Many people start business from scratch, although there are others that just continue the already built business. If you start from scratch, you will have a hard time during the early period of the business. When your business is still small in scale, you need some strategies to advertise it. In this article you will find some ideas of advertisement that suit the small business.

Email marketing

Email marketing is affordable; you don’t need large amount of cash. Email marketing is also very effective because you send the advertisement personally via email. You should start by collecting customer emails. You can do this by making an email opt-in on your business site.
To make people to give you their email you should offer something that will attract them like a valuable free download. So, if you sell weight loss products on your website for example, you can offer a free e-book about how to eating healthy and lose weight habit.

You also should create a weekly newsletter of tips to your audience. Give the subscriber a benefit like if there are discount offers, people in email list should be the first to know. Try to always be consistent and offering high quality information, you will grow your business in no time and be popular. Please remember, you should never spam your email list. If information has no benefit to your readers, you shouldn’t share it to them.

Advertising

The most effective strategy to market your business is advertising. There are many platforms that you can use. The most popular places to advertise are: Facebook, G+, radio, TV, newspaper, billboards, signs, flyers, and posters.
Whichever method you use, you should research first and ensure that the method you are using is appropriate with yours and will reach many clients.
Sponsoring an event

You have to find an event that is popular and match your business and if you have some cash, sponsor the event is a good idea. You are increasing your business appearance in the eyes of the clients by doing this. Being a sponsor also builds your business.

Coupons and discounts

People like saving their money and one way you do it is by offering them coupons and discounts. You can also make a reward program where the most frequent buyer or the buyer who makes a purchase worth of some amount of dollars gets the coupons.
You should make sure that anyone who wins a coupon actually gets the reward, so you will be more trusted.

While this is very effective, you should remember that you can find yourself spending a lot of money and getting less. You should balance the profits and the amount of money that you are giving away.

These are many methods you can use in advertising your small business. Keep a note that not every marketing strategy are ideal for every businesses type; so, you should be careful of the method you use because you can end up spending a lot of money without getting any good results.

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