Marketing Your Business
Marketing your business can come in several venues of advertisements: websites, newspapers, magazines, press-releases, word of mouth, etc. How do you want to be known?
Company Marketing:
Long gone are the days when you had the majority of the control of how your business was viewed. Now, with the Internet zipping across the globe at record speeds -- your company can have success today and be gone tomorrow or the opposite. It all depends now on what people are saying about you when you're not looking.
What can you do about it? Do your best -- all the time!
Here are some things to consider:
Self Promotional Items & Materials:
Self Marketing comes in the form of:
- Placing Ads in the local paper, magazines, and handouts
- Television and movie Ads
- Trade Shows
- Business Cards and other card items
- Business name on Give away items
- Website (Your Company's Site)
- Blog (Your Blog)
- Social Network (That you control)
- Flyers, Tri-folds, Newsletters, Emails, etc.
Marketing By Others:
- Press Releases (PR)
- Gossip (Good or Bad)
- Internet Social Networking that you do not control (Good or Bad)
- Newspaper articles - not just Press Releases
There are a lot of companies out there that will provide you with PR work that will promote your company -- just make sure that they do it for the right price and say what you want them to say. Also, so things in your community that add a shining light to your company.
Remember: Always put your best foot forward!
Thinking ahead... Moving ahead... In business... Takes time, planning and patience.
... Moving Forward - With a Steady Hand - Always with Your Customers in Mind ... Is where the Money is!!