After Deciding On Which Business What Are The Next Steps?

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Permalink Reply by Carlshea on October 22, 2010 at 7:32pm

Hi DeAnna...
How is your business working out for you? I viewed your website you posted but dont know what you business is. I would say that to start marketing yourself, first you have to get an idea of your key demographic, and find a way to contact them. The cheapest easiest way would be word of mouth advertising and networking, then you can have house parties depending on the nature of your business. You may also be able to take out a small ad in your local newspaper to announce your business and reach new clientelle, or prospective leads.

Whenever advertising yourself, always remember to share your business opportunity with them. Before closing the conversation, let them know how your venture is working for you, citing the positives, and offer them the opportunity to do the same, working from home, on their own time. Or you can highlight that it would be a good way to make extra money in their spare time.

I know that my response is about 3 months after your original post, but I hope this helps in some way! =)

Best of luck in your venture!!

Permalink Reply by April Williams on June 7, 2011 at 8:21pm

Dee,

 

It has been a while, almost a year since you posted this and I see no one has responded to you.  When you start a new business venture, you should always start with your warm market and make out a refrigerator list, people that you know well, people that would come over and help themselves to something in the fridge because they felt that comfortable at your house.  This will get the quickest results.  Once you start working through your warm market, then you will need to learn the art of marketing but your upline should have a very simple system that you can duplicate.  I do not recommend purchased leads.  They are expensive and have a very low conversion rate.  You can market online using social media like Facebook and Twitter but you have to be careful about spamming.  You should always adhere to the 80/20 rule where you share your business 20% of the time and 80% provide value.  No one wants to hear about your business opportunity 24/7.  You really have to know what you are doing to market on Facebook to generate leads.  My team does extensive Facebook training that produces incredible results.  You can do local marketing using postcards that you leave where ever you go.  The best place for this is http://www.vistaprint.com/free where you can buy postcards for free and just pay shipping. 

 

As far as blogs are concerned, there are a lot of options and blogs are very time consuming and will not bring you leads. You can't post articles and expect to have leads pouring in.  Blogs should be saved for when you have a story to share about your success so that people have a reason to join you.  When you create a story worth telling then starting a blog is just the next step in creating your brand.  To build your business you will need to start with your warm market and then use the system that your upline has in place to build your business.

 

I hope this is helpful.  Are you still with the company you mentioned in your post?

 

Wishing you lots of success,

April