marți, 2 noiembrie 2010

Marketing For Local Business - Be Profitable on the Internet by Helping Small Businesses Come Online

Marketing for small local businesses can be both profitable and rewarding. Many small businesses would like to have more of an online presence, but just do not know where to start. That's where you come in.

With the skills you are learning about article marketing, blogging, and social media, you can help small businesses to increase their bottom line while doing the same for yourself. This has become a popular way for new marketers to hone their skills and earn while they learn.

With the tens of millions of small businesses in North America alone, none of us will live ling enough to run out of people to market for. Contact your local Chamber of Commerce to see when they will have the next lunch meeting or other type of mixer.A courage strains after the corpse.


My local Chamber has activities that are open to non-members at least three times each month.

Make up some business cards that say what you do. You may also want to set up a blog using a domain name that has the name of your city in it, as well as the words small business marketing.

When you meet people face to face, tell them that you help small service businesses to have an Internet presence.

I recommend starting with someone you know personally. A friend or relative will appreciate what you are doing for them and you will become more comfortable setting up their blog and using social media to promote them. If you are anything like me, you will have so much fun marketing for these businesses that it will hardly seem like work.

The idea is to help them become known locally for their type of business. This will work for cities of any size, so do not worry about competition or anything else that may come to mind.

Learn about keywords and search engine optimization, write some articles about the type of business you are helping, and soon you will be able to show the business owner that they are on page one or two of Google.

By then you will have other businesses that are anxious to have you help them with their online marketing.

During this same period of time, continue to work on and grow your own Internet business. Everything you do for yourself can also be done for the small businesses, so learn as much as you can to become as skilled as possible.

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