What are some good ways to advertise a new business?

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http://www.signazon.com/templatesearch.aspx I would check out Signazon.com. I went to them when I first started advertising my small business, and my business tripled. I bought full color magnetics, a banner, and some advertising yard signs. You could get these things at a lot of places, but Signazon has designers available on staff to guide you. That way, you can design whatever you like on their website, but, if you get stumped, a designer will help you (or they'll just design it for you FOR FREE). It was a service that, as a small business owner, I didn't think I could afford. But Signazon.com made it possible. Try them out!

Cold-calling works. Recently I got a phone call at work from web designers advertising their business. Beautifully designed brochure style flyers will work via mail or going in person to businesses/industries with your advertisement. I know that you are already have good people skills and know how to talk to others effectively. So you'll be able to catch their attention with your business designs. Hope that helps.

I started a small land surveying business about 7 years ago. I have had two methods that worked best for me. 1) Direct mailings to prospective clients. You have to identify your market and then mail them a simple introductory letter indicating your services. I used this recently when the real estate business went south and I had to look for other sources of income. I noticed that there was an increase in the number of oil wells being drilled in my local area. We sent out letters to all the oil producers who had operated in our area within the last two years and we have already gotten three new clients from this. 2) Many areas have a publication called the "Thrifty Nickel" or something similar. You may have seen it at the grocery stores or other places. I have had much success with adds in these type of publications. They are much cheaper than newspaper adds and you may be surprised at the number of people who read them. I know I was. Last winter we received 5 large jobs as a direct result of an add we placed. We do have a website also, but I have not had the results from it that I have had from the above two methods. Oh, I almost forgot. I have the name of my company and phone number painted in larger letters on my vehicles. I only have 1 truck and 1 car, but people are always telling me that they see my vehicles everywhere!

Make some business cards and when you meet some one give them on like you want them to have your phone number and then they also have your business card and if you know some one who has a MYSPACE they can put in on there.

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if you are in the UK , quite a few villages or towns have monthly advertising posts (mags) that go out for instance we have the cotswold advertiser, also you could try the fliers as that is cheap, website is very effective as I think most people these days l;ook to the web first!! Sometimes you can sponsor a local (sunday league for instance) football team, by buying the kit and having your company name on the strip, or perhaps get in touch with local playgroups who may benefit from you donating some equipment and you can do a local newspaper story with a picture in it, so thats good advertising. Hope it goes well!

A website is a must for a computer repairs company, and if your thinking of going into webdesign and dont have one.... make one quickly. I'll assume your looking for local business initally, in which case word of mouth is your best form of advertising. Drop 2 discount vouchers with each receipt. Offer something like a free spyware scan with every repair or something to get people to pass the spaare voucher to friends. Flyers are expensive even if you print them yourself, but in a local market they can work. Depending if you are targeting business or home market. Leaving flyers at local nurseries and community centers are a good idea, as lots of families have PC's a few years old and no idea how to get them fixed if things go wrong. As to entering webdesign field, be aware it is a saturated market and if you've built a few hobby sites for friends and think your a webdesigner dont. but if you have a sound knowledge of webdesign, web technology, database driven ecommerce sites and how to implement the various payment gateways out there and think your up for the web development route go for it. Grab your local business directory, call the businesses in your local area and ask if they have a website. NOT if they want one just if they have one. If they say yes take a note of its address and see if it needs refreshing. Some businesses have websites that havent been changed since about 2002. if they say no, well mark em down as prospective customer, mock up a 1 page prototype site and go and offer it to them. In person, small business owners prefer one on one sales pitch to flyers and marketing emails / faxes. good luck with your endevours.

Flyers have less than .01of 1% success rate . Try to identify if there is a paper-journal -magazine published that would be relevant to your business. If there is take small advertisments over a period of time as advertising is more effective when done on a repetitive basis rather than one big spread. You should be able to negotiate a special discount with the publisher for a number of ads. I think in this day and age a website advertisement would be pretty well imperative. On a recent survey (I think by B.T.) vehicle livery (sign writing on commercial or private transport) was the most effective form of advertising, even more so than T.V., radio, or press. Just some information you may find useful. Good luck with your business,what is it by the way?