In business, being small doesn’t mean you also have a small chance of winning the market competition. A small enterprise may not have the same level of assets or equity as big companies have. Small businesses also don’t have the large number of manpower that big businesses employ. However, that doesn’t mean small businesses aren’t competitive. The truth is that just like any small objects, they do have their own advantages. And when it comes to marketing, small enterprises can implement a series of small yet relentless marketing campaigns.
Small business owners don’t need to spend expensively in marketing and advertising just like giant companies. There are grounds that small businessmen and entrepreneurs can compete equally or fairly with their bigger competitors. An example of a market place where small business owners can compete is on the Internet. Setting up a website, creating a blog, doing white-hat search engine optimization (SEO), making Facebook pages, registering an account on Twitter, using the power of Youtube and even being a part of Foursquare.com, are all cost-efficient online marketing strategies that small businesses can surely afford.
Furthermore, there are also other marketing tactics that any business owner can do without spending a dime. Just consider your nice smile and cheerful greetings that you can always give to your customers. Think also of the customer care you always put to your products and services. Moreover, keeping your honesty, reliability and integrity can also be done without spending money. All of these simple marketing campaigns, if implemented relentlessly by a small business owner, can become a powerful mixed of tactics that can even overcome any bigger competitor.
Those little marketing campaigns can also make you a friend of the community. If that will happen, you have already won a big part of the market – the public. Hence, be patient, be diligent, be positive and apply these tiny little marketing campaigns relentlessly. Remember that though they are simple and common, they are even the most escaped and ignored marketing strategies. Therefore, be different, be extraordinary and be a winner.
Victorino Q. Abrugar is a marketing strategist and business consultant from Tacloban City, Philippines. Vic has been in the online marketing industry for more than 7 years, practicing problogging, web development, content marketing, SEO, social media marketing, and consulting.
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