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gina511

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Feb 15, 2008 3:55 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Hello everyone,
 
My name is Regina and i am also new to start up nation. I have a concierge business that I am trying to get up and running. www.twoextrahandz.com but I am having a little troubble with advertising. I am not sure which way would be the best way to get my name out there. I have been doing this for a while but only for family and friends at no charge. so i have decided why should i be giving my services for free why not turn this into a business.
So if anyone can give me some pointers on the best way to advertise as well as creating a news letter.
 
Any idea would be wonderful
 
Thank You
 
Regina
 
 
 
 
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Feb 18, 2008 7:56 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Hi Regina :-) Welcome to Startup Nation.

I looked at your site and have a couple of initial thoughts. The extended "splash page" animation that takes place when you click the link serves no purpose. At least put a "skip intro" option for people who don`t want to wait through the thing.

Related to that, I then eventually saw the "moments are precious." Yet your URL name is "Two Extra Hands." So....which is it? You`ll want to change the Window title to your main page to something understandable, rather than a link name. :-)

What I`m getting at is that advertising is a sort of shotgun scatter of all sorts of things. Some are large, some are small, but when they all work together they begin to form a pattern in the marketplace. Who is your "target?"

Yes, you have a concierge business. Great. Now who in particular would you like to tell that to? For instance, would you like to let everyone know about you in the eighth grade classes around the nation? Probably not. But do you have an income level for people who`d use your service? What about an age group? Then there`s the likelihood that you`d want people mostly in a geographic area.

You might consider the way you highlight information on your home page. So, for example, you could use a headline something like, "Bergenfield, NJ now offers a Concierge Service for Busy People!" (Not great, but an example.)

The problem is to get the message across of what it is you`re going to provide, in as short a time as possible. Your current content is pretty good, but it spends a lot of time talking about being busy, being a mother of kids, and so forth. That`s got me thinking "busy," but it hasn`t got me thinking "solution to my problems!"

What would you say would be my problem? In other words, what problems can you list as maybe bullets or topical headings, where your company would offer a solution in an easy way, inexpensive way, valuable way, or sophisticated way?
CraigL2008-2-18 19:58:44
gina511

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Feb 18, 2008 8:31 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Thank you very much for your thoughts. I will make changes.
 
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Feb 19, 2008 5:56 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Hi Regina, Welcome to SUN!!
 
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Feb 19, 2008 9:23 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Regina,
 
Welcome. Craig gave you sound advice, I`d say put it to use. Good Luck.
Feb 20, 2008 9:05 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Gina:
 
I would say your target market is moms living in an afluent household.  You`ll want to bring your services to them.  Let them know what you do and how you can help them to make their lives easier!
 
You`ll need to get your URL infront of them.  You could go gorilla and place flyers on the back sides of bathroom doors in corporate offices near you.  Possibly flyers on car windshields (check local laws).
 
You could also send mail directly to people matching your profile. 
 
You could work with the people you`ve helped for free and get referals..
 
Depends on your budget, but define a target market and think of ways to get to them.
 
Best of luck and welcome!


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