whats the best marketing tool someone can use in small business ?

Answer 1

small business = local local local....don't oversell yourself, word of mouth (mainly yours) repeat repeat repeat...see what is working for your competitors and do that why reinvent the wheel

Answer 2

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Answer 3

A few free resources – check out the sources box for links:

1) Create a blog pertaining to your field

2) Use Yahoo! Local & Yahoo! Groups – Be sure to read the TOS for each one!

3) Write articles pertaining to your field and/or expertise.

4) Advertise on Craiglist

Also, consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to advertise on other's sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are paid a commission.

I listed a few handy sites & articles relating to marketing, promotion & advertising. Here are some book titles that are relevant:

* 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America's Most Innovative Small Companies by Sam Decker
* Off The Wall Marketing Ideas: Jumpstart Your Sales without Busting Your Budget by Nancy Michaels, Debbi J. Karpowicz
* Guerrilla Marketing for Free: Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits by Jay Conrad Levinson
* Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide: Over 1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof by James Stephenson

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 4

Books on strategies, and books of motivation, so that you can grow internally. I have some very good tools on marketing but they are specifically for my company. Tell me what are you marketing to see if I can help you with some of my tools.

Answer 5

There are millions of ways to market some are general, and some are very specific to a business. You can go to http://secure.emythworldwide.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=EMREV-BK-S&Category_Code=BK&Store_Code=EMW Buy this book it's great or http://nightingale.com/p~Product~Advanced_Selling_Techniques.asp
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I have read and listened to all of these products, each one of them opens your mind to different ways and ideas to marketing, and above that, they are great reads too.

Good luck