Free Small Business Marketing Tips - 3 Ideas for Fast Results
In this article, I have 3 free small business marketing tips for you, because marketing shouldn't have to set you back a bundle. And any one of them may make you a serious sum of money when you put them to work for you.
That's a considerable promise, I know, but it's one I stand behind and mean to keep.
But there is one warning: simply skimming through this article and "learning about" these tips won't do a thing for you. You actually have to roll your sleeves up and put them to work for you.
Free Small Marketing Tips No 1: Bump up your fees
There are probably three people in the whole world who commonly buy on price only (and you really don't want them as clients anyway). The rest of us have better things to bother with, like suitability, trustworthiness, delivery time, excellence, service, back up and all the rest. In one analysis only 14% of participants said price was the most important factor for them; that means 86% of them had different, more weighty concerns.
If you tack on 10% to your prices from this moment on, I would be shocked if you experienced any decrease in sales at all. What you WILL see, though, is a significant increase in your profits (because that 10 % boost is all profit). Yeah, it's conceivable the odd client or two will moan and put on the weeps about it and perhaps even go somewhere else... but if that happens, then they've done you a kindness. Price buyers are sheer murder to deal with and will in the end drive you to an early grave.
Free Small Marketing Tips No. 2: Become the media darling
Read the newspapers, both national and local, switch on the Television or tune in to the radio stations and you'll see 'expert' after 'expert' wheeled on to give his or her thoughts on everything from daycare and chilblains, to party ideas and pork pies. But what gives these folks this 'ace' status and why are they in the news? Well, their authority status comes from the fact they're simply in the news. That's it. That's the only difference between them and you.
Precisely how do they get there? Exactly how does this come about? By their contacting the local media and saying, essentially, "I'm an expert on thingamajigs, and I've got strategies and information on whatchamacallits your audience would definitely like and benefit from".
This is all a hell of a lot easier than it seems and a lot less scary, too. Some years ago I had a regular monthly piece in the local monthly rag. It added up to possibly 30 minutes' work a month to create, and yielded thousands of Euro in business.
Free Small Marketing Tips No. 3: Ask for referrals
Referred business is the most profitable business to get, and the easiest to close the sale on -- because all the hard work of nurturing trust has been done for you by whomever referred the business to you. In my own business, I don't take on private clients from anything BUT referrals, because the business is such top quality.
Alas, while we all love 'em... we don't tend to do much to ensure we get lots of them.
Although we can change all this simply by asking our present customers and clients this simple question: "whom else do you know whom I may be able to help in the same way I've helped you?". You could send that email or letter now and be getting more business within minutes.
You can also take this one step further and set the scene for recommendations at the beginning of your relationship with a new customer: "I grow my business with referrals. So if I do a great job for you I hope and expect you will recommend at least 3 people to me whom I may be able to help". The majority of business owners are too intimidated to make this a stipulation of doing business with clients... although that's their affair.
See? Three free small business marketing tips that could be making you money by the end of today.
But the onus is on YOU to pull your finger out and make them work for you -- they won't do it by themselves.
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