Category: Firewood for Sale

Advertise Your Firewood Business with a Website or Web Page

The internet is in my opinion becoming the best place to advertise firewood. Most of my firewood sales come from this website.

I can create a page for your firewood or other forest products business and host it on this website free or create a firewood website for you, which would not be quite as free. Both options would be listed and optimized with the search engines so potential customers in your area will find you when they search for firewood.

More consumers are turning to the internet to find what they want to buy and that includes firewood buyers. Traditional firewood advertising mediums like newspapers and phone books are quickly losing readers. Without an internet presence optimized for your local area you are missing out on a lot of customers.

A great advantage of a firewood website is you can tell your story about you and your business and post pictures to show them what you have to offer. When they know more about you and your products they will be more likely to trust you and want to do business with you. This can give you an edge over the competition and make you look more like a professional business instead of just someone with a chainsaw and a pickup. (even though that’s what a lot of us are)

Websites can be expensive to have built but you can also build them yourself inexpensively or even free if you have plenty of free time and the desire to learn. Building the site is the easy part, the more difficult part is getting your website in a position where people will find it when they do a search. That can take an entire education in internet marketing. Just because you build it doesn’t mean they will come. The internet is a competitive place and there are millions if not billions of websites on the net and competing your way to the top of search engines is not always easy.

An alternative is to take advantage of an already established website like this one. I have been an internet marketer for over 10 years but come from a firewood and wood products background. My family has a 3 generation firewood business. Working in the woods can be addictive so I still sell some firewood and it only made sense for me to make a firewood website. I get more orders off of this site than I want to produce so I refer some customers to other local wood cutters I know. My point here is I know how to sell firewood online.

Free Firewood Advertising

For select firewood businesses I can host a page for your business free. It will be optimized in the search engines so local customers can find you when they search for firewood.

If you are interested in promoting your business and getting free firewood advertising here send an email with a little about your business to sales@firewoodresource.com.

This service is available to responsible forest product businesses and non competing firewood dealers outside of S. Oregon and N. California.

Here are some things we may want to put on the page:

A summary of what you do and offer with good compelling reasons why your customers should buy from you (sustainable, reliable, quality etc). I can write it if you list a few things but I think it would be best in your words.

Any other text you want to put on there within reason.

List of products with prices and descriptions if you want to include that.

Any pictures or video code you want of your products or operation.

Contact information or how your customers should place an order.

For best search results I suggest you send a list of the local areas you are targeting and willing to deliver to. Cities, counties etc.

How to Sell Firewood Online and Offline

Sometimes producing the firewood can be the easy part, the next challenge is to let people know you have firewood for sale so they can buy it. There are many offline places to sell firewood that still work but unless you learn how to sell firewood online you will be missing out on a lot of business. I can help you with that here by giving you some information on where to start or I can even set up a free internet marketing campaign for your firewood business.

Selling firewood can be a way to make extra money or even a living. Firewood is a consumable product that people use and buy year after year. In many areas reliable firewood dealers are hard to find. If you treat your customers right and bring them a quality product you can have customers that will happily buy from you every year for many years.

Common Places to Advertise Firewood

Newspapers: Local newspaper classified ads can get good results and are fairly inexpensive. Some papers have categories just for firewood. If you have the budget display ads can work too but they are more expensive.

Yellow Pages: When people want to find a business traditionally the yellow pages have been where people go to look. With the internet yellow pages are being used less but still can be worth being listed in.

Word of Mouth: Word of mouth works with just about any business and firewood is no different. Tell people you know and people you meet that you are selling firewood and the word can spread.

Bulletin Boards: Posting fliers or business cards on local bulletin boards in businesses and other public may work although I have not tried it.

Street Signs: A firewood for sale sign in front of your home or business on a busy road can bring in a lot of customers. My Grandfather used this method to build a large customer base. Some of these customers have been buying every year for almost 2 decades. He is fortunate to live on a busy rural road so it worked well in this case.

The Internet: This is my favorite way to advertise. The majority of my firewood sales come from the internet. Following that in second place are newspaper ads but newspapers are losing readers to the internet and that trend will no doubt continue.

When people want something the internet is increasingly becoming the place where people go to search. There are many places you can advertise on the internet and many of them are free. Classified ads, forums, craigslist, directories, the list is endless.

A position you want to be in is to have your business come up at the top of search results when people do an internet search for firewood in your area. One of the best ways to do this is to have a website.

Learn how I can help you advertise firewood.