Online success on a shoestring

May 23, 2012 - PRLog -- This week biz-find.co.uk a website run by netmediauk Limited celebrates it's 100th company listing. It is testament to all those small companies, SME's and people who work from home, that online success can be found with pure hard work which is what the smaller entity has in bundles rather than cash to spend.

The site went live 1st February 2012 and it's unique selling point is the social media reach, this company has the most Facebook Twitter and Linkedin presence we have seen in any comparable Online marketing agencies we have seen in the North West UK and all new listing companies from all over the UK are exposed to this reach.

Alan Johnston Director of Netmediauk Limited told us.

"Back in 2006 we purchased a website when I was in partnership as 'Contact Network Group' which was a business directory with around 20,000 subscribers and we paid the equivalent of £20,000 at the time, and we ran that site and sold advertisements on it we had the office and 8 staff, that was a most humbling life experience for me. I am in shock now, that I have a better ran company and website here in the UK for less than £100 spend so far, and that’s just hosting and domain names,and it is way up there on search engines and companies are adding themselves every day.

There has been very little spend whatsoever, less than £100, and as I advocate strongly when I go out and teach companies how to be seen online, is to not spend any money attracting anyone to your website until you are converting traffic to leads!

It is important to know why your company is different and be excited by that, I think this is the most contributing factor to our small success so far. Any new companies on http://biz-find.co.uk will be submitted to our social media reach and that is around 25,000 followers and likes on Facebook business groups, Over 1,000 followers on Twitter and nearly 2,000 business contacts on Linkedin, not to mention our bookmarking sites, result is you will see visits to your page or your article in days! You can see the number of views any company has had on their listing page.

Another thing we do not do, that all our competition does, is start harassing  you on the phone to upgrade your listing, we do things differently, we have a number of businesses who have been interviewed on nwtv.biz our business TV show and the package includes a featured (upgraded listing on biz-find) after 6 months we then see how much business you have had between the video/press release and featured listing package, and then you can can continue to pay if you are getting business, ring up Yell and ask them if they do all that, you will probably get a bee in your ear.

We promised the 100th company a plug on our media so well done to: The Firgarth bed and breakfast in Windemere for their listing perhaps we will have a weekend at your charming guest house as a prize  for the 1,000 th listing on our site.

In June 2012 we are starting to aggressively spend on banner ads, Google and Facebook advertising now we know the site has a decent business population for people looking for services so this site will now grow massively and it is still free for companies to list on the site."

So if you are starting up and need success online you need your own domain, a unique selling point that excites you, and a lot of hard work adding new and interesting content that people benefit from, and then, when your website is converting traffic to leads, that is the time to spend on advertising to let people know who you are.