Wednesday, December 23, 2009

EFFECTIVELY MARKETING YOUR BUSINESS


Effectively marketing your business starts with how much time you can devout to marketing and promoting your business. Be it 1hr a month or 1hr per day, the most important thing is how ready you are to try out new ideas on a regular basis.

You need to devout quality time to marketing your business. I am strongly of the opinion that you do your marketing away from your business in an environment where you won’t be disturbed than trying to squeeze it in between the countless responsibility that you have to deal with daily. You need to set out a special time to plan your strategy and actually implement the ideas. Not doing your marketing on a regular basis can have a more dramatic unfavorable effect on your business. You need to discipline yourself by setting up a realistic amount of time to market your business on a regular basis.

The amount of time you devout on marketing depends largely on how much business you really think you need- this is a question that is seldom asked by businessmen. Answering this question will give you a daily target to aim for. The most important thing to start with is to take a few minutes and work out exactly how much business you need to cover all your costs. Be honest and realistic with yourself, once you know exactly how much you need to cover all your costs then you know exactly how much business you need to survive.

The next step is to decide how much profit you want to make from your business. Add this to your survival figure and you now have a figure to aim for. You will be surprise how clear everything becomes when you know how much business you need to survive and make profit. Very few businesses take the time to figure these targets out, but successful ones always do.

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