How to Make Time For Marketing
Saturday June 27, 2009
June is National Entrepreneur Do-it-Yourself Marketing Month. If you are not actively marketing your business in everything you do, you are limiting your growth potential.
Many entrepreneurs think of marketing in terms that are too broad and self-limiting: direct marketing, Internet marketing, and other forms of media marketing. All these things time take and money to develop and implement. But there are many ways to market your business that are simple and inexpensive - even free.
If you have a tight marketing budget, beef up your social network. Join Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. Link your social networks to your business website to build links and inbound traffic.
Articles to help you better market your business:
- Making Time For Marketing: How to Incorporate Marketing Into Time You Are Already Spending
- 10 Low-Cost Ways to Promote Your Business
If you have unique marketing questions or challenges, feel free to discuss them in Entrepreneur's forums.
Comments
Well I had no idea there is actually a “month” dedicated to Entreprenuers, but I think that’s great!! Scott is correct. Broad terms have way to many subcatagories to choose from.
You need to get specific in your targeted methods of Marketing.
Choose 5 diffrent “methods” that you are comfortable doing, stick to them everyday, be consistent, and the rest will follow.
June is a lot of “National Month is” things including “Lane Courtesy Month” (whatever that is) and “National Bathroom Reading Month” (seriously.)
I think I will celebrate by re-reading Scott’s interview with the “Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.” Mike Michalowicz!