You have finally opened your first small business – congratulations! You may have prepared your whole life for this sweet event. Hundreds of hours of hard work, thousands or perhaps even millions’ worth of savings, stacks of paperwork reviewed and signed, and now you are finally ready to open your doors to the public.
However, you may be missing something important for your newly-opened business: proper marketing and advertising plan.
“Why use marketing and advertising?”
Every business needs its own marketing and advertising plan. You cannot possibly rely on just word-of-mouth exposure to get your business in the minds and mouths of the people in your area. So in what ways does a marketing and advertising plan help a new small business?
To start, it will help you connect with new customers and clients, it will introduce existing patrons to any new promotional activities and events, and it can help improve your image to the public. There is much more that it can do – this is only just a sample of its potential.
But to keep things simple and short, you can use this guide on how to connect your business to the world – both physically and onlinex.
Communication is key
To connect with the people, you will need to hone your communication skills. You do not even need to invest too heavily and expensively in this aspect of your business. You just need to keep in mind that you are dealing with people, and you have to be patient with them during your conversations.
Reach out to them through a number of communication mediums. The easiest way to do so right now is with the use of social media. Everybody practically has them, and you would be a fool not to take advantage of the free marketing and advertising opportunity.
Use that to tell people about your new business, of your new products and services, whether you have any new promos, or anything else. At least this way, they will be updated about your business, and hopefully, your business’ name and logo will remain in their minds, and they will want to go back every time.
But if you want to keep things more old school, you can always get a good old phone line ready at your shop. If you want your own communication line, you can learn about a small business VoIP phone service from your local communications solutions provider.
Focus on marketing and advertising
Going back to our early conversation about marketing and communications, if you manage to blend those two together, you will not have a hard time connecting your business to the world. Anybody can run an ad online or in a newspaper featuring your business and what it offers.
But without implementing the right keywords, graphic designs and message in general, your ad might not get as much traction compared to other professionally made ads.
You need to find a way to merge the two to get your business noticed more and to help it connect with the public. Marketing and using the right communication medium, channel, and even language matters. Hopefully, this guide will get you started on improving your business.
