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Our first recommendation is starting a website. Based on your budget, this doesn't have to be anything fancy. The website should have your logo, mapped directions to your location, phone number, and any current promotions you are running. Be sure to list the state, county, and surrounding cities in text on your website as well as all services and products you offer. Submitting this website to search engines will be beneficial and in time may bring leads for your business. If you're interested in perfecting this aspect of your business you should research search engine optimization and search engine marketing.

Second, you will want your business listed in the yellow pages and any popular local classified ads. Make sure you purchase a larger ad than just a listing if your advertisement budget allows you too. Larger advertisements always attract more attention. Your ad should focus on why customers should immediately choose your salon over the other ones listed in the same area or perhaps even offer a coupon of substantial value. Remember, if someone feels comfortable tanning at your salon they will return.

Radio advertisement is also an excellent way to increase the popularity. Whether you are purchasing a commercial or actually have the radio station broadcast from your location you will be instantly reaching thousands of listeners. This is often much cheaper than television advertisement and truly reaches people in your community.

Making arrangements with local businesses is a great way to network. Small shops often place each other's flyers or advertisements on each other's sales counters to share their wealth of traffic. As long as you don't sell the same service or products there can be no harm in advertising with each other. If your business neighbors are friendly speak with management and see if this can be arranged.

During a grand opening it is often cost effective to flyer local subdivisions to try to jumpstart the business. Aside from the cost of paper and ink, a little leg work can definitely generate some business and open people's eyes to how convenient the distance to your location is.

Each of the methods detailed in this article should be locally priced and researched to make sure it is cost effective for your tanning salon and has an acceptable return on investment. Prior to your business opening, your business you should have many ideas in place.

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Too often, small business advertising and marketing campaigns prioritize branding at the expense of direct response--i.e., actually getting leads and/or sales right now. That is almost always a foolish and even dangerous proposition.

Small Business Branding Advertising and Marketing an Oxymoron?

Unless you're a ubiquitous consumer products company, the value of branding is far, far less than the value of direct response. What good is impressing someone with your brand if he or she never comes into contact with your business again—and why would they come into contact with your business again if you haven’t gotten a direct response?

Branding is essential for Coca Cola and Microsoft and Sheraton and all the other consumer giants because they don't need direct response. Their offering is available every time you drive down the street, so burning their logos into your eyeballs will actually make you more likely to buy. But if you have to search out the business, having a logo floating in your consciousness won't be enough to motivate you.

Even if branding alone could drive business, how long will it be before that logo or slogan or jingle has left your memory forever? A few hours? A day? One of the basic requirements for branding is repetition. Numerous repetitions. Like seeing the little Microsoft flag every single day, in the lower left corner of your screen, on your computer's case, in magazine advertisements and on television commercials. One visit to your website or one glimpse of your advertisement won't accomplish this—and remember, unless you have Coca Cola’s budget, one exposure is all you’ll likely get.

In reality, even numerous exposures to your brand might not be enough--you've got an awful lot of deep-pocketed competition in this game. People must be exposed to your brand again and again and again, not just for a certain span of time, but forever. Otherwise, your brand will get pushed out of their minds by all the logos that do appear again and again and again.

In contrast, if someone requested a whitepaper from you, or called in for more information, you would have their attention for much longer.

The two cases when branding make sense in marketing your small business

When branding enhances direct response rather than detracting from it.

Good branding enhances trust in your business. A good tagline, graphic design, and logo can also make it instantly clear what your business does, allowing users to go directly to your message without having to decide if you’re worth listening to.

Simply put: if you’re a watchmaker, put a watch in your logo, and the word “watch" in your name and your tagline or slogan. When you’re selling services picking a logo can be trickier, but it can be done. UpMarket Content’s logo is a scroll and pen. Just make sure your logo communicates what you do, rather than something foolish like a black rocket for an advertising agency.

There is, of course, nothing saying that you can’t work a little branding into your direct response, and indeed, you should. All your web pages, whitepapers, brochures, newsletters and other collateral should be in the same font and using similar color schemes. But if you find that a different font or color scheme does significantly better in getting responses, it’s the brand that has to give.

When you actually do have the opportunity to impress your brand on the same person dozens of times over the course of an average month.

Let’s be absolutely clear: in terms of branding, exposing 1,000,000 people to your brand once each is infinitely less valuable than exposing 1,000 people to your brand 1,000 times each. For branding to work, you don’t just have to maximize exposures. You have to maximize exposures to the same individuals.

Aim for a hundred exposures per individual if you want to really enter people’s consciousnesses. Of course, it may take far fewer than a hundred individual exposures. If someone is sitting in front of your branding advertisement for more than a few minutes, they may in fact be exposed to it several times, each time they come across it. But this kind of long-term exposure is likely going to cost you more.

How can you ensure that your brand advertising will maximize your brand exposure per unique individual? Place your brand advertising where users will come back often to see it. For instance, a banner on a website that has a strong following of returning users, or an advertisement on the local diner's placemat.

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