How Best to Advertise SFI Business Offline

There are very many ways to advertise your business outside of online social media and many of these ways are as easy to use and as cheap as social media if not cheaper. The following are some of the ways which readily come to mind allowing you to keep it simple and cheap but at the same time giving your business effective exposure in terms of advertising.

1. You can put your website on notepads, pens, newsletters, bumper stickers, coffee cups, etc, etc

2. You can use well designed and crafted Flyers which you can slip into the center pages of newspapers with some agreements with the vendors.

 

3. Of course, good old Business cards are still very effective ways to advertise your business.

4. You can use classifieds in your local newspaper.

5. You can mail out well-worded and crafted postcards.

6. You can leave flyers/posters in your local library, supermarkets, drug stores, Laundromats and such like places which many people frequent.

7. You can use welcome baby cards for hospitals and baby gifts for newborns in the hospital with your business tags as labels.

8. You can also purchase cheap seed packets, put a tag on them with your website and give to farmers and horticulturists.

9. You can use good old word-of-mouth to advertise your business to friends, family and anyone you get acquainted with.

10. You can use well-branded Buttons and Lapel pins.

11. You can brad ballpoint pens to hand out with a short advertisement and your URL.

12. You can create an information type handout that briefly explains your business.

13. When you go to a garage or yard sale, request permission to leave a few of your flyers there.

 

14. You can put your Business Card in all outgoing mail including anything that has a postage paid envelope.

15. You can use Car magnets to advertise your business.

16. You can use local magazines, newspapers, community newsletters, etc with very wide local readership to promote your business.

17. You can leave your Business Cards in restrooms at restaurants or on cork boards around grocery stores.

18. You can set up a free giveaway box in any store that will give you permission.

19. You can buy a personalized stamp and put your ad on it. Use it to stamp the back of any envelopes that you mail.

20. If you receive a junk mail with the postage paid envelopes, just send a flyer back to the company and use their return envelope.

21. You can advertise on personalized T-shirts and baseball caps.

22. You can make up Gift basket raffles for Church bazaars, concerts at your local community hall, or any town function carefully leaving your flyers/business cards in the baskets.

23. You can put flyers on car windshields in the parking lot at your kids sporting events, local gyms and stadiums.

24. You can leave a business card with your tip for your waiter/waitress in your local restaurant.

25. You can ask for permission in your local fast food takeout to post a flyer in their window.

26. You can create a post it stack of your business cards with a glue stick and then post them at pay phones.

 

27. You can leave business cards by the change machine in the mall arcade or at the ATM machine.

28. You can advertise your business in the sun visor of your car using vinyl letters.

The above list is by means exhaustive since there are very many ways you can promote your business offline. You can use your own imagination and ingenuity to improve on it based on your culture and where you live. Just find a way to think outside the box on this issue and you’ll be OK. 

Positive Effects of Abundant Faith

“Faith can move mountains.” Holy Bible

Here is where you automatically get when you have faith in abundance.

A Positive Mental Attitude: This is an outgrowth of self-worth that will remove all barriers particularly fear from your thought process. A Positive Mental Attitude is a must for human progress. A ceaseless struggle and refusal to quit or accept defeat are all products of Positive Mental Attitude which when applied to any human enterprise leads to abundant and overwhelming benefits.

The Power of Prayer: When everything else has failed, the next thing is to pray. We humans may know a lot but God knows best. Whatever business or enterprise you want to embark on, you must remember to allow God to take control when you as a person must have reached your utmost limit. Involving God helps to inspire confidence, fires-up your imagination and enables you to do what may appear to be above the ordinary.

The Power of Self-suggestion: This is the same thing as “psyching” ones self up before you undertake any venture. At times, it involves even physical audible command to ones self. Boxers and other sports people use it a lot before competitions. Remember Muhammad Ali, “I am the greatest”, “I will whip all comers”, “I am the finest boxer in the world.” All these were statements Ali made in his heyday as a boxer to psyche himself up and to intimidate his opponents.

Self-suggestion helps to place you in a winning mood thereby making you appear unstoppable. It works you up raring to go out there to do as your mind is already keyed up to do. This was the major weapon that Muhammad Ali used in most of the memorable fights he won particularly over those boxers who appeared physically stronger than him. Remember, if you think you can, you can. It works and people make tremendous progress in life with this simple philosophy. It is hinged on belief. That is, faith in self and in God. This is what makes it work. Fear normally creeps in when faith goes out the window.

Having faith that you can achieve an objective gives you the courage to go after that objective. “With faith, all things are possible.” “God never disappoints those who genuinely believe.” That is the power of faith. Dennis Kimbro in his brilliantly written book “Think and Grow Rich, a Black Choice” came to the following conclusion about faith. “The people who really succeed are those who dare to risk, who challenge the status quo and push themselves beyond their normal limits. No person ever fully discovers and develops all the potential within himself until he expresses his faith.”   

You Must Have a Can-Do Attitude To Sell

“Everybody lives by selling something.” --- Robert Louis Stevenson

This is one indispensable requirement for salesmanship. All Salespersons must be self-motivating. Your “Can-Do Attitude” is what the bulk of this book is all about. You must therefore be already familiar with some of the requirements that can give you a “Can-Do Attitude.” A Salesperson is someone who is always able and willing to sell no matter the limitations. To be a good Salesperson with this attitude therefore, you must posses:

Unlimited enthusiasm

Solid belief in yourself and your abilities

Belief in your merchandise

Definiteness of purpose

Unselfishness

Abiding faith

Versatility

Imagination

Positive thoughts

Sincerity of purpose