Traffic Building – 4 Off-line Tips For Your On-line Business

When we all think how to generate traffic to our website, we tend to forget the off-line opportunities. They are out there just waiting to be tapped into. The problem is in our mindset we just tend to think only promoting on-line. Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is so easy to dismiss off-line techniques when you have an on-line business. The simple fact is that they work and you should at least give them a try, they are not really that difficult to do. To get you going, here are some great tips which work really well.

• Advertising in local newspaper - Start by putting an advert in your local newspaper, you can get good responses depending on the circulation. The best place to put your ad is in the "work from home" section of the newspaper but you can experiment. The wording doesn't have to be anything fancy just two or three lines with your website address.

• Business cards - With business cards you can put them anywhere you like, it is almost like free advertising. The trick is to have some in your pocket all the time; you are taking your business with you. Again just a few words and your website is all you need, no phone number.

• Flyers - Flyers you can put through people's letterboxes/mailboxes or on their car windows. They are really cheap and you can create them on your computer, so dead easy. The only cost is the paper and the ink cartridge.

• Local shop ad - This is another cheap method where you place an ad at your local shop and it will get displayed in their window.

These ideas will get traffic to your website which you wouldn't have got if you just promoted on-line. This is just another great tool that you shouldn't dismiss.