30 Marketing Ideas That Will Help Your Small Business Sell More

Having a small business can be a little hard, especially from a marketing standpoint, and this is the reason why we created a list with 30 easy to use, actionable marketing ideas that will help you promote your business the right way.

1. Set daily goals and promote team involvement
2. Cooperate with the non-competing businesses
3. Mail your prospects and clients every week
4. Bundle products or services as you will be able to sell better, especially if you add discounts
5. Receive and promote reviews from customers
6. Focus on your niche
7. Try to promote advertising via word of mouth
8. Bring in exclusive offers
9. Create a referral or affiliate programme
10. Ask for referrals as fast as possible to obtain the best possible results
11. Take company information with you at all times, in the form of pens, business cards and if possible create some giveaways
12. Correct mistakes and learn from them
13. Sponsor local events to gain exposure
14. Show something different than what your competitors are doing
15. Engage in public speaking events, from libraries to schools or live broadcast on YouTube
16. Publish locally, either via books or media, but also engage in creating ebooks for online exposure
17. Focus on the ROI and try to improve all the strategies that are not performing the right way
18. Over-service the current customers, because they are the current source of income, and you need to treat them professionally
19. Try to promote alongside other business owners
20. Try to focus on the strong points of your business and instead try to outsource the weaknesses
21. Create "how-to" videos for social media to improve your brand awareness
22. Promote yourself in the local directories like Yell
23. Partner up with the influencers in your area or your market
24. Network as often as possible
25. Increase your prices
26. Create an additional service that people will purchase
27. Surprise your customers
28. Create new products and offer these to your current customers
29. Make it easy to be contacted
30. Call the past prospects and survey them

These are some ideas that you can use to make the best out of your whole marketing endeavours. You need to nurture your client base, but at the same time, you have to modify your prices accordingly, as this does help as well.

Follow these instructions and you are bound to obtain some improved results.

Take a look at the Infographic below by Self Employed King for more useful tips.

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