Proven Low-cost Marketing Strategies When You Own A Dollar Store

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One of the biggest challenges facing everyone who wishes to own a dollar store is exactly how to build store sales without going broke in the process. While there are many fairly costly options, few low-cost options seem like they would be worth the time and expense to implement. After all, what good does it do to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on advertising and marketing if the results dont grow dollar store profits beyond the costs involved? Well there are some proven ultra-low cost marketing options that do get results. If youd like to know more, then read on. In this article I present 5 proven low-cost marketing strategies when you own a dollar store.

Strategy #1 Join a local business group. If you own a dollar store youll discover networking with other local business owners and managers can provide rewards beyond your wildest dreams. Sure it takes time to attend meetings and you must be willing to mingle and get to know others, but the results can be remarkable. Join only one group to start. As you become familiar with that groups participants you might add another business group to the mix.

Strategy #2 Establish a marketing exchange with local businesses. Get out there and meet your neighboring business owners. Once again a little time is required. However as you introduce yourself and exchange business cards youll soon meet others who also desire to build their businesses. Work out an exchange where each business helps the other by providing flyers or other promotional materials. Youll gain new shoppers, sales and dollar store profits.

Strategy #3 Turn you employees into sign-holders during slow times. One of the biggest challenges for those who own a dollar store is staffing at the right levels. Why not add a marketing activity so employees can help you build sales and dollar store profits during slow times? Have an inexpensive sign made for your business and let an employee hold that sign so it can be seen by passing traffic. Youll quickly have a store filled with first-time shoppers. Be sure to check local ordinances to make sure this can be done in your locality before you start.

Strategy #4 Establish discount programs for near-by churches. This idea costs little more than time unless the churches choose to take advantage of the discount offer. For churches with food closets and other aid for those in-need, now is a time for most when theres huge demand and fewer contributions. Churches will likely be looking for grocery items and everyday consumables first. Imagine the traffic when your generosity is announced during a service.

Strategy #5 Add upcoming sale inserts into t-shirt bags used to package all sales. Save your advertising dollars by publicizing upcoming events on inserts you place in bags customers receive with their purchases. While some advertising and promotion is still advisable, this strategy can reduce your total cost and will still generate the traffic, sales and dollar store profits you seek when you own a dollar store.

To your dollar store success!

An Innovative Advertising Campaign Is Worth More Than Many Regular Ventures

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Out of the thousands of Advertising Campaigns that get rolled out every day, which are the ones that you remember? Every Ad Display or every organized campaign that has stuck with you from even the bygone years, has one factor in common: they were all innovative in one way or the other. Innovation in an Ad Campaign brings it and the Advertised Brand along with it, a few steps closer to being a trendsetter. Every Promotional Campaign, that has attained legendary stature, used the relevant medium in one unique way or the other. Though such a campaign does take more time and efforts, it is far more effective than the regular campaigns. This article discusses a few ways in which some of the popular Advertising Mediums in India have seen innovations that redefined Promotional Campaigns in India.

Airport Advertising

The Medium of Airport Advertising is well known for the Innovative Campaigns that are carried out from time to time. The scopes for innovations are immense when the medium enjoys the luxury of a minimum of 55 minutes of audience dwell time. Thus, we have seen experimentation with Ad Displays that moved away from the traditional sites of Wall Mounts and Hoardings, into closer spaces with the audience in the form of Totems, etc. However, when TDI put up the first live car on a Billboard, it was a step that was unprecedented in the Advertising Medium. The concept of putting an actual car as a display was unimaginable before this instance. Though it is true that Product Displays did happen before this time, it was for items much smaller than a vehicle. So intense was effect of this trendsetting exercise that the Airports became synonymous with Car Launches.

Delhi Metro Advertising

The DMRC (Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) was not the first metro system in the world. But a host of factors which resulted due to the brilliant efficiency of the DMRC, resulted in the medium being an ideal place for Advertising. Though, stymies did exist due to the DMRCs reluctance to allow too many variances from the Wall Mounts and Free Standing Units, some of the Metro Advertising Agencies were able to create exciting new trends. The ability to provide extended visibility, by lining up displays in metro stations one after the other, a whole new meaning was provided to the concept of High Impact Ads. This new concept worked with unprecedented success for the brands from the entertainment and news industry. Before long, various TV and FM channels along with newspaper brands and the film industry became patrons of the medium.

Mall Spaces

Advertising at the Malls was itself a revolutionary change in the concept of Advertising. The various displays have always been traditionally used to attract consumers to the point of sale. With the advent of the mall culture, advertising took the dual role of combining Product Displays and Point of Sales. Thus, if you get interested in a certain mobile phone being advertised with a Mall Activation, you can buy it right there. There is no requirement of going to a separate place for buying as has been the traditional cases of Advertisement. This new form of Advertising reduced the time period between the point when the ad has made an impact and the point where the actual sales happens, thereby reducing a lot of lost sales.

Innovations are at the heart of success in the world of Advertising. The ads of the same nature often lose their attractive abilities after a certain time. Audiences grow blind to the patterns of ads after some time and require a dose of creative innovation to open their eyes again.

Finding A Micro Niche For Adsense – Avoid High Paying Keywords

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AdSense is probably the most popular pay per click (PPC) program for publishers. Google, the company behind AdSense, always displays relevant ads regardless of the content on the page. This is very important because irrelevant ads will attract fewer visitors. The cost per click (CPC) depends on the market niche. It can be only one cent but you can also get few dollars for a single click. Since the average cost for each keyword or search phrase is publicly known, many internet marketers are trying to optimize their websites for those high paying keywords. Many such attempts fail and they blame Google for it. The truth is that the failure could be predicted. If you want to succeed in internet marketing including AdSense you should understand that you need traffic.

Traffic means visitors coming to your site. When they visit your site they will search for interesting content. If they will find AdSense ads interesting they will click on them and you will be paid for it. The best and the cheapest source of visitors is traffic from web search engines, especially Google. To get search engine traffic your website needs to be present on the first page of search results. The top position gets approximately 42% of clicks. For lower positions this number is significantly reduced. Therefore, you should target keywords that have high search volume and low competition. The so called “high paying keywords” have huge competition and you will never get high ranking and consequently required traffic.

The second reason to avoid targeting keywords with high CPC is the source of AdSense ads. Those ads do not come automatically–there are some AdWords advertisers that manage advertising campaigns. AdWords advertisers can choose where their ads will appear. The first choice is search result pages. Whenever somebody searches for target keywords their ads will be displayed next to search results. This is high quality traffic because those who search for specific keyword are actually looking for something. The second option for AdWords advertisers is user content or web pages with AdSense ads. The truth is that very few advertisers in highly competitive markets, where each click costs 10$ or more, use this option. Even if they do choose advertising on content pages, they carefully select websites where their ads will be displayed. The reason is simple. If you pay a lot for advertising you make sure this investment will return. Of course, this doesn’t mean that no high cost per click ads appear on websites as AdSense, it only means that there are less chances to get those ads with high CPC.

How Does Lead Skimmer Work

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There are many speculations around Lead Skimmer. Before moving further, let us take a brief look at its history. This is a new lead generation platform created by Geoff Stephen, who is also the founder of Global NPN. Using this platform, it is possible to generate leads in two different ways, one by promoting Lead Skimmer and the other way is generate leads, produce sign-ups and sales for your business. In other words, this platform lets you generate free leads, irrespective of the business or program you are marketing. All you have to do… use Lead Skimmers patented Skim 3 software and every person you refer will get you leads. The best part – It is free and you DO NOT have to buy anything!

So what does Lead Skimmer (LS) really do? It was designed to build your list three times faster than any other methods you might be using currently. In reality, it builds your list much faster than that. All the leads generated are OPT-IN leads. You also get to boost your income with LS because the list that you are currently building using this platform can be linked to different platforms like Getresponse, Aweber and NPNs MMPro! For example: you gather a lead through Lead Skimmer, this lead also goes on your Aweber or Getresponse list, therefore the sign-up will be exposed to your offer and is now on your list, at your auto-responder and LeadSkimmer.

How does LS work? All you do is, register with the link sent by your sponsor, without paying a dime. Then after about 5 minutes you will understand the system and begin promoting the Lead Skimmer platform. The first three leads you gain are registered under your sponsor line and every lead following that will be yours and go onto your list. From there on starts your own lead lines. Each sign-up you get is a lead line, and when they refer more people…their first 3 sign ups are yours. Do a simple math – if you refer only 10 people, you have 10 lead lines, so when they refer their first 3 you get 30 leads, 50 and you get 150, so on and so forth.

There is yet another option for those who do not want to wait until they gather 3 referrals, to kick start their own lead lines. They can opt for the upgrade of their account. All the above given details are for free members. There is a premium membership option and those who opt for that, can get started with their own lead lines right away. This is a wonderful way to generate optins for your primary ventures,
Which are linked to your Lead Skimmer account! Also the Premium membership has a feature where you can add one of your best offers to the login page, so that means every time a lead of yours logs into their account, they will first see an offer from you on a full page. They have the option of checking out your offer that will open in a new window, or continuing onto their LS account. Every time they log in they will see the same offer from you, until you decide to change it and offer something else. Upgrading is easy. You get access to Lead Skimmer back office when you sign up. Once there, you click the Upgrade button and pay $44.95, a one-time fee. That’s it, you can now start generating your own sign-ups immediately, and you can add your own offer for when your leads log in, and you can immediately start linking your auto-responder offer and email series you may have already set up.

So now…every lead you generate has to get you 3 leads. That is how Lead Skimmer works and builds your list and builds your business and increases your income. Once inside you will soon see that Lead Skimmer builds your list much faster that you can imagine!

Breaking News Advertising is Dead!

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Don’t agree?

Please ask your wife, husband or significant other-in other words, the nearest typical consumer-to answer the following 7 questions:

1.Does viewing pop-up ads on your computer curl your toes in orgasmic delight? Yes or No?
2.Does a mailbox filled with junk mail cause your palms to itch and sweat with nervous anticipation? Yes or No?
3.Do you suffer from outbursts of violent anger when a TV commercial is interrupted by a TV movie? Yes or No?
4.Do you prance around the parking lot with ecstatic abandon whenever you find a flyer on your car’s windshield? Yes or No?
5.Does keeping a phone next to your soup spoon on your dinner table (for fear of missing the next telemarketer’s call) help your digestion? Yes or No?
6.Do you drink pots of black coffee at 10 pm so you can stay awake to watch 30-minute infomercials at 4 am? Yes or No?
7.Do you drool at the thought of spending $300 on an iPhone just so you can see interactive ads on its big, cool screen? Yes or No?

Have I made my point? Yes or No?

Advertising is dead. If you’re a marketer… save your money.

Consumers have been over-advertised to and over-sold.

Unless you’re conducting a white sale, fire sale or going out of business sale-and halving or quartering your prices-advertising won’t get you a bang, a whimper or a nickel for your buck. Not anymore.

The only ads that still earn their keep are those in newspapers and on supermarket windows that read:

Big SALE Buy 1 Can of Campbell Soup for 89 Cents and Get a 2nd Can-FREE! Supplies limited! (or something like that)

Beyond that, the first reaction most consumers have when viewing any other type ad is not to believe anything it says.

And if they have no need, desire or knowledge of you, your product or your service, their second reaction is to play basketball. Their arm and hand muscles reflexively contract, causing them to roll up your ad into a tight little ball and shoot for the nearest basket.

Beware the Consumer’s Anti-Ad Third Eye

Because the consumer has become so desensitized to advertisements in general, if you don’t shove your ad, sales letter or flyer directly and firmly into their hands-they won’t even notice it.

It’s as if they’ve developed an anti-ad third eye that instinctively alerts them to an ad’s presence and then immediately shoot’s a signal to the brain-instructing their other two eyes not to see it.

For example…

How often, when surfing the web, have you run across a web page with a bright red, 40-word, one-sentence headline, ending with an exclamation mark or two or three?

Unless you’re searching for that particular web page, the average information-seeking web-surfer will immediately recognize that site as an ad, and click away-without even reading two words of it.

The same thing happens when reading the newspaper, or driving past a billboard on the highway…consumers simply refuse to look at the ads.

So What’s a Marketer to Do?

Advertorialize!

Huh? I’ll explain…

The success of the internet has proven one thing above all else. Human beings, which includes consumers, are addicted to information.

Google, the internet version of a library card catalog, exists, thrives, dominates and will eventually own the world, because consumers are in a constant, never-ending search for more and more information.

And why do consumers want ever more information that will convince, compel and persuade them to a certain point of view?

So they can make the most efficient, prudent and intelligent choice about whatever it is they want to own, possess, consume or BUY.

Yes, BUY.

Though consumers hate to be sold; they still love, nevertheless, to BUY.

And their decision to buy is most effectively influenced when they are provided with information that supports, confirms and increases their already resident desire to BUY!

Enter the Advertorial

The advertorial is an ad disguised as an editorial. A cunning wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s roughly 80% useful, compelling and persuasive information and 20% sales pitch.

It will never mention the name of the product, its features or benefits in the headline. Because that would be too obvious-it would scream ad and will immediately activate the consumer’s anti-ad third eye.

Instead, in a newspaper, in a direct mail promotion, or on the internet the advertorial will attract attention and readership by merely dangling the tantalizing promise of free actionable and profitable information… if the reader will only continue to read on.

An advertorial headline won’t scream: LOSE 10LBS OF FAT IN 10 DAYS OR YOUR MONEY BACK!!

Instead, the advertorial headline will read: John Hopkins Research PhD discovers active ingredient in ice cream that causes rapid weight loss.

Then the advertorial will proceed to show and prove, in pseudo-journalistic fashion, the What, Why, Who, Where and When of how the product or service does precisely what the consumer wants and needs.

The advertorial delivers valuable, documented information that relentlessly leads the reader to the inevitable conclusion that the solution to their problem or need is… whatever it is you’re selling.

It doesn’t look, taste or smell like an ad, and the consumer’s anti-ad third eye will never see it coming.

Try it… you’ll like it.