Saturday, September 8, 2012

Marketing Your Business

Today I just wanted to talk about the importance of marketing your business. For example, you decide to build a site or have one built to get you started being your own boss, but you do not advertise or get any traffic to your site. The consequences of not getting any visitors to your site would be lack of sales or lack of recruiting for your business opportunity. So you would need to find sources of advertising online and even offline to help boost those visits to your business. One of the first things that I would suggest is look into signing up for some free advertising sources. There are also free search engine submission sites that you can go to that are also helpful with submitting to many major search engines. This is the only way that people can find you on the internet. Just because you have a website or a blog does not mean that people will automatically go there. You must make your presence known to everyone, and you can always start by telling all of your friends and family about it. Give out your web address and always ask for lots of input, because they are on the other side looking in, so they can tell you if you are lacking something or if there is something annoying going on whenever they visit. You can then fix those issues and make your site a more enjoyable place for all to visit. Another way to help increase business is to join online groups and forums where you can talk with people that have the same interests, and may also be doing the same type of business as you. This type of strategy is called networking, which can be a great way for you to pick the mind of some really great people in the field. You can use this opportunity to pick their minds, and ask them what they have done and what actually works best. You can also ask them about trying something new out that you many not be sure about. Chances are that they may have heard something about it and can tell you if it's a good idea or whether you should run away from pursuing it. One of the groups that I joined that has been really helpful to me is on Facebook and it's called My Lead system Pro master mind group. This group is for anyone that is using the My Lead system pro to help them promote their business, and we all just connect on here. We have weekly webinars that are really insightful, and if you have any questions about something you can always get some help from another member. I am still pretty new at Network Marketing, but as time goes by I make new friends and acquaintances that have been very helpful to me. We all keep in touch, and if one of them find out some really good information or start doing another business that has been successful for them then they come back and tell me about it. I have also been saved by some of them from wasting my money on an advertising method that was already tried and was very unsuccessful. Once you begin doing all of the free methods of marketing you can then begin to look into using some paid services. Some of these services offer a free trial or a small free just to try it out to see how it works. Stay tuned for my next post and I will talk more in detail about these types of services and also which ones have been successful for me.

No comments:

Post a Comment