Simple Tips to Promote Your Blog Offline
Promoting blog online has many advantages, but many bloggers are not aware that promoting their blog offline can also be helpful to generate some traffic & creditability, that too without wasting much money.
There are two benefits of promoting blog offline:
- Promoting blog offline will help you to target readers, who are not used to read online blogs or articles.
- Promoting blog offline will help you to develop Reputation of your blog in the blogging industry.
Here are some tips which will help you to promote your blog offline:
#1. Visiting Cards: Blogging is your business, thus like other businessmen you should always carry your visiting card with you. Your visiting card should be very attractive and must contain your blog URL (www.xyz.com ), Email id and contact number .It’s the best way to introduce your blog to everyone you meet.
#2. Attend Blogger Meets: These days blogger meets are very common in all the cities. Never miss to attend any blogger meets, this way you can interact with other bloggers, share your business cards with them and try to make a network. You can share ideas with them and this way you can promote your blog through word of mouth. For e.g.: When you meet a blogger in blogger’s meet, he might tell his other friends about your blog. This is the best way of advertising your blog offline.
#3. Arrange an Event: Once you make a network with fellow bloggers, you can initiate a blogger meet. This will help you and your blogger friends to promote blogs. You can discuss several things there and even you can start a new multi author blogs or networks.
#4. Advertisements: If you have some money to invest, you can give advertisement in local newspaper, radio or your local television channel. You can even put some banners near computer institutes, libraries or stick pamphlets in cyber cafes. Always remember to make your advertisement attractive and use tag line with you blog’s URL, this will help others to remember your blog easily. This way you can promote you blog offline to many youngsters and internet savvy person.
#5. Gift Goodies: This is very attractive way to brand your blog offline. You can distribute some gifts like t-shirts, pens, mouse pads, etc…
There are many other ways to promote it offline. But all that needs your creativity, just think more and lets share here in comments.
Hope you found it useful. Any other innovative thoughts? Share with us! Happy Blogging!!
You have put some good points here Lax! They will surely be helpful for me and many other fellow bloggers. BTW.. Nice Navigation bar!
Ohhh you like the navigation bar
Great dude..Thanks for your comments here..keep rocking..!
I can’t agree more. Very nice post sir Lax. I hope you will continue to share your tips/advice/secrets to us new bloggers. Thanks!
Giving business cards with your blog address on it is a good idea. So Do you have success Promoting your blog offline?
I never tried of business cards till now. But am making one site, under which all my other sites will work. I’m planning to get business cards on that site name
Isn’t this a bit expensive? Here in our country, it will cost you around 6.5 dollars for a 100 pieces business card.
I don’t know if business card is so expensive on your country. Maybe it’s premium design? I’m sure there is shop which sell it more cheaper, just look for it
Business card as promotion when offline is good idea.
Attend Blog meet is cool way, I am attending the Bar camp kerala 6.
Great, So will see your camp photos on your blog
Hope to add it.
Are there blog meet also here in Manila? I’m new to blogging so please guide me. Thanks.
There is “Bloggers’ Meet-up in Manila” event on your country. Just google for it. And make sure you attend it on next meeting
I’m also attend to local offline blogger meeting. But when i’m attend it, the topic is not about blog but daily topic
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Actually there is many another blogger event on my country such blogger fiesta which inviting technology minister and IT expert. I want to attend it but it’s too far from my city.
Anyway if i want to upload my blogger meeting, where is can send it?
hey good post lax, i think offline blog advertisement is also good idea now days.
It’s good idea really..I’m planning to get print some t-shirts for my readers..for FREE
Really? Make sure i get one of it
I’ll try to promote your blog by wear it when i’m hanging out on mall.
Waiting for the update, Lax…!!!
Attending Blogger Meets i one of the best means…I am waiting for one to happen in my city
(chennai)
I’m also waiting for a meet in Hyderabad
Hyd friends, please Do let me know if we have any meet ups here 
Never been to a blogger meet but I want to. Hope to be able to attend one.
It’s good to attend if you have any in your city
I was join in local offline blogging activity, and it surely increase backlink and traffic to my blog. So, it is really work!
Ohh Great to join those kind of networks. Keep rocking..!
I’ve been on a blogger meet. We Do this quite a lot and we became friends offline. Although we have never thought of a multi-author blog since the sharing of revenue is quite complicated.
It’s quite easy now with Adsense revenue sharing program. All that depends on the business you want to start and people you join hands.
I believe meeting new bloggers will be the best way to promote. BTW nice post.
That is only the best way to promote really
Hi, lax this can be an good idea. I think once you established at least you should invest some money in offline adverts. Like banners, cards, some small meet to promote blogging. providing mouse pads. Dairy etc.
Mouse pads will be the effective & affordable things to start with. Thanks for your comments dude..!
Hmm i’m quite doubt about the effectivity of mouse pad. Because when it’s used, even URL written on the mouse pad will get no attention, because people focus on the monitor
Promoting blog through visiting cards will be helpful to gain few readers .
That should work in this software filled world.
Promoting ur blog offline will require us to spend money
True, but you need to spend little share from your earnings
wat if there is no earning
btw hw to know when is the blogger meet…
We have some sites/communities out there like indiblogger.in or hydblogger.in or something like this..Just try to register there, you’ll get the invitations
Enjoy
Where Do you come from? If you’re in same country with me, i can help you.
Actually you can get blogger meet info by joining to your country blog community site.
Of course, bro…And that what’s called as investment. All you need here is to choose the right media and advertising strategies to make Maximum impact with minimum budget. Be creative..!!!
I wonder does advertisement work for blog promotion? I’ve seen many advertisement on the wall out there, most of them are Promoting their products.
I’ve never done any promotion for my blog offline, but my friends did ask me about my blog, and I just told them my blog URL. I’ve never purposely promoted my blog offline before, it’s worth trying.
Regards,
Lee
We can’t Do afford wall or hoarding promotions..But we can do small things like cards or t-shirts to lucky readers…Like that…I’m going to give few t-shirts for some reader out here
I think Gift goodies is the best idea, especially Tshirt having your brand name, it is long lasting and reminding, anyways, nice article to read.
I’m planning to give few t-shirts for some reader out here
when will u announce that contest nd u r from???
Hope you read my contest post. It starts from 1st October, and no ending as of now..Winners will be awarded every month. Just click on the sidebar contest banner and read in detail. You can read about me in my About page
Yup i have read ur that post but in that u r giving money for commenting nd not T-shirts
Am giving money at that contest. But am planning to give t-shirts very soon..Well that would be other contest or something like that
I found the gifting goodies a good idea. Also if your blog is earning well then you can sponsor the college events . wat say??
Hmm sponsoring college events can be only if you get $1k + monthly. Its good idea really
Thanks Lax for appreciating my ideas
I am waiting for the t-shirt contest from your blog
Thanks dude..Am just drawing a plan of design and printing company
Will see how it goes 
ok , all the best for that also
On marketing term, that’s called as brand activation. Your idea about gifting goodies is so interesting and unique. But we should think of the target to make it efficient.
For example, if our blog is about internet business, maybe it’s better to become a sponsor and gifting goodies for student on internet business course. There is so many offline e-business course, right?
Another example, if your blog is about dog. You can become a sponsor and gifting goodies on a dog contest in your city.
One of the things which I follow is that, whenever anyone asks me any doubt related to blogging or how to go about any internet problem and If I have written a similar article on my blog, I just ask that person to visit my blog and get the solution rather than me telling him the solution personally.
This has given rise to a lot of mouth-to-mouth publicity of my blog.
Promote a Blog Offline (In India)metro city or in city like Indore are good choice but in small town or small city its not a good choice. Promoting offline is good but in small city most of the people don’t understand English and they never become your loyal reader because this people just clicked on your ad and they just leave from your blog without reading any of your article..
i know it also depend on your blog Niche.but i don’t think in India promoting offline is a very good idea.another better way then this is to use adword and try to promote blog with it.
I’ve never advertised my blog offline other than word of mouth. It seems quite expensive compared to online marketing techniques available.
Do you think it’s easier to advertise online or offline, and which one yields better results?
Can we add 1 more techniques? It’s by put a sticker which state your blog name on public transportation? Of course, that’s after we get permission from the owner.
It’s called by transit advertising.
Hehe, have you ever done that akira? It’s a nice idea, as long as people haven’t forgotten your url after their journey.
Of course it’s depend on what’s written on that sticker. Put the interesting offer and advertising word, and people will surely remember and open the url when their are online
I’m not use this technique yet since i’m not confident to request for permission from the transportation owner.
Offline promotion via newspaper advertisements is something I want to explore but then it’s quite pricey if I want to advertise on one of the major dailies. I’m planning on going small then see how things go from there. $20 for one day seems okay for me. If I garner enough traffic to my sales page/blog from that, then I might consider putting in some more cash to dine with the big dailies.
Major newspaper still too general, i think. Choose the spesific offline media to advertise your site is more better.
For example if you want to advertise about Music site, you better advertising on music magazine. Please be noticed that it will more expensive, BUT more effective and efficient.
I like the t-shirt idea..We can print blog name/URL on the t-shirt…It is most visible for people to see