Budding Mogul To Business Maestro: Next Level Marketing For Your Home Business

If you run a business, marketing represents an essential investment. Without marketing, it’s virtually impossible to reach out to customers and turn heads. You could have the most incredible ideas in the world, but if you’re not telling anybody about your venture, your home business is going to fall flat. If you have aspirations to watch your business grow, here are some marketing techniques to propel you to the big time.




SEO

If you run an online store or your home business has a website that accepts orders or bookings, it’s wise to harness the power of SEO. Search engine optimization is a way of propelling your links up the search ratings. More than 90 percent of online sessions now begin with a search engine and Google alone processes 40,000 searches per second. If your links are at the top of the pile, you’re going to reap the rewards. If you’re not a marketing expert, it’s worth setting aside money to invest in a strategy that is tailored to your home business. If boosting online sales is your goal, look around for SEO and digital marketing companies, check out portfolios and do some sums. If you don’t have a marketing budget and you need a cash injection, consider your options. Have a look at sites where you can build a loan or get investors on board. Your SEO marketing campaign should raise the profile of your website and the pages and posts you produce. If you’ve got a website, optimize the content on your service pages and run a blog. Using keywords, search terms and backlinks, you can ensure that your pages appear towards the top of the first page when somebody searches for the types of products or services you provide.

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Social media

Did you know that Facebook has more than 3 billion subscribers? If you’re not as sociable as you could be, it’s time to embrace the power of social media. Social media can help you to reach out to a wider audience, market events, services, new products and promotions and generate a buzz around your business. Before you start setting up multiple accounts, do some research to ascertain which platforms would be most effective. Which sites do your customers use? What is the target demographic? What kinds of posts are most lucrative? Once you have this information, you can streamline your strategy and start creating profiles. Use images and video clips, and don’t bombard followers with posts. Running promotions is a powerful means of increasing follower numbers and encouraging more customers to visit your site and place orders.

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Email

Did you know that the average person checks their email around 15 times per day? If you’ve got an online business or you’re keen to spread the word about your home business, sending out emails to targeted customers could increase sales. Always ensure you use a catchy subject to encourage people to take a look.

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Are you keen to take your home business to the next level? If so, you may need to revamp and refresh your marketing strategy to get the registers ringing.

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Lynne

Mommy to a pigeon pair, blogger and online marketer. Lover of chocolate, good books and buckets of coffee.