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Is this idea feasible?

by mobilemarketer2012
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Ok, so I have been looking into selling physical products instead of SMS, mobile sites etc... But I know nothing about SEO and I am afraid of losing my rear end in PPC. I am wondering if anyone has ever sold their online products offline locally or if any of you think it would work? Is there a niche that might work well for this scenario?

As an example, let's say I became an office supply reseller. What if I went and called on local businesses and tried to give it a personal approach. People would order from my website but they could call me for help, advice, etc... Office supplies may be a bad example but I'm just trying to come up with something different.

I appreciate your advice and feedback. Thanks.
#feasible #idea
  • Profile picture of the author jeff09
    If you want to promote your product offline, telemarketing is one of the option. Just go to yellowpages and scrape buyers in your niche and market them through phone or email. Lots of tool available in the market to scrape keyword based content from yellowpages in the market.
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  • Profile picture of the author mobilemarketer2012
    Thanks Jeff. Any ideas on a niche or niches that would work well for offline marketing?
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    • Profile picture of the author PaddyM
      Sent you a PM
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    It's definitely feasible. Another thing you can do is to distribute flyers, coupons, business cards and other inexpensive advertising locally. You can take out small classified ads in local newspapers and place ads on Craigslist. I knew a guy who ran a lawn cutting service who paid kids $5 if they'd get him a grass gig.

    More than half the time he was able to impress the customer and keep them. Maybe you could do something similar. Pick up Jay Conrad Levinson's Guerrilla Marketing. It's loaded with great ideas for offline marketing. Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Pettit
    There are limitless possibilities with Craigslist
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