Another 3 Great Marketing Tips To Grow Your Business

My free seminar on marketing is tomorrow and I just wanted to share a few more tips to get those wheels turning and creative juices flowing on how to get your small business out there are create some revenue!  

Social media is without a doubt a valuable and inexpensive way to market your small business and keep your brand on your consumer's mind, this includes: Instagram, Twitter, FourSquare and Google Plus.  However, it's not the ONLY affordable and effective way to extend your client base and inform them of your products and services.  My tips here really focus on revving up potential business locally by getting involved in your community.  It's good to keep an eye on the bigger picture, however, it's not a bad idea to start small.

Collaborate

Put together a group of local business that are all related but not competing and agree to cross-promote!  Put together a package deal or have corresponding web links, fliers, etc.  You’ll all expand your client base by reaching new people!  Those looking for one service through one of your connections, could be made of aware of your product or vice versa.  Working together always creates positive results for a small business community.

Give Back

You don’t have to reach people 1,000 miles away to expand your business.  Get involved in your local community by sponsoring a little league team, or an event such as a local 10K race. Find common ground between you and your clients and come up with creative ways to get your name in front of them.

Make a Presentation

There are MANY organizations in your community that you most likely are unaware of.  They’re all looking for informed, qualified people to present to their group. Public speaking can be daunting, but practice makes perfect!  As long as you have good information to present, you’re being helpful!  This also puts you in a position as a credible authority in your field.

Hope to see you all there tomorrow morning! If you haven't yet registered, click here to visit our Facebook Event Page

Marketing 101 for Real Estate (And Other Businesses)

Many of you know that I have been very fortunate in the Real Estate Industry, a lot of it has to do with the economy improving but it is also something that you have to work very hard for and know where to position yourself. Honestly, I think that there is enough business to go around but you just have to know how to find it and work for it. 

I think networking is very important in this industry, it doesn’t matter if you go to an event where you are going to meet potential clients, contractors and even other real estate agents. You never know where business is going to come from so it’s important to keep an open mind. You should ALWAYS be good to others, don’t think of other real estate agents as competition! Think of them as an asset to you, they may not have a listing that you do or maybe the lack a specialty that you may have. It works both ways too, if you have a client that may not mesh very well with you but may mesh well with someone else you know, pass them along! 

There are many other things that I would love to talk about when it comes to marketing for Real Estate, and I would love to invite you all to come for a free seminar that I offer at Virginia Capital Realty. This is something that I do frequently and it’s just a crash course on how to put your name out there. All are welcome: business owners, brokers, mortgage lenders and real estate agents are just some of the few people that can benefit greatly from my seminar. See you all then! 

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