There are so many small business marketing ideas, both online and off to help a new entrepreneur grow their business rapidly. With so many small business advertising ideas you need to have a plan.
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” Ben Franklin
The following are 10 Ideas for a Small Business Marketing Plan:
Set up a Blog or Website
It’s critical for everyone to set up a website or blog regardless of what type of small business you have. Technology has made it so easy today to have a decent website up rapidly and for virtually no cost. If you’re uncomfortable trying to set one up yourself, jump over to Elance and you can have one put together for under $500.
Either way you’ll need to purchase a domain name. I recommend heading over to NameChk first and you can search for a domain name thats also available across the most popular social websites. This way you can have the same name used everywhere online.
Once you find a name you’ll use, head over to GoDaddy and purchase the domain name. This is less than $10.
Next you need a web hosting account to make your site viewable across the web. Think of web hosting like your computer hard drive with your site now able to be opened and seen anywhere online. GoDaddy does provide hosting services though I recommend checking out either BlueHost (great customer service) orMediaTemple who I use. Media Temple is only $20 a month and pretty stable. Their support has been great and extremely helpful. All sites experience issues do to the host being down occasionally, though I’ve found Media Temple to be very good. Both BlueHost and Media Temple work easily with WordPress for publishing your content. WordPress is easy to use, have many people who are available to support you with them and they have a ton of great plugins.
