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33 Marketing Tips
Habit Forming Can Be A Good Thing for Business
By justBurbank.com | June,2008
Marketing your business everyday is a habit every business owner should create. Here are 33 marketing ideas. If you incorporate just three to five of them into your workday you will become a marketing powerhouse! Everyday is a good day to market your business.
· Hand write a thank-you note to a prospect or customer
· Enter customer or prospect names into a database
· Join Facebook, LinkedIn and justBurbank to promote your business online
· Visit a competitor's website
· Write an article to pitch to the Burbank Business Journal
· Make a list of press release ideas
· Write a press release
· Visit and comment on blogs that discuss your industry
· Compose an e-mail sales letter
· Call a few prospects or customers to get their e-mail contact information
· Develop a short series of survey questions and send it out to your current customers
· Brainstorm advertising concepts
· Contact 92.5 The Why to discuss advertising options on Burbank Radio
· Find websites/directories/social networking sites that will let you post a link to your website
· Plan a renaming of your products
· Work on new product development and introduction ideas
· Collect testimonials from your clients and post them on your marketing materials
· Recognize a special prospect or customer
· Discuss a fusion marketing idea with a strategic business partner
· Visit a few marketing-related websites/blogs
· Post new information on your website
· Plan your networking calendar for the month
· Call to follow up with networking contacts
· Get price estimates for the printing and mailing of your direct-mail campaign
· Mail samples of your product to top prospects
· Brainstorm ideas for an "enter to win" contest
· Develop a coupon for your product or service
· Rewrite your phone's on-hold message script
· Develop a newsletter and promote it on your website
· Brainstorm new product or service ideas
· Plan a new customer service activity that will truly delight your customers
· Develop your benefit list and compare to it to your competitions'
· Develop a checklist, top-ten list or other information as a resource for your customers
Some activities will take more time than others and that’s okay. Don’t get frustrated or discouraged. No matter how much or how little you accomplish, the point is to get started. No one is really counting your "three to five" things. The point is to do something related to marketing every day to help you think about marketing all the time.
Get started & enjoy all the new business!
This article was written by Libby Higgins, CEO of justBurbank.com, who spends most of her "free time" marketing or reading about marketing...it is kind of like a twitch for her, she can't help it, so we have learned to just deal with it.
