I have a new gift basket business in Glen Elk,Clarksburg WV.What can I do to get the phone to ring?c?

Question

I have sent flyers, newsletters, called people, , give a lot of donation, adds in phone book, verison newsletter,J. C's newsletter. yahoo serch local, diferent churches newsletter, hand ou card, . Iam getting scared because I am running out of money.
Help!!

Answer 1

I think you should think abouy diverifying a little. It is a rare business that suceeds without several different revenue streams.
Consider gift wrapping, packing and shipping, a drop-shipping service...anything...even opening up early with a pot of coffee and a flashing sign. You have a product that people only need occasionally and can do without if the economy is bad...

Answer 2

you HAVE to diversify or you will sink like the other person said
Also try advertising on yahoo YOU NEED TO DO A NATIONAL LISTING NOT LOCAL
that was the problem
I am going to show you something that is going to shock you
on how many people look for gift baskets on the net
here is the search term and Qty of searches that were made in JUNE 2006 on yahoo.com ...check this out
REMEMBER THIS WAS DONE ONLY IN JUNE 2006
Searches done in June 2006

Count Search Term

229,043 food gift basket
154,848 gift basket
31,483 wine gift basket
15,221 baby gift basket
12,390 gourmet gift basket
10,802 holiday gift basket
7,729 corporate gift basket
5,828 gift basket idea
5,609 birthday gift basket
5,039 father day gift basket
4,563 coffee gift basket
4,162 wedding gift basket
3,599 chocolate gift basket
3,586 fruit gift basket
3,478 unique gift basket
3,430 christmas gift basket
3,133 get well gift basket
3,092 gift basket for man
3,088 wine country gift basket
2,851 cookie gift basket
2,788 sympathy gift basket
2,642 new baby gift basket
2,591 gourmet food gift basket
2,290 baby shower gift basket
2,081 gift basket for woman
2,064 tea gift basket
2,011 snack gift basket
1,996 gift basket supply
1,978 italian gift basket
1,904 candy gift basket
1,879 custom gift basket
1,834 corporate holiday gift basket
1,834 thank you gift basket
1,828 romantic gift basket
1,821 spa gift basket
1,801 kid gift basket
1,749 anniversary gift basket
1,708 housewarming gift basket
1,653 wholesale gift basket
1,564 online gift basket
1,541 child gift basket
1532 gift basket toronto

You have to go to Overture.com and sign up
if you have a webpage you can literally start in 24 Hours
you can do the same exact thing with google
Google has 49% of the seacrh market share and
YAHOO has 25% so if you went with yahoo AND google
your click total will EXPLODE
and can also add MSN.com on as well and you will
cover 85-90% of all the total searches on those words
remember that you have to go to OVERTURE.com
and for google search for AD SENSE google
Forget EBAY!!!

you will be swamped in 30-60 days
email me at my address and I will tell you some strategy on bidding on your searches