1 Quick Tip to get 1850 Visitors to Your Blog
By MoreMerchant on Aug 29, 2007 in Blog Advertising, Blogging, Build Your Website, Featured, Make Money on Web, Misc, Tools
I want to give you a quick tip to help get your blog off the ground. This is so simple yet almost never done. 
Why not? Because it is a bit different than online marketers see as the norm.
Stumblers: If you like this please help me by giving it a Thumbs up!
What is it you say? What is one of the first things offline companies get? You see I have set up 2 offline companies in the past few years that have been very successful. So I know that one of the first things you get is business cards. You get these before you run out and get desks, office space etc.
Why? Because word of mouth advertising that a business card gives is valuable. Online marketers / bloggers don’t do this very often. Now with technology business card are cheap so don’t waste anymore time.
Get free business cards to promote your blog. Sounds easy doesn’t it? Well I believe you can add more visitors to your site this way than any other way. Have a goal to give away 10 business cards a day, and you better believe that most of those will come. They come because they are interested. If you get half of these to come this will translate to 150 new visitors a month to your site. 1850 visitors a year! Many of these will come back many times resulting in thousands of daily views.
When people find out that I make more money on the net then they do working 40 hours a week, they are interested. Imagine handing them a card so they remember. When they get home and empty their pocket, they will visit your site.
This tip is invaluable. If you want to drive your site to success, do it 1 business card at a time.
Get some free business cards for your blog promotion.
Want to make $33 a day $1000 a month - Subscribe to MoreMerchant.com
Cheat Your Way to $1000 a month
[tags]blog promotion, free, business cards, visitors, marketing[/tags]
business finance blog | Aug 29, 2007 | Reply
so thats offline marketing for online businesses, i came across a lot of articles before but never knew what it was…sounds interesting, will give it a go!
Eric Watkins | Aug 30, 2007 | Reply
This is an invaluable tip. Thank you for everything you do on this site to help others succeed.
I would like to do a guest blog post for you.
John Chow | Aug 30, 2007 | Reply
I have done some posts about this and today link to a post I did awhile back. Offline marketing is over looked.
Remember, if you build it, they won’t come. Successful blogging is 10% blogging and 90% marketing.
Vienne | Aug 30, 2007 | Reply
This is a great idea. I’m going to try it. It makes perfect sense.
redwall_hp | Sep 2, 2007 | Reply
Or you can make your own business cards with Photoshop, some cardstock, and a printer. That’s what I do, and it works.
Christine Miserandino | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
business cards/ post cards/ post it’s whatever is your style. I use post it’s whenever I send snail mail with my web address on it!
MoreMerchant | Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
Great idea Christine. How does that work for you?
Marie Marinaccio | Sep 21, 2007 | Reply
Good idea. Business cards can be put anywhere and are very easy to hand out to almost anyone. Never thought of this myself, but will certainly keep it in mind.
jordan widel | Nov 14, 2007 | Reply
Oh i am so gonna get some of these cards
Stephanie | Nov 15, 2007 | Reply
It’s so funny that I just stumbled upon this, because the co-founders of my site and I just ordered business cards for our site.
We thought it was practical, to leave them where we travel, but now I feel validated.
Thanks!
Stephanie
Marketing Blog | Dec 15, 2007 | Reply
great posts business cards was one of the first things i purchased and now send out with every letter i send
Dale | Jan 16, 2008 | Reply
Great Idea, I had never thought of that
Dale
http://dzrbenson.com/blog/
Frugal Dad | Jan 17, 2008 | Reply
Valuable advice! I’ve ordered some cards and plan to drop them at restaurants (fish bowls), doctor’s offices, etc. One of the things I’ve thought of is running a local niche site and using an offline marketing strategy such as this to drive traffic. This could also lead to more traditional advertising.
Web Design Lincolnshire | Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
I have business cards for all my websites, this helps spread the word about my website and more importantly refreshes peoples minds about my service.
Many Thanks
Mademind | Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
interesting tip.
Sass | Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the tip!
The link for free business cards isn’t working though.
MoreMerchant | Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
The link is fixed. Thank you Sass!
Wendy | Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
Excellent advice. Already made up the business cards and then found out I didn’t anything to print them on.
You all know what I am buying next LOL
Callcentergal | Jun 23, 2008 | Reply
I’ll try that. Thanks so much. =) BTW, I dropped in your EC. =)
Business Card Translation | Jul 2, 2008 | Reply
It seems like many people forget the basics of marketing and networking. Great article. Traditional marketing still works in a Web 2.0 world.