Why You Should Promote With Business Cards

Why You Should Promote With Business Cards


Business cards are a valuable tool for any business, but have you ever thought of creating business cards for your blog or web site?  Business cards are a nice tool to help grow your site and to lead more readers towards your products or advertising.  


I am in the process of designing business cards for my main sites.  Often times I am verbally giving my website out or scribbling the url on a piece of paper to hand to someone.  How unprofessional is that?  Having a nice business card with my site info to hand out would look MUCH more professional than a scribbled piece of paper.  


Another reason I want to create a business card is to put my amazon affiliate information on the flip side.  Many times I mention the Amazon affiliate program to friends and co-workers in hopes of earning affiliate commissions from people that I know that are already using Amazon for purchases.  Having a business card with a direct link address or instructions for navigating to my affiliate link is more professional and easier for the recipient.  Plus a business card is more likely to be kept than a scribbled note.  


Another use I will have for business cards is when I am out doing some parking lot flyering at conventions within my niche.  I can hit all the cars with flyers, then go inside the convention and hand out business cards in person.


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Driving Traffic With Convention Flyering

Growing Your Site The Old Fashioned Way

Not all of the methods for growing your site have to be high tech or electronic.  Many of the older methods of social networking can still be useful for growing your site's traffic and reader base.  These older techniques can be just as effective as the high tech counterparts, if you use them wisely.  Here is one of my favorite low-tech ways that you can grow your site.

Flyering

Flyering can be a very effective way to reach a lot of people in your niche audience.  Creating 500 or so flyers to put underneath a wiper blade of a vehicle is an inexpensive form of advertising.  Create a simple flyer with your logo, web address, and a short enticing description.  Put two on a regular 8"x10" sheet of paper and just cut them in half after photocopying.  Bam!  You're ready to start flyering to advertise your site or blog.  

Where To Flyer

Where are the best locations to find a bunch of cars of people in your niche market that may be interested in your site?  Conventions!  Any convention center running an all day or a weekend long convention is a prime oppurtunity to get some readers headed to your site.  Just do a local search for "(your niche) conventions" to get a few ideas of any convention sites near you.  A little bit of work can reap huge rewards in the long run.

Flyering Examples

This summer I plastered about 600 flyers for my gaming site at an annual gaming convention here in St. Louis.  My niche site is about a specific online game.  Within a few days, my page visits had jumped by around 25% and I had gone from around 200 subscribers to over 400 almost overnight.  This was an obvious increase in traffic from my flyering efforts alone.

Some example niche markets that have conventions:

• Gaming Conventions - Do you run a blog for gamers?
• Electronics Conventions - Got a site selling electronics?
• Baseball Card & Sports Conventions - Run a sports based site?
• Religious Conventions - Have a spiritual blog?
• Gambling Tournaments - Have a gambling based site or tips blog?

The opportunites are only limited by your imagination.  Don't forget the old fashioned ways that you can drive traffic to your site.  Flyering is an inexpensive and effective method for targeting traffic that is already interested in your niche.