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What You Can Do Now To Get More Clients

Written by Lorraine Garvie

Topic: Business NetworkingPublished June 16, 2013
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Does your business need to secure more clients or customers? If so, there are several things you can do right now to improve your visibility and advertise your brand. It is of the essence that potential clients know how your service or product will add value to their lives.

Referrals

Reach new customers by offering incentives to buy from you. Don't just offer the incentive to your existing customers though; they might feel awkward from gaining a reward. By offering incentives to both the existing and potentially new customer, the referrer can feel relatively secure in the knowledge the new customer will be rewarded too and remove any awkwardness.

Website Revamp

Update your website with new and interesting content. Potential customers, if they reach your website at all, don't want to be looking at boring content; modernise the look with video, interesting ads and articles that grab the attention of the reader, and inviting enough for them to enquire further as to what you are offering. Testimonials are a great way for people to learn what others think of your product or service.

Newsletter

By creating and producing a newsletter, customers can receive up to date information about your service. It is also relatively easy to email these to existing clients and invite them to forward on to friends. Your newsletter should contain vital information about your brand, any new relevant and interesting features and incentives.

Networking Events

Being visible to other businesses and clients can help potential customers get to know who you are and what you stand for. Look for networking opportunities in your area and seek an invitation to attend or even to give a presentation to showcase your business. If there are no events locally, why not host one yourself and invite like-minded business owners to attend?

Social Media

The Internet is so widely used that you cannot afford to ignore its usefulness in acquiring new custom. Use it to your advantage by building up a good online reputation for your company. So many people are now searching the Internet to get to know about a service or product they've heard about; they want to find out just how good it is before buying.

Joint Ventures

Remember the old cliche, 'I'll scratch your back if your scratch mine.'? Well, this is very relevant to today's business world. You can link up with other businesses whereby you each do something for the other - this may be something as simple as advertising their brand on your website or having their newsletter and business cards visible in your premises, and they do the same in return.

As you can see, there are various ways to get more clients and it's up to you to choose the right ones for your business. Take action now to secure growth of your client and/or customer base.

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About the Author

Principal Consultant of Business Reboot, Lorraine Garvie, has significant and comprehensive experience as a Business Consultant for small to medium sized businesses throughout Australia and the UK. Business Reboot is an Australian based advisory firm specialising in marketing strategy and business development and focuses on growing long lasting and dynamic businesses. www.businessreboot.com.au

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