| Are you in Direct Sales? Are you looking for | | | | and ask about their advertising rates. |
| creative ways to market your home business? If | | | | 14. Contact your local Fire and Ambulance |
| so, I have 25 creative ideas that you can use to | | | | companies. Ask them about their upcoming |
| advertise your home business, in your local | | | | fundraiser events or chicken barbecues. Ask them |
| community. | | | | if you can set up a display table with a few of |
| When it comes to advertising, it's important to be | | | | your products. |
| consistent with your advertising efforts. The | | | | 15. Contact your local Assisted Living Centers for |
| harder you work on advertising your home | | | | Senior Citizens. These centers will often hold |
| business, the more new customers and team | | | | Senior Shopping Events. Find out the date of the |
| members you will get. | | | | next event and participate by setting up a table |
| Let's take a look at a few ideas. | | | | display with some of your business products. |
| 1. Check out your local area State Fairs and | | | | Seniors can't get out to shop like they used to, so |
| Community Carnivals. Ask about getting a booth | | | | bring the shopping to them. |
| or table and set it up with your business | | | | 16. Does your community hold summer concerts |
| information. People love to shop at Fairs and | | | | in your local parks? If so, contact them about |
| Carnivals, and they are looking to spend money. | | | | sponsoring an event or setting up a table. |
| 2. Purchase some business card styled | | | | 17. Exchange business cards, fliers and coupons |
| refrigerator magnets. Hand them out to all of | | | | with another Direct Sales consultant. Every time |
| your customers, party hosts, and business | | | | you hand out a customers order, place one of |
| contacts. Using a magnet as your business card | | | | her business cards into your bag, and vice-versa. |
| keeps your business in front of your customer, | | | | 18. Indoor Concert Venue's. Have you attended a |
| instead of being hidden away in their wallet. | | | | concert lately? A lot of local businesses |
| 3. Give your business products as holiday gifts. | | | | co-sponsor these events. Ask the sponsor how |
| Cousin Jane might just love her gift enough, to | | | | you can get some advertising at the event. |
| become a future customer. | | | | 19. Does your community print up a free renters |
| 4. Put an AD in the back of local high school | | | | guide, house buying guide or used car guide? (you |
| yearbooks. You can usually get these ads for | | | | can usually find them for free at your local |
| around $25.00 which makes it affordable. | | | | supermarket). If so, contact them about placing |
| 5. Put an AD for your business in local Athletic | | | | your business ad inside one of the guides. |
| Sports Programs. In the fall, I purchase an AD in | | | | 20. Get your business information printed onto |
| our local high school football program for around | | | | paper text book covers. Donate them to local |
| $40.00. | | | | area adult technical schools and colleges. |
| 6. Contact local churches. See if you can place an | | | | 21. Is there a local business in your area holding an |
| AD in their weekly church bulletins and activity | | | | upcoming Grand Opening? If so, contact them. A |
| guides. | | | | lot of times they are giving away freebies to the |
| 7. Do you have a local community Play House? If | | | | first few hundred customers. Inquire to see if you |
| so, get your business AD placed in their play | | | | can donate a few of your products for their |
| programs. | | | | Grand Opening. If you do donate, make sure your |
| 8. Co-Sponsor a local Youth Athletic Group. | | | | business contact information is attached to your |
| Baseball teams, softball teams, cheerleading | | | | products. |
| squads, gymnastic squads and swim teams, etc. | | | | 22. Get your business information printed up on |
| are always looking for sponsors. | | | | inexpensive bookmarks. Donate these bookmarks |
| 9. If you have a home business, consider getting | | | | to local colleges and libraries. |
| a Yard Sign printed up. You will want to place it in | | | | 23. Put your business knowledge to work. Call up |
| your front yard, in a highly visible area. | | | | your local colleges, cooking schools, craft stores, |
| 10. Does your neighborhood hold local Meet and | | | | etc. See if you can come in to teach a class. |
| Greets? If so, make sure you go out and attend | | | | Sharing your expertise with others is a great way |
| them. Get to know your fellow community | | | | to get new business. |
| members and make some new contacts. | | | | 24. Print out some kid's coloring pages with a |
| 11. Donate a Raffle Drawing Prize to a Non-Profit | | | | small section on them advertising your business |
| Group or Charity in your local community. They | | | | and donate them to local area restaurants, |
| are always looking for prize donations for their | | | | daycare's, doctor's offices, etc. |
| charitable raffles. | | | | 25. Consider getting some inexpensive mini |
| 12. Local bus stops and bus sheds. Have you | | | | desktop-sized calendars printed up with your |
| noticed that a lot of them have local business | | | | business information on them. Hand these |
| advertising on them? Contact the company and | | | | calendars out to local businesses to give to their |
| ask them for their advertising rates. | | | | office employees. |
| 13. Does your local area grocery store allow | | | | I hope you find these 25 creative ideas useful |
| advertisers to place business ads on the back of | | | | when it comes to advertising your home business |
| their cash register receipts? If so, contact them | | | | in your local community. |