One of the major problems businesses have is marketing. Marketing entails that you put your products or services in front of the right audience and persuade them to buy from you. How you market your business will determine its success.

 

 

Small businesses now have available marketing strategies that can help them grow. However, just like every good strategy, you’ll enjoy the full benefits when you are consistent. To help your small business market effectively, I have put together 5 ways you can get started right now.

1. Create quality content in your blog

I can’t stress enough the importance of owning a blog. Unfortunately, small businesses aren’t taking full advantage of consistently creating blog posts that their audience will find valuable.

You can produce high-quality content that will position you as an expert in your industry or share stories about how your business, product, or service changed the lives of your clients. Evergreen content that contains tips, tricks, and hacks that your audience will find handy make amazing content you can put on your blog.

Great content consistently it makes your target audience keep coming back. Strategically putting out content will help to increase the visibility of your small business. In the long run, you are consistently marketing your business as well as building relationship with your audience who are your potential clients, and creating trust.

2. Invest in email marketing

The email marketing strategy is about collecting the email addresses of your potential clients and marketing your business and offers via email.

It starts off by creating a resource that your audience will find valuable. This resource is called a lead magnet. It could come in form of an eBook, a mini-course, or a checklist. The essence of the lead magnet is to give it out for free in exchange for the email address of your target audience. Once you have their emails, you can send out periodic emails giving more value and marketing your business.

If you prefer text messaging marketing, Tatango offers a fast and reliable SMS marketing service that you could use in order to reach as many people as possible for a fraction of the cost of a flashy digital campaign.

3. Try video

Videos are so much easier to consume and they work as a great way of marketing your business. Just the same way you create quality content for your blog, create valuable content on video. Since it’s easier to consume more people will be drawn to watch your videos.

There are so many kinds of content you can create for the videos. For example, you can show behind-the-scenes of how you run your business to help create trust in your brand. You can also conduct interviews with your clients and ask them about their experiences with your business, products, or services. And of course, you can advertise your offers on video.

4. Leverage on social media

Most, if not all, of your potential clients, are on social media. Social media creates a level playing ground to build relationships with your target audience. Use it as a means to connect with them, ask for feedback about your offers and help them out with their problems or give them great advice.

If you have some money to invest, you can expand your reach with ads. This will help you connect with more people faster.

5. Collaborate with complementary businesses

One marketing strategy that few small businesses use is collaboration. When you collaborate with a business that has a larger reach or client base than you, you are indirectly marketing your business to an already established target market.

Collaboration can come in different forms like a joint sale, promo, or package. The best part about it is that both you and the business you collaborate with get to enjoy the benefits of the collaboration.