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Emerging Small Business Owner
Emerging small business owners and self-employed professionals are just beginning or less than a year into their business.
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Tips for Small Business Owners – How to Find Your True Target Market
Wondering exactly who you can best serve in your small business? Here are a few ways to hone in on your target market.
Draw a picture of your ideal customer (or client). How old? What gender? How does this person dress? Where does the person shop? What does she (or he) spend discretionary income on? Has she (or he) bought products or services similar to yours before?
Figure out where your target market hangs. If you had 3 tickets that would take you anywhere you could meet potential customers or clients, where would the tickets take you? Where online would your target market be found? Where locally?
Once you have some ideas about who your prospects are, flip your questions around. Can you describe who you are not targeting? Who would be your least ideal customer or client? Where …
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Marketing for Service Professionals – Are You Doing Too Much?
The other day another small business owner complained to me that her business had picked up, but she was almost too rushed to get her customer's work done. I'd have laughed at the thought of being too busy to actually service a customer, but I could tell she was really frustrated and totally serious.
As I listened, I realized that her problem was one I've been seeing lately, especially among service professionals. She is actually marketing too much! Or, to say it more succinctly, she is wasting some of her precious time marketing in ways that don't serve her business.
Here are the traits I see in the service professionals who are marketing too much:
They are bright and have a strong desire to do well.
They listen to the latest trends in marketing and work to apply what they hear to …
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