Promote Your Business, Word of Mouth

Video from our FREE Online Business Course
http://www.myownbusiness.org
Session 12 Opening and Marketing

Question:
"What would your top recommendations be for people just starting out in business?"

Eddy Chavey
Independent Web Designer

Topics covered in this video:
Starting a business, word of mouth, advertising, marketing, promoting your business

Transcript:
A huge part about starting a business, and I wish I would have corrected this early on, is letting people know that you started a business. So promotion early on is very important. I wish I had done some promotional things even before the business was started. Case in point; business was going just steady, I wasn't shouting out I've got a business but then I did this thing. My site is "breakfast" my whole business revolves around breakfast, so we got these silly putty eggs and having these eggs as a promotional gimmick giving them out to people who visited the site and contributed to the site increased traffic just immensely, it increased profits. I would have to say out of a $1000 investment in a whole bunch of eggs, I think I probably got back 20 times the return. So promotion, announce that you got that business.

Category:

Education

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• recruiting
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• promotion
• mailing
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• checklist
• mistakes
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• mouth
• promoting

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Your right you really do need to put in that work networking yourself. And a smart idea to start doing it before you actually open for business.