Many of today’s small businesses look for help with various aspects of their business and a marketing consultant could take a load off their mind and their plate. Beyond taking on work, an experienced marketing expert can deliver results. What could a business consultant, specialised in marketing do for you?
Analyse Your Business
An expert can take a look at your existing business (or business plan if you’re just getting started) and identify potential opportunities for growth that you might not have previously considered. An expert can gather business intelligence data and use that to help you make a plan to move forward in a new area of business as well as unleash potential for growth with existing clients of yours.
Target New Customers
A consultant could look at your business and help you identify new ways to attract customers and gain market share. This can happen through effectively marketing with inquiries, creating a sales funnel system that walks customers through a sales cycle without much intervention from you, and can help you attract search engine traffic for potential customers who are ready to buy. All this can be done on a shoestring budget as well. Hiring a consultant is much more cost effective than staffing a marketing department!
Get Repeat Business (And Referrals!) from Past Customers
A lot of businesses don’t effectively market to their past customers. Once you’ve convinced someone to buy from you once, don’t make the mistake of forgetting about going after repeat business. This type of business costs you less to get than a new prospect and can also result in word-of-mouth referrals as well. A marketing consultant can show you how to go after the low hanging fruit effectively.
Increase Productivity
Once you’ve been operating for a while, it’s very easy to become complacent with tools and procedures that work ‘ok’ for you. But if you learn about new tools that are available it can improve your productivity and your profitability. And if you’re new to business, you can get started on the right foot! Continually improving processes and approaches isn’t just helpful in today’s business world — it’s essential for sustainability! Hiring someone to help you expand and enhance your business might seem like a hefty expense but if you find someone with the right set of skills, this is going to be an investment in your business. The ROI (return on investment) could make it very worthwhile!
A marketing consultant for many years, Chris Jenkinson specialises in marketing advice. He provides further advice about consulting services on the GizTheBiz blog.
Learn How To Start An Internet Business
Learn How To Start An Internet Business With OR Without A Website!!
My friend Lenny asked me the other day if there was any way he could do something working online without a website. He doesn’t like his job and is looking for a way out, but for now he’s just looking for some extra money.
It never occurred to me that someone would want to learn how to start an Internet business without a website. I have several websites and one of them is for my old window cleaning business. I don’t sell any thing on there but wouldn’t be with out it, I realised many years ago that even for that business I needed an online presence, that’s how important the Internet is in this day and age that we live in.
I’ve been aware for years the importance of being on the Internet but only in recent months have I began to replace my income with a far more profitable business, then along comes Lenny, who is stuck in the 9 to 5 job scenario, with no leverage on his income and no experience of working on line, and asks me if I can help him learn how to start an Internet business, without a website.
As I was gathering some info. for him I thought I’d share it here as well.
A few examples of how to work on line without a website;
Affiliate Marketing:
Through pay per click (ppc) advertising and participating in forums you can sell other peoples products by driving traffic (potential customers) to their web sites,
Online Surveys:
Many companies will use surveys to research how people will react to their products and services. They pay for completed surveys.
E Bay:
Probably the biggest part time, home based business in the world. You can sell items from your home on e bay. You can buy and re-sell items on e bay. You can collect and sell other peoples stuff there and work out a deal.
Pay Per Action Programs:
You can join Pay Per Action Programs such as, pay per e-mail read, pay per sign up, or pay per surf. There’s not a lot of money in this one but it’ll give you some experience of working online and you are only doing very simple things to earn.
These are a few ways to earn money on line even without your own website.
If you learn how to start an Internet business with a website, even a
1000
one page web site, the various ways to work and make money on line is vast.
I spent a long time trading time for money and not getting very far,
….learning how to start an Internet business is by far and away the best thing I’ve ever done.
Please contact me if you would like to know more about how you can have your own Internet business and how I could help you.
By: robanderson
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This post was written by Rolf on January 28, 2010
