Know-How to Grow And Great Way Your Business.
Looking for ways to grow your business? Here are a few tips to help you:
Advertise
- Advertising your product or service is an important part of business success.
- Even small amount of advertising is capable of getting a consumer’s attention. So, no advertising is useless.
- Advertising has been proven to be more effective in selling durable goods like cars, refrigerators, microwaves etc., rather than nondurable goods like stationery, soaps, toilet paper etc.
- Many advertising agencies make a large part of their money on commissions on advertising certain products.
- The above statement suggests that such advertising companies have a vested interest in selling as much advertising as possible, and may strongly advise clients to spend excessive amounts on advertising.
- Considering the above two statements, it is advisable to have your ads custom-made by a local advertiser, to suit your requirement.
- There is a limit to which advertising can get sales for your product. Beyond that level, called the saturation point, further adverting appears to have a limited effect.
- Advertising appears to be more effective for new products than for existing products.
- The above statement suggests that advertising is probably most effective for providing information rather than persuading people.
Watch
- Be careful what you say about others.
- You don’t want to get involved in legal hassles with competitors or other businesses because of what you post on your website or any other platform that you are using to promote your business.
- For example, once the owner of a clothing company described a media company as a “scam”. He was slapped with a $20 million lawsuit.
- It is alright to recount negative experiences with others. It will not necessarily lead to a court battle and might also help warn others, but be sure to steer clear of name-calling.
Build Contacts
- Build a healthy business relationship with your clients, using emails, phone calls, face to face meetings and technical presentations of your product.
- Conduct warm calls to your existing clients, in order to assess the company’s current situation, and to understand if you are doing something that is making the client or customer unhappy; also do this to assess your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and ensure your clients are not being tempted by other competitors.
- Remember that people are 80% more likely to remember about your product or service if they watched a video about it.
- Get in touch with HyperEffects to understand more about the concept.
Research
- Subscribing to industry related databases, forums and blogs can be of great value to you, as they provide detailed information regarding all projects and businesses within your area from concept to execution.
- Researching for local contracts, bids and opportunities of cooperation with other companies that your company can take, is a good way to increase your channels of revenue.
- Doing this will save you plenty of time that is normally consumed in collecting information.
- This will also vastly reduce your market intelligence efforts. Use them wisely as leverage over your competition.
Get Involved
- Experts claim that not being responsive and not participating in discussions or acknowledging comments is a sure-shot way to kill a community.
- Putting up a blog or a fan page on one of the social media platforms will not ensure visitors.
- They sense that the flow of conversation is only one way.
- It is important to get involved with the customer, reader, fan, or whoever your target audience is.
- Most companies that really care about the opinion of their customers, are constantly involved in the feedback and comments process, or even outsource the work to another company that can manage it for them.
- Spending the entire day inside the office will not be the best use of your time. You need to spend time out there, meeting people related to your market.
- Attend industry related networking events, exhibitions, seminars, conferences and trade shows, to be in contact with new, potential clients.
- Attending networking events can be of great value to you, you get to meet new people and learn new things about your market.
Almost all large corporations today have built in-house networks. These platforms link employees working in different locations. Small and medium-sized businesses can also take advantage of readily available tools to facilitate connection. Companies even have custom social networks, to connect their staff. This not only helps form better business relationships, it makes possible the sharing of best practices across cultures, locations and departments. If this sounds interesting, contact HyperEffects, for a free consultation on the concept, now.