1st June 2021 | Business
It’s always difficult when starting up your own business, and finding those customers is even harder.
Here are 21 tips on how to reach them.
- Treat your customers like royalty
- Start your service with free, then start charging, this way you’ll get critical feedback to improve
- Start off paid then give out freebies, everyone loves freebies
- Always fish for referrals after proving your work abilities, ask to be referred.
- Annoy your family and friends, even if they don’t use you they can refer you to someone who will
- Pitch your new Venture to your existing clients, send emails to bloggers or newspaper reporter
- Expand your network, attend industry events, trade shows and local start-up meetups
- Form alliances, offer exclusive strategic partnership or sponsorship agreement or let them use your service for free.
- Get featured and introduced by a columnist
- Focus on your Niche
- Get involved in the community, and show how you can be genuinely useful
- Start blogging and give free advice and generate free traffic over time
- Try Google ads, it costs money but it’s effective
- Try Facebook for a competitive edge
- Max your social media platforms
- Having a great story to tell will capture anyone’s eye, with brilliant new growth hacks
- Have a call to action to gather info, and then build a loyal customer base
- Cold calling from B2B is the best way to reach out, so don’t be afraid if they say no
- Constantly update and add minor design fixes or phrase variations can help boost conversion rate
- Monitor and adapt to the weekly or monthly report to see how much work is being noticed
- Embrace the low conversion rate and don’t give up, just keep posting
If you would like to know more, contact our experienced business advisor today
Please click here to follow our socials for more business tips and tax deductions