Whether you are just starting up, or have been in practice for years, the one thing successful businessmen and women know is that you can never rest on your laurels. You can't just sit back and wait for clients to come to you, if you want an active and thriving practice. So where do you go to get the best bang for your advertising buck?
Papers and Journals all have long standing reputations for advertising, but unless the people who need your services are looking for you in them they aren't that effective. Journals that are aimed at those in your profession are excellent resources for your professional information, but you aren't trying to attract fellow mediators to your business. Newspapers have lost a lot of their edge as a media advertising outlet. Other than traditional store sales and coupons, people aren't as drawn to advertising by businesses in newspapers.
Television is still a massive advertising outlet, but it is expensive, and more and more people tune out the ads they see, or get up and go for a snack during commercial breaks. The Superbowl, one of the most costly ad space venues on the TV used to measure it's "success" as a viewer draw by the volume of water flushed during half-time, and during commercial spots. Do you really want to spend thousands, if not tens of thousands on a television spot to have someone leave to "flush?"
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