Offline Advertising Helps 83-year-old To Sell Pearl Jewelry
October 16, 2008 by 
Sherry Tingley
Filed under Entrepreneur Interviews
Entrepreneurs can blossom at any age, even at 83. Wearing what you have to offer is one way that Marian Flake, 83 years young sold her jewelry to her friends at the doctor’s office.
With so much focus targeted with online marketing, sometimes we forget that offline advertising works well too. Here are some tips to help you advertise your website domain name offline.
- Go to www.cafepress.com and have some wearable artwork put on a tee shirt, sweatshirt, baseball cap, coffee cup, clock or many other items.
- If you don’t have any artistic skills in making up logos for your website, go to www.elance.com and hire a professional graphic designer to make you a logo. Then you can upload it to www.cafepress.com and order all you want.
- License plate frames are a great way to advertise to all those people who are sitting in traffic behind you.
- Put a cool graphic on your car window. Go to to find out what they look like.
- If you are fortunate enough to have one, put your domain name on your boat.
- Put a yard sign in your yard, if your neighborhood allows it.
- Order pens that have your domain name on them.
- Put your domain name on stationary, magnets, golf balls and more.
- Talk to people you see when you are out doing errands. Word of mouth is wonderful.
- Make an unusual business card stand out from the normal cards.
Enhance your entrepreneurial skills by talking about your website offline and by using offline advertising such as the ten offline advertising ideas mentioned here.
Add your unique ideas here in the comments section!
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It is so inspiring to know that someone as old as 83 can still act as a billboard for sales in the market place. In addition, she really knows how to celebrate - I’ve have had that Chili’s Chocolate Molten Lava cake and it is fabulous!
Interesting article about how anyone can be creative an entrepreneur at any age. Great blog, keep up the work. Sometimes it takes some effort to get the momentum going on a blog.
Annie
Sherry does a great job of laying a pathway for your venture
into an entrepreneurial lifestyle .
The video shows that people that want to succeed, can always
find a way, regardless of age,sex,color,etc.
Passion for life and pursuits of ‘creating’, is devoid of any limitations, other than self imposed ones.
Scott Colley
http://www.GoodVibeBiz.com