10 Tips for Promoting Your Small Business from Online Entrepreneurs
How do you promote your small business? You can use content marketing. You can focus on social media. You can host some sales or other events. And that’s just the start.
For more ideas on how to give your small business a boost this spring, check out these tips from members of our small business community.
Use These Spring Promotion Ideas for Family Friendly Businesses
Spring is a great time to try to appeal to families with your marketing. And there are some really great promotional ideas out there, including the ones listed in this post for family friendly recreation businesses by Jenny Hayward of Signpost.
Use a Blog to Boost Your Business
Blogging isn’t exactly a new promotional strategy for businesses. But it’s important that you have an actual plan for how you can use a blog to really boost your business. Marc Prosser elaborates in this post on the CorpNet blog.
Create High Converting Content
Whether you’re creating blog posts, social media or other types of content, you need to always keep in mind how that content is going to convert customers. In this Content Marketing Institute post, Shane Barker shares how you can create high converting content for your business.
Drive Traffic With LinkedIn Marketing
When you think of social media marketing, your mind probably goes right to Facebook or maybe Twitter. But there are some powerful tools on LinkedIn that you can use to promote your business, as Ravi Chahar outlines in this Inspire to Thrive post. You can also see commentary on the post over on BizSugar.
Use Customer Empowerment to Improve Retention Rates
Your small business’s promotions shouldn’t be all about gaining new customers. It can also be about improving retention rates. This Kissmetrics post by Nadav Dakner goes into more detail about how customer empowerment can improve retention rates for small businesses.