Good ways to advertise my windshield business?

Question

i own a windshield repair business. i have done flyers and such and it doesnt seem to work. i need to to something real catchy and maybe different than usaul. i need lots of cheap advertise tips. also, there are many windshields in the arera so its competitive. help!

Answer 1

Try partnering with businesses that can help you get business and with those you can refer customers to them... ie. insurance companies, auto body shops, used car companies, rental companies, etc. Offer commissions for referrals. Place ads in local papers. Your industry is quite specialized to those individuals that need windshields due to accidents and other hazards not replaced just for fun so you have to really target those who need your service. It's a matter of being in the right place at the right time so get your name out there as THE place to go.

Answer 2

bumper sticker, newspaper add, craigslist add, t-shirts, advertise by writing it on your car (decal type thing)

Answer 3

Print off cracks on to a transparency sheet. On the bottom of the sheet, put your contact info. Go around a mall parking lot, or something like that, and start putting them under the wiper blades.

The intended effect is that they get into their car and they see something that looks like a crack on their windshield. When they look closer, they'll see it's actually your flyer.

Obviously, only do this during the day. If you do it at night, they won't see it.

Answer 4

bust a couple windshields and leave flyers. ur bound to get some business then

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

Write articles about your website or ideas.

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Answer 9

try online advertising

The best free advertising online.

A while back I wrote an article titled, The Top 10 Free Websites to Advertise. This laid out the 10 best websites where it was completely free to advertise on them. They included:

   1. Craigslist.com

   2. Blogger.com

   3. MySpace.com

   4. Reference.com

   5. EzineArticles.com

   6. GoArticles.com

   7. Backpage.com

   8. Dmoz.org

   9. Yahoo Answers

  10. FAQfarm.com - now Wikianswers.com

Each of these sites are unique in their own way but effective in providing an outlet to advertise your business free. This is perfect for those who need to advertise on a budget, their products and services. Small business for the most part doesn't lend itself to have big advertising budgets, so finding a place to "get your name out there" without paying for it is important.

To advertise on a budget effectively you must have a web presence, and preferably a website. If you don't your small business is only treading water before it goes under. A website is the door that can open your small business to a phenomenal growth track because of the power of search engine optimization (SEO). There is a reason why Google® and Yahoo® have been some of the fastest growing companies of all time, its because search engines work. I personally use Google so much a day I lose track of how many times, and this goes for a majority of its users. For more information about SEO and how powerful a high ranking can be in Google read, 7 Steps to Effective SEO Strategy

Now that we have the understanding that SEO is the number one way to get free advertising by a very wide margin lets focus on one of the other ways to work at making free advertising more effective for your small business.

Social networking as a whole are becoming as popular as search engines such as Google and Yahoo. In fact Google bought Youtube® and started their own Myspace® type website called Orkut® and Yahoo attempted to buy Facebook®. Social networking is such a bonanza that doesn't even know their own limits of how large they will grow. Where does your small business fit in? Since they are free there is no money investment to make, but you will have to invest your time, especially in the beginning. You will need to take time to learn the site, set up your profile, and make friends. Remember, you are looking for ways to make the time you spend using this website as an advertising tool as fruitful as possible. Of course set up your profile with the focus of your business objectives and reaching your goals, and always abide within the rules set by the websites. Your investment of time is your efforts to build your network, because it will take trial and error to learn what is best for your business in social networking. Taking the time to build your network is the number one emphasis when it comes to social networking for your small business.

There are other emphasis which I will list below in no particular order:

    * Try an individual profile as a representative of your business before you try a group profile for your business to give an idea of the time it will require to build a network

    * Don't sign up for too many social networks, you risk diluting your message and emphasis.

    * Share the networking responsibility with other employees or business owners once you have a business profile

    * Don't be distracted easily, remained focus on what your business objective and building your network to reach your goals. If needed, set goals for building your network.

    * Don't be afraid to get a little personable, people do enjoy talking to other people when networking, not just a profile on a website.

    * Don't be random when searching for friends for your network. Its a waste of time, choose your friends carefully, and then extend invitations to their friends and their friends and so on.

    * Alter your preferences on your profile to reduce spam and unsolicited offers. This will save you time as well.

Remember social networks can be people who are very passionate in one way or another about their cause so you need to be the same way concerning your small business on social networks. If you are its a very easy way to advertise and grow your small business on a budget.

Answer 10

Google Local and Google Mobile Local Business. You can catch people as they are in need of your product when they search in your zip code or geo-target and you only pay when they click to get your business information in mobile, and many of the local services from Google and Yahoo! are free.

Answer 11

on a windshield.

Answer 12

Put a flyer in the newspaper.