Marketing your Business in Magazines and Newspapers

There are two ways to use newspapers and magazines as marketing tools for your B&B business, the first is paid advertising and the second is being featured in articles, whether you write them yourself or not.
Paid For Advertising in Magazines and Newspapers
Many B&B's pay to advertise in newspapers and magazines and find it a good way of drumming up business. These days print advertising is on the wane, to a large extent being replaced by internet advertising, but this presents opportunities for advertisers.For one thing you can drive down the price of the advertising as the competition gets fiercer, and also your advert will stand out more as there'll be fewer adverts around it.
The other side of the coin is, of course, that fewer people will see your advert as sales of newspapers slowly drop. Magazines in some sectors are experiencing a revival as printing technology makes it easier and cheaper to produce more niche magazines with smaller print runs. The problem here is deciding which of those magazines to choose from.
More Effective For Niche Marketing
If you are in a niche market yourself, perhaps targeting bird watchers because of the interesting birds in your area, or water sports, then it's easier to pick out the magazines that might be effective to advertise in. If not, then think about the age group that you are marketing to and select general interest magazines that target them. Think about whether it's the women or the men that tend to make the bookings and then try some male or female oriented magazines.
Monitoring Success is Vital
Paid advertising in newspapers and magazines is a bit of a hit and miss affair so it's vital that you set an advertising budget, money that you can afford to experiment with, and keep track of the adverts that you run and how successful they are. This of course implies that you have processes in place to ask guests, and people making enquiries even if they don’t book, where they got your details from.It has to be said that it's essential to have that mentality anyway, even if you're not advertising in newspapers and magazines. But it can be used to work out which adverts are delivering for you so that you can save money by not bothering with repeat adverts in the rest.
Consider Writing About Your B&B
Writing articles for newspapers and magazines can be more effective than advertising because people are more likely to read them and will feel that they know something about you. But there is a real danger with this one, in that writing articles to magazine standard is a vocation in itself and it could take precious time and focus away from running your core business, the B&B.However, particularly in a niche business, if you can write the odd article, perhaps about the attractions in your area or specific events or stories related to your niche market, then they can be very effective. On a lower level you could perhaps generate interest by writing into readers' letters pages in magazines, perhaps with amusing stories about the things that go on in your B&B, but be careful not to put guests down.
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