Help I need some sales!
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The site looks good it looks really professional and trustworthy. Advertising - yep it is a constant thing to let people know you exist. Do it daily, and weekly check results.
- You can introduce a referral system, eg; ''tell a friend to buy this service / product and you'll receive commission''.
- Make use of paid and free classified sites and directories to advertise your business.
- Social networking: create a twitter account, add people but never spam as it puts people off.
- Offline you can do door to door flyer posting.
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Try Business Networking, to get known locally! it dosen't necessarily bring instant results as it means building relationships.
There are several different ones like 4Networking, BNI, FSB etc should be only roughly a tenner to test the water but I would recommend that if you did like and joined up then to treat it as a marketing investment rather than a cost.
Hope that's useful
There are several different ones like 4Networking, BNI, FSB etc should be only roughly a tenner to test the water but I would recommend that if you did like and joined up then to treat it as a marketing investment rather than a cost.
Hope that's useful
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Another thing is to have a look at the following article: 10 Ways to Promote your Business for Free.
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Web solutions. I am not sure what this means but what i would is
Start typing in names & addresses on say an Access database. Target prospective co's that compare well to some of your reference accounts. To start with contact only categories that you feel comfortable with. Set yourself a fixed number of contacts per day that you can cope with, to set up, telesale or mail shot. Once you have contacted say 100 businesses, check feed back, response.
Cost - your time!
Start typing in names & addresses on say an Access database. Target prospective co's that compare well to some of your reference accounts. To start with contact only categories that you feel comfortable with. Set yourself a fixed number of contacts per day that you can cope with, to set up, telesale or mail shot. Once you have contacted say 100 businesses, check feed back, response.
Cost - your time!
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There is a big clue here that something would need to change if you were going to do this again.
It may be that the outsourced resource simply didn't do a very good job or it could be that the list wasn't very targetted in the first place.
Certainly for websites I would suggest targets relevant to the current website status and not just by geographic/industry/size of business.
Hope that helps and good luck
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There is a big clue here that something would need to change if you were going to do this again.
It may be that the outsourced resource simply didn't do a very good job or it could be that the list wasn't very targetted in the first place.
Certainly for websites I would suggest targets relevant to the current website status and not just by geographic/industry/size of business.
Hope that helps and good luck
Can you recommend anyone?
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telemax
I also think you are selling yourself way too cheap. With work that looks like your's you could double your prices. It would then make your sales effort so much more worthwhile.
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Sorry but just don't understand this, if you are the expert in Web design, SEO etc as your site suggests (unless i am looking at the wrong site), then if you cannot make your own site work, it's not a great advert for potential customers
People often get mixed up with design, it's not only how good it looks but how well it fits it's purpose in life, with most web sites it's how well the design sells the product or make the buyer look deeper into the site
People often get mixed up with design, it's not only how good it looks but how well it fits it's purpose in life, with most web sites it's how well the design sells the product or make the buyer look deeper into the site
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Its not all about building online presence, you can use offline methods to get sales as well.
Try setting up a local meetup group for your area helping local businesses with Web exposure / Design tips ect. (or whatever it is that you offer) Get a local group established and hold a monthly meeting where you give free advice on your specialties to your local business community. Once your group is up and running you will be surprised how much work you can source from something like this. I have used my Meetup.com group with great success in my local area - brings in most of my clients and I get great referrals from my existing clients. You could start to offer a free website health check where you analyze a clients site for free and offer recommendations on how to improve there site, giving you the chance to sell to them directly.
Another thing you can do to get sales is offer your existing clients a referral bonus to get you more clients...
For e.g. I have used this method lately to get more business from my clients by offering them a £100 shopping voucher to any successful referral I manage to sign up for my services.
A £100 next voucher is a cheap price to pay for a new client that brings in a nice bit of work. And you will be surprised at how many clients send referrals your way to get a £100 Voucher
Just a few things to think about OFFLINE, most businesses overlook the power of offline marketing. ;-)
Try setting up a local meetup group for your area helping local businesses with Web exposure / Design tips ect. (or whatever it is that you offer) Get a local group established and hold a monthly meeting where you give free advice on your specialties to your local business community. Once your group is up and running you will be surprised how much work you can source from something like this. I have used my Meetup.com group with great success in my local area - brings in most of my clients and I get great referrals from my existing clients. You could start to offer a free website health check where you analyze a clients site for free and offer recommendations on how to improve there site, giving you the chance to sell to them directly.
Another thing you can do to get sales is offer your existing clients a referral bonus to get you more clients...
For e.g. I have used this method lately to get more business from my clients by offering them a £100 shopping voucher to any successful referral I manage to sign up for my services.
A £100 next voucher is a cheap price to pay for a new client that brings in a nice bit of work. And you will be surprised at how many clients send referrals your way to get a £100 Voucher
Just a few things to think about OFFLINE, most businesses overlook the power of offline marketing. ;-)
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I dont agree on some of these comments. I dont think web design and dev. is a saturated market. If you look at many web sites around, there are mostly out dated. Most business tend to neglects their website with time. Websites are a trend now. Its like fashion they keep on changing. Clients and potential clients will know if your site is out dated and that will give a negative message about business.
You will need to contact these business, you will have to talk to them your self and tell them why you think their site needs a face lift. You are the best sales person so dont think any tele marketer would do this bit for you. Be honest with these websites.. this is one way I can think of. All the best !!!
You will need to contact these business, you will have to talk to them your self and tell them why you think their site needs a face lift. You are the best sales person so dont think any tele marketer would do this bit for you. Be honest with these websites.. this is one way I can think of. All the best !!!
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Looking at your site, I dont think you have any credentials to advice anyone about web design. Forget web design, at least get the spelling right on your content before commenting on design. Any way thank you for the comment.
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brownie
I wouldn't dare, I'm no web designer, I was commenting as a punter.
Well at least be civil enough to point out the errors for me please?
My pleasure.
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Well at least be civil enough to point out the errors for me please?
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We have a simple pricing scheme of 40 pounds per hour billed in 30 minute segments.
Please note we will first connect to your computer at no charge, assess the extent of the work required then as per our promise you will be advised of the full cost before we comence work.
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Hi,
We can help you bring up your sales numbers easily.
You can use our ready-to-use B2B and B2C Databases for email marketing, direct mailing/postal marketing, fax marketing, or telemarketing. We can supply ready-to-buy business leads from any given industry. All you have to do is to name your target market.
We can even help you send high volume emails to thousands of targeted prospects simultaneously at most reasonable price.
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We can help you bring up your sales numbers easily.
You can use our ready-to-use B2B and B2C Databases for email marketing, direct mailing/postal marketing, fax marketing, or telemarketing. We can supply ready-to-buy business leads from any given industry. All you have to do is to name your target market.
We can even help you send high volume emails to thousands of targeted prospects simultaneously at most reasonable price.
Call us on our toll free no 800-659-3542 to discuss further.
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