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Small Business Marketing – 20 Low Cost Marketing Ideas to Grab You More Clients

By Simon Lovell in Featured

It’s time to get fruity with some great small business marketing ideas that will help you explode your clients (not literally!). As a small business, marketing can sometimes be daunting, but take these 20 ideas and implement one idea every day. Put a tick list on your desk and take massive action.

1. Brand your Business Clearly. Make sure your business name or logo clearly identifies the ultimate benefit of what you are offering in a way which will appeal to your market; keep it simple, short and memorable. A store called “Gifts for Garden-lovers” or “Green-finger Gifts” is precise and clear; one called “Smith’s Store” or “Universal Wonder” gives no clue.

2. Be Seen in All the Right Places. Think about where your target customers go and try to arrange to advertise by displaying leaflets or posters there. For the youth market, use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or other online resources. For adults and young families it might be the local supermarket, the library, the gym, or the “mother and toddler” group. For the senior market, target locations your potential customers visit such as libraries, doctors’ and dentists’ waiting rooms, church halls, community centres etc. or advertise in the local paper or free-sheet, perhaps with a promotional discount voucher.

3. Give Your Knowledge Away. What you know about your business and your industry is interesting and potentially valuable to others. Without giving away any really sensitive information, offer to speak at schools and colleges, women’s groups or business clubs on a topic related to your business; write for the local paper or speak on the local radio and you will gain valuable exposure. Make your website as informative as possible. Tell potential customers exactly how you will help their business, or benefit them personally. If you can, reveal a few “tricks of the trade” to help them make best use of what you sell. Very few people will actually steal your knowledge to set up for themselves, but many of your customers will feel gratified that you are willing to be open and honest with them.

4. Word of Mouth. This can be a very valuable marketing tool – and is absolutely free! Make sure all your customers leave you 100% happy and satisfied with the service you have provided to them, and they will become ambassadors for your business.

5. Investigate the Competition. Use a friend or a paid “Mystery Shopper” to call on other businesses in your area to see how they operate. Get hold of their advertising literature and compare their offering with yours. Check out their websites. What can you do to make your business stand out?

6. Offer Discounts. Produce Discount Vouchers to be used at your store or business (perhaps on certain slower moving products, or on certain days when your trade is usually slack). Add an expiry date to generate a sense of urgency. You could include a discount voucher in your advertising, hand them to each customer, or mail them to previous clients.

7. Give-Aways. Hand out free samples in your local high street; give customers a small free product with each purchase over a certain value; or have “3 for 2″ offers or “Buy -1-Get-1-Free” promotions.

8. Linked Purchases. Offer a deal where customers who buy product A get product B at a reduced price. This can encourage customers to buy two products, when they would otherwise only have bought one.

9. Loyalty or Reward Schemes. Issue a card to be stamped each time the customer buys, with a full card entitling the customer to a free product, or a discount on their next purchase (but make sure the cards and stamps are kept under control, or you could end up with an unexpected rush of claims!)

10. Competitions. Run a competition and choose an exciting prize from your range of products or services, which will not cost you a great deal but which will be very appealing to your potential customers. Advertise the competition widely in the locality, send a press release about it to the local press and radio and, if appropriate, make sure people have to call at your business in order to enter – which gives you a chance to promote your business to them in person. Invite the local press to be present when the prize is awarded, to get some more free publicity.

11. Open House. Host an open evening at your premises. Invite both potential and regular customers for drinks and nibbles and a chance to see/test your latest products, with a discount for purchases or orders placed on the night.

12. Join an Online Booking Service. If you run a hospitality business (hotel, bar, pub, café or coffee shop) consider joining one of the online booking services, such as Top Table, or Gourmet Society. This will bring you to the attention of travelers from other areas who might not otherwise find you, and you can also offer special deals through some sites. This can be a two-edged sword, of course, as the site will probably also carry reviews by your customers – but if you offer high-quality service and excellent food and drink, good reviews will boost your reputation.

13. Carry Out a Survey. Have a supply of small cards by the till as each customer completes their transaction with you, asking the customer to complete a short survey on their experience with your business, and to fill in their details (especially email address). Offer a small monthly prize as an incentive. This will not only give you valuable feedback on your success (or otherwise), but you will build up a database of email addresses, which you can use for promotional emails, newsletters etc. For ideas on how to use these, click on.

14. Collect Business Cards. Copy those city centre restaurants and have a large glass bowl by the cash desk, to collect business cards (or hand-written contact details slips) from customers, with a monthly draw for, say, a free bottle of wine or champagne – this is another way of building a database for future marketing activities.

15. New Image Party. When you re-decorate your premises, hold a “New Image” party, inviting local press, radio, community dignitaries, neighbours, the general public and previous customers from your database, to show off your new premises, and launch new products or services.

16. Professional Brochure or Leaflet. With desktop publishing software available on every PC and laptop, there is no excuse for unprofessional looking publicity material. Have a nit-picking friend read through any leaflet/flyer/ poster you propose to use, to check for grammatical, punctuation and spelling mistakes.

17. Error-free Website. The same applies to your website – your professionalism is in doubt right away if your website is riddled with typing errors, misplaced apostrophes, poor punctuation and grammatical mistakes. Don’t assume your website designer will correct your text – he or she is an expert in computers not grammar. If you can’t afford a proofreader, ask a fussy friend or relation to check it for you.

18. Superior Telephone Service. Is your telephone system as good as it could be? During working hours, make sure every call is answered within 3 rings and that the greeting you give is friendly and personal. Ensure that the person who answers your calls is trained to deal with the majority of customers’ questions themselves. After hours or at busy times, make sure your answerphone message is professional, helpful, and proactive. Not just “please leave a message” but “we are so sorry that no-one is able to help you right away, but we promise to call you back by 9:30am tomorrow if you would be kind enough to leave your number” or something similar. And make certain you always deliver on that promise.

19. Community Visibility. Join fellow Business people at the local Chamber of Commerce, Business Clubs, Rotary Club, Round Table etc. Get involved in local charity events, so you gain a positive reputation for contributing to the community.

20. Get Involved in Local Events and Activities. If there is a community event in your town, make sure you are there to publicise your business – maybe you can have small samples to give away, or hand out a voucher for a discount at your business. If there is a local charity event, take part yourself (or sponsor someone else to do so) carrying/wearing your business name.

I really hope you enjoyed those 20 tips. Just one that works should help you to explode your profits!

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5 Steps to Qualify for Your Business Black Belt

By Karl Walinskas in Featured

Many small businesses fail today without the process or discipline to succeed. When all the excuse-making is said and done, do you have the will and the skill to survive and thrive?

A few weeks ago I watched the culmination of 4 years worth of work that started at the ripe old age of six. Huh? As impossible as it seems, 4th graders can set a goal, focus on it (kind of), and progressively realize it one step at a time. I’m talking about my son Jack, who just achieved a black belt in Karate. This was a big deal to all the kids and adults in his class, reminding me of achieving my Eagle Scout as a
teenager, and this dad was beaming!

These guys were unbelievable, and on the grueling 6 hour day of final testing and ultimate celebration, it was amazing to see not only Jack but everyone in the class crackle with a precision you wouldn’t think possible.

So how’s this apply to you as a business owner? Here are 5 Lessons in Black Belt Mastery for your business.

Progressive, Manageable Goals

Do you know how many colored belts you need to get through in order to get a black belt? 13 of them! Somewhere, one of Gary Larson’s talking animals is saying “What the?!”

Small Business Social Media – Where Do You Start?

By Christopher Bayes in Featured

Small business social media starts with making the decision to be part of the conversation. Not as easy or cut and dried a decision as one may think. What are the factors involved in this process? The pros and cons?

Pros:

* Potential to raise website page rank

* Potential to find new customers or clients

* Potential to make new business connections

* Potential to reach current customer base with new products or services

* Potential to get customers talking about me or my company

* Potential to find out what you are not offering to your customers that they want

* Potential to have your own PR department consisting of your customers

* Potential to get great reviews from happy customers

Social Media is About Engagement

By Michael W Farrell in Featured

This is not the time to let customers or profits slip through your fingers.

You need to make your business stronger, more successful, and ensure your customers are more loyal and responsive to your engagement with them.

Recently, Harry Dent, Jr. said that you should break free of provincial geographic thinking and focus on demographics. You should go after customers, able and willing to spend on what you sell, wherever they are, not where you are.

As a result, many marketing, media, technology, and advertising experts use social media forums as a way to champion the use of social media. They suggest a company, especially a small business on main street with a modest marketing budget, become better known, extend their reach, and increase their company’s sales using social media.

Here is an example of a teaser message recently transmitted in an email marketing campaign to small and medium sized businesses… the message says, “Social Media is the most explosively growing media of all-time and growing faster with each passing day with no slow-down in sight. It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. It took TV 13 years to reach 50 million users. Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months. And iPhone applications hit 1 BILLION in 9 months.”

Regional Website Marketing And Advertising Basics- Helping Your Customers Discover Your Company On-Line

By Greg Newell in Featured

LOCAL Internet Marketing – Your Website

You should definitely have access to a website that you are able change by yourself! It’s no longer acceptible to use a hard coded website for small business reasons. Webpages which do not change at some point, contain recent material and continue being relevant quickly sink in the search engine ranks. A small business really should take into consideration its internet site application as no more challenging to work with than Microsoft Office. There are excellent content management programs available on the market. A couple of the most well-liked include DotNetNuke which is a Microsoft backed content management system and WordPress, a popular blogging system that can be extremely effective as a small business web site. Regardless of which alternative you select, you must be able to add, modify, delete webpages and be able to add things to the menu on the site without coding.

First – KEYWORD RESEARCH

Presuming you are a traditional local company that would ordinarily use the yellow pages, the yellow page categories are a good start for locating keywords relative to your company. Once you have the overall business categories which you are convinced people might be typing into the the search engines, you can go to Google’s Free keyword tool and find an immense quantity of data for the keywords you’ve got and recommendations for others you may possibly not have thought about. Your initial keyword research is just to get an idea of exactly what the most common phrases are. As an example, you could represent an HVAC business.

Keywords could possibly include “air conditioner repair”, “furnace repair”, “heating system installment”…etc. Google will give you loads of information relative to the terms you’ll want to be making use of.

Next – LOCALIZE YOUR KEYWORDS

Upon having developed a list of keywords strongly related your small business, you’ll want to localize your list. There’s no sense in showing up in a search in Chicago if your business serves the Dayton marketplace. So as an example, in the event the general keyword is “plumber,” your localized keyword is “plumber dayton” or “plumber dayton ohio.”

Manage YOUR SITE – Helping the the major search engines find your website.

Important keywords need to show up first on the home page. Making a “quick links” area on the home page can be quite useful because it links the keywords to internal webpages within your website utilizing the keywords you are attempting to promote. This is particularly crucial.

Generate or change an inner page of your site to discuss the relevant key phrase. A page in your site should be dedicated to a single keyword subject! Too many internet sites try to cram way too many keywords into a single page.

This only confuses the search engines which are trying to figure out what your web page is about. Make it easy. If you have a content management system, adding and editing a web page should be as simple as 123. Use the keywords in context on both the home page and the inner page of your site and be sure that your inner page has a hyperlink from the home page.

Market your new content

Google LOVES content…certainly good content. The moment you have finished the improvements to your site, you should then market your site content by linking to it from other web resources. These inbound links need to use the keywords you’re promoting if possible. If not, the next best thing is a direct link to the home page and the inner page.

Backlinking is often the toughest aspect of website positioning. You will discover a number of ways to build links but our favorite is to write additional articles and publish them. By doing this, you get to have additional web content material that is very relevant to your site information leading to your site.

In addition: MAPS MAPS MAPS

It’s equally essential to be certain that you have modified your local listings in the major search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and also a handful of the maps sites.

Of these, Google Maps is the most important. If you’ve executed a local search lately you’ll see the local listings predominant in the search results. Don’t ignore this. Further, these results also are used widely in mobile phone applications. Try browsing for your business using the Google iPhone app if you have an iPhone and you’ll see what I mean.

Web exposure is an constant activity. The set it and forget it concept used to work but now, your site will get buried by savvy rivals. You don’t get the luxury of an alphabetical listing either. You have to work a little harder than your competition. With a web site that you can manage on your own and perhaps a little instruction, getting your internet site to show up for specified Google searches should be part of your daily or weekly routine.

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Make More Sales Using Creative Saleswriting

By Stephen Monday in Featured

Good Web copywriting can easily get visitors to take a specific action such as: buy, opt in, “tweet,” email to a friend, or “like,” the message. Copywriters who utilize creative style writing such as vivid storytelling, or draft high-impact, punchy, word-picture style writing can expect their response rates to such copy go way up.

People do not like to get the perception that they are being “sold.” However, tell them a compelling story in which drama, humor, or other emotional feelings are aroused – and do so in a fashion that is personable, engaging, informative, and interesting – you will receive a whole new level of their interest. They become captivated.

Then, when you have stirred great interest show them how a specific problem arises during the story. Then introduce the solution – this would be your product or service. When they are shown, the obvious benefit the solution provides (in story context) they then “see” how it is exactly what they need. This manner of marketing causes the buyer to “sell” themselves.

History has proven, time and time again – this fashion of getting sales is unsurpassed, it is now, has been, and shall remain to be the preferred method of selling for both buyer and seller alike. It outperforms all other methods of marketing by a vast 10 to 1 ratio.

This style of power-writing is highly effective for online promotions, print ads, as well as commercial television – it works in every sales arena. If you are not using this type of promotional material for whatever product or service you are trying to sell – you are flat missing the boat!

People always love great stories, and this has been a well-documented fact for centuries. There is absolutely no greater “hook” to arouse public interest than a well-crafted story. Whether it be fiction, or non-fiction, story based copy will make the sale.

Most Professional Copywriters understand this and employ creative writing in their promotions. It demonstrates to the reader how the said product or service – is exactly what they need to solve a specific problem they are dealing with.

Better still it strikes a nerve in their “buyer’s resistance,” and easily clears the hurdle to the sale. They have not been “pitched” they have “sold” themselves. They are not only glad they have found the product or service – they are happy to buy it.

You can use good creative copywriting to sell anything under the sun. All it takes is a great storyline, and a compelling writer to bring the words to life. Think about this for a moment sometimes buying can actually be enjoyable if the one doing the buying is properly motivated to make the purchase.

Today’s successful promotions are polished and savvy. Good writers avoid hype and flash presentations because they turn off the average consumer. Creative Copywriters know exactly how to present their messages in a manner that actually appeals to viewers.

The days of selling online using exaggerated over-the-moon promises – have gone the way of the T-Rex. Most people simply will not read it. (Let alone buy it.) It actually undermines site credibility. Take a serious look at your own online promotions.

If they are not making sales and the copy is failing to do the job of earning you money – fire the copy! Chances are the product or services you are offering are of good quality but if the sales message does not employ some of the selling tactics outlined in this article you are not only hurting your business – you are leaving money on the table which another savvy marketer will suck up like a vacuum cleaner.

Billions and billions of dollars of goods are sold every year on the Web, and this figure is destined to rise to over $312 billion by the year 2012. Are you getting your piece of this action? Let a creative Copywriter write your sales page and see what a huge difference this approach makes in your response.

Why do less than ten percent of sales pages make money online while the other ninety percent of sales Websites fail to make a dime? It is simple – look at their copy.

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Get your FREE Sales Page evaluation at URL: www.AAAWebcopyservices.com Stephen E. Monday is a Professional Creative Web Copywriter, Creative Writer, and Web Content Manager.

Killer Web Video Marketing Techniques: Words Can Move You

By Jerry Bader in Featured

Sometimes business people make things harder than they have to be, take marketing for instance. Marketing is pretty simple when you get right down to it: discover the emotional value inherent in what you sell and present it in a memorable manner that differentiates you from the competition. What can be so hard? Of course we all know the devil is in the details, and implementation is the sharp end of his pitchfork.

Those who know our work, or who have read our articles, know that we recommend video as the best strategy to achieve your major marketing objective: delivering a memorable, differentiated message highlighting the emotional value of your brand. And if you follow the trends, you know video is spreading across the Web like cream cheese on a freshly toasted bagel. Unfortunately quite a bit of that cheese comes in a bland tasting, homogenized package that makes little impression.

A while back we created a series of articles called Killer Campaigns showcasing great commercials and pointing out the methods used that made them effective. In this new series, Killer Video Techniques, we’ll show you some cutting-edge methods we use to create memorable, differentiating marketing messages.

50 Powerful Call to Action Phrases

By Jessica Swanson in Featured

Are your prospects doing what you’d like them to be doing? Are they ordering your ebooks, opting into your website or clicking on your links?

If not, you’re missing out on one of the top-secret weapons that copywriters have used for years to get their prospects to act accordingly.

So, what do master copy-writers do to move prospects to action? They ask them to act.

That’s right. You simply need to ask your prospects to do what you want them to do. It really is that straightforward.

But, most landing pages, sales pages and emails don’t utilize this bizarrely simple technique (which is also why most ad-copy performs so poorly).

According to usability expert Jared Spool www.uie.com/about/consultantss, when visitors find powerful action words on a landing page, they are successful at completing their task 72% of the time; if the action word isn’t on the page, they are only successful 6% of the time.

Obviously, it’s in your best interest to ask your prospects what you want them do, how to do it, and that you want them to do it immediately.

Here is a list of 50 powerful “call to action” phrases that you can use in your future ad-copy:

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6) Try it free.

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Sign up for your free trial immediately.

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33) Please don’t hesitate to call us.

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So, there you have it. A list of fifty powerful “call to action” phrases to use in all of your future ad-copy. The results will astound you.

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Jessica Swanson has helped thousands of small business owners, all over the world, implement low-cost, high-impact DIY marketing campaigns. Known for her energy, passion and “get-it-done” attitude, Jessica takes complicated marketing concepts, turns them upside-down, and makes them incredibly simple and outrageously straightforward. To download your FREE Shoestring Marketing Kit, visit:
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Social Media Won’t Fix Your Broken Business

By Jessica Swanson in Featured

Social Media Won’t Fix Your Broken Business. Just seeing the phrase elicits a wide range of emotional responses from today’s small business owner.

Probably the most common emotion is that social media marketing will SAVE your small business. You’ve heard time and time again that Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn can bring you loads of hot, new prospects ready to whip out their credit cards and do business with you. Well, as they always say, “if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.”

Here’s the problem. Whenever there’s a new fad, technology or marketing tool, small business owners jump on the bandwagon hoping that this will finally be the answer to all their problems. This will be the marketing solution that they have been endlessly searching for. Not only that, it will cost less and bring in more sales. Hallelujah!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but social media won’t fix a broken business model. Social media is a tool that only works in combination with a strong business philosophy, foundation and plan of action.The truth is that you need to have a solid small business foundation before your social media marketing will be effective. You need to have a unique selling proposition, landing page, free offer, sticky website and a blog. That’s when Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn will work for you.

You can’t expect Twitter alone to be the magic bullet for your business. You can’t expect Facebook alone to be your savior. And, you probably guessed it, but LinkedIn, in and of itself, isn’t going to be your knight in shining armor.

Now, here’s the thing. I am the very first person to shout from the rooftops that social media is an awesome small business tool. I bring in dozens of leads every single day just from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn alone. But, you need to understand that there is never ONE marketing tool that will save your business. It’s the effective combination of a solid marketing foundation, tools and consistency that will grow your small business.

If you don’t have a solid business foundation, social media cannot help your business. In fact, it may even hurt your business. Social media can’t fix a broken small business and it’s certainly not a Band-Aid. Social media is a tool.

Nothing more, nothing less. And, if used in conjunction with a strong business philosophy, foundation and plan of action, that’s when its power will be unleashed.

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Jessica Swanson has helped thousands of small business owners, all over the world, implement low-cost, high-impact DIY marketing campaigns. Known for her energy, passion and “get-it-done” attitude, Jessica takes complicated marketing concepts, turns them upside-down, and makes them incredibly simple and outrageously straightforward. To download your FREE Shoestring Marketing Kit, visit:
www.ShoestringMarketingKit.com.

Successful Online Businesses: 5 Must-haves for Making it in Internet Marketing

By James Druman in Featured

Successful online businesses don’t come easy or we’d all have one—right? It is a hard game, and there are plenty of people who never make it, but the ones who do make it have a pretty good life indeed. And if you’re the type who was inspired by the Four Hour Workweek and loved Tim Ferris’s idea of tramping around the globe and leveraging currency differences in some of the best place son Earth, it doesn’t take all that much money for a good internet marketing business to set you free.

So what does it take to create a successful online business then?

1. Ridiculous Work Ethic

Cast your assumptions aside – internet marketing success takes A LOT of hard, hard work – at least in the beginning. Most big-timers have put in massive amounts of time and energy to get their businesses where they are today. Sure, now they may be coasting now – although many learn to love the grind and just keep creating – but most have paid their dues.

Be prepared to put in 120% effort, as they say, and work while your friends and family are sleeping. Keep your eye on your dream, and push on.

2. Money to Invest

While it is possible to start successful online businesses from scratch, in most cases, it will take some money to get going along the way. Now, most costs, like web hosting, a domain name, and a quality autoresponder program, are quite cheap, but there are other costs you may not be taking into account until you get your feet wet.

I’d say a major one is skills. Learning things like graphics design, web design, and marketing itself – these things cost time and money. You can hire a quality freelancer to do some of them, and I recommend that with the most important ones, but if you want quality, be prepared to pay.

Another thing that costs is knowledge. You can find anything you want for free – or come up with them through your own through processes – but unless you want to grind away for years at this craft, it’s better to find someone highly successful to emulate, in which case you’ll likely need to pay for their knowledge.

Finally, if you don’t want to do all this while working a full-time job, you’d better have some money saved up – to last a good chunk of time. I highly recommend freelancing as a way to fund your internet marketing journey.

3. The Ability to Learn

Do you have the ability to learn new skills and the energy to keep after them until you have achieved mastery? In many cases, that’s what it takes, and while everyone says they can learn and love to do it, true learning is rare in our culture. Just look how often the people around you have made actual changes in their life if you don’t believe me.

4. Unrealistic Goals

Like any successful entrepreneur, you need to be somewhat of a dreamer. And the ability to stand behind those big dreams when no one else has faith in you is even more important in this business because all your friends and family will be there telling you it’s a sham.

5. Guidance

Finally, nothing is so valuable as solid guidance in the internet marketing world. It is hard to find someone you can put your faith in, but if you don’t find someone then you will find yourself running down one path after another, never staying on one long enough to get results.

I highly encourage you to find one person who you respect and trust that is doing very well for themselves, and follow them. Once you’ve mastered what they are teaching and begun making money, then you can begin to study someone else and keep building on your knowledge-base to emulate the successful online businesses that are already out there.

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Click on the link now to download my free report: 10 Successful Lies About Success at www.LiesAboutSuccess.com. Jim Rohn once said, “My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don’t and join the 10% who do.” Are you ready to get results in your business?

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