How to advertise and promote your business all year – For just €300

Being a small business owner myself, I know at first hand how difficult things are at present.  Business is slow, unpredictable and hard to find.  Every week someone else is coming into you selling advertising, sometimes offering incredible below the stated price offers.  The problem is – no matter how good an offer is, if it does not deliver then its money wasted.  Have been there, have the t-shirt and the lovely looking adverts that were probably looked at once in the first few days after publication and then discarded.  My son and myself were in that frame of mind 2 years ago when we created the first version of Arklowbiz, the business directory for Arklow.  The aim was to provide a cost effective way for businesses to get an internet presence, promote their products and services without having to be an internet expert or a designer.
The site is growing each month and we have added GoreyBiz , late last year and WicklowBiz in recent months.  Behind the scenes we are constantly working to promote the sites in the environment that they reside – the Internet.  More and more of all our potential customers use the internet to find their next purchase, so we need to be there.

What you get: What we offer a business is a full colour web presence, with the ability to have all your products or services listed and explained.  Don’t worry, we do all the work for you, you only have to provide the images and text and if you don’t have any images then we will create them for you.  Some of our existing subscribers have mini web sites within their entry on the site.  We do not put a limit on how many pictures or pages you want.  Neither do we charge you extra to have more.  One subscription fee for the year – and no hidden charges  - that is our promise.

Special Offers:  Most businesses have special offers, sales or promotions to encourage customers to come in, we created the special offer section on the site to enable you to promote the offers online.  Again, we don’t charge any extra for you using this or limit you to how much you want to have in the section.

New Products & Services:  How many times have you had something new to promote and either didn’t have the means or method to really get the information out there?  Most of the businesses we deal with have been there.  We will add new content and change your entry for you through-out your subscription period, at no extra charge.  That means if you get a new line in or add a new service offering you can advertise it without having to pay more.
Most traditional advertising is dependant on the viewer stumbling on the advert and then the success is based on the potential customer being actively looking for your product at that time or your advert being so memorable that the customer can recall all the details in two months time when they need your offering.  Within our comprehensive guide of the businesses and services, your details are available at the click of a mouse all year round, so no more looking for that paper or magazine that was put away safely. 

The Newsletter: Some months ago, we added a new feature to the sites that has increased the potential value for our subscribers hugely.  We created an online newsletter, which we have available on the site and also emailed out to a sizeable list.  Each site subscriber can have an article, a promotional advert, an education piece or whatever they want to insert at NO EXTRA charge.  We create the newsletter and email it out to the list each month and it is a great way to keep in contact with your clients and also to expose your business to a much wider audience.  Some of our existing subscribers send the newsletter on to their own customers and clients thereby increasing the circulation, which is now approaching 500, and we are getting more people signing up from the websites each week..

FaceBook:  In addition to the newsletter, we have created entries for Arklowbiz and Goreybiz on facebook.  Our combined following on facebook is now over 500 and growing each week.  We use the facebook entries to keep the followers upto date on the newsletter releases and also special offers and other items of interest.
This gives us a massive audience of over 1000 potential customers for each publication of the newsletter.  And remember it is circulated to the individual via email and their facebook activity giving a much higher retention rate.
In summary, with the biz sites you get

• an internet presence for your business, that is created and maintained for you.
• An advertisement that you can change all year round to reflect what is current in your business
• A place that you can promote your special offers and sales
• Access to the newsletter that you can have an advert each month for the year.

And all this for one fee.  €300 (excl VAT) for a one year subscription.
So for less than the cost of a cup of coffee a day you can have your business on the internet, get an advert out each month, change your advert and promote all your sales and offers for the year.
Call me today or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to find out how to get yourself on the website and be part of this growing community.

Michael Kenny - ArklowBiz, GoreyBiz, WicklowBiz - 0402 91100  – 086 8090611