Best ways to promote the local business?

[girish]

Hey...
here are some important tips for promote business...
1)Start a Twitter account with your business name as the "username" and your first and last names as the "name".
2)If your business has a website, post it. If not, post your business phone number and/or email so that potential customers can get in touch with you. Also post a photo of your business, logo, or even yourself.
3)Find Twitter users in your area. How do you do this? One way is by clicking on the "Find People" tab at the top of any Twitter page. Enter the name of your city or area in the "Who are you looking for" box. You should get a ton of responses with users in your area.. "follow" these people and a good number of them will follow you back.
4)Another way to find followers in your area is to click on the username of some of the people you follow and see if any of their "followers" also live in your area.
5)The best way to find potential customers in your area is to use the search bar in the middle of the Twitter page. You can enter your city name and click the search button.
6)Advertise your business! After you've acquired a few hundred or so followers (this should only take a few days) start sending tweets about your business. Offer specials and incentives. If you have a website - promote that. To keep track of how well Twitter is working for you, you may want to offer a special discount to any customer who found you on Twitter.
i think these are all very effective...

[Flux_nutrition]

Great advice. Another great way is to search a word that involves what you do and give them advice etc. For example, i am starting a sports nutrition company. So i search the word "gym" or "supplement" and offer them tips on certain exercises or let them know about my products and offer discounts to them.

[avelina]

Social Media has been the best way now to promote any thing you want. So go for social media sites and represent your self there and you will get the best result surely.

[TweetGirl]

1. Use social media to your advantage (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
2. Get listed in the phonebook
3. Get listed in business directories like Yahoo or Google
4. SEO, SEO, SEO (building backlinks, participating in forums, and posting to blogs are ways to accomplish this. If you have no SEO experience at all, you can also hire out)

Hope this is helpful, good luck and much success to you.

J Leach
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[rogerkirkness]

Where are you located out of?

[Wendell Zuchs]

You can promote your local business by means of sharing it into Social media networks and Social networking sites.

[peterbeth]

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[s101elvis]

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This is always a good idea.

[bharatbuk]

Advertising on social media site like facebook and twitter is one of the effective technique for the promotion of business site. SEO technique is also important for attracting more traffic to the business site..proper study of SEO technique is very important

[antares]

What is the best way to use Facebook to your advantage? Can you please share examples?

[jordan.arciaga]

Consumers = want great value

Communicate value = promotion = coupons

Effective coupons/promotion = strategic placement

Strategic placement = anywhere you can capture your consumers attention

Places to capture your consumers attention = ?

[graphic designer]

I've have found social networking sights usefull as well.

[ewerk]

1) Create a Social media page for your business (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter)
2) Have an SEO strategy (join and comment on forums that have to do with your business, comment on blog posts, contribute articles to Ezine, etc)
3) Get quoted in the media for PR purposes
4)Partner to offer deals with other local businesses that make sense for your service or product
5) Offer incentives for your company through social media

[Stephanie Grey]

Try promoting your business using billboards in your locality so that people there will know your business exists...

[UntamedAn1mal]

Social media seems to be the growing, moving force in entrepreneurial marketing today.

It is cheap to no-cost, effective, and can easily be promotable to your target market.

With that said, it seems like everyone is tremendously biased towards Twitter, and it seems like there is a growing emigration from Facebook.

Any input on this? Is Twitter better for business and marketing than Facebook?

Thanks.