Growing Your Business With Marketing!

Having developed a business from your ideation through innovation and creativity, as mentioned on the previous post, making it a working and successful business is another thing. If you have chosen from a pool of products or services, and have lunched your first operation in giving to the market or consumers what you have come up with, marketing is one of the essentials of going forward from the incubation and hatching of the business idea. When properly managed, marketing - especially internet marketing and advertising can give your small and young business the much needed sales, advantage and results. In a more common term, marketing is all of what you do to make your products and services available to your target customers, consumers and clients. For an entrepreneur, marketing is a vital issue as he or she embarks on creating a business platform or model that should be both rewarding and re-assuring to his or her mission and vision.

Some of the marketing factors that an entrepreneur should be informed about may include direct marketing, customer relationship management, marketing research, targeting and positioning, philosophy, sales, distribution, environment, public relations, pricing, product packaging, product strategy, marketing information, buying behavior, market segmentation, logistics and channels of distribution, selling and sales management, etc, to mention but a few.

In this post, the focus is on digital or internet marketing, which is one of the most affordable means of getting products and services out there to your target customers or clients. In the broader way, identifying your target consumers, customers and clients, and checking out on your competitors, having a website or blog about your product or service and optimizing it, marketing through social media platforms and emails, are key ways to achieve great results. However, here are about Nine (9) amazing marketing tips to get all that done, for new start ups and small businesses:

1. Offering Free Tutorials - One of the fastest growing ways of generating traffic to your business page or website or blog is offering free do-it-yourself tutorials. You can start by making one or getting someone to make one for you in line with your business, products or services.

2. Using Google Business Package - Google Adwords has become one of the easiest and cheapest means of driving instant traffic to your business page, account, blog or website as the case may be. This is a sure platform to get started.

3. Swapping Ad or Leveraging - Try to get someone in your niche industry who has already built a solid foundation and has email list up to 500 or 1000 or more and exchange your contact lists. Tapping into the strengths of an existing business, even a competitor maybe worthwhile.

4. Duplicating Business Successes - You can begin by using a contest, duplicating success by learning from the professionals in your field and doing exactly what they do or innovating more on what they do, would prove very beneficial to your newly created business or existing small business.

5. Tweeting Your Business/Products/Services - Twitter traffic is becoming a great way of spreading the good news about your business or products or services to a target market from time to time. Make announcement about new products or services or changes in your existing ones and promote using this or other social media platforms.

6. Offering Your Products or Service(s)' Coupons - This is one way for you or your business to stand out among the competitors. Try offering coupons on your products or services and make your service or products affordable to your target consumers or clients, in this way.

7. Tagging Your Business/Products/Services' Videos and Posts - Tagging is a great tool that works for many other businesses, all the time and you can try using tags that are very commonly used but also related to your business or products or services. That way, your customers will easily find you when they search similar topics or service or product. Use your hashtags properly and generously.

8. Inserting Your Business Videos into a High Traffic Video - This is another of leveraging the powerful to get what you want for your business or products and services. You can check it out here on WonderHowTo.com and starting driving huge traffic to your own website or blog or business page/profile.

9. Start Using Content Aggregates in Your Business - It is a simple and yet very powerful and useful method that will support every effort you start in order for your to get the desired traffic, for free! You cannot afford to remain the way your business has always been. Grow your business using the above listed tips and more of what you may have gathered from other sources. Let's GO!!