Marketing for your business can be challenging. It’s hard to find the time, the energy and the inspiration to continue to brainstorm about what to do next for your business. Allowing yourself time to develop and grow your business is key. Here are 50 ways to do that.
- Strategize about what you want to achieve
- Network in Large and Small groups
- Join your local Chamber of Commerce
- Find like minded business owners who will promote you and vice versa
- Find your followers
- Join an organization
- Give as part of a charity
- Read blogs
- Be active with social media
- Meet up with your family and friends for feedback and ideas
- Find/contract businesses that could serve as a continuum of the services you offer
- Read business magazines
- See what your competition is doing
- Watch the BIG corporations and see what they do successfully
- Identify your milestones and tell your staff, colleagues, friends, and partners.
- Blog about what you are doing
- Update your profiles on all social media outlets
- Talk to everyone who will listen about what you LOVE to do
- Incorporate your work with trendy and seasonal issues
- Share content that is related to your industry
- Talk to people about what they are doing
- Open up to become inspired by those around you
- Take breaks and get a different perspective
- Branch out into areas that are consistent with your are(s) of expertise
- Focus in on what you what to showcase
- Evaluate what you do right and what you can improve
- Learn something new everyday
- Attract the right clients
- Develop multiple outlets for marketing your business
- Be flexible to communicate and meet with people with their most comfortable mechanism for communication (email, text, phone, in-person)
- Work on massive visibility and credibility
- Become an expert at what you do
- Develop sustainable ways to market for yourself
- Convert leads to clients and clients to repeat clients
- Increase conversations with targeted groups
- Create fans that advocate for you
- Experiment with what works and what doesn’t
- Stretch your imagination once you have balance with your life and your work
- Let creativity be something you welcome into your marketing plan
- Branch out to different geographic areas
- Identify your target groups and think of different ways to increase communication
- Let the pictures do the talking and showcase your work
- Gather and document testimonials from your clients
- Revisit why you continue to work in this sector of business and inspire others with stories you have to share
- Keep the “fun” element in your work
- There is no substitute for hard work and persistence
- Be authentic with your marketing and sales as people do business with those they trust
- Do your best work everyday
- Know what your limits are
- Push yourself to be better everyday