Any Local Business Can Double Their Profits With These 4 Tips

Online, March 14, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Getting a steady stream of new customers in these tough economic times can be tough for small businesses who are still only using the yellow pages. Yellow Pages is trending down dramatically while use of Google is trending up and significantly higher than Yellow Pages. Most people just throw their Yellow Pages away immediately.

The other fact that maybe even more shocking is that 81% of people first search online before making a purchase... (vs) using yellow pages, newspapers, traditional "offline" methods.

If you want to increase you chances of getting found, John Barry of Barry Real Marketing states that, "You must act now and start an online marketing campaign to get your company and brand found before your competition does. Even though a business has not started yet, they still may have time with a well devised plan."

Barry recommends this written article that gives small business owners 4 quick tips to just get started on their own:

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1. Blogging

A blog is a great addition to a website. They're easy and free to create, just go to Wordpress or Blogger and take a look. By posting just three times a week, your site will get more attention from search engines because of the regular new content.

This will improve search engine rankings for your site and provide more opportunity for people to find you. It is also a great way build relationships with potential customers, by giving them useful, free information.

2. Article Marketing

Write an article each week and circulate it to article agencies like Ezine. At the end of every article, you can include a resource box with information about you or your product and a link to your website.

By writing good quality articles relevant to your site and including your keywords and key phrases, people searching the web for that subject, will find their way to a copy of of your article.

Then, if they enjoyed reading it, they'll follow the link to your site. Search engines will also pick up this resource box link and rate it as a third party linking to your site.

So this important link will bring more traffic to your internet business directly and improve search engine rankings at the same time.

3. Hub Pages

In much the same way as Article Marketing, you can improve your site's noticeability both directly to potential customers and, to search engines, by using Hub Pages. Just sign up for a Hub Page and post an article on the site every week or two.

You can use variations of a previous article or blog post, just remember to include some links back to your site, for both the search engines and natural visitors to follow.

4. Video

Try making a video about your product and put it prominently on your site. Video is very engaging for the majority of people and will improve their perception of your site.

It only has to be a simple video. Maybe just telling people what your product will do for them or demonstrating the product, if that's appropriate. Video is a great sales medium, it builds a more personal relationship and makes it easier for people to see why they should buy from you.

And, by finishing with your web address for 10 seconds, it will make a great free advertisement when you post it on You Tube or Tube Mogul.

Over time, these four simple steps will bring more traffic to your internet business. By using them, you will improve search engine rankings for your site pages and your links will bring in direct traffic.

Now, all you have to do to see the results of these methods, is use them regularly and consistently.
Source: content4reprint.com

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Barry also states, "I realize that many small business owner's are busy running their own businesses and don't have the time to consistently do this and to keep up with all the changing technologies. That is why I created Barry Real Marketing. To help other businesses get more customers now without having to worry."

To get more information about Barry Real Marketing and to find out how they can get an Small business more customers by helping them get found on the Internet and get choosen over their competition then visit their website: www.BarryRealMarketing.com