Promote Your Business
If you don't have a constant, up-to-date internet presence, you're losing business to your competitors - it's that simple.
Even if you don't use the Internet, chances are your prospective customers do. Thousands of New Zealanders use the Internet every day to search for the products and services they need - if you're not there, someone else will be!
We'll help you to get right up with the play, (or to improve your game if you already have a web site). Let us help you to save time and money and grow your business.
iworldpeople® services are simple, cost-effective, and flexible - and backed up by practical, professional service provided by real people who know and understand your community.
Our web site is set up so that you can personally select and set up the services you want, or your local iworldpeople team will help you choose the best services for your business, then set everything up for you.
Here's what we can offer:
Free directory listing
Free publishing
Free advertising and promotional consultancy
Classified advertising
Site advertising
WebPage
Sponsorship arrangements
Advertising campaign package
Business profile package
(Note: the prices quoted on this page exclude GST.)
Free Directory Listing
How about starting with a free business directory listing so that your local community can find you? You can do this right now - just click here to create your listing (or you can create one after you've become a member).
Free Publishing
You probably have news happening in your business all the time. Sharing this with local residents shows them that you're involved in the community, and they will be more likely to support you.
Your news might be a profile on a new staff member, a local event you're sponsoring or an opinion on an issue in your industry. Normally, to communicate this valuable information to your customers you must issue a press release and keep your fingers crossed that it gets published, or you need to pay for advertising. But when you have your free business account with iworldpeople, you can publish this information for free, right where everyone in your local community can see it. You're completely in control and can publish whenever you want to (and we'll help if you would like us to!).
You may be feeling that you can't write well enough to actually be a publisher on the internet. iworldpeople news, events, opinions and articles are written by ordinary New Zealanders from all walks of life, not paid journalists, not trained writers. Many of the people publishing to the site were a bit nervous of doing so at the beginning too, but they soon found that it didn't matter if what they wrote wasn't perfect - and it's exciting to see your contributions on the site!
When you create an item to publish, you can save it first and make changes before you publish it; you can make changes after it's been published, or take it down altogether. You are in control! If you need help with writing or ideas on what you can publish, we'll help you.
Your iworldpeople Business Services Consultant
Most iworldpeople communities have a team of two (always local people) who make sure the site is successful and meets the needs of the community. The Business Services Consultant is dedicated to ensuring that you, as a local business operator, have the most effective iworldpeople services for your circumstances. By telephone, email or in a personal visit, your consultant will have plenty of ideas on how to make iworldpeople work for your business, and it's all free.
Classified Advertising
Why should you pay to advertise to customers all over the country, when all you need to do is reach your local and neighbouring communities? Even when you can find a way to advertise locally, it's usually a pretty expensive exercise.
You can place a classified ad on your community iworldpeople site at very reasonable rates ($5 for 14 days, and $1 extra for additional communities), change it whenever you want, and leave it there for as long as you need it.
If you decide to have an iworldpeople WebPage, you can link your classified ad to it to provide your prospective customers with as much information as you like.
Site Advertising
Is your budget for print advertising getting larger every year? How many sales do you make as a result of mail box drops?
From just $2 a day you can place an ad right on the front page of any iworldpeople community site and link it to a full-page ad (at no extra cost), or a classified ad, or your iworldpeople WebPage.
You can advertise anything at all - for example:
- New stock for the shop has arrived and you want to promote it now and before your competitors
- Your customer has just cancelled tomorrow's job and a day with no income is not welcome - if only you could advertise your availability now!
- Advertise your latest house listing
. . . and unlike brochures and other print-based promotional material, you can change your ad at any time, so there's no waste when things change.
Web Page
Everyone is probably telling you that you need a web site, that it's the way of the future. But it's expensive, there are hundreds of web site designers out there all telling you how and what you should do and you don't have the time to really investigate it. Besides, your customers are local - you don't need to be found by the whole world. Yet you spend money on print advertising that is expensive and inflexible, to get your message out to your customers.
For small business owners, an iworldpeople WebPage takes the cost, complication and confusion out of getting a web site.
For $150 a year, an iworldpeople WebPage is a simple, professional, budget-conscious way to get your business on the web - no fancy web sites or search engines required and at the same time your business instantly becomes a part of the local online community. You can do it yourself, or, for an extra $50, we'll set everything up for you. Click here to see an example of a WebPage.
Sponsor a Local Club or other Not-For-Profit Organisation
A lot of people these days like to buy from businesses that contribute to the community, and it's certainly a proven way to get plenty of positive promotion for your business (Think about The Mad Butcher!). Do you lose sales to the competition because they sponsor a local community group? Do you sponsor a local community group now but don't get increased sales as a result?
When you have a business WebPage and directory listing with iworldpeople you can provide a community organisation with a free directory listing and WebPage. On that WebPage there is a place, for you, as sponsor, to place a message or advertisement that links back to your WebPage.
Sponsored message links are a new way for businesses to promote their products and services. The message link shows a business or a business person's very special relationship with a local community organisation and its members.
The organisation can be one of your choosing, or your local iworldpeople team can help to arrange a suitable sponsorship partnership for you.
The annual subscription for your WebPage includes the sponsorship of one organisation or club for free, and you can sponsor additional clubs for just $25 a year.
Advertising Campaign Package
If you have something special going on that you need to promote , we'll help you to run a focused three-month campaign that includes a business directory listing, classified advertising, and an advertisement right on the front page of your local community site linking to your own WebPage full of information about your campaign - all for $180.
Business Profile Package
A great way to kick-start your presence on the Internet, and showcase your business full-on for a month. This $300 package includes your own WebPage for a year (usually $150) linked to your business directory listing, and the opportunity to sponsor a community organisation for free for a year.
For the entire month, you'll get an advertisement on the front page of your local community site, and we'll write and publish a 500-word article profiling your business.