The business world continues to search for the newest and most effective form of advertising. Internet use shows no peak, and business owners understand that the zillions of hours of web activity provide endless outlets of promotion.
However, you know the dangers of pop-up advertisements. How many do you disregard each day you spend online? Don’t let yourself be another small business owner losing dollars in uncertain advertising that might not give you the exposure that your business needs.
Maybe you don’t have a website for your small business. The online outlet does not seem a necessity for your product or service. Without a website, how will customers talk with you or someone from your business about sales? The old-fashioned way: the telephone.
Pay-per-call is a fast-growing form of reaching and attracting new customers to your business. Pay-per-call operates exactly how it sounds. You are only charged for advertising space and costs when a customer calls your business. Whether your business has a website or not, a pay-per-call advertisement gives customers a more direct way to reach you than a web page. An online advertisement on another site provides a link to your company’s office so that the customer has no trouble getting in touch with a representative from your business.
Do you need a cell phone for this kind of advertising? It depends. If your company is already growing and you can employ one or a few people to field phone calls from pay-per-call, you might be able to afford to reserve an office line for them. However, if you are the owner, CEO and lone player of your small business, a cell phone number that only accepts phone calls from pay-per-call submissions is essential.
Why can’t you just use your own cellular phone plan to cover pay-per-call potential customers? An answer to a pay-per-call advertisement must be professional. Rather than juggle personal calls with the possibility of a response to an advertisement, it is a good idea to simplify your business with different numbers and phones for different uses. Consider the daily routine for a small business owner like yourself. You may run errands throughout the morning, have lunch with potential customers in the afternoon and keep up the grind during the rest of the workday. A cell phone dedicated to pay-per-call responses helps you sort through what can be the chaos of small business.
While juggling the expenses of small business are difficult, another cell phone is a small cost in the larger scheme of a great investment into your business’ financial future. Look into a pay-as-you-go plan that deducts minutes each time you use the phone. This will allow you to analyze each month’s talk time to see the real effects of pay-per-call promotions on your business.
Business experts believe that pay-per-call advertising will continue to grow as small business owners understand the benefits of encouraging direct customer contact. Make today your first step into this emerging technology designed to deliver success and sales to your small business.
Entrepreneur and outdoor photography adventurer Caroline Melberg is President and CEO of Small Business Mavericks, a division of Melberg Marketing. She has over 20 years of experience creating marketing communications materials and writing copy for some of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Her small business columns are syndicated online, and she publishes the popular e-Zine “Maverick Internet Marketing Secrets.” Learn insider Maverick Marketing secrets you can use immediately to find new customers and increase your sales. Get your FREE subscription at www.SmallBusinessMavericks.com today!
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