seminars, fairs, etc.
  

• Get 250 free business cards here also leave them everywhere you go.
  

  
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• Hold a free offline class also teach people how to use their computer or how to use the internet. You could have your web site on display as an example.
  

• Give away promotional items such as free mouse pads. Put your advertising on the mouse pads also give them away at computer or internet events.
  

• Advertise in card decks. The card deck you advertise in should be targeted toward internet users.
  

You would or else want to target your offline advertising to groups of people that will actually be interested in your product or service. If you're selling business books, you will want to market to business owners.

In conclusion, if you have a business that is only based online using offline advertising to make money online is a great idea because so many people today go online to get information about products also services they are interested in.

Copyright 2004 Jeff Schuman

Jeff Schuman is a 20 year veteran of sales also marketing also has made over $35 million dollars in sales in that time. His Team-Schuman.Com website contains the Top five work at home websites, make money fast websites, make money articles, a free classified ad service also more. Visit it here today: http://www.Team-Schuman.com