Marketing for local businesses is a lucrative way to build your own online business while helping small service businesses in your community to get more clients and customers. These companies do not understand marketing on the Internet, and you can use your blogging, article marketing, and social networking skills to make their phones ring.
The best way to get started is to help a friend or family member to market their business online. I did this for a handyman when I was just starting to learn how everything worked on the Internet. I set up a simple blog using the Typepad blogging platform, mostly because I did not know enough about WordPress to set that up at the time.
I started writing some articles and blog posts, and then joined a business forum. It only took about three hours each week during that first month, and soon he was on the first page of Google for all of his keywords.
I was happy because his business was now doing well. He was able to stop advertising in his local newspaper and a magazine, saving him several hundred dollars each month.
He was also able to turn down the jobs he did not like to do because he was getting enough calls from people asking him to do what he enjoyed doing. During the worst depression in the past thirty years he was able to stay in business and increase his monthly revenue.
Within a few months I realized that I could do this for other businesses to make money with what I was learning. I had a good start with my own Internet business, but wanted to make more money each month. Then I began to help an insurance agent in my city to sell more homeowner's insurance policies.
I did the same exact things for him with setting up a blog, writing some articles, and posting to a business forum. I had learned about free internet radio by then and interviewed him once a month for fifteen minutes. In three months time he was getting more calls than he could handle.
People now come to me to learn how to market for small businesses in the city where they live. This business is growing daily. The best prospects are small business owners who are already spending some money on print advertising.
Best of all, you can make money using the skills you are learning to build your own online business. This is a true win-win for both you and the small businesses you will be marketing for.
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