There’s nothing more demotivating when you’re doing your own PR than spending hours getting the perfect press release put together… only for it to be completely ignored by journalists.
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Sales, Marketing and PR for small businesses
Key Guides
- Develop a strong USPUse your unique selling point to attract more customers
- Keeping customers happyTen ways to keep your customers during the downturn
- Get more sales this summerFive ways to increase your sales (applies all year round really!)
- Sell to the big retailersHow you distribute your products can transform your business
- Retain your customersMake it harder for your customers to walk away
- Soft sellingWhy you don’t need to be hard nosed to generate future sales
- Cold callingThere is a real art to becoming successful at cold calling customers
- Understanding statsImprove your sales by understanding the numbers
- Winning clientsHow to keep winning new clients during a recession
- 50 bootstrap marketing ideasOur popular guides to marketing on a small budget
- How to market your new businessTop marketing tips if you’re just starting a new venture
- Direct MailTop tips for direct mail (DM) success
- Branding mistakesFive classic branding mistakes you’d do well to avoid
- Networking secretsFive networking secrets used by professionals
- Networking eventsDo your research to make the most out of networking events
- Get ahead in advertisingPoorly planned ads can cost your business a fortune
- Creative BriefWhy a creative brief is such an important part of the marketing effort
Sales Guides
Marketing Guides
- 21 killer ideas for free publicitySome interesting tips on how to publicise your business
- Write a press releaseHow to write an eye-catching release
- Press release mistakesHow to ensure that your release will never be published
- Make networking workHow to make the most out of networking opportunities
- Choose a PR agencyFind the right public relations firm to suit your type of business
- Raise your business profileTen tips to increase the visibility of your business
- Dealing with journalistsHow to make the most out of interviews with journalists
- Blogging and PRHow blogging has changed the public relations game
- Link popularity guideHow to build up quality inbound links to your website
- Market yourself onlineHow to publicise your business on the web for pennies
- What is Twitter?How can the social marketing phenomenon help you and your business?
- 30 Google marketing tipsHow to increase your rankings on the world’s leading search engine
- How to get visitorsThe best ways to increase traffic to your business website
- What are keywords?How to choose the right words to promote your website
- What is SEO?What exactly is search engine optimisation?
- DIY marketing planHow to put together a complete marketing plan online
PR Guides
Online Marketing
Assuming that what your business sells is wanted by someone somewhere and you have already sold it once, selling more is pretty simple.
At a most basic level it’s a numbers game. Let’s say you discover that for every hundred people who visit your website, ten of them buy something. To sell another ten items, all you need to do is attract a further hundred website visitors.
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Marketing and PR can be difficult propositions for small businesses, where funds are often tight to begin with, and available finance can quickly become swallowed up by expansion and innovation.
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Good publicity can help to propel your small business to another level. Sadly many small businesses don’t make any effort to get any press coverage because they think it’s impossibly difficult to do so.
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Press releases are a good way of getting some publicity for your brand, but how do you get your press release out there in the first place?
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Most small business owners have an opinion on networking. For every person who enjoys and values it – you’ll find another who visibly shudders at the mere mention of the word.
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At Bytestart, we receive hundreds of press releases every week. Although around 40% are usually relevant to UK small businesses, out of these we probably only end up using 4 or 5 a week in our news articles. Many are not relevant to our business, some are poorly written, and the majority are not newsworthy.
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So you’ve got your website up and running and it’s looking fantastic. You’ve sourced a great range of products that people definitely want, you’ve got new unique photos, good descriptions, and a fulfilment system that’s capable of handling a thousand orders a day.
Well done. Now, what’s missing… oh… it’s people buying the products.
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Free publicity is a great way to spread the word about your business. If you can get your business featured regularly in the newspapers and magazines your target audience reads, it brings your business to the attention of potential customers, and at no cost.
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In the first four parts of this series, we looked at online and offline marketing techniques, how to build some buzz around your promotional campaign, and how to adopt a positive approach in other aspects of your business.
With this fifth and final part, we tie it all together by looking at a final few topics relating to streamlining your business, getting your affairs in order, and maximising your profit.
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Over the past three parts of this introduction to bootstrap marketing, we’ve looked at the different ways in which you can promote your brand. But obviously there are different approaches to adopt, even to the same marketing method – and it’s up to you to choose the style that’s best suited to your business.
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So far we’ve looked at promoting your business online and offline on a shoestring budget, but when it comes to really building a brand, you need your company to become more than just the sum of its marketing parts.
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Google AdWords is a powerful way to spread the word about your online business or website, with the opportunity to get yourself listed not only at the top of Google’s results pages, but also on relevant websites that are part of the AdSense advertising network.
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If you’ve just started your own business, you might be making the mistake of overestimating the scope of publicity you wish to achieve.
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Here is our final set of web marketing tips to help small business owners compete on a level playing field with their larger rivals on the web.
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These tips were written by the Bytestart team. We’ve been optimising and publishing content sites since 1998 – with some success (and mistakes made) along the way. Hopefully these tips will help small business people increase the visibility of their websites on the Internet and save you time along the way.
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