Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Online? But not really!

I’m sure this has happened to you or to some one you know. Judging by the anxiety of people these days wanting to have their business online is not that easy as they think it is.

So, you have successfully spent hours upon hours building and creating your business website on the easy tools such as Microsoft Live or Godaddy Website Tonight. It’s fairly simple and it only took days out of your time. You figure its sweat equity and part of making your business being online successful.

Unfortunately you’re only half way there. Having your website being completed is not necessary is available or be viewed by people who doesn’t know about your business. At this point, your business website is just as good as you would mentioned it to the people you already knew. Which it doesn’t do you any good for your business because they most likely offer you only praises. This is not the kind of investment you would like in return.

There are so many avenues these days that you can get the word out on your website without having to break your wallet. Social Media has made it possible along with a little bit of Search Engine Marketing. If you are brave, try to attend local business network functions and start networking your business. For the shy, Social Media is the best way to go. Although, you still need to be constantly engaging in conversation with others online. It’s not all that bad since you are behind the computer versus seeing them face to face.

Offline is a little bit rougher and it does drain a lot of your time and energy. You can do this by start printing flyers or create signage from your printer. You then go to the busiest location you feel that fit your demographics and start handing them out. I called this Marketing 101 or back to basics.

In the end, you should pursue what’s comfortable for you to make your business website successful. There are no easy or right answers. I tend to live by this saying, “Action creates motion, and motion create results.”

Josephine
DotTrend, Inc.

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