How to Promote your Blog Offline

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Let's collaborate – let's find out the easiest or craziest or funniest ways to promote our blogs or websites in the offline market:Why this?The nature of online market is changing very fast. For a long time the promotional plan had been online to online. However, as participations are growing, plans are moving in different directions – online to offline, offline to online or even offline to offline (word of mouth promotion).

As I mentioned in my earlier post, advertisers are showing off their web addresses in the commercials and even asking for direct participations. They can afford it – but what about those small bloggers that do not have enough budgets to run advertisements in TV or Newspaper?How they can promote their blogs offline?Here are some of the most common tips:

1. Business Card: Print your business card and drop one wherever you find an opportunity.
2. Stickers: Stick them in…
3. Press Releases in Local Newspaper: Create a bigger bubble around you. Call them and tell them what a great job (if not revolutionary) you are doing.
4. Advertisements: if you can afford it. Otherwise, you can always go for flyers or calendars – put them in cafes and wait for visitors.
5. Caps and T-shirts: Just print or paint your blog name with a punch line and move around in style. (Better than promoting others)
6. Talk about it: I hope you have got some friends to talk about your blog.
7. Presentations and Discussion group – Be creative to promote your blog.
8. Local fair, meet up and Collaborations: Participate, Talk and Promote (we are planning one)
9. Cars and bikes: Let your blog move in a sticker with you.

My Tips:

1. FM Channels: There are lots of live phone in programs running all day long in local FM channels. Simply phone in, talk and leave your blog name while signing out.
2. SMS: Use the URL as a signature :)
3. Participate in a Social Cause: … and promote your blog
4. One Blogger Every Week: You are a blogger and you know so many things about blogging - find out those in your group who are masters of something. Influence them to blog on their subject of expertise and help them in the process. Soon you would become a Guru. (I do it continuously and the latest addition is a photo journalist from India's highest circulating newspaper.)

What else? Write your tips as a comment. I would pick up comments into the post and link to your blog or website. Link for Tips :) You Said:

1. Nishant Jain: avoid impressions of arrogance, promote it as this great new blog you ran across. Talk of it as someone else's. That increases the chances of someone visiting it.