Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Internet Advertising - Get More Customers For Less Money

By Greg Beaty

In the state of Florida, a large number of small businesses, whether as corporations, limited liability corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorship's, operate inside of one of the most densely populated states in the United States. Even furthering the coagulation of people is the propensity of the population to pack into several distinct regions within the state including the South Florida area, Gulf Coast of Florida, and the Panhandle of Florida. These three areas comprise a bulk of the state residents, and accordingly, the bulk of the state's businesses as well.

For a business owner in Florida looking to reach a target audience in the more populated areas, the availability of advertising, let alone the costs, makes using a traditional route to advertising virtually ineffective. The competition in Florida's Yellow Pages books, and the ensuing negotiations and bidding over the most lucrative positions, relegates the small business owner with a modest marketing and advertising budget almost helpless in finding successful advertising in the print Yellow Pages.

Additionally, many Florida business owners will try to enter the new media of the internet by placing their advertising dollars into Florida Yellow Pages Online. Much like the cost prohibitive and ineffective nature of traditional print Florida Yellow Pages for small businesses, small businesses face stiff, and extremely costly, bidding for premier places on Florida Yellow Pages Online directories.

A highly possible mode of recourse for companies looking to implement an effective advertising strategy and subvert the traditional Florida Yellow Pages route is through developing your own company website. Not only will a company now have their very own internet home, but additionally, these company websites can contain an unlimited number of words, web pages, pictures, videos, and any other content that can be used to reach out to potential customers, while Florida Yellow Pages can only offer maybe a full page advertisement at what is more than likely an exorbitant and cost prohibitive expense.

Having a website offers great advantages over Florida Yellow Pages book or a Florida Yellow Pages Online directory. When you have a website, you can put any number of web pages about your product or services, you can put as many pages as you want of text, graphics, and banners, and upload videos. Unfortunately, Florida Yellow Pages offers your business a very limited amount of space.

The huge majority of Online Florida Yellow Pages page views begin with Keyword search in major search engines. In the year 2007, the 4 major search engines received 42 billion searches. While the Yellow Pages Online offerings received 13.4 billion views in the same year. The huge mass of these Yellow Pages Online, and in turn Florida Yellow Pages online views from what an internet user hit upon when they search in the major search engines.

For a small business or any company, investing in a website that will show up in the major search engines is vital. Additionally, ranking well within these search engine results is important. Florida Yellow Pages online companies offering top spot rankings within their directories on a bidding basis, and given the density of businesses and population in Florida, the costs can get huge. By using a professional web development company, businesses can rank above all Yellow Pages results in the major search engines at a fraction of the cost to only rank well within the Florida Yellow Pages online website.

By taking out the extra step a customer and internet user has to take to find your company, businesses stand a much greater chance of receiving this customer's business. Also, the unlimited advertising and design options for company websites is not even comparable to the lack of information that Florida Yellow Pages online will allow customers to see before making a decision.

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