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Tips for Marketing your Business

Tips for Marketing your Business

If you run an online business then you need to work hard on marketing your business and making a brand for yourself. From day one of opening your business you should be able marketing your business and doing everything that you possibly can to get the word out about your business. It’s easy to start a business and basically anyone is capable of doing that, but to actually make your business successful is a whole other story and takes time and work. All businesses needed to start from the ground at one point in time and they managed to market themselves effectively and know are making money. You’ll need to show that you have a strong work ethic and also some patience. One of the number one reasons people let there business fail is because they expect to make thousands of dollars immediately. This is not going to happen which is why you need to show some amount of patience when you own a business. You also need patience for when there are slow times in the business, and there are always some of these hard times throughout the life of a business. We’ll know begin to look at some of the tips you can use to help market your business.

Have a clear goal

Too many new businesses just jump into business without doing the proper research of the market. You need to know what your plan is well ahead of opening your business and you need to be able to follow it. You also need to know who your target market is and spend time working on marketing to your target market instead of people who would have no interest in your business.

Constantly network

There are lots of social media websites on the internet and forums that you can use to market your business and network with like-minded individuals. Every single day you wake up you should work on networking with people and never take a day off from it as it’ll reflect your success.

Utilize past customers

As a business owner you can utilize past customers to your advantage in numerous ways. One way you can utilize old customers is by having them offer references and testimonials for your business website which are very powerful and valuable. You can also use previous customers to sell new products to when they hit the catalogue and you need to make sure your old customers have a way of finding out about your new products. The best way to do this is through an email program that allows you to send emails out to a list of people instead of just one person.

Utilize other business owners

Owning an online business requires that you constantly network with other business owners if you want to succeed. You should always brainstorm new ideas with other business owners and implement any ideas that sound like they could make you money. You can also look to exchange advertising with other business owners in order to try and reach more potential clients.

There are tons of ways you can market your business and you should never stop using them throughout the life of your business. You can never have enough advertising and marketing on the internet so as long as you never stop marketing your brand you’ll do fine. There is lots of money to make online, but before you can do that you need to establish your business brand.

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Affordable WordPress Websites for Small Businesses

Affordable WordPress Websites for Small Businesses

Many small business owners are at the mercy of website designers and website developers. With high hourly rates, small business owners are held hostage when the website needs content updates or other minor changes. Why does this happen? Website designers and website developers know that if they create a website for their clients that is difficult to use and understand, the business owner will have to keep coming back to them for updates and modifications. Add this insult to the already astronomical price applied to having a new website designed and you can be thousands of dollars in the whole before your website reaches the one year mark.

WordPress offers a simpler, more affordable solution to small business websites.

The Benefits of a WordPress Website to Small Businesses

WordPress is a 100% FREE blogging / content management platform. That’s right, many of you may be surprised to read that it is completely free. Because WordPress is free, it has hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of users. Furthermore, there is an army of web developers all working and contributing to make it more secure and to keep it up to date. As if that all wasn’t enough, there are thousands of free themes available to make your website look different from all of the others, and thousands more premium (usually costing under $100) themes available for purchase. Also due to the large number of users there are thousands of free and premium WordPress plugins available which can extend the functionality of WordPress beyond that of just a normal website. And, believe it or not, I haven’t gotten to the best part yet. WordPress has an admin section with a graphic user interface (GUI) which makes it possible for the web layperson to make updates and additions to their own website. I have numerous clients myself that are using the WordPress platform that login to their own websites and make updates and alterations without having to call me for support or spend a dime.

How Expensive are WordPress Websites

As mentioned previously, WordPress itself is free. However, there are still costs associated with setting up the WordPress website, Domain Registration, and Hosting for the website. If you’re not very good at learning new software you may want to consider having the person who sets up your WordPress website do some training with you. There also may be some need to have the web designer or web developer that is helping you make some modifications that may be too difficult for you, such as adding your business logo. On average, I’m able to get a client’s website online for between $400 and $500. Although, I have provided clients with websites for as little as $200.

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Zero-G Creative Solves Biggest Challenges to Blogging with New Bloggernaut™ Social Media Service

Zero-G Creative, the Atlanta area small business marketing and web design firm, announced today the launch of their new Bloggernaut managed social media service. Bloggernaut solves the biggest challenges of starting and maintaining a blog – time and authenticity – with a professional, affordable program that for the business owner may require as little time as an hour each month. (PRWeb January …

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