The Best Way to AFFORDABLY Advertise Your Small Business to Your LOCAL Community!

I am dedicated to helping small business owners who are struggling to navigate the confusing array of advertising choices get the most bang for their buck and highest return on investment possible.

I want to keep you from making the same advertising mistakes and wasting your money like I have.

There IS effective advertising out there that won't break the bank and still WORK FOR EVERYONE!

As a small business owner, you know the importance of advertising. Simply put, if no one knows you exist, then you might as well close up shop now instead of waiting for the long, slow death of your business because of CUSTOMER DEFICIT!

For years, most businesses have invested tons of money into the "traditional" forms of advertising:

1. Newspaper
2. Yellow Pages
3. Radio
4. TV

And, these did work, FOR A WHILE. But they aren't anymore. Why? Let's look more closely at each kind of advertising and how TECHNOLOGY has changed it.

1. Newspaper readership is down by staggering levels. Many newspapers are even CLOSING because of lack of subscriptions. WORST OF ALL, the costs to place a classified have remained the same; about $200 a week for a barely visible, one inch ad with no way to catch anyone's attention.

2. The Yellow Pages are becoming obsolete. Already 54% of people have traded in their yellow pages are are going online to search for their local businesses. Even a tiny 5-line ad is $400 a month, wedged in among all of your competition.

3. Radio listeners are also diminishing. With the advent of ad-free XM Radio and the ability to listen to your iPod wherever you are, most people would rather not suffer through endless radio ads during their daily commutes. Not to mention that the typically aired commercial for 30 seconds played for one month, seven times a week, is $4375, not including the professional recording!

4. TV is also going the way of radio. People are recording their favorite shows with Tivo or DVR, and skipping right through any commercials. And the price is legendary. Prices START around $8000 with studio recording for ONE show during a given period on a NON-network broadcast.

So you can plainly see that although these used to be very good and viable advertising solutions, EVERYTHING is changing with the age of technology advances and the INTERNET.

So if your customers are NOT: reading the newspaper, flipping through the yellow pages, or listening to radio or tv ads, then WHERE ARE THEY?

They are ON THE INTERNET. 63% of all customers now go ONLINE to do research about subjects and companies they are interested in before ever calling a business or walking into a business' door!

Now, I know for sure that the second I mention the internet to the average small business owner, they start to cringe and don't want to talk any more.

And that is understandable. Usually, they have not had very good experiences with the internet and their small business. It has gone something like this for them:

1. Know they need to be online, so sign up for a cheap website hosting company and are left with nothing but a FAQ and a uninformative Help section where they spend hours pulling their hair out trying to learn HTML.

2. Once they have about gone crazy getting one page up on their new "website", it usually sits there for months while they pay for it, with no traffic and no customers even seeing it. They might list the web address on other advertising they are doing, but it is usually not working and they know it.

3. Resentfulness and bad feelings for the entire internet start emerging, they think it is a bunch of bull and doesn't work, and so the very MENTION of advertising on the internet and they don't want to hear another word.

I don't blame them. I would feel the same way! But the fact is that the reason it wasn't working for them was:

1. They were not promoting their website/business online.

2. Not only that, but they were not promoting it to their LOCAL COMMUNITY, which is where their customer base is located. It doesn't matter if they show up to people all over the world, they just need the people in their hometown to be seeing it!

3. They need the customers in their hometown to be seeing their website/business after specifically LOOKING for what it is that the business DOES (i.e. the local furniture store showing up on the page when someone is looking at a website about furniture, or doing a search on google for furniture.)

Now you must be saying to yourself, "Well, this is great and all, but I am technologically challenged and I don't want to spend a fortune on this!"

And you are right. If you try to do this through Google Pay-Per-Click, you will have to build and maintain a web site, arrange your ad campaign, bid on keywords, spend tons of money each month on every click to your site, and the list goes on and on.

No wonder not many small businesses have bothered with advertising online. They need to be running their business, not messing with this stuff.

Thankfully, there is a new, publicly traded company that is patenting the technology to:

*Advertise a small business online to their LOCAL community

*Push the ad out to over 100 search engines and 1 million of the most high-trafficked web sites on the net (facebook.com, youtube.com, cnn.com, etc.)

*It is EASY to set up and maintain. In fact, you won't even have to do it at all! Your Account Representative will take care of everything for you.

*It is very low cost. You can get a Basic package for $49.95 a month. And there is NO CONTRACT or set-up fee!

Please contact me for a free consultation about what this can mean for you and your business. Email: molly.washburn(at)yahoo.com Phone: 808-226-3852, or visit my blog at http://localadlink.squarespace.com.

There is just too much to tell you right here, and you really need to SEE it in action to get an idea of how huge this is.

I can tell you how to:

*Get new customers in your door and more money in your pocket!

*Receive 50% off the price of your ad, or how to get it for FREE!

Online advertising in now possible for the average local brick-and-mortar business that not only targets YOUR customers in your very own community but is also affordable and highly effective! With the huge changes that are taking place in the way that business is now conducted and promoted, if your business is not online then you ARE being left behind.