Hi I don't no where else to post this, so I'm posting here. I just moved to New Mexico and am trying to market myself out here as a magician with little success so far. It doesn't help that I have no budget at the moment. I was wondering if people here who know about marketing could look at my website and tell me what I'm doing wrong or steer me in the right direction? It is www.davidmcdonald.webs.com I have a handbook on publicity that I'm reading at the moment but I though it would really help to get some feedback from people. Any help or feedback will be much appreciated.
mm... I'd say your error is having a website... or to say it in another manner, to trust your website to get clients. Your service is local. Try some local ads first. If you have a printer and a pair of scissors, you don't really need much budget to create a few ads and post them here and there in your neighbourhood. A website, conversely, needs positioning to draw some traffic and, eventually clients. You are losing time with it now. If this helps, I'm not telling you to drop your site. Keep it, just plan with it for a longer term. Now you need to focus in getting a few clients. Off-line advertising is what you need. Check if any of these ideas work for you: Ridiculous things that make you lose money. I wrote it a few years ago. Best, Tedel
I am trying to break into a small market with a local business. Our website ranks #1 for our keywords but we get very little business from it. We get more business from an ad in the local paper and a Yellow Pages listing and yes, those cost money ($25 a month and $200 a year). Posters around the place work reasonably well too, but people take them down all the time and I'm a bit of a hermit and don't replace them very often.