Advertising Your Small Business On A Limited Budget

By:Obinna Heche

The best advertising, whether for a small business or large, is advertising that works. The price a small business owner pays for advertising would not be an issue if the outcome of the ad was known. If a business owner had a choice of paying $1000 a month for advertising that brought in a guarantee of at least $2000 a month profit or paying $500 a month for advertising that brought in $750 worth of profit a month, there would be no hesitation. That savvy small business owner would gladly shell out $1000 each month for that purpose.

Small business advertising has no such guarantees however. It’s not like buying a refrigerator that is guaranteed to keep the milk and eggs cold. $1000 of advertising might bring $8000 of profit or it might bring in zero. So, what’s a small business owner to do, especially if faced with a limited budget?

The best answer is to use the kind of advertising that only charges the owner when and if it works. There are several ways of doing this.

The primary method is called pay per click. This Internet option is available with numerous online merchant sites as well as hundreds of newspapers across the country and the globe. Simply put, the business owner agrees to pay a specified amount to the publisher or the merchant site for each ad that entices a consumer to come to the his site. The price paid is generally an amount that he agrees to bid on. More and more newspapers are offering this option as they struggle to maintain competitive online with eBay, Craigslist and other pure pay classified and marketplace sites.

Another option for pay per click and inexpensive advertising for a business owner that wants to concentrate on local customers is with regional publications on some of the larger metropolitan newspapers and groups that are introducing citizen media sites. These zoned products offer a much less expensive buy because the business advertiser is buying the local neighborhood instead of the total metropolitan population.

Companies such as YourHub.com, a product of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News are licensing these citizen media sites to other newspapers in other areas and thus welcome the small business advertiser at a discounted price. They also encourage citizen journalism. The business owner can contribute articles, photos and local stories, although the paper will undoubtedly edit something too unabashedly self-serving. This is still a great way for a local entrepreneur to introduce himself or herself to the neighbors in a friendly, casual and soft sell way.

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