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By Fred Patete


There are easier ways to grow your small business than you may realize. You've already got a base of customers and that means that growing your business is going to be easier for you. You are going to spend more time and more money getting new customers.

You'll likely find that there are quite a few things you can promote and sell to your existing clients once they've made their main purchase. The best prospects you'll ever have are people who've already purchased from you, if you weren't aware of it. They've already been warmed up to the idea of doing business with you since they've already made a transaction. These people will be more open to your offers, especially if you offered excellent value and service. However, it is imperative you only send out great offers because you don't want to ruin the relationship. This strategy has been utilized successfully offline for many years, which means that it works in any business situation. Direct mail offers have proven to be effective over many decades.

If your business has been operational, it's time to shake things up and try to find some new methods and places for doing things. This is about your finding new markets and getting a foot hold in them. The United States, all by itself, is home to millions and millions of different businesses. If you're primarily a local business, then find out how you can move beyond your town or city.

While you do this, make sure that there aren't additional local markets you can move into. Maybe your business or company has things it can offer to your local or state government. This is not always a quick solution but it could be if you're aggressive and take action.

You can find lots of ideas for marketing your business that you are unlikely to actually use. A comprehensive search using Google will yield tons of ideas many of which are effective. From here, you can move to the paid-for content that trustworthy and reliable sources offer to you.

If you have failed to use specific methods before now, go back and try to figure out what you did wrong. Perhaps you are going to need to do a bit of testing because that's how you get things to be successful for you. Testing is should be one of the pillars of all of the things you do to market and advertise your business. So you should be making a list of all of the different methods that are applicable for your company or your business and then start taking a whole lot of action and take that action right now.

If you haven't done online marketing before or email marketing is something you've only heard of, then you have to remember what follows. Seeing your communications only once is not sufficient for your audience. Don't throw the towel in right away just because things appear not to be effective. You have to employ as many marketing tactics as possible and make sure to test them to get a better response. But all this implies and means you should not give up after the first two or three times. Testing and tracking is the only way to succeed. Only with those two techniques can you truly increase your business. There are very few workable excuses for the feeling like you've got no ideas for how to market and expand your small business. It is rare for small businesses to have separate departments for marketing. So you, then, are responsible for taking on the duties of being a marketing manager. Get on the web and learn everything you can and then start actually taking some action.




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