Advertising Ideas And Tools

by :Rafael Gutierrez Jr

Today date advertising is extremely expensive and time consuming. The purpose of this article is to give you some ideas where you can advertise and to show you the tools you can use to promote your business.

Media Advertising

Advertising on media has lots of power because people use media everyday in order to keep themselves inform of an event such as news, shopping, education, or entertainment. The most popular medias are television, radio, newspaper, and magazine. Advertise on these types of media is very expensive, specially on television, but it gives good results. In this section, I will show you the tools you can use to advertise on newspapers and magazines without expending lots of money.

MEDIABIDS

With Mediabids you can buy advertising by creating an auction and letting the magazines and newspapers compete for your advertising dollars. You can also buy ads without creating an auction. The auction idea is because here you can setup a budget and the newspaper or magazine company have to bid not higher than your budget. Also check for the advertising specials Mediabids has on the front page.

Advertising On Your Vehicle
Using your vehicle to place your own ad will give you unlimited impressions. You can place a signs and graphics on any glass, door, trunk, or hook of your vehicle. You can use companies like FastSigns, DomainPlates.com, Drivertise.com, or you can look up on your local yellow pages for companies that make signs for vehicles. License Plate Advertising. Here you have to option to advertise on your license plate. Option one, you can buy a personalized license plate at your DMV or Department of Motor Transportation. Personalized license plates are not expensive and that will help you boost your business by displaying your business name or website URL. Option two, add a new license plate frame. On the license plate frame you can ad your business name and slogan. You can also add your website URL. Here you will have two lines and you can choose the size, color, and character of the letters to be displayed. To buy a set of frames at LicensePlatesOnline.com and click on

custom license plate frames. You can also check your yellow pages for a listing of local companies.

Online Advertising
If you have a website you can submit your website to search engines and directories. The most popular search engines and directories where you have to put more effort to get listed, are Google, Yahoo, MSN, and dmoz. But that's not enough, you have to build an strong presence by adding your website to other search engines and specially directories, so can can earn link popularity and receive more traffic. Just click here to manually submit your website to search engines and directories. If your business does not have a website; you still can add your business to online yellow pages like Yahoo! Local, SmartPages, SuperPages, etc. Another thing that you can do is buy ads online. Buying ads can get you where you want to be and the prices are from low to very high. It depends where are buying your ads from. My recommendation is AdBright.com because it has a huge inventory of well known online websites. If you have a blog on your website; you can ping to all blog search engines and blog directories every time your blog is updated. You can get good ping service totally free from Pingoat.com. You can promote your website on forums and discussion boards as well. Just be careful with spamming. There's some websites that let you post ads for free. Websites like classifieds or forums websites like PostYourAdForFree.com.

Offline Advertising
A good institution that can help you with advertising is your local chamber of commerce. Usually all chamber of commerce members trade business cards at their local businesses or let you each place some type of advertising. You can make your own business cards and make sure you always carry some with you wherever you go. A good software you can download to create your own business cards is Business Card Designer Plus, but if you do not want to make your own business cards then you can hire a company to design the business cards for. You can do that online at VistaPrint.com. Not only business cards, but you can also have your business name on your mailing address, checks background, etc.