Marketing Ideas For Small Business
Great Business Ideas: Marketing tools: Do you know the survival rate of small business enterprise
in USA? Research those data which shows you how tough to sustain in startup.
There are many factors which lead this result. To be survived in new startup
many skill are required one of them is Marketing skills.
Today I am writing best marketing ideas for small business.
Let me tell you who actually needs these ideas? Well, in my
personal thoughts, who are involved affiliated service and products program.
Because I think Steve Jobs does not need to learn any
marketing skills, because who can tell better than Steve Jobs about Apple
products?
Who can tell better than Bill Gates about Microsoft
products?
Who can tell better than Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook ?
I mean if you believe your invention and your own researched
products, then by nature you might have already known how to market your
products.
However if you are engaged in affiliated products or
services and you are running your own business then you should know about
marketing ideas.
You should know: Marketing phase
There are 3 main phase:
First phase: when you have products/services before than
customer.
Second phase: The time
of selling.
Third phase: post-sale phase.
First phase requires your home work and remaining two phases
give or add value to your business or brand.
Following points covers all three phases and give you some
ideas about how to market your small business.
Great Small business marketing ideas:
Pre-phase of Marketing ideas
1. Know your product: No matter whether you are selling your own product or
affiliated product your first work is to know all about those products. Because
if you know better then only you can market better.
2. Research customer needs: research yourself if there any substitute or complementary products.
3. Research customer paying capacity: Remember good seller know customer budget and help them to have planned and disciplined spending habits.
3. Research customer paying capacity: Remember good seller know customer budget and help them to have planned and disciplined spending habits.
Internet marketing ideas
4. Use social media networks: Use social networking websites
to cover recent trend and leverage your marketing skills.
5. Email marketing: This is traditional weapon of marketing
but very effective.
6. Marketing through website and blog: make you own website
and write blog frequently.
7. Join forum and groups: Join online forum and groups which
are related to your business and your expertise.
8. Use free-classifieds site: you can use free classifieds site like craigslist.org to promote your new offers. (Main: List of top free classifieds sites in the world).
8. Use free-classifieds site: you can use free classifieds site like craigslist.org to promote your new offers. (Main: List of top free classifieds sites in the world).
But remember: do not spam, only provide qualitative
information. You can send email on regular basis for example every Sunday.
Marketing strategies using different business tools
9. Business cards: Learn how to use your business cards as
marketing tools. (main: know how to use business card as marketing tools).
10. Decorate your office/outlet/stores/: know how to decorate
and present your office shape and how to keep your office environment, which
attracts and retain customers.
Qualitative best marketing ideas
11. Offer quality products: care users’ health, money and
environment. Only offer quality products and service. If you do so, then you
score 90 percent in marketing.
12. Connection and relation: make great relation and spread
connection with your suppliers.
13. Treat equally to
all customers.
14. Be supportive and
present nicely when customer comes to return your products.
15. Offer post-sale service: Remember if you can touch with
your customer after you sell your products or service then you more likely to
make them your repeated customers.
16. Promise Less, Give more: You know what I mean.
17. Think Big: act like you are going to make your business big in coming years.
16. Promise Less, Give more: You know what I mean.
17. Think Big: act like you are going to make your business big in coming years.
Other marketing tips:
18. Be a sponsor: Be a sponsor of local events (suitable for
med-level enterprises).
19. Customer feed back mechanism: Make mechanism to set great
customer feedback.
Further Reading:
Reference:
Make habit of study, at least one marketing book per month.
Further Reading:
Reference:
Make habit of study, at least one marketing book per month.
