how would you promote a web based business throughout south england?

bmb - funny i suppose but quite stupid and not very helpful.

Advertise in the south east region... Hi dude my answer is the same as the one below Excepet i didnt put in all the waffle . Life is not complacated people just make it out to be.

Your must advertise ! place an advertisement in as many newspapers as you can - Some small two liners such as " Access Me At - Surprise " then your web address in second line -
Other .... Half page advertisement with as much info as possible and go around neighborhood and town and wherever passing sheets around. - Good Luck

Hi - I too have recently started up my own business which depends a lot on being 'seen' on the web. The way I have found that works for me is to spend money on Google Adwords - but it is a drain on £££'s...:-( The other way is to get yourself invloved with as many forums as possible such as this and the one's in your niche. I have also taken a 'punt' for a small sum in buying a virtual 'TownDeed' for Liverpool This link is hidden. Please JOIN FREE and LOGIN to view this link. - if you have a look you may get the concept (I think personally think this might be a successful as the 'Millionpixels' website?). Anyway, apart from this keep plugging away and get yourself on any free-listing you can , Applegate.Yell etc are all good..

Hope this helps

Bill Butler
Cleveregg
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depends on who it appeals to and why, what the business does, what media the target audience consume, how much money you have for marketing and what the measure for sucess is........

there are tons of cheap promotional products out there This link is hidden. Please JOIN FREE and LOGIN to view this link. one method I might try is classified ads, you can submit your business to the local newspapers, you can also write articles and submit them to local newspapers which in some cases newspapers will take for free. Another method of promotion is to use viral marketing, creating some sort of product, free of charge but has loads of references to your business on it.

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