If you run an offline business that services local clients then you know how challenging it can be to get regular leads for your niche on a weekly basis due to the competition. The average local business (excluding the food industry) looks to get 3 to 7 leads per month which they convert to sales.

Here are some tried and true methods to getting a stream of targeted leads to your business. Some are more time consuming and stressful that others but one of them is the easiest and cheapest...

Today, I read through David Sable's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get TV's. I decided to take a different approach from a marketing perspective. I think this uncovers the opportunity we have regionally and globally where I think the oceans are blue, rather than the red ocean niches we fight it out in every day.

First here, is the link to Sable's Article:
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/...article_detail...

One of the things I'm working on is starting a local marketing site where I get volunteer writers from the community to have their own blogs on the site.

I got the idea from an SEO client of mine who started a site all about Nantucket MA.

She started Nantucket Chronicle. And it's doing really well in under a year. She's got a nice team of local writers whom she calls "Captains" and because of the traffic she's getting, local advertisers are paying her for banner...

I had a brick and mortar businesses, a small thrift store, and I will tell you that I hated cold callers. I messed up their scripts something awful. Having had the business I talked to a lot of other brick and mortar business owners that did the same thing, cold callers = annoying {expletive}was the equation. The best ones were the cold callers for web design, and I'd start asking server specific questions and drive them nuts.

It does work, to some degree, but what we preferred...

I joined Warrior a few months ago and impressed with the level of knowledge and experience found here. My focus is on Local marketing and am looking to join groups with others who have the same interest. With all the changes from Google lately I believe its important to communicate regularly in order to keep abreast of all the changes. You can learn more about what we do here at Viral Designz .

Best

Tom
theNYCeltic