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The Best Of Carlisle - Internet advertising options for Carlisle businesses.
Six new homes in the UK are signing up to a broadband connection every minute.
That's one every 10 seconds,
or, 2880 people each day.
More than 25% of UK lnline searches are now for LOCAL suppliers - people like YOU, who are awake to the potential of internet-related marketing. This represents a fundamental shift in how people access information.
The Best Of Carlisle puts your business in front of this potential marketplace.
Local, regional, or national - tell us your catchment.
We've options for you.
In just 18 months, Thebestof.co.uk has been embraced by more than 350 towns and cities throughout the UK, where local businesses are reaping the benefits of internet advertising and marketing. The Best Of Carlisle is your local site.
One of the main factors behind this rapid success is the huge growth in internet usage as an information resource, combined with the wealth of local information contained within each BestOf site. We provide a local point of reference within your town, where recommended local businesses can be promoted. Each site is designed to showcase great local businesses, and provide a range of marketing options for small and medium sized companies. Local, regional, or national - tell us what you're looking for.
Thebestof.co.uk websites attract local people because of the quality of their content, and the quality of their suppliers too. What they do is to provide local businesses like yours with internet advertising which has national clout.
We have a successful, proven business model, with highly targetted B2C and B2B options for YOUR business. These packages are available for CARLISLE, CUMBRIA, NW ENGLAND, and the UK.
Thebestof.co.uk is currently ranked by Alexa (www.alexa.com) as being in the top 50 UK websites - with in excess of 40 million hits per month, and that's way ahead of the National Lottery, Channel 4, and The AA.
This marketing on The Best Of Carlisle takes the form of your own mini-website (a web feature), designed and promoted to give high rankings on the UK's premier search engines, such as Google and Yahoo. It works and it's cost-effective too.
These feature contain a host of links to your own web-pages, with many additional internal site links, designed to channel site traffic back to YOU.
To see this in action, simply go to our website, and click the "Business Guide" tab. Then click the L.Hand listing (By business NAME). Most businesses are supported by multiple category links, and these are searchable, both internally through our SITE SEARCH, and externally too.
We promote this feature to either a Carlisle catchment, or we can even offer pages at County, region (NW), or UK level. These pages direct traffic to YOUR own feature, and are a great, cost-effective way to present your business to a larger audience.
We provide additional, targetted B2B marketing through our Newsletter - mailed out to all advertisers and prospects, and each with regular space to highlight your business and what it can offer The Best Of Carlisle Business Members.
Members Offers are a regular monthly feature, either targetting consumer or business Members of the site, and don't forget, you can take advantge of some great Members offers in other towns too.
Looking for great deals on accommodation in Brighton next weekend ? Why not join their site as a Member?
What you get on The Best Of Carlisle are a range of packages to suit your business:
- 400 words each feature, to individualise your message
- Your Company logo and animated image strip, to create a storyboard of your services
- The UK's first ever "Talking ad"
- Pay-per-click advertising and high exposure on Google
- Increased traffic to your website, or a completely new web presence.
- Access to Members Offers (Business and consumer)
- A range of targetted marketing packages to suit you - either B2B or B2C
- What we then do is to create multiple internal site links - each of which have high rankings on the search engines
- and to top it all off, WE LIMIT THE NUMBER OF ADVERTISERS IN YOUR CATEGORY ! If you'd rather join a listing of all your comptetitors, then join the usual on-line directory, and fight it out ! This isn't a directory.
- Site blog
- Free events listing for your business
Check out how we use genuine testimonials.
http://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/carlisle/business-guide/feature/the-best-of-carlisle/45788/review
If you have a great local business and you'd like to find out more about how internet advertising on The Best Of Carlisle can work for you, contact Tony on 01228 591700, or via the link carlisle@thebestof.co.uk for more information on your internet advertising options.
...and if you're still unsure about internet advertising on The Best Of Carlisle, remember, you found your way here.
latest reviews
i would like to thank Tony from the Best of Carlisle for all his help in getting our business moving. Joining The Best Of Carlisle is a great way to market my business, and brings me regular new business too. Cheers Tony for everything. many thanks Martin Bell. THE CLUB VICTORIA
If you need to advertise your business, this is the place to do it. Tony Stephenson is a lovely straight talking fellow whom you feel comfortable with and he doesn't pressure you into buying anything more than you want or need. Would highly recommend this service. BRIAN HALL ACCOUNTANTS
My business has been a member of 'The Best Of Carlisle' for nearly two years. Within this time it has generated quite alot of new clients for my salon. Tony is very helpful & informative. He is always looking for new ideas to create more business. I would definitely recommend them to any other business. As long as you're willing to put in the work, handing out cards for customers to review your business, then it can't fail.
I joined the best of Carlisle about a year ago and have found it really useful, as well as getting business via links through to my website, and phone calls, I'm finding the testimonial facility extremely valuable. I've also been introduced to a new group of like minded business men and women where I'm getting even more business! which is nice. And I got to meet Tony, Who runs this site, who is motivated and full of great ideas and advice, as well as being a very nice man! Andrew. Picture U Studio
We have used The Best of' for over 12 months and have seen the number of enquiries increased over recent months. Definately getting traffic to our web site and resulting in more business which is great. Lock Fuller.
Tony's enthusiasm is infectious and he's always developing new ways of marketing my business. Tony's efforts now have me on the first page of google and that's worth every penny. Cheers Tony! Andrew Parrini Corporate Clothing.
For the best of local marketing, be assured that it is an honour to be invited to promote your business with The Best Of Carlisle. This kind of promotion has more than paid for my investment. My New dressmaking feature went live last week, and has already brought a customer through the door - very impressive. Excellent marketing; excellent service. Designer Marie Olesen.