The most effective publicity is often free or very inexpensive. It simply takes a little of your time and some creative intelligence.
Use Your Heart to Promote Business
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Using your heart can equal good business. |
Let potential customers hear about your firm with these three ideas for raising your company’s profile:
- Teach. One often overlooked marketing strategy is to offer courses to the public about your company’s specialty. Teaching establishes you as an expert and attracts attention to your business. And in most instances, the cost is minimal.
Schools, libraries, local colleges, trade groups and business organizations always need instructors. Or you can sponsor courses and hold them at your place of business.
Design a course that attracts the potential customers that your company is trying to go after. Make the information tie in with your product or service.
- Join. Take an active role in your industry trade association and urge your top managers to do the same. Consider running for a top elective office in the group or lobbying for a spot on the board of directors. Get the word out that you and your staff are available for speaking engagements at no charge.
You might attract more new business in a month than you could generate from a year’s worth of conventional — and costly — advertising.
- Greet. Develop a brief, compelling “marketing greeting” for your telephone voice mail system. The greeting can introduce a new product or service or it can showcase a long-standing item that you’ve decided to market more aggressively.