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By Norman Fawcett


It is important to adopt a proper mindset when you want your business to not just grow but to truly take off. This is all about expanding and finding new options and ways to solve your older problems. There is all sorts of evidence that supports this and most of it involves your telling your mind what you should be looking for. If you're doubting this, then do yourself a favor a try it. If you think and focus your mind to look for ways to expand, then your mind will do that. If your outlook stays negative and you continue to think that nothing can be done, your thoughts are going to follow suit. You're here reading this article, and in it you'll discover three solutions to help your small business grow.

Obviously you should keep working on your marketing to keep your influx of new customers streaming in regularly but you need to do more than that too. How often do you think about expanding your offerings to people who have bought from and hired you before? It's also possible to build plans that include web based marketing and getting your already existing customers to visit your website. You can do all sorts of things to integrate your website to your offline business that will help you expand your business and make more sales.

Increasing the business that goes in to your website needs to include taking care of how well your site is going to convert. All of the different sites could stand to have higher conversions and the path to get to them is typically usability. Your bounce rate is a way to see where you stand currently. From here you need to see how much time visitors are spending on your site and whether or not they look at anything beyond the page on which they land. It's important that all of your pages be as easy as possible for your customers and readers to make use of.

A good example of this is your contact page and whether or not it contains a phone number. It's possible to optimize your calling by employing a link that, with just one click, helps people call you. Clicking to call is a smart phone feature and it will encourage people to call.

If your business isn't online, then you need to do more offline advertising locally. You should use ad tracking, which is a more precise approach. It's not difficult to do and there are many ways to do it. One approach is to publish offers specific to each publication you are using. Just about every town and city have the weekly shopper papers mailed free to residents. Simply place your different offers and maybe a coupon in each paper. This way you will be able to discover which strategy is getting you the best results. Your test will be even more effective if you invite people to visit your site to discover more about the special deal.

No matter how tough the economy is, if you really want to grow your business then you will have to make the decision to do it. Really, there's always a way to solve your business problems and you can discover them if you focus. Negativity is rampant among the business community, thanks in large part to the dire news they read each day. You want to avoid ending up in the same boat because it will ruin your confidence and creativity.




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