Offline marketing strategies are often as important as search engine optimization when it comes to getting traffic to your site. Here are 10 fantastic offline marketing strategies for promoting your website offline.

Offline Marketing Strategies

1 Give stuff away

Send a truckload of sandwiches to office staff that work within a target market. Wrap the sandwiches with a wrapper that advertises your website. Looking to sell clothes to students? Send an ice cream van to a local university campus and give out free ice cream at lunchtime. Brand the cones and the van itself with your website URL. You get the idea? Probably best to ask permission first!

2 Rubber-stamp it

Get a stamper from an office supply firm with your website URL and logo on it. Stamp all letters and envelopes when you send mail.

3 Give stuff away. Again.

Stand outside a major train station when it’s raining and give out free branded umbrellas. Visit a beach or park on a hot day and give out branded fans. Stand outside a supermarket and give away free recycling bags with your company website details printed on them. Think of whom your target market is, what freebies they would benefit from, where you can find them and then go for it!

4 Newspaper Ad

Dull but effective: Purchase a classified advertisement in your local newspaper

5 A kind of dodgy strategy

Ssshhhh: Visit your local library and put a business card or a branded bookmark with your website URL in every book available for loan in a section related to your niche. This could be a bit dodgy so do it at your own risk!

6 Use your network

If you have friends who have their own businesses, think about how you can advertise each other’s services. E.g. if you have a friend who owns a restaurant, offer to advertise the restaurant on your site or brochure if they will print your URL on their till receipts or napkins.

7 For the more energetic

If you’re a runner or cyclist why not write your URL on the back of your sport’s shirt. You could go the whole hog and sign yourself up for a marathon? That’s 26 miles of pain free publicity for you! The less energetic could consider sponsoring a local sports team’s kit.

8 Brand a caravan or trailer

Approach the owner of land next to a major commuter route and try and negotiate permission to place a caravan advert there.

9 Don’t be shy

If there’s a trade show in town that is related to your niche, stand outside with a sign advertising your URL. Alternatively stand in an airport arrivals hall with a sign with your business link on it. Have some cards or flyers available to hand out to any people who ask for further information.

10 Try good old-fashioned bribery

Send a free, and interesting, gift to a local radio station DJ. The more original you are, the higher the chance you’ll get a mention on air.

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